A woman was left fuming when her mother-in-law kept making ‘rude’ comments about her name, begging her not to use something similarly whimsical for her unborn grandchild
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Mum sparks uproar after picking unusual baby name for son
Baby names are personal to each person, but if someone uses a name you’re not keen on or has a name you’re not too fond of, it’s best to keep your lips zipped if you want things to remain cordial.
However, one woman’s mother-in-law felt she couldn’t stay quiet about her daughter-in-law’s name, as she “hates it”. The woman explained her name was unique in nature, like Ocean or Lark, but she “loves it” and wears her name with “pride”. However, when she announced she was pregnant, her mother-in-law panicked that they’d be thinking of using a similarly unique name for their unborn child.
Taking to Reddit, the pregnant woman asked if she was in the wrong for being “snarky” with her mother-in-law as she’d made “rude comments” about her name.
She wrote: “My husband and I are expecting a baby. We have not announced the name or the sex of our baby yet. This will be announced after our baby is here. After we are positive the name will be going on the birth certificate.” She added: “We do expect negative thoughts.”
She then explained the drama around her own name, sharing: “My mother-in-law (MIL) hates my name. She has never said anything to me before now but I heard her and my father-in-law discuss my name and MIL make some very rude comments about my parents for naming me what they did. When my husband and I announced my pregnancy MIL asked about names and my husband told her we weren’t going to reveal the name until after the birth. She asked enough times after this that my husband has told her to stop, has shushed her and we also walk away sometimes.
“She told me it was worrying how quiet we were being and please tell me we’re not going with something as truly awful as my name is. She told me she didn’t know what my parents were smoking or how much they resented me when I was born but that she did not want that for her grandchild. She told me a normal name was needed. She told me she knows I wear my name with so much pride and it better not give me ideas to think it’s okay to name her grandchild that way.
“I told her not to worry, she wouldn’t have to worry about what her grandchild’s name is because we wouldn’t dare make her put up with us anymore and we should say goodbye now. She was horrified and made it clear that wasn’t what she meant. I smiled at her sweetly and said I couldn’t possibly ruin her life anymore by making her interact with someone whose name offends her so much.”
She then said that her mother-in-law had accused her of responding “like a petulant child”, but she was so fed up that she didn’t care and wanted to name her child in peace. She also said that her “worry” would be worse because she was “certain this will be another Lark or Ocean-type name”.
In the comments, people urged her to name her child something she and her partner agree on, writing: “Please name your child something you both agree on. And make good on MIL having zero access if you hear a peep about the name. She’s being a petulant child by being an a**.” Another joked: “And tell your MIL you named her Princess Consuela Bananahammock.”
Someone explained their family names, sharing: “I had a great great great uncle named Pluto. His twin brother was named Zeus. They had sisters named Athena and Aphrodite. My great great great grandfather got screwed: they named him Thomas. Apparently, my great etc grandmother won that coin toss – Gramps wanted to name him Apollo.
“We are 100% not Greek. Apparently, my great great great great grandfather was obsessed with mythology and didn’t give a c**p what anyone thought, which is (not gonna lie) energy I aspire to carry into my own life.
“Whenever anyone gives me c**p about my kid’s names, I just tell them it could have been worse – I could have named them after Uncle Pluto, Uncle Zeus, Aunt Athena, or Aunt Aphrodite.”
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