Strangest Reaction to Baby's Name

TimsMayBride

I was telling a coworker the baby's name the other day - it's Conor.  Another coworker overheard and said, "Yuck - Terminator."

Very odd but I thought it was hilarious.  DH and I keep cracking up over it.

Anyone else have an odd reaction when telling people the baby's name?

Mama Angelina

That's why we're not telling anyone our potential names.  Your CW really didn't hold back, huh?  Rudeness, but glad you weren't offended. 

HotDish!

First of all, your coworker is rude.

Second, I love the terminator movies and have never associated the name Conor with them. It's strange what some people come up with.

heyyohe

That is wierd....

We're naming our little girl Isla, and people either say "Oh, like Isla Fisher?!" (no)  or "did you make that up?" or "Spell it.... why is there an s?"

kyrastapp

My grandma asked what we were naming the baby and I told her Aidan!  She said why?  I said because I liked the name!  WTF! Why????  What kinda ? is that!

MattysGirl81

Connor is one of our top 2 names and DH told his mom a few days ago.  She said "no one likes that name."  Really MIL, no one?  She just made me want to choose that name even more!  When we make the final decision we're not telling anyone.

MuckDiva

That was rude. 

DH and I are keeping our names to ourselves until that day (it will be DH's job to make the big announcement).  That way if someone doesn't like the name they will have no choice to get over it.

nursereuvers

I think your coworker may have a persoinality disorder... NOt very nice being that blantent about a name. It isn't like you picked some horrible name out of the dictionary or made it up... It is a pretty normal and cute name! I agree with the previous post, I am glad you weren't offended

blairsgirl

That's why we aren't telling anyone the names until after they are here.

vicki21

we're not telling the names we have in mind for that exact reason... we want to minimize the opinions

Dulaney

My sister wrinkled her nose and said, "oh that's...(long uncomfortable pause)...nice."

hisbabybear

our little man will be dawson and everyone says "oh like dawsons creek"?

come on! that was like 10 years ago people! haha 

jaxgev

Oh man, I think I can top that.  We agreed on Xander for a boy (from XXX).  My MIL (who is Persian) asked this weekend when we were visiting them in Palm Springs what we would name the boy so we told her.  She said, "That means 'shiit' in Farsi."

We were like, "um, ok...never mind then."

TimsMayBride

HotDish!:

First of all, your coworker is rude.

Rude is a nice word for what he is!  I wouldn't even repeat here some of the stuff he says re: another coworker's autistic son, for fear of offending someone.

annibes

Ugh. That's why I'm pretty much keeping the names we're thinking about quiet.. We're set on a girl's name, Hannah, so we tell people that. But boys' names are harder for us to come up with so after one got 'ruined' for me I decided to keep my mouth shut on it. We had almost settled on Oran for a boy, and two people were like, "Oh, like Orrin Hatch?" I kept thinking, "No, like OUR SON, if it's a boy..."

So while Oran isn't completely off the table, it's no longer our definite boy name.

alinstromberg

I am afraid of that.  I don't want people to tell me if they dont like the names.  I dont think we will tell anyone the name until the baby is born.

jaxgev

MattysGirl81:

Connor is one of our top 2 names and DH told his mom a few days ago.  She said "no one likes that name."  Really MIL, no one?  She just made me want to choose that name even more!  When we make the final decision we're not telling anyone.

That also just made me want to choose my name even more.  When I told her the girl name, she was like, "why?"  At least now I know what I'm naming them for sure.  Just to spite her.  Then when the kid asks why I gave him/her that name, I can be like, "because your grandma is an evil witch sweetie..."

Califragilistic

Im glad you werent offended by her outward rudeness.She must have very strong feelings about the terminator since I would not think of the terminator when hearing the name Conor.

janice74

Some people have to be rude about everything.

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Conner was our second choice (behind Liam), and we did one of those baby name polls amongst our friends and it came in first!?

Mama Jan

When we told my dad what we were naming DS#1 (Caleb Timothy), he said "Yeah, it's better with the middle name."  Um, what? Did you just say that?

I've told a few people that DS#2 will be Asher Clark and have gotten a few blank stares.  We are set on the name so I figured I might as well start saying it now and figuring out how to handle to responses....

Suparstarz714

Wow, how rude!  Dh and I haven't come up with our baby's name yet but that would offend me if someone gave that reaction to my name.  For the record, I think Conor is a fine name :-)

Choco80

what's funny is my husband would name our kid conor with the goal of having others make the terminator comment (he's obsessed with those movies)

nicoleg1982

You're being too sensitive.  You're reading into a reaction from someone who doesn't matter in your life/marriage/family.

If I were your coirker, I'd be more upset that you're spelling it wrong.

TimsMayBride

nicoleg1982:

You're being too sensitive.  You're reading into a reaction from someone who doesn't matter in your life/marriage/family.

If I were your coirker, I'd be more upset that you're spelling it wrong.

I thought it was funny. 

MattysGirl81

nicoleg1982:

You're being too sensitive.  You're reading into a reaction from someone who doesn't matter in your life/marriage/family.

If I were your coirker, I'd be more upset that you're spelling it wrong.

Temp984666312503071

First, I LOVE Connor.  It was our #1 boy name.

That being said, my DH's name is John and for awhile I thought John Connor would be a nice name...  Then I remember that it is the full name of the kid in "Terminator".    So it was out for me.  But Connor alone doesn't associated with that move at all IMO.  What a rude co-worker you have!