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Yes. There is a body part that sounds fairly similar to her name and one of the leaders at the playgroup we go to keeps calling her it, it's driving me nuts. She's not doing it on purpose but still. I worry that will happen more when she's older. But I still her name!

Not really? She has a pretty classic name, so I might be impressed if they come up with something creative. haha

I didn't. Kids get picked on for anything and everything, so we chose a name we loved.

Nope - my kids have regular plain names - nothing to make fun of

I did a little. I didn't think we picked a make-fun-of type name, but people have already made nick names and we are big star wars fans and are ALWAYS asked if we named him in relation to star wars. Which we didn't.

I think if kids want to make fun of each other, they find a way. I mean I try not to pick names that would basically be like printing a huge red target on my kid's forehead, but I try not to over stress every possible nickname a kid could make to tease her.

I have a pretty ordinary name (Kaitlin), but people used to make fun of my last name. How they twisted my last name was quite the stretch, I doubt my parents could have seen it coming (not that they could have controlled my last name anyway).

No...they have pretty ordinary names. Besides, mean kids are just going to use whatever awful name they can think of to hurt which totally happened in preschool.

@mrbee: It has? Which kid? I love your kids' names!

I am worried that people will tell LO her name is a "dog name" because a lot of people have pets with her name.

Kind of. But in the end I don't think it matters. If it's not her name, it will be something else. Kids will find anything to pick on.

Definitely a concern when we pick baby names. I know people can make fun of just about anything but I didn't want to choose an obvious target. My first and last names got made fun of a LOT growing up (not that my parents could have predicted that, it was pop culture's fault) so maybe that's why. Like...I really love the name Daria, but know that little boys would call her diarrhea. Or I love the name Annaleigh, but anything with "anal" in it is out. I try to think of ways to make fun of baby names beforehand.

@.twist.: I wouldnt even make that connection with your LOs name....

No, not really anyways. I didn't want to pick an obviously pickable name but at the end of the day if the worst thing someone can say about them is they have a weird/funny name then I think they're doing pretty good!

Never worried about it. We were only considering pretty common names though

We knew our DD name was not common, but felt pretty confident that she would be proud of it and that would be shown through her confidence. We we're hounded by family to tell them, but we refused until she was born. Once she was here my MIL and FIL were told only for us to get a not so pleasant look from them. A week later my FIL randomly says to my DH out of the blue that They (MIL and him) have decided to call her by a different name because its more common, and she can just have a nic- name instead.

@daniellemybelle: my little has what some refer to as a per's name.

@MamaPhoenix: my mom was like that and started off trying to call her by other names. She got over it.

I hope she'll be confident in her name. Kids will find anything to pick on.

@Snowdrop: nope, my Dh put an end to that right quick. We were pretty shocked. They are extremely old school, and her name was just too much for them to handle I guess. There was a big falling out not long after that and they haven't been in her life.

My DD's name is Luna, most people just comment that they love the name or tell me it's "different". I did worry a little that people would call her "lunatic" or "looney" but I just hope she has thicker skin than to get upset by that *fingers crossed*

@rahlyrah: Her name IS Phoenix, and they wanted to change it to Nikki. I was named Amanda when I was born, but called Mandy from the first day home. The only people who called me Amanda was like Dr's, police, anything legal yada yada yada. I always felt like this Amanda was some totally different person. It's not even like mom called me both names often. I ran into issues when I got older applying for loans because I refused to use my Birth name. Yes I know I can legally change it now, but its just such a hassle. So I was pretty adamant that our children where going to be called whatever their actual name was. So when FIL wanted to nic name my kid I was livid.