"Destiny"

[imthelonely-one.livejournal.com]

My best friend is pregnant, and I really want to support her, but she is seriously considering naming her daughter this and I just... It seems awfully trashy to me. Her family and aquaintences like it, but that doesn't surprise me seeing as how she lives in a super white trash housing complex. I really want to convince her that naming her kid something like "Destiny" "Kaighlee" or "Mercedes" etc. will NOT be doing the poor girl any favours. But at the same time, I really don't want to seem pretentious? 

It's not that, I just know that name descrimination is real, and I don't want my best friend's little girl to be held back in life because she thinks it "sounds cute". Should I just butt out? I keep suggesting alternatives but I don't know. Maybe I should just leave it alone.

Oh, and sorry if anyone here happens to love that name, or named their daughter that!

Comments

[imthelonely-one.livejournal.com]

I meant as in the car. And people do that. I've heard Gucci, Prada, Bentley, Chardonnay, etc. Naming your kid after luxury goods is never in good form, in my opinion. And I could really care less what people on the internets think of my personality lol.

[the-pyre.livejournal.com]

Bentley and Mercedes were names long before they were products.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

That doesn't matter anymore because the pre-product association is long gone. In my opinion Mercedes is like the name Jesus - only appropriate on Hispanics.

[sidheblessed.livejournal.com]

The Mercedes was named after the inventor's daughter. So, in that case, the luxury good was named after the child.