"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

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Whatever my opinion of the phrase "white trash" may or may not be, I am not a fan of the name Destiny. It sounds tacky/trashy.

In the case of dealing with your friend...the best you can probably do is to occasionally mention other suggestions for the middle name. Maybe she'll take a liking to one of them as a first name. But in the end, it's up to her and it is her child. If she names the baby Destiny, then just grin and bear it!