Teasing

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How much do you let potential teasing over a name affect your decision on whether or not you would use it?

Sometimes I think the BabyNamesWorld website is a curse! If you're not familiar with it, you should check it out (at your own risk!). I love/hate that it lists the questionairre for people with the name to answer and share what kind of teasing they faced because of their name.

My last name was Todd when I was a kid and I never could quite understand why tons of kids (and even adults) would call me Samantha TOAD. I mean I get making the "o" hard and Todd becomes Tode/Toad, but I thought it was a bit of a stretch, personally.

At any rate, it never really bothered me. I just shrugged it off, and went with it. Meh.

Also, I know alot of people in this community didn't like my boy name choice (Enzo), but  now I'm thinking about the fact that we live in an area that is highly populated with hispanic people, which means my children will be in school with just as many hispanic children as american children. I looked at the questionairre on BNW and a few people with the name Enzo said that kids in school called them Menso/Menzo, which means dumb, in spanish.

Is this something I should be very concerned about it? Like I said above,... How much do you let potential teasing over a name affect your decision on whether or not you would use it?

Comments

[hwar.livejournal.com]

We live in a community with a big Spanish-speaking population so it wouldn't be unrealistic. I like the sound of it too. However I think it would entail a lot of explaining and I tend to shy away from names that require a lot of explanation/correction. It's bad enough having the name Hillary-with-two-Ls (i.e. a name that has two "correct" spellings). :)