Mum told baby name has 'truly atrocious' meaning

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A mum-to-be shared her list of potential baby names with strangers - only to be told one had a “truly atrocious” alternate meaning. The expectant mother was struggling to choose a name for her unborn child, so decided to get some impartial advice.

Venturing on to Reddit, she shared an anonymous post, titled “People have always said I have bad baby names”. In the since-deleted post she said: “I have had these baby names chosen since I was a child and now I am having a baby.

"Sex unknown, hoping for a girl! Whenever I share these names amongst friends they always say, ‘Dude, do you WANT your kids to get bullied?’ All fun of course! I did choose names that weren't very common, and this is something I’ve wanted to do since I was young. I always wished I had a more interesting name and I want to give my kids that.”

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Telling forum users the names all “have some meaning”, she revealed her “masculine” names included Abel, Abbott, Atticus, Alistair, Alois and Aurelius, the Mirror reports. Her “feminine” names list included Adagio, Anastasia, Annabeth, Anneliese, Aristella, Arya, Auretta.

The inclusion of ‘Adagio’ raised some eyebrows as the Italian word translates to “slow” or “at ease” in English. One reply read: “Not adagio?! Calling your own daughter slow”. A second said: “That one is truly atrocious."

A third commented: “This is one of those cases where you really need to remember, and spend time thinking about, the fact that you are naming a baby." The mum confessed in an edit that she'd picked the name “because of music” as it was a tempo marking stipulating a piece was to be played slowly, at a light, soft and measured pace, adding she “totally didn’t make the other connection".