Baby names

Tried to persuade Mr Hoare not to call his daughter Emma, without success

I would say nothing, so many baddies with quite an ordinary name. Nothing wrong with Dexter, I remember in tv a couple named their twins Reggie and Ronnie,definitely wouldn't do that.

In the maternity ward, a Mum with a surname beginning with C wanted to call her baby Wendy. A nice name but not with a surname beginning with C. We all offered different names. I don't know what she chose in the end. Happy 62nd birthday Wendy.

Well, if it is Dexter, that does have a strong association for me with a TV series serial killer. Probably because I've never known another Dexter in real life. Dexter is also a standard enough name that people will get over the association fast, if they even have it. Pretty soon the child will own the name and it will become associated with him alone in the family.

Exactly

I would keep out of it. The child can change his name when he is older, if he wants.
My kids wouldn’t have listened anyway!

We have a Dexter in our family and nobody thinks anything of it. It could be worse, they could have made up a name with a peculiar spelling which nobody could read and pronounce right.

NotSpaghetti

Real and fiction.
Many have associations.
Admittedly calling one's son Adolf would not be good... not sure if it would be blocked in the UK, probably.
I seemto remember Cyanide was blocked.

My primary school had children from a war zone. I had Adolf in one of my classes. I thought I had misheard him, so asked him to spell it out in English. (His English was very good.)

My late mother hated my daughter’s name so decided to use her middle name despite me telling her not to.
It took weeks and firm words from my father before she actually used the hated name though she used a shortened version .
She thought we should have gone down family tradition and called her a good Irish name…my father in law would have reacted the same to any Irish name.
Her name is quite a common name in England so that was neutral territory .

Haven't seen the programme ,but know of a Dexter .
I think that it means right handed or maybe dextrous .
Recently I asked a child minder what the little boy's name was .
Cain.
Not my first choice.

I do hope this post is light-hearted or a joke. Surely no mature adult would raise this non-issue and risk alienating a family member simply because they are spending too much time on a streaming show. Lot’s of people and fictional characters have lot’s of names. I’m sure plenty of people today have the names of bad people of the past. That’s life. Please do not project your fixation on tv characters onto your niece and her child.

Don’t create tension in your family over something so ridiculous. Not every opinion or thought that crosses our minds needs to be spoken. Enjoy your new family member. Be grateful for their health. Celebrate your niece’s entry into parenthood. That is all.

I have a grandson named Dexter - he's 16 and it's never been a problem and, in fact, he recently said how much he likes his name.