Mum-to-be turns to the Internet for advice over whether her baby name is too "weird"

In the search to break out of the popular baby name mould and find a name that’s a little bit different, many parents-to-be often seek a sense check to determine whether their potential moniker is unique or just plain weird.

Thankfully, the Internet is there to gauge opinions before the odd unusual name is stamped permanently on the birth certificate.

That’s exactly why one mum turned to Mumsnet to find out whether other parents thought her potential baby name was “too weird.”

“Bligh. I saw it after watching the programme Mutiny,” she wrote. “I love it, but worried it’s too strange.”

“Also would it be even stranger to use it for a girl when it is a boys (though very uncommon) name? Or should I just forget it all together?” she continued.

Though there were many differing offered up by parents, the consensus seemed to be that the name was a little too out-there.

“At first I thought you were suggesting Mutiny!” one parent joked. “Bligh just sounds like blight to me and blight isn’t exactly a positive word.”

“I’m female and I would not wish to be named it, I’d envisage a lifetime of mispronounciations and spelling it for people,” another added. “I like feminine names, or strong names, maybe even classic names, but this is a kind of nothing name….”

“Sorry but it’s a no from me. It looks like a spelling mistake,” one mum wrote, before adding: “However I’m a big believer in parents choosing what they want (within reason) and people would soon get used to it.”

Others suggested some other ‘Bl’ names for the mum’s baby girl such as Blythe, Blair or Blaine instead.

But not everyone was against the name and some parents expressed their support for the unusual moniker.

“It’s a cool name, but I’d spell it Bly,” one mum added.

“I like it! The captain named his little boy it, but I think it can work for a girl too!” added another.

The mum isn’t the only parent to seek advice from the Internet about their potential baby moniker. After getting a somewhat negative reaction from her family about her intended baby name, another mum turned to Mumsnet last year to gauge other parents opinions about the gender neutral name she’d chosen.

“Finally, after much indecision, we’ve decided a girl will be Iris James.”

But the poster went on to say that the choice hadn’t gone down well with her family, so she wanted to see what others thought.

Turning to an Internet forum for baby name advice before the ink is dry on the baby’s birth certificate is a wise move as according to a recent survey one in five mothers suffers from ‘baby name regret’ and would pick another name for their baby if they had the choice.

The survey by parenting site Mumsnet revealed that of the 245 mothers who felt remorse about the names they gave their children, 12% “always knew it was the wrong choice”, 3% knew from the moment the child was born, 8% knew within a couple of days, 32% knew within the first six weeks and almost a quarter (23%) began to regret their choice when their children first started nursery or school.

The main reason for regretting the name was that it was too commonly used, while just over one in five mums who regretted their choice claimed the name just didn’t feel right. A fifth said they had never liked the name but had been pressured into using it.

Just over 10% of mothers said the problem wasn’t that they didn’t like the name, but more that it didn’t suit their baby.

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