Everyone has their own tastes when it comes to baby names, and while you might find a name that you think is perfect for your little one, there will always be others who don't like the choice you've made.
One woman has admitted she's so concerned that her friend is making a mistake with the name she's chosen for her daughter that she's considering telling her she thinks the moniker is "dreadful".
The woman said her friend wants to name her daughter Dawn, but the woman is worried it's a "dated" name as she doesn't know anyone under the age of 60 with the name.
In a post on Mumsnet, she said: "Would you warn a friend about a dreadful baby name? She can take a joke and is lovely. But the name she's told me she's considering is erm ... not great.
"I don't know anyone under 60 with the name and it isn't a lost classic. Would it be terrible to say it isn't great?"
The woman revealed in later posts that the name her friend has picked is Dawn, and claimed there's an added issue of the name not sounding great when paired with the family surname.
She wrote: "The problem is the name itself is dated (and not nicely so), but the surname doesn't match either and makes it sound a bit funny since there's a very similar British phrase!
"The name is Dawn but the surname to go alongside makes it really not a name I'd use for reasons around the name Dawn itself aside."
As of the time of writing, the woman has not revealed what the family surname is.
Commenters on the post were largely in agreement that the woman should not tell her friend what she thinks of the name, as it's not her place to do so.
One person wrote: "It's her choice and although you may be saying it with her best interests at heart it's not really your place. There are so many different names because so many people like different names. Leave her to it."
While another added: "Absolutely not. The only time I would even consider it is if they were a different culture and the name had some awful meaning they didn't realise."
And a third said: "Names are so subjective, there's no point in telling her you hate it. She'll call her baby whatever she wants and she'll just remember forever that you hate her child's name!"
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