Selecting a baby name can be pretty challenging - even more so when you have a difficult surname.
One woman has taken to the internet to ask for advice on names to go with her husband's phallic-sounding last name.
In a post on Mumsnet, the unnamed mum-to-be revealed her husband was pretty sensitive about the first syllable of his surname and they didn't want to pick a name that would make it sound any worse.
She said the surname is 'Cochrane' and that her partner doesn't like any of her name suggestions because they all sound too rude when put together with it.
The woman wrote: "We are due in around 10 weeks and are really struggling to agree on any boys' names.
"Husband is extremely sensitive about how names sound with the first syllable of our surname, COCHRANE.
"Daughter is Charley - Charlotte - so it kind of needs to compliment that too.
"We both liked Rafferty for a while before feeling that it is too ‘brave’ compared to Charlotte."
She continued to say that her husband has picked out the names Thomas, Arthur and Raphael.
Her name choices meanwhile are Maxwell, Joseph and Zachary.
She'd also come up with a few more ideas but her husband had turned them down.
"Finley (husband thinks could sound like ‘thin c**k’), Isaac (I agree with husband that this is inappropriate with our surname), Oliver (husband thinks could sound like ‘I love a c**k’)."
She added: "What other names are there that could compliment Charlotte but don’t have any remote phallic connotation and go ok with Cochrane??!"
A number of people responded to the post and shared suggestions for other names.
One cheekily replied: "Maybe not Max C**k sorry...I think your husband is very sensitive about it. Isaac doesn’t work well though because of the c at the end. Sebastian is nice and can be shortened."
A second wrote: "I suspect he's sensitive because he endured bullying himself."
Someone else said: "This made me giggle but I think you are really smart to be thinking ahead like this. My sister worked with a Gaye Butt, Dick Malt and Dickie Blewer!!!"
A screenshot of the post was also shared on Twitter, where people found the whole thing incredibly amusing.
One person replied: "Hugh. Surely Hugh."
Another tweeted: "'Rafferty is too brave.' God I love name posts on mom boards."
A third added: "Isaac....took me a while to get the imagined issue there. People are nuts."
