A Disney-inspired baby name has kicked up a storm online after a social media influencer chose it for her newborn, drawing taunts from critics who called it a \u201cbrilliant stripper name.\u201d The mother, unfazed, says the choice is perfect for her child\u2014and points out she\u2019s not alone in loving it.<\/p>\n
In January 2023, Molly-Mae Hague announced the birth of her daughter with Tommy Fury, whom she met on\u00a0Love Island<\/em>. Soon after, she revealed the baby\u2019s name\u2014Bambi\u2014posting a sweet photo from the little girl\u2019s beautifully decorated bedroom. The reveal was met with a rush of negative comments about the unusual, Disney-inspired choice. \u201cI was brought back down to planet earth very quickly, of how nasty this world can be,\u201d Hague said on YouTube. \u201cI know it\u2019s unusual and unique and not going to be to everyone\u2019s taste\u2026 in my mind, it\u2019s a beautiful name.\u201d Fury agreed: \u201cThere was only one name for our little girl, and it was Bambi\u2026 When Molly was young, she only ever wanted to call her daughter one thing and that was Bambi\u2026 and I love the name anyway.\u201d The pair\u2014who have since split\u2014disabled comments on the announcement to keep trolls at bay.<\/p>\n Around the same time, Australian TikTok creator Indy Clinton, 25, named her daughter Bambi Valentine, believing it was \u201cunique, unusual\u2026 that nobody would use.\u201d When Hague revealed the same name months later, Clinton simply laughed it off: \u201cGreat minds think alike.\u201d Like Hague, Clinton\u2019s affection for the animated fawn goes back to childhood; she often read the storybook to her two-year-old son, Navy. \u201cI was reading the book to Navy one night and it came to me\u2026 \u2018What about Bambi?\u2019 and from then on it stuck,\u201d she said. She had originally considered Paloma, but when her daughter arrived in October 2022\u2014with big brown eyes and a sweet, curious nature\u2014\u201cShe couldn\u2019t be a Paloma now\u2014she\u2019s my Bambilicious.\u201d<\/p>\n Clinton\u2019s choice drew mixed reactions too. Some sneered\u2014\u201cBrilliant stripper name,\u201d one commenter wrote\u2014while others celebrated it: \u201cHow beautiful she is! And what a gorgeous forever name you have gifted her,\u201d one person posted, with many more chiming in, \u201cSo cute, love her name!\u201d Clinton brushed off naysayers: \u201cPeople will criticize anything these days, so at least give them something to talk about.\u201d She added that distinctive names are trending: \u201cBambi is going to fit right in with the Rivers, Bears, Forests, Stormis, and Wolfs.\u201d As for changing it? \u201cThat is her name, and nothing is going to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Disney-inspired baby name has kicked up a storm online after a social media influencer chose it for her newborn, drawing taunts from critics who called it… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n