Strangers beg mum not to use her favourite name for her baby as they say it sounds like a smoker

PICKING out the perfect baby name for child is no easy task.

But one mum has been slammed for the moniker she wants to use for her newborn.

The unique name has left her friend so baffled that she decided to go online and ask strangers for their opinions.

Taking to Reddit, the friend shared a screenshot of she and her friend's text messages which revealed the name of the child.

Instead of loving the original name, her friend was left wondering how the mum hadn't noticed the name sounded exactly like an ashtray.

She wrote: "Best friend is having a baby… I googled it and apparently a few people have that name, but is it not literally the word 'ashtray'???"

In the text messages, the poster inquired about the name chosen for the upcoming baby.

The friend revealed that she and her partner had decided on "Ashtrae."

They also mentioned a previously considered name, "Ashton," noting they preferred it, the friend explained that both she and her partner liked "Ashton" and "Rae."

They both wanted a gender-neutral name, and those were their two top choices which they decided to put together to create Ashtrae.

The mum was quick to ask if her friend liked the name, but instead of answering she asked if it would be too difficult to spell.

Now she was asking others if she should bring up the fact the name sounds like an ashtray to the mum or not.

Plenty of Reddit users took to the comments, begging the poster and the mum to not name the child Ashtrae.

One person wrote: "This has to be a joke."

Another commented: "It's 100% 'ash tray' and someone needs to say it before the kid gets here. Ashton Rae is right frickin there."

"You have a moral duty to try to stop your friend from naming her baby f---ing ASHTRAY omg," penned a third.

Meanwhile a fourth said: "I'd have straight up said, "Don't name your kid Ashtray."

"Kid is going through life as ashtray, she will be the butt of every joke” claimed a fifth.

Someone else added: “Just send her a picture of an ash tray and say "like as in an ash tray? ? ? " Hoping the visual will snap some sense into her."

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