Have you ever embarrassed yourself by showing undue excitement when meeting someone with an unusual name?
I have.
I met a woman walking down my street. She had two huge Bouviers de Flandres dogs and we talked about them. When she said her name was Bertha, I betrayed far too much excitement at actually meeting a youngish Bertha.
I am sure she thought I was mad and skittered down the road.
I still wince when I think of it. Yet still… a youngish Bertha!
oh i know the name nerd embarrassment all too well!
i once went for coffee with a friend who told me her new nephew was called emilio! i almost started crying … haha!
if it makes you feel better, i would’ve been excited to meet a bertha too.
It does! 
Yes! [name_f]My[/name_f] friend’s sister was visiting and I bumped into them in the street. When she introduced herself I think I may have literally yelped in excitement 
To be fair, her name was Morvern 
Well, that’s worth at least a yelp!
Honestly I did this the other day!!
I was in the park the other day with [name_f]Lilia[/name_f] she was playing with an older little girl I got talking to her mum asking what her daughter’s name was and she said [name_f]Lilia[/name_f] I squealed.
Like embarrassingly squealed
I never come across another [name_f]Lilia[/name_f] so for me it was so exciting to meet another one. I quickly explained that my daughter is [name_f]Lilia[/name_f] and how everyone mistakes her name etc but she definitely looked at me like I was barmy.
So yes been there sometimes you just can’t contain the name nerd
Yes! Yesterday actually. Two of my friends told me that they knew a girl named [name_f]Winnie[/name_f], and they were telling me something about how funny she was… and I just gushed, started fawning over the name [name_f]Winnie[/name_f] and asking if her full name might be the beautiful [name_f]Winifred[/name_f]! [name_f]My[/name_f] friends said they had no idea, and I was a little embarrassed by how excited I’d been… but what can I say!? I love a good name. 
This is too relatable. When I found out my friend had a sister named [name_f]Yemima[/name_f], I just about lost it!
[name_m]Can[/name_m] I use this as a quote for our Instagram?
Absolutely. Does this make me a 60 year old hipster??
Haha, thank you! I guess it does 
I encountered a baby [name_m]Caspian[/name_m] in a cafe and was very noticeably excited and the family gave me a look 
I’m Autistic and quite unable to tell when something I’ve done is embarrassing unless it’s pointed out explicitly — I just don’t notice peoples reactions like that! But reading through this thread I’m near certain I’ve had many moments.
I ask near everyone I meet for their middle name, and got ridiculously excited when a parent at work introduced her daughter as [name_f]Clementine[/name_f]. Well, there are worse things to be.
This happens all the time to me. But luckily sometimes people are nice about it or flattered haha. I met a cute pup named Bob the other day and his parents appreciated my excitement. 
This has happened with people with very Irish names: Niamh, Siobhan, Mairead. They’re all surprised when I know how to spell or pronounce their names.
I think I would have reacted the same way if I met a young Bertha!
There really ought to be an annual nameberry convention with whole panels dedicated to Embarrassing Name Moments, Single, Double of Triple Middles?, and Names to Expunge and Names to Glorify!
Lol yep! I once wrote a couple of paragraphs on someone’s baby name announcement about how wonderful the names were 
they thankfully weren’t weirded out but, looking back, I can see how it probably looked to others haha.
[name_f]Bertha[/name_f] is really cool! I’d love to see it used unironically…I went to school with a girl who went by Burtha (as in Big [name_f]Bertha[/name_f] because she was overweight, loud and proud). It became a joke and I still think of her/that when I hear the name.
Luckily this happened around my good friends who know I have name craziness…but I learned that my friend’s father has a girlfriend named [name_f]Clementine[/name_f]. A woman around 70. And apparently he had a previous girlfriend named [name_u]Cleo[/name_u]! I asked too many questions about what her middle name is, if she has any siblings, etc. Of course, they didn’t know. 
I read your post & thought at first that the dog was named [name_f]Bertha[/name_f]. How cute would that be?!
Oh yes. One of my friends from university named her first daughter [name_u]Vesper[/name_u]. I’d expected her to come up with something unusual and meaningful, but when she told us in a group chat what she’d named the baby I was way too excited in my response 
[name_f]My[/name_f] husband is a name nerd as well. The plus side is that he completely understands my excitement when it comes to names, and I never have to ask him what his co-worker named their baby, for example, because he texts me the second he finds out. Only yesterday I received a text from him while he was at the supermarket because he’d seen a cashier named [name_f]Adela[/name_f] and couldn’t wait to tell me until he got home 
The down side of this is that we tend to forget other people don’t always understand our enthusiasm
I try to remain as calm and collected as possible. I’m great at keeping my excitement internalized.
[name_u]Love[/name_u] this! [name_f]My[/name_f] husband is lucky if he even remembers the gender!
I don’t know that I’ve ever reacted in an embarrassing way to hearing a name (I’m pretty good at containing my excitement), but I have been embarrassed a little by my tendency to ask everyone about their babies/grandbabies names, middle names, siblings’ names, cousins’ names, etc. I’m always checking in with friends who know people who are expecting: “Have they had the baby yet?”
“I don’t know.”
“Can you check?”
I always get the feeling they think I am weirdly obsessed but are too polite to say so.