Be Honest do you like these names

Niv

Nicos sounds good. But it WILL be shortened to Nic so just prepar for that if your really not happy with the idea. Correcting people when he is a baby is fine imo but in afew years time have you concidered that he may actually prefer to be called Nic himself so all your hard work over the years correcting people may have been in vain!

seven-day-weekend

mumslave wrote: »

another Zander lover here, I also like alessandro but I think thats italian....

Alexander/Alexis (Russian iirc)/Alessandro (Italian)/Alejandro (Spanish) are all the same name and can all be shortened to Alex or even Xander/Jandro. I like each variation tbh .

sunshine_shell

I'm a teacher and i understand giving your child a name that means something but i have soooo many on my NO list i'm going to run out of names!! However i always look out for the oddest spelt names on the register, i dispair when i see beautiful names hacked up with extra k's or spelt like they sound!

Nicos for me!!

seven-day-weekend

Magpye wrote: »

Nope, it was always Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin. (Oh, the legacy of a childhood spent reading!)

I remember Uncle Quentin, but not Aunt Fanny.

Ladyhawk

Sorry OP... I automatically thought "Nicos with no knickers" when I read your suggestion...

My best friend at school was Jane because her parents wanted something that couldn't be shortened... She became Janey...

People ALWAYS get my name wrong... without out fail even when I have just introduced myself and given them my business card. I automatically correct them now because I find it so annoying!

seven-day-weekend

sunshine_shell wrote: »

I'm a teacher and i understand giving your child a name that means something but i have soooo many on my NO list i'm going to run out of names!! However i always look out for the oddest spelt names on the register, i dispair when i see beautiful names hacked up with extra k's or spelt like they sound!

Nicos for me!!

I know a young lady who wanted her name to be Ema-Leigh. Luckily she saw sense and went back to Emily.

I heard the other day of a baby called Teegan Mae. He/She/It will be on the Teacher's 'pupils to avoid' list one day (My husband is a retired teacher; in his day the names were Shane, Wayne and Darren for the boys and Debra (not Deborah), Donna and Tracey for the girls).

And of course we all know about the girls called Wyvon (Yvonne).

Oh! And what I call the 'shipping forecast ' names - Bailey, Shannon, Tyne and the like. I'm surprised they haven't come up with a South Utsire, German Bight or Rockall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast/shipping/

TheEffect

I like the name Callun.

arbroath_lass

Personally, I'd go for a name that CAN be shortened. At least if junior hates his/her name they have a choice in the future. I have a very common, biblical name my parents thought was pretty and wasn't common "at the time". I hate it and I'd use another if I could but my name has no abbreviation and I've no middle name.

Oh, Nicos gets my vote.

BitterAndTwisted

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian person, for example, that does not have a traditional German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian christian name?

You are in error as you missed, in your readiness to go off on a rant, the fact that the OP does indeed have Greek heritage.

You are also in error that our Continental cousins do not favour foreign-sounding names. I have three German cousins and between them they have six children and not one of them has a "traditional" German name. English names appear to be quite popular in Germany but French ones also make an appearance too.

CG77

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

Ive only just noticed that on page #2, sorry, so was wrong to aim the argument at you OP.

I hope other people get my point though. Sorry if others don't agree. I personally would not feel comfortable with giving my child a name that has indicates a complete mis-association with his/her roots, connections, faith or nationality.

Underlay_guru did notice their mistake and apologised, BitterAndTwisted.

CG. x