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Help with baby girls names

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  • shellsuit
    shellsuit Posts: 24,749 Forumite
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    How ridiculous, if you and your child are common,you're common, no name in the world is going to change that.

    But it doesn't take much imagination to choose a name that isn't being chosen by half the mothers in the neighbourhood

    What if you choose a 'common/popular' name but it has nothing to do with the popularity of it at the time?

    I chose my sons name because it was my Grandad's name.

    I couldn't have give a toss whether there were 1 or 41 kids in the same street or school as him with the same name.

    It had nothing to do with imagination at all.

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  • onlyroz
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    Eleanor or Isobel
  • shellsuit wrote: »
    What if you choose a 'common/popular' name but it has nothing to do with the popularity of it at the time?

    I chose my sons name because it was my Grandad's name.

    I couldn't have give a toss whether there were 1 or 41 kids in the same street or school as him with the same name.

    It had nothing to do with imagination at all.

    Not everyone is a sheep.

    Exactly!!!
  • *max*
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    How ridiculous, if you and your child are common,you're common, no name in the world is going to change that.

    But it doesn't take much imagination to choose a name that isn't being chosen by half the mothers in the neighbourhood

    Well, how nice of you to call my opinion ridiculous. You may not be "common", but you're not exactly charming either.

    Has it crossed your mind that maybe they choose those names because...heaven forbid...they like them? Or does refusing to conform for the sake of it make you better than those people somehow?
  • peachyprice
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    One of my DD's has one of the names on your list!

    It wasn't my list.
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  • It wasn't my list.

    Sorry the list.
  • Slinky
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    I have a friend called Grace who the name suits to a tee.

    I like Tia and Poppy.

    Don't go with Maria - I know somebody who's childhood was plagued by kids singing 'what are we going to do about Maria'
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  • CH27
    CH27 Posts: 5,531 Forumite
    I think Hope goes very well with Grace.

    I also love Lara.
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  • acmc
    acmc Posts: 8 Forumite
    Gracie and Amie
  • Ada_Doom
    Ada_Doom Posts: 243 Forumite
    Names I love:- Hester, Esme, Ivy, Kitty, .
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