Baby Girl Names

picnmix

dizziblonde wrote: »

It's all well and good saying "name your child what you like" - but doing so without a thought as to the conceptions and connotations that name carries (like poor BJ mentioned before - the "initial" names are very much the big thing in some areas locally) is pretty damned unfair on them when that baby becomes a child, becomes a teenager, becomes an adult who has to live with that name. Naming them something outlandish to reflect on you and how quirky and cool you are as a mummy's more than a little bit selfish really when it's another human being you're labelling for the next 80+ years!

Hardly what the OP is doing though, the names she has suggested are the one's she likes, I don't think there is anything quirky or cool about any of them on the list. They are just names, not to everyone's taste, but hey ho you can't please all of the people .... especially on an internet forum :cool: She hasn't arrived suggesting completely out there names, just a bit differant from some people's norm.

The point I was trying to make is when you are "labelling" your own sweet little babe why the hell should you be thinking "oh what will society, friends future employers think" you should be thinking of names that you love and suit your baby.

I have a very "normal" standard, boring name, when I was at secondary the boys found something "funny" to rhyme it with and that stuck with me for a while. They found it hilarious - teenage hormones, it irritated me, did it scar me for life - no, did I blame my parents - no. Certain people will always find something to pick on others about, if not their name then something else.

mildred1978

picnmix wrote: »

The point I was trying to make is when you are "labelling" your own sweet little babe why the hell should you be thinking "oh what will society, friends future employers think" you should be thinking of names that you love and suit your baby.

The midwives at the hospital when I had my son were amazed we hadn't picked our son's name before he was born. I don't know how anyone can name a child without even seeing/holding them.

One friend took the whole 6 weeks to choose a name for her daughter. She was just 'Baby' until then!

Dunroamin

geri1965 wrote: »

Ha, I remember the guy you mean! I read the Anne books but I wasn't hugely keen. However, I absolutely adored Emily of New Moon.

Emily Byrd Starr - now there is a nice name!

You're the only person I've come across who's even heard of Emily of New Moon!

picnmix

mildred1978 wrote: »

The midwives at the hospital when I had my son were amazed we hadn't picked our son's name before he was born. I don't know how anyone can name a child without even seeing/holding them.

One friend took the whole 6 weeks to choose a name for her daughter. She was just 'Baby' until then!

Completely agree, we had a few names that we really liked and then chose the one that suited our baby when we saw her.

Birdy12

OP, where are you? Probably p****d off with the slating her proposed names have received but, hey, this is an open forum, freedom of speech an' all that.

OP, a friend of mine has had 2 girls and given them 3 middle names each so you could go with all 5 if you wanted :rotfl:.

However, given the slating the names have received, (apart from Daisy which, I suspect, was picked as last resort by many), I would suggest you get yourself reading that baby book of names again...:D

mildred1978

Birdy12 wrote: »

OP, a friend of mine has had 2 girls and given them 3 middle names each so you could go with all 5 if you wanted :rotfl:.

My sister has 3 middle names (her whole name is 12 syllables and doesn't fit on official forms, lol). I have 2. My son has 2 (the 2nd being my surname).

LadyMorticia

My mum had two middle names. Her full name is Maureen Margaret Mary! What a mouthful.:rotfl:

dizziblonde

mildred1978 wrote: »

The midwives at the hospital when I had my son were amazed we hadn't picked our son's name before he was born. I don't know how anyone can name a child without even seeing/holding them.

One friend took the whole 6 weeks to choose a name for her daughter. She was just 'Baby' until then!

We haven't got a "name" as such - we have an ever-changing list of ones we like (joys of teaching - so many names get associated with little terrors over the years - heck, one I loved to start with is rapidly waning in my favour after having to say it about 96 times a minute with one particular class!) and a highly possible, but we probably won't make a final choice until the baby's here and we see what fits her - and by not having a name nailed down, it avoids all the upset when family members go "ooooh not sure about that one" when they hear it - as people don't dare criticise when they're presented with an actual baby PLUS name rather than a name as some form of an abstract concept. So we've got a list with lots of scratchings out and scrawlings over and we regularly add and remove things from there.

I just find it slightly odd when people latch onto a name at like 8 weeks pregnant - but that's just me. Mind you, if I'd have tried to pin down hubby for a sensible name conversation at that point he'd have suggested stuff like Darth Vader still (and I'd have killed him) - yet now he comes out randomly with ones that suddenly take his fancy and are actually sane.

Mind you I have a relative who's presented us with a list of the names for her next two children she's got "dibsed" which is taking it a bit OTT since she's only just had number 1!

JC9297

mynameissophie wrote: »

I don't understand why people are making such as big fuss over what names 'mean'. So your really saying that if someone was called Lilly-may for example, she will become a chav or !!!!!! star, but if you call your child Victoria she is going to become a lawyer? A load of rubbish.

Your child can be whatever she wants to be, if it's a chav or !!!!!! star good for her, if its a lawyer, good for her! It honestly doesn't make one difference as picnmix mentioned that most employeers look at the EXPERIENCE and not their names.

It is not about a child being more likely to become a 'chav' if they have certain names, rather that people think the child's parents must be chavs because they chose that name. I think what people really mean is lower class.

Whether we like it or not people, rightly or wrongly, do jump to conclusions about children (or rather their parents) because of their name. Many names are used by all sections of society, including a lot that would have been considered quite posh in the past e.g. Victoria, Sophie, Louis, but there are some names that would never be used by middle or upper class parents (I won't give examples so as not to offend). There are also some names that most of us would still consider very posh, I'm thinking Montague, Araminta, Jacinta, Marmaduke etc.

mildred1978

dizziblonde wrote: »

We haven't got a "name" as such - we have an ever-changing list of ones we like

That's what we did. I read the baby book cover to cover and wrote down the names I quite liked. Then OH crossed off anything he didn't like. We weren't left with many!!

When LO was born, we didn't think about it for a while. He arrived early in the morning, OH suggested 2 names at teatime and that was what we called him. :heartpuls