Don't Have a Ginger baby or give your child a common name

Janepig

Bluemeanie wrote: »

I'm in even more of a panic now with my baby's name. If we have a girl, she is going to be called Carys. However, we are totally stuck on boys. We like Chester and Elijah but this has put even more of an emphasis on making a good choice!

DD was going to be Carys from the off, right the way through my pregnancy. We hadn't agreed on a boys name but Carys was a definite. Until about a week before she was born when Catherine Zeta Jones had a baby girl called Carys which put me right off. So a quick change of plan was called for and we decided on Elinor. Which has proved better all round because there are quite afew Carys's in school but she's the only Elinor. Not to mention that DS is also the only Alex in school too.

Jx

kingfisherblue

My three children have traditional names. I considered the meanings as well as how their names sounded, but I am quite interested in the meanings of names anyway.

I also think you need to take into account the initials. Nobody wants the initials MAD, DIM, or similar. Over thirty years ago, when I was a child, Gail on Coronation Street almost gave her son two first names beginning with D. Her surname was Tilsley. Someone pointed out to her that the child would have the initials DDT.

My third child was almost called Stuart, which is a name I have always liked. However, a friend started laughing when I told her. I asked her what was wrong, and she said that with my other two children's initials, it spelled ARS. I know it is missing the final letter, but Stuart was swiftly changed to another name!

FatVonD

Bluemeanie wrote: »

I'm in even more of a panic now with my baby's name. If we have a girl, she is going to be called Carys. However, we are totally stuck on boys. We like Chester and Elijah but this has put even more of an emphasis on making a good choice!

I am loving the name Elijah!

pigpen

FatVonD wrote: »

I am loving the name Elijah!

Me too. I even know a couple and they are lovely little boys.. Chester makes me think zoo.. so depending on where you live I'd be careful with that one.

My cousins daughter Katie has the initials K T

Janepig

pigpen wrote: »

Me too. I even know a couple and they are lovely little boys.. Chester makes me think zoo.. so depending on where you live I'd be careful with that one.

My cousins daughter Katie has the initials K T

Chester makes me think of Chester Drawers!! Sorry :rotfl:

Jx

spacey2012

Racist !!!!!.
Would she say the same of Black babies.

delain

I gave my youngest a name I thought was unusual... Then we went to rhyme time in the library and she was one of 3 with her name! Still, can't be a chav name, you wouldn't catch them in the library

cally6008

I was named after an American dance choreographer.

I like my name but unfortunately it can be spelt in a long version which I absolutely HATE with a passion and have done from being very small. I was bullied through school because of it as well.
It can also be shortened to just 3 letters and I detest that as well.

I don't think I would mind so much if I had been christened the long or short version, but I wasn't and it's not on my birth certificate so it grates on me that people still assume that its my name, even when I tell them what my name is.

barbiedoll

My son has a normal, traditional name but tomorrow I am taking him straight down to the solicitors office to change his name to something "chavvy" like Kayden or Harvee.

Then I can be sure that there's absolutely no way that he will ever have to mix with the offspring of the dreadful Katie Hopkins.

I shall probably dye his hair ginger too, just to be certain!

marisco_2

Surfbabe wrote: »

best ones I've heard was a mum of twins naming them Venus and Fusion as she'd seen them on a pack of razors in the supermarket :rotfl:;)

I am a teacher and years ago a colleague of mine had twins in her class named Campbell and Baxter. She thought the mum may have had a liking for soup