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

Memory_Girl

marisco wrote: »

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

Could have been much worse - they could have been called c*** and leekie.

My wee one - a bright red-head is called after a tree that bears bright red berries ((no - not a Holly Tree but a Rowan Tree))................. but I don't suppose I will let him hang out with her kids either.

Still - suppose that's what she is paid for is to be controversial - even in a fairly pathetic way. Silly lass.

MG

neverdespairgirl

pigpen wrote: »

And I was quite disappointed DD1 called her son Samuel.. boring in the extreme! and sounds a bit silly with their surname.. I did tell her that and I still call him Skinny Legs which I did from her finding out.

I wanted to call one (most!) of my girls Ophelia Loveday... I absolutely love it.. 19 years later! KH said 'people' would say can I have an Ophelia bum/boobs?'.. I disagree, I think a daughter of mine would be far too confident to care.

I like the name Ophelia in terms of the way it sounds, but the Shakespearean Ophelia was just too feeble for words, which would put me off.

Dad wanted to call his third daughter "Cordelia" as he was going through a Shakespearean phase in his reading, but my mother refused, on the grounds that it didn't cast her two older sisters (or her Dad, for that matter) in a very good light. That's why they settled on "Olivia" instead.

peachyprice

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I like the name Ophelia in terms of the way it sounds, but the Shakespearean Ophelia was just too feeble for words, which would put me off.

Dad wanted to call his third daughter "Cordelia" as he was going through a Shakespearean phase in his reading, but my mother refused, on the grounds that it didn't cast her two older sisters (or her Dad, for that matter) in a very good light. That's why they settled on "Olivia" instead.

I wanted to call my DD Cressida, but she didn't fare too well in Shakespearen tales either, OH objected because she'd just get called Egg and Cress. Just as well it got vetoed, DD hates the name.

neverdespairgirl

kingfisherblue wrote: »

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.

Our DS is called Isaac - which means "he who will laugh" in Hebrew, according to OH. I like that, and he is a cheerful soul, too.

Initials are important - DS is IO, and we liked Benjamin as a name, but thought "BO" was to be avoided.

My best mate's first and middle initials are R C, and she did go through a phase of being called "Arsey".

pigpen

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I like the name Ophelia in terms of the way it sounds, but the Shakespearean Ophelia was just too feeble for words, which would put me off.

Dad wanted to call his third daughter "Cordelia" as he was going through a Shakespearean phase in his reading, but my mother refused, on the grounds that it didn't cast her two older sisters (or her Dad, for that matter) in a very good light. That's why they settled on "Olivia" instead.

My friend has a Cordelia... from Buffy apparently.. I've never seen it.

I've no experience of the Shakespearean Ophelia I just love it.

delain

pigpen wrote: »

My friend has a Cordelia... from Buffy apparently.. I've never seen it.

I've no experience of the Shakespearean Ophelia I just love it.

The character of cordelia in buffy was of an air headed b*tch if I remember rightly :eek:

FatVonD

My DS has a Turkish name and I chose it because his dad's younger brother was called it and of all the family's names it was the one I found easiest to pronounce and could possibly sound English. His dad had seriously suggested Attilla and Gengis (as in Khan) :eek:

A lot of my favourite names I'd already used on cats over the years (Felix and Leo being two) and it would have just felt wrong

FatVonD

Had DS been born a few days later he'd probably have been called Rueben because I was swaying...

neverdespairgirl

pigpen wrote: »

I've no experience of the Shakespearean Ophelia I just love it.

She mooned about a lot and then killed herself when her future husband was also being feeble and uncommitted.

Not a 21st century role model, I fear.

pigpen

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

She mooned about a lot and then killed herself when her future husband was also being feeble and uncommitted.

Not a 21st century role model, I fear.

If it is anything like its older sisters this one shall be named Puck!