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

balletshoes

jellyhead wrote: »

I don't know if they'll get nastier as they get older (and start listening to their parents, if they have poisonous ones like KH!) but up to the age of 8 I think it's just personality that gets a child disliked, not their appearance, or even an unusual name.

an unusual name doesn't even register with children, its adults who may have issues with unfamiliar names.

My DD has a first name that no-one we have met here in the UK has ever heard before. Kids aren't remotely fazed by this, once they have heard DD's name once, thats it, thats her name. Adults have more problems with it, especially if they have read her name first (ie on a school register, on an appointment card etc) before meeting her, as her name is not spelt the way its pronounced.

SmallL

balletshoes wrote: »

an unusual name doesn't even register with children, its adults who may have issues with unfamiliar names.

My DD has a first name that no-one we have met here in the UK has ever heard before. Kids aren't remotely fazed by this, once they have heard DD's name once, thats it, thats her name. Adults have more problems with it, especially if they have read her name first (ie on a school register, on an appointment card etc) before meeting her, as her name is not spelt the way its pronounced.

My name and the teachers inability to pronounce it (Its really not that hard) meant i was bullied in secondary school.
Its very rare anyone pronounces it correctly, even though its spelt the way its pronounced, people seem to invent extra e's and even a's that aren't there in the first place!

balletshoes

SmallL wrote: »

My name and the teachers inability to pronounce it (Its really not that hard) meant i was bullied in secondary school.
Its very rare anyone pronounces it correctly, even though its spelt the way its pronounced, people seem to invent extra e's and even a's that aren't there in the first place!

thats a real shame SmallL. My DD is at secondary school now, and to be honest there are so many kids that she knows who have unusual and unusually-spelt names, that she's not the only one who gets mis-pronounced by the teachers.

neverdespairgirl

thorsoak wrote: »

When my cousin had her daughter some 40-odd years ago, she and her OH decided on the name Sarah - we all thought "oh that's nice - a bit quaint" - and none of us could think of any other Sarahs. Fast forward five years - and little Sarah started school ...with another four Sarahs in her class!

Some 25 years later, when I worked for a large city law firm which would take in 12 trainee solicitors each year, out of the 7 girls taken on, five were called Sarah, one was Sara and the other was Lara!! We all racked our brains to think of why that name should suddenly become popular -and I think that with most people names just go in waves! I have several friends of around my age called Valerie, a couple of Pamelas and some Joans.

Out of my year at primary school, 28 girls, 5 were called Rebecca, and 4 Sarah (1982 onwards). When I got to boarding school in 1989, a class of 22 girls, 4 called Rebecca, 5 called Victoria!

jellyhead

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Out of my year at primary school, 28 girls, 5 were called Rebecca, and 4 Sarah (1982 onwards). When I got to boarding school in 1989, a class of 22 girls, 4 called Rebecca, 5 called Victoria!

On a residential trip there were 9 of us in a dormitory and 6 of us were named Sharon That's why I tried to avoid names that were in the most common 5 baby names when I named my children.

Ciaran's always had a problem with people not realising it's the same as 'kieran' and most assume it's a girl's name. I didn't realise there were so many english ways to spell the name, and I just chose the same spelling that the actor Ciaran Hinds uses. I thought it was a bit unusual but not overly so, but he's never been the only kieran in his class, or the only ciaran in the school.

My youngest's name wasn't even in the most common 100 boys names, yet there are 3 of them in a school with 200 boys. Year 2, population of around 35 boys, has 2 named Rudi!

LoopyLil_2

And this comes from a woman with 2 backsides? One she sits on and the other balanced on top of her shoulders from which she talks complete b******s. She made herself look like a complete idiot and her children have my sympathy.

zaksmum

I don't see what the problem is about ginger hair! I think it looks lovely, really attractive. Why on earth would anyone want to bully a kid for having ginger hair? it's just another colour like blonde or brown - it's ridiculous.

worried_jim

The hair colour can't be helped but don't give your children chav names-eg Baylee and Cadance. Just think about how it will look on a cv in 18 years times.

"The biggest lesson for parents is this: Creativity is wonderful, but your future child is begging you -- from their junior high playground to the boardroom -- to pick a name that won't embarrass them. "

kjmtidea

My youngest sons best friend is called Precious which was pretty damn funny when she was having a massive tantrum the first time I met her.

3 of my children have biblical names and one of them is getting really common which I absolutely hate, I love the fact that my children have different names and there aren't many others of them, that won't last long though by the looks of it!

Nenen

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Time can do you down on that one - one of my sisters is "Olivia", which was not remotely common when she was born, but became extremely popular some years later, and is still quite popular now, I think.

That happened to me - I chose names for my sons that I'd never come across as a teacher and within two years they were in the top 5 boys names. I've had boys with both names in almost every class I've taught since!

Even worse, I chose a name for my daughter that I'd never come across and, when she was 6 weeks old, a character on Coronation Street called her baby the same name. It became extremely popular with young mums, to the extent that I'm sure Katie Hopkins would consider anyone with my daughter's name an undesirable playmate for India and Poppy!

Talking of undesirable playmates, one of the kindest, most polite and clever children I've ever taught was called Brittany whereas I've taught some very challenging girls called Eleanor, Charlotte and, dare I say, India!