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

pollypenny

Ginger boys do get teased in secondary school in my experience.

Another 'problem' is that the hair stands out and the ginger kid is usually the one identified when there's trouble.

My BIL was absolutely carrots and always got caught! My in laws were mostly ginger, but OH followed his mum with black hair.

I was relieved that grandsons are not ginger. Far too hot in Florida for for pale skin.

Kaz2904

I named DD a name which I only knew of a girl on my uni course and my favourite perfume. She is one of 4 Chloe's in her class. I thought we were fine with DS. Never heard of his name locally. Lovely. 5 Callum's in his pre school class!. We have both Chloe and Callum living within confusion. Distance of our garden too- both different families and both VERY well off! Seems that Callum with 2 l's is the more middle class spelling.
Tbh, we were left with Callum when I had gone through every single name in the book and DH not liking any of them and oly having Callum on his possible list. I got to the end of the list and read though the possible (haha!) and he said we needed to get another book. My response? Darling, I think that if we've been through 200+ names and that's the only possible, then that is the poor boys' name. Let's ask DD if she can say it. Yes she can, she likes it, job done. .

lostinrates

cgk1 wrote: »

Doubtful, social mobility is at an all-time low in the UK and the middle and upper-classes avoid that sort of name (because they are associated with the under-classes).

Maybe.

My husbands experience of studying law were that as students at least there were a fair few non traditional female names (I remember some of them from a party) and lots and lots of non traditional to the UK ones as there was a particularly high percentage uptake of 'minority' background students.

His colleagues over the years have included several names we might consider ' nouveau', many are from America, a couple have been from Australasia.

He hasn't had a boss with either of those names, but one of his favourite bosses, had a very similar name.

VJsmum

Ooh I love a good name conversation

My kids have rather traditional names - some would say middle class (A girl beginning with V and a boy beginning with J, hence the user name). The boy is named after his deceased grandfather and it was always going to be his middle name but eventually was the only name we agreed on. OH brother then had a girl and called her the feminine version of the name, and then had a boy with the same name as DS! So in the family out of 4 children there are 2 Joseph's and a Josephine!

In my classes at Uni, where I teach a professional course leading to "chartered" status, we have a Kylie and, over the years, have had weird and wonderful names - last year we had a Saddam Hussein :eek: That caused more than a murmur at graduation! We also had a student called Aramis! And the surname didn't help. My favourite name ever is a surname though - [EMAIL="W@nkh@de"]W@nkh@de[/EMAIL]! :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

I was going to be called Tracey, until mum realised that 1963 brought forth a spate of them, which is a relief given that my sister is Sharon :cool:

My niece is called Ayla - which I don't think of as at all weird now but I guess some would

My pet hate is Irish or Welsh names spelt phonetically - Shuvorn, Neeve, Kinewin, etc

paulineb_2

I think the worst one for me was that girl who used to be on TOWIE called her kid Neveah, how the hell do you pronounce that one?

fredtheguava

VJsmum wrote: »

. OH brother then had a girl and called her the feminine version of the name, and then had a boy with the same name as DS! So in the family out of 4 children there are 2 Joseph's and a Josephine!

Am I reading this correctly - he called his son Joseph, and his daughter Josephine?

What if they both end up calling themselves Jo(e)?

Toto

We get some utterly stupid names at work. I've recently delivered a furious, a Jupiter a dimey and a heavenly valentine.

daisiegg

I teach a girl with a nice traditional name that is spelt in THE most chavvy way (including a triple letter e and a letter z where there should be no z!). I saw her name on the register and immediately formed an expectation of her. It was a lesson to me not to judge by name - not only is she a lovely, incredibly intelligent and enthusiastic student, but she comes from a VERY upper class, well off, academic family. Not sure where their moment of madness in naming her came from (particularly as both sisters have obscure Shakespearean names - the epitome of upper class naming!) but it just goes to show, you can't always judge. I bet she would not be regarded as a suitable friend for India and Poppy based on her name, yet she is top of the class and has manners like a princess!

pigpen

Toto wrote: »

We get some utterly stupid names at work. I've recently delivered a furious, a Jupiter a dimey and a heavenly valentine.

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.

balletshoes

paulineb wrote: »

I think the worst one for me was that girl who used to be on TOWIE called her kid Neveah, how the hell do you pronounce that one?

easy - neh-vey-yah .