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

balletshoes

VJsmum wrote: »

Ooh I love a good name conversation

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

see thats what I was saying in an earlier post - that spelling of Ayla (Isla where I'm from) is the correct way to spell it, and a common name, in my OH's culture.

paulineb_2

balletshoes wrote: »

easy - neh-vey-yah .

Like a face cream?

Artytarty

Saw a girl on tv last nights lottery program called Keight! What's wrong with Kate?

Toto

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 think Ophelia is quite nice. I never question people's choices of names, I do however point out that they have 42 days before they need to make a decision :rotfl:

balletshoes

paulineb wrote: »

Like a face cream?

kind of - more of a neh than a nih on the first syllable though .

pigpen

Toto wrote: »

I think Ophelia is quite nice. I never question people's choices of names, I do however point out that they have 42 days before they need to make a decision :rotfl:

We made the final decision on my youngests name while sitting in the registry office filling out her birth certificate!

SmallL

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!

I'm just going to say what my name is, because it really is unusual, yet simple to pronounce.
'Lerone'
Type it into google, you get male black men, im female and half asian .
My parents say its a take on a canadian name 'Larone'.

Gingernutty

I'm a ginger! It seriously freaked my mother out. She hated it.

Dad had brown hair, mum had black hair and no one in living memory had red hair before I popped up.

My two brothers have brown hair. When my SIL was pregnant, we freaked her out by telling her she could have little ginger bubbies - after all, she's blonde, brother had brown, not black hair and ginger dominates blonde so if the juniors inherited ginger and blonde they'd end up ginger. I even drew diagrams showing how.

Hours of fun.

I was called Duracell in secondary school. The one with the copper coloured top.

balletshoes

SmallL wrote: »

I'm just going to say what my name is, because it really is unusual, yet simple to pronounce.
'Lerone'
Type it into google, you get male black men, im female and half asian .
My parents say its a take on a canadian name 'Larone'.

I'd be tempted to pronounce the e on the end of your name, I don't know why really. Obviously thats not right though is it, as you said its pronounced the way its spelt.

Its a nice name, I like it.

lostinrates

Toto wrote: »

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

I wanted to call one of my dogs furious, but we agreed it would have negative connotations.

I like Jupiter, its not so different from more widespread choices like Diana or Victoria. I'd happily use it myself. There is of course the same argument about Paris, both ' mythological' and place name.

I know or know of several 'valentines' though in different forms: Valentinas, Valentins, and valantine with the 'ee' sound not the 'I' sound in the last syllable. Some are grandparents.