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

lostinrates

Artytarty wrote: »

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

Nothing.

And Iprefer 'traditional spellings'. But for example, my middle names are traditionally spelled names, in another language , that in English are spelled differently.

I used to get rather uptight about it, and still find some odd spellings rather grating. But the old chliche is that Shakespeare had no consistency over spelling his own name so perhaps its presumptions of us to feel better for doing so? I don't know. People misspell my name often. The only time ip have pointed it out is when its on legal documents.

Surfbabe

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:;)

TopQuark

I'm an 80s kid and was very nearly called Kylie until my Dad had a change of heart when they came to register me and I ended up with a 3-letter name starting with Z. These days I'm thankful of it, but back in the 80s/90s when I was a serious teeny-bobber Kylie Minogue fan, I was so upset to learn that I'd almost been named after my idol!

Choosing whether to associate (or not) with someone based purely on their name and never having met them, is absolutely idiotic. Surely people don't actually do this in the real world?

If/when OH and I have kids, we thought Lilou is nice for a girl (it's French and pronounced 'Lee-lou'). My concern though is that everyone on the English-speaking side (except for me) will pronounce it 'Lie-lou', which I don't like so much. We also like Flora as it works in both languages, but I was somewhat put-off when a friend said "what, like the margarine?" !!

lostinrates

TopQuark wrote: »

I'm an 80s kid and was very nearly called Kylie until my Dad had a change of heart when they came to register me and I ended up with a 3-letter name starting with Z. These days I'm thankful of it, but back in the 80s/90s when I was a serious teeny-bobber Kylie Minogue fan, I was so upset to learn that I'd almost been named after my idol!

Choosing whether to associate (or not) with someone based purely on their name and never having met them, is absolutely idiotic. Surely people don't actually do this in the real world?

If/when OH and I have kids, we thought Lilou is nice for a girl (it's French and pronounced 'Lee-lou'). My concern though is that everyone on the English-speaking side (except for me) will pronounce it 'Lie-lou', which I don't like so much. We also like Flora as it works in both languages, but I was somewhat put-off when a friend said "what, like the margarine?" !!

There will always be something. To put one off a name.

I have quite few Korean friends who struggle in western world with the name George and Georgina. (Apparently sounds a bit like a word for poo). If you try really hard you can make 'Michael' sound like 'my caul' (As in amniotic sac). Lulu, can be loo loo . And so on......

Seriously, almost anything can be made to sound like something else by those with nothing else to do.


I think naming is actually a rather beautiful and precious opportunity. Many in one side of my family rename them selves in adult hood anyway, and yet the same side hand done ancient family names regardless, and use ridiculous nicknames. My generation is the last to receive the old family na,ds and that makes me a little sad.

Buttonmoons

I don't think there is any OUT there names in my daughters class. There's quite a few polish children so their names are spelled/pronounced differently. Lovely little girl called "Hanna" and I thought it was said like Hannah.....it's actually pronounced Hanya - still pretty though!

I'm a Karen, although I'm 25, most of the others I meet are 30's. I really like the name Kayleigh actually, I was thinking about it for DD, but went for another K name instead. Quite funny actually as my BF's niece is called the same as my DD, so they've established that when together, they'll be known as brown K and blonde K - at least when you shout on one the other appears :rotfl:

Tiddlywinks

The bottom line is that people do make judgements on names...

If sifting paperwork and looking at candidates, the only information available is the answers to questions and the first one is always 'name'.

Like anything, we use that information to form a picture in our head - it is an unconscious act.

Parents may think they are being individualistic / clever / artistic in their choices but... the majority will still roll their eyes when reading Cee Jay, Kristee, Seemone, Steevee, Rebel, Digby, Daysee Mae or whatever.

This kids have to live with that decision forever... or change their name... just plain thoughtless and cruel.

thorsoak

Just realised that Ms Slapper would refuse to let her children play with HM Queen's g/granddaughter ....she is called Savannah!! (Daughter of Princess Anne's son)

Mrs_Ryan

I suppose when I was at school, my name was considered a bit unusual - there were no others in my year at primary school and only one other in my year at secondary. I've heard about three different ways of pronouncing it - one from my cookery teacher at school which I later discovered was the American way of pronouncing it, there's the way I pronounce it (which is the way most people do) and then there's the East Anglian way of pronouncing it I say that because I had a friend from Peterborough and one of the lads at the rugby who is from King's Lynn both pronounce it the same way - like there's a y in it which there isn't but I quite like it However if I were able to have children there is no way I would inflict my name on any child of mine!
Speaking of impressions from a name, I work with a Kylie. When she first came to work on the ward, before she arrived I expected some dizzy kid. When she arrived it turned out she was in her 30's and had Australian heritage so wasn't actually named after the pop star. And she's a hard worker and a hard task mistress!!
I like looking at the meaning of names - some of them are quite funny but some are quite nice. I have the meaning of someone special's name tattooed on my left wrist and its a strong meaning of a really nice name - the name suits the person but not so much the meaning because he's totally the opposite :rotfl: I think when naming the child it's possibly quite important to look at the meaning as well as the name!!!

Bluemeanie_2

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!

thorsoak

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!

Don't let the comments of a vapid silly woman put you off what you call your baby! Choose a name with love - think of the register being called at school, think of prefixing it with "doctor", "professor", "prime minister", "Sir" ....etc etc etc.

Although we'd always thought about the names of our children before they were born, we always waited until they were actually here before getting the one that really suited them!

PS - I like all your choices!