Which name for baby girl

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Laurajo wrote: »

Does no one call their kids David or Sarah anymore?

Gail Platt on Corrie did and look how they turned out!

Janepig

lostinrates wrote: »

E.g. We have no Alex in our family at all, but a Sacha and and a sandy. I know people called Alex, lex,xander etc, but its not the way our family would nickname normally.

I used to work with a Sandy and his "real" name was Alexander.

Jx

lostinrates

Janepig wrote: »

I used to work with a Sandy and his "real" name was Alexander.

Jx

Yes, that's my point.

Janepig

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes, that's my point.

I was merely pointing out that I knew that Sandy was a short form of Alexander. Not to mention that his parents might as well have just called him Sandy first as last seeing as most people didn't even know his "real" name was Alexander.

Jx

liney

AlexLK wrote: »

I, for one, certainly agree with this. My name is Alexander, yet almost everybody (barring my parents) know me as Alex; I would not have wanted the shortened version to be my given name though.

Whilst Daisy sounds very "cute" for a little girl, when she is a grown woman I'm not sure she would appreciate it.

My wife and I had real trouble picking names for our child but one of our main considerations was whether or not it would be appropriate for our son when he was grown up.

My son even at 9 prefers the lengthened version of his name at school and only likes family to call him the perfectly acceptable shortened version.

I would not go with Daisy because A) my cat it's my cat's name, and because as an adult I might be very irritated renditions of Daisy Daisy and people saying 'Hello petal.' I have a name that appears in variations in a few songs and it gets old very quickly.

Ella and Bella... Not Bella because of Twlight, or even Bellatrix from Harry Potter, and Ella is too similar for me.

As some have suggested the lengthened version of B/Ella is nice, and you can call her what you like until she is old enough to have her own preference. Variations are also: Arabella, Annabella, Christabella, Rosabella , Mirabella, Isobelle, and Isobella.

Has anyone mentioned checking out what the initials spell too, and that you don't end up with an Ella Trick, for example

duchy

Perhaps the name grew on him (or them )
Isn't Prince Harry actually a Henry ?
I think it's quite nice to have a name a child can choose the version as they get older - I have friends who are different names to different groups like the Sandy/Alexander example . I have one group of friends who call me Hazel -which isn't my name but the alias I chose to be known as when we had multiple people with the same name in one workplace ... and actually I like it better than the shortened version of my real name

lostinrates

Janepig wrote: »

I was merely pointing out that I knew that Sandy was a short form of Alexander. Not to mention that his parents might as well have just called him Sandy first as last seeing as most people didn't even know his "real" name was Alexander.

Jx

I suppose I hadn't considered whether most people wouldn't or would know that sandy was short for alander or Alexandra. To me it just is normal, like Sacha that it could be short for Alexander or Alexandra, like Harry is for Henry etc etc.

I'd always give a child a choice, as you say.....it give two (or in the case of names like Alexander/ra many, other options.

I love having a name that rarely gets used. Its used my doctors, and people wanting money from me. It keeps that sort of business quite separate from my social life and family life, and even within social life I'm known differently. I like that greatly.

theoretica

I agree with giving the child options - most people are much more comfortable with the idea of shortened names than lengthened ones, though I have met a Liz who preferred to be called Elizabeth.

Tiddlywinks

Janepig wrote: »

.... Not to mention that his parents might as well have just called him Sandy first as last seeing as most people didn't even know his "real" name was Alexander.

I disagree - By calling him Alexander his family gave him a choice for the future... Alex, Al, Alexander, Sandy etc.

A choice to use different derivatives in different situations and with different groups.... that's more empowering than giving someone a short 'kiddy cute' name that fits a child but may limit an adult.

I know someone who called their baby Bertie... why? Just why? They should have given the longer version of Albert or Robert thus giving him a choice for the future.

Silly, cutesie names are a self indulgence for the parents and can be life limiting for the child as others do make judgements based on names.

Janepig

lostinrates wrote: »

I suppose I hadn't considered whether most people wouldn't or would know that sandy was short for alander or Alexandra. To me it just is normal, like Sacha that it could be short for Alexander or Alexandra, like Harry is for Henry etc etc.

I'd always give a child a choice, as you say.....it give two (or in the case of names like Alexander/ra many, other options.

I love having a name that rarely gets used. Its used my doctors, and people wanting money from me. It keeps that sort of business quite separate from my social life and family life, and even within social life I'm known differently. I like that greatly.

I'm known by my middle name (long story, but fairly common in Wales) and I hate when I go to the doctors and I'm half asleep/dying in the waiting room and this name I'm not used to is called. I have to have my wits about me! Same with work when I sometimes get things addressed to one name, sometimes to another, it's a pain.

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I disagree - By calling him Alexander his family gave him a choice for the future... Alex, Al, Alexander, Sandy etc.

A choice to use different derivatives in different situations and with different groups.... that's more empowering than giving someone a short 'kiddy cute' name that fits a child but may limit an adult.

I know someone who called their baby Bertie... why? Just why? They should have given the longer version of Albert or Robert thus giving him a choice for the future.

Silly, cutesie names are a self indulgence for the parents and can be life limiting for the child as others do make judgements based on names.

I don't disagree about "cutesy" names, ("Boo" as evidenced earlier in the thread for instance) but I still think you call the child what you want them to be called and I don't see the point in giving them a "choice". Ultimately you can call yourself what you like when you get old enough to chose regardless of what your parents bestowed on you. My Alex could chose to call himself Alexander when he's older (unlikely as it is) or he could call himself Fred or Mike or whatever, regardless of what we called him at birth.

You're right, people do judge based on names, but DD had a "Chardonnay" with her in day nursery, you can only imagine what image I conjoured up of her mother, but when I met her she was about as far removed from how I'd imagined the mother of a Chardonnay to be as was possible.

Good job we're not all the same eh?

Jx