Which name for baby girl

sassyblue

lostinrates wrote: »

Importantly op mentioned some time back her daughter was named.


This is partly why I keep steering the conversation away from what people think about the three names. onto the broader topic because I think OP doesn't need any judgement. She chose a sweet name that will work well for an adult IMO. To that my opinion matters

No she didn't because l checked her posts to see if she'd decided.

lostinrates

sassyblue wrote: »

No she didn't because l checked her posts to see if she'd decided.

Gosh, you're right".

I checked and the op wasn't the person who I saw had named their baby. Oops.

I'll stop diverting the thread:rotfl: here I was thinking we were passing judgement on some poor just named kid and tired parents of a newborn....:rotfl:

Apologies!

gingin_2

I think we will get used to the new generation of names. I know a Hero (female) and I've always thought it the most classy, unique name, that suits her perfectly but when a celebrity named their baby the same I remember such backlash that she would choose such a "ridiculous" name.

I chose a very simple but strong 3 letter name for my son, I don't regret it but I was the one pushing for a more unique name whereas my husband was set on this one. My daughter has a pretty French name that is forever being questioned as to the spelling, I still think it suits her perfectly, though.

My poor niece was given a nice, perfectly decent name but for the sake of originality her parents decided to drop one of the double consonant letters in it ( for example instead of calling her Bella, she would be Bela but still pronounced Bella - I'm not going to give her real name because I would hate to identify her) the poor child is going to forever correcting people on the spelling, or the pronunciation on what is a perfectly nice and not uncommon name.

Flugelhorn

At work I sometimes have to phone the parents of young children up - all I have is the name on the screen.... golly with wonky spellings it is sometimes really hard to know how to pronounce it and am sure I get it wrong .. I do wish people would stick to standard spellings - really helps (and if you don't then tough if I say it wrong)
then there is the double barrelled kid's surname ... Miss A-B - now is Dad Mr A-B or Mr A or Mr B and what is mum called ? .... aggggh

aileth

I'm finding the new craze is for parents to spell their little darling's names differently but same phonetically, for example Megan becomes Meghan, Megun, Meggan, Meghan, Meghun, Grant is Grante, Denise is Deneese, Michaela is Mykayla, etc etc. Actually, thinking about it now it might not be because they want a special snowflake name, but because they're writing it how they think it's spelt! I've seen so many, they are just a handful, but I've also seen A LOT like Mercedes, Chardonnay, Honey Boo Boo whatever.

My parents were going to call me Hermoine and I'm bloody glad they didn't else I wouldn't had a nightmare what with the Harry Potter movies!

lostinrates

aileth wrote: »

I'm finding the new craze is for parents to spell their little darling's names differently but same phonetically, for example Megan becomes Meghan, Megun, Meggan, Meghan, Meghun, Grant is Grante, Denise is Deneese, Michaela is Mykayla, etc etc. Actually, thinking about it now it might not be because they want a special snowflake name, but because they're writing it how they think it's spelt! I've seen so many, they are just a handful, but I've also seen A LOT like Mercedes, Chardonnay, Honey Boo Boo whatever.

My parents were going to call me Hermoine and I'm bloody glad they didn't else I wouldn't had a nightmare what with the Harry Potter movies!

Mercedes is a quite' legitimate' and old name.

Some of the 'funny spellings ' of names are simply funny spellings, but some I've heard people gripe about are other European spellings of the same name.

dizziblonde

Flugelhorn wrote: »

At work I sometimes have to phone the parents of young children up - all I have is the name on the screen.... golly with wonky spellings it is sometimes really hard to know how to pronounce it and am sure I get it wrong .. I do wish people would stick to standard spellings - really helps (and if you don't then tough if I say it wrong)
then there is the double barrelled kid's surname ... Miss A-B - now is Dad Mr A-B or Mr A or Mr B and what is mum called ? .... aggggh

"Freddy's mum or Freddy's dad" is about the safest option going these days I find! Closely followed by a "sorry I had to refer to you as that - now what do you want me to call you?"

Furthering the list of "interesting" spellings - Jaimz and I encountered a Renezzmae recently too.

I don't like the whole cutesy name with no "adult" variant thing that goes on with little girls really - round here at the moment it's absolute overload with it. Think my pair are about the only girls in their baby group that don't have a -y or -ie type name of the Poppy, Daisy, Maisie type ones. Although if you believe my eldest at the moment I think her name is "MINE" (said with a very very determined indignant look on her face)

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

aileth wrote: »

I'm finding the new craze is for parents to spell their little darling's names differently but same phonetically, for example Megan becomes Meghan, Megun, Meggan, Meghan, Meghun, Grant is Grante, Denise is Deneese, Michaela is Mykayla, etc etc. Actually, thinking about it now it might not be because they want a special snowflake name, but because they're writing it how they think it's spelt! I've seen so many, they are just a handful, but I've also seen A LOT like Mercedes, Chardonnay, Honey Boo Boo whatever.

My parents were going to call me Hermoine and I'm bloody glad they didn't else I wouldn't had a nightmare what with the Harry Potter movies!

Just as well, seeing as you misspelt Hermione in your post.



Meghan is an established spelling of the name.

aileth

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Just as well, seeing as you misspelt Hermione in your post.



Meghan is an established spelling of the name.

Meow! What makes you think if they named me it I'd be incapable of spelling my own name?

I'm only giving a few examples of things I can remember, I don't keep a list of all the ones I've seen. I'm sure there are lots that are established spellings, but that doesn't mean I've seen them all, so to me they are 'different'

heartbreak_star

dizziblonde wrote: »

Renezzmae

That's another Twilight reference - Bella and Edward's daughter is called "Renesmee".

HBS x