Which name for baby girl

dibuzz

Until the Harry Potter film came out I'd only seen Hermione written and thought it was pronounced Her-me-own

lostinrates

The whole thing with spellings is amusing that we get so upset about. If Shakespeare wrote his differently on different occasions I am sure we can forgive lesser writers a consistent alternative. Would I choose it, no, but I'm not going to freak about others doing it. That also, btw, doesn't mean I'm not suggesting those children so named will be victims of prejudice. I think its possible they will. But as it seems if nothing else, even traditional names, spellings and derivatives aren't familiar to many I don't really see how prejudice can be totally avoided anyway.

Bazey

I like Daisy, rhymes with Bazey.

VJsmum

We have an Ayla in our family. I don't even think of it as unusual now and it really suits her but she gets upset when people mispronounce it. We say Ayla to rhyme with Hay la but others say "eye-la"

My two have classic names which can be shortened to other common names. Both say they hate them, though DD is now coming round to "Victoria" as opposed to Vicky. I call her Vic, Vix, Pic, Pix and Pixels

We also have a brother and sister called Josephine and Joseph in the family.

Bazey

And Patrick Swayze

Claree__x

My cousin (18 months) is Jacob and I've not heard anyone mention Twilight. It wasn't picked as a twilight reference either (seeing as neither my aunt or uncle had read it and were somewhat peeved when another cousin told them about it...after he'd been named!) but it doesn't seem to be an issue, possibly 'cause Jacob's always been kicking about as a popular name anyway.

Flugelhorn

dizziblonde wrote: »

"Freddy's mum or Freddy's dad" is about the safest option going these days I find!

indeed - that is what I have to frequently resort to

onlyroz

gingin wrote: »

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.

I had a friend at school called Jenifer, and she constantly had to announce herself as "Jenifer with one N" otherwise people would routinely spell it wrong.

My mum once taught a boy with a very difficult to pronounce African name - the boy requested that he be known as Vince and so that's what everybody called him. Except one time a letter went home addressed to "The parents of Vince", and the boy's mother came storming into school throwing around accusations of racism, and a lack of respect for their culture etc etc. They then had to explain that it was the boy himself who had chosen to be addressed in that way.

zaxdog

VJsmum wrote: »

We have an Ayla in our family. I don't even think of it as unusual now and it really suits her but she gets upset when people mispronounce it. We say Ayla to rhyme with Hay la but others say "eye-la"

My two have classic names which can be shortened to other common names. Both say they hate them, though DD is now coming round to "Victoria" as opposed to Vicky. I call her Vic, Vix, Pic, Pix and Pixels

We also have a brother and sister called Josephine and Joseph in the family.

Out of interest is the Ayla after the character in Jean M Auel's Earth's Children books?

Near where I used to live we had a boy called Levi whose wee twin sisters were Dolce and Gabbana, honestly :eek:

aileth

zaxdog wrote: »

Out of interest is the Ayla after the character in Jean M Auel's Earth's Children books?

Near where I used to live we had a boy called Levi whose wee twin sisters were Dolce and Gabbana, honestly :eek:

Well that's one way to do it, name your children after the clothes you conceived them in :rotfl: