What's wrong with Hazel?

[SunSoakedStone]

Not mine, but SILs getting some stick from DH. I like it!

[Nagoo]

Nothing :)

[HazeltheMcWitch]

Nothing!

[MrsMcEnroe]

Nothing. It's a beautiful name.

[SunSoakedStone]

That's what I said.

[EdnaClouds]

It just makes me crave nuts.

[TeacupTempest]

I love it

[Ephiny]

I like it too, it's a lovely name.

[seaweedhead]

I like it- was on our shortlist for dd. The thing that put us off was Hazel Blears.

[BebeBelge]

I know someone with a Hazel and, honestly, people are gushing in their compliments. It helps that she has lovely brown eyes too (interestingly, parents both blue-eyed!)!

[LaFilleSurLePont]

Nothing imho. It's beautiful.One of my favourite names.

[othersideofchannel]

Nothing - lovely underused name.

[Stokey]

Lovely name but bebebelge.. . am pretty sure genetically it is impossible for two blue-eyed parents to produce a brown-eyed child...

[SunSoakedStone]

I thought it was impossible too, blue eyes are from recessive genes.

Thanks for the Hazel support though!

[redrubyshoes]

Sunsoaked

It is perfectly possible for blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. Not common but perfectly possible.

[Wheresmycaffeinedrip]

That just what I was thinking

[Ephiny]

DP has brown eyes, both his parents have blue. I'm fairly sure there is nothing 'suspicious' going on as he looks so like his dad, other than eye/hair colour!

Genetics is sometimes a bit more complicated than the stuff you learn at school :)

[marge2]

Hazel = lovely name

[SunSoakedStone]

Yeah I'm thinking in terms of GCSE biology here, always willing to learn :)

[emmyloo2]

Fab name, I love it. I want it on my baby name list but my husband is not as keen. However, it is classic and underused and will be agre appropriate at any age.

[VeronicaSpeedwell]

It's lovely, on our list.

[itsthawooluff]

Sorry, but I'll always think of Watership Down "briiiiiighhhhhttt eeeyyyyeees, burning like fiiiire".

But SIL should ignore and go ahead, I wanted to call DD2 Grace , and after 2 months of my SIL coming out with "Amazing Grace" whenever we spoke, I'd cooled on it. Your baby, you choose the name.

[Stokey]

GCSE biology did get it wrong acc. to google (and so did I)!
Sorry for casting aspersions.. am pretty sure I remember classic chick lit book of 70s - LAce - where the plot hinged on blue-eyed parents not being able to have a brown-eyed child.
And have been told by website I have a 98% chance of having a brown-eyed baby, when in fact DD has grey eyes...

[squoosh]

Hazel is a 'Doreen, Sandra, Pauline' type of name.

Nothing actually wrong with it but a bit drab.

[OTTMummA]

I have blue eyes, mum and dad both have brown, my nanna has blue though, so i guess it can happen.

[OTTMummA]

oh, and Hazel is a lovely name