Aus specific baby name question- please help!

[Bubbaluv]

Hi to All Aussie Mumsnetters!
I have a bit of a problem with a baby name choice and the opinions I am getting here (UK) seem to be very dependent on where the poster lives.
The focus of my confusion is the name Cameron.
I always thought of it as a traditional Scottish name, but apaprently it has suffered some damage due to Ms Diaz and is now regulalry given to girls and (in England at least) thought of as a bit chavvy (bogan).
Just wondering how it has faired in Aus?
Not too bothered about english opinions as we will be moving back to Sydney before DS has to contend with too many class issues, but just wondering if he would face the same issues in Sydney?
Any thoughts gratefully received.!

[PuzzleRocks]

Hi Bubbaluv - sorry to hijack your thread. Have you seen this?

[Bubbaluv]

No problem Puzzle,
I will be over there with my details soon - have been very lax!
Hopefully this will bump into the Aus time zone now anyway!

[pooka]

Not australian, but the only people I know with Camerons (two different families) here in SE london are solidly scottish, with scottish surnames.

Not bogan round here. And I know no girls called cameron either.

Is a good name IMO.

[PuzzleRocks]

Excellent, do pop over and let us know how you are doing also.

[Mellin]

Hi Bubbalav,
I'm an Aussie living in London. Don't know any Camerons here but know 3 in Sydney. All boys, 2 of them are under 5. Mostly tends to get shortened to Cam.

Not aware of any chav connotations in Oz with Cameron, I think it's a nice name.

[ClaudiaSchiffer]

Hi Bubbaluv, I'm in Oz and I'm not aware that it's particularly bogan. Try Troy, or Brayden to be be really bogan

[flummery]

Cameron is still pretty much a boys name over here in Aust, and has no bogan connotations. If you had a daughter and were considering Kahm'rohn, that would be another matter...

[bloss]

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[Bubbaluv]

Thank you everyone!
You have put my mind at rest!

[PuzzleRocks]

Hi Bubbaluv

update linking our new thread

[eidsvold]

Lots of boys with Cameron here. Have not come across any girls. In fact friends of mine had a cameron about three years ago.

[LouIsAHappyLittleVegemite]

I know lots of Camerons. All typical 'middle class' families and not a bogan in sight. Never heard of any girls being called this either.

[oldnewmummy]

I have a British cousin recently emigrated to Oz with a son called Cameron - they haven't mentioned any issues.

Alhough on little Cam's kindy photos there were some really odd names. Similar to Kham'roun etc. And a few Braydens (also popular here in Singapore).

Bogan = CHav?

[ninedragons]

Solidly middle-class boy's name here in Sydney. Bogans are a bit more harmless than chavs but in the same vein. They like V8 racing, mullets and smoking.

Haven't heard it around the playground so it's one I tend to associate with men now in their 20s and 30s. It's not as distinctively generational as, say, Kevin, but Lachlan is certainly the Scottish-ish name of choice around my way. Can't throw a rock without hitting a Lachie or a Lachlan.

Not that you should be throwing rocks in playgrounds anyway.

[Astrophe]

I would have said boy's name, no connotations...BUT in the last week I met two girls under 1, one called Cameron, on called Camryn. So now I don't know.

[LouIsAHappyLittleVegemite]

Bogan - see link
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDXRT53QduU

[ninedragons]

Or even more specifically,

bogan names

[ninedragons]

Oh my God! I've just watched it closely and realised that Pegasus Ezekiel's mum got stopped outside our local supermarket!

[Bubbaluv]

HappyVeg and NineDragons - those are fantastic!
I just need to contact Dakota's mum (and her friends) and ask their opinion on any names I'm considering. I think I should run them past Pegasus and Bentley's mums too. Any positive reactions would help me narrow down the field!

[ninedragons]

I showed it to DH last night and we were in fits of laughter that DD could go to school with young Pegasus, or indeed that we could end up as Pegasus's parents-in-law. Sebastian (also filmed outside our Westpac branch) would be absolutely fine, but I would struggle to keep a straight face if DD ever came home from school and announced Mum, I'm in love with a boy called Pegasus.

Better Pegasus than Maddison-with-two-ds, though.

[nooka]

Surely that Mum was just pulling his leg? No one could possibly really call their child Pegasus Ezekiel could they?

Cameron makes me think of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Which is a good thing

[Astrophe]

Makes me wonder what they would say about my DC's names...pretentious I expect

[ClaudiaSchiffer]

Brilliant video NineDragons.

[oldnewmummy]

LOVE those videos! Thanks.

This is why I can't wait to move to Oz from Singapore - piss-taking sense of humour. I read somewhere we should start watching Kath and Kim to get in the groove.

[AussieSim]

I am in Sydney with a 6yo,3yo and 9mo and can't recall having met any children called Cameron - though it certainly would be a boys name.

Check out this link - fascinating to see when certain names were popular and where there they are placed in the top100 most popular names. www.nsw.gov.au/explorer.asp for example Cameron was the 40th most popular boys name in NSW in 2007.