"You cant use that its too chavvy" - Is it ?

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

Ok so I don't find out what I'm having until next fortnight & I have chosen both names yet I'm told that the girls name I have chose is too 'Chavvy' & I have to find something else by my 'D'M .

I'd like a none biased opinion so I have come to you lot for help & other name suggestions as I feel like I'm banging my head against a brick wall trying to find anything at all

Sadie Liesel

Ruairi Atticus Norton

It's the girls name that I'm told is too chavvy/ common & I still need a second middle name for girl as well .

Also if I like these what else would I like ?

Eternally grateful for any ideas/responses

[BforBee]

They are both great names. Not chavvy in the least, no hyphens or 'yooneek' spellings.

I really like Clementine, Cordelia and Ramona at the moment.

[Inkspellme]

I think both first names are lovely. I also think far more importantly if you and your partner if you have one love the names what your mother thinks is absolutley irrelavent.

[florascotia]

Traditionally, Sadie is short for Sarah, which is a very classic name. Can't see any reason to object to it! Personally, I'd use Sarah with Sadie as a nickname, but you might not want to do that.

Liesel is probably more often spelled without the second 'e' (Liesl), though your spelling is a perfectly OK alternative. And it's short for Elisabeth (German spelling), which is another lovely classic name.

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

My Dn is called Ramona so can't use that even though it's lovely

My entire family have such obscure names which is kinda why I'm panicking so much as anything that is used a lot just won't work .
I can't think of anybody I know or have known called Sadie (my mum new a bloke called Sadie 20 years ago but that's about it)

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

I have gone with the Liesel spelling as it flows a lot better with my very German surname , not keen on Sarah at all as just doesn't 'go' at all

Thanks though

[momb]

None of those names are 'chavvy' (though I'm not really sure what that means), however you have a mixed bag of cultural and linguistic aetiologies there: gaelic, latin, angle, spanish, german. Perhaps your DM is confused about what part of your family you are channeling/honouring?

Is it that your DM doesn't like diminutives used as full names? Perhaps if you went for Sarah Elizabeth and then used Sadie Liesel she woudn't mind so much? I'm a bit like this: gave my girls the full names so they can shorten to their own preference when they are older.

[socially]

Sadie is nice, not chavvy at all

[babyblabber]

both lovely names and not chavy at all.

way prefer Rory to Ruairi though

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

I'm German/Irish & my Dp is Irish hence all the different cultures thrown together .

[TheWholeOfTheSpook]

Is Ruairi pronounced Rory? It seems a very complicated spelling, if so!

[TheWholeOfTheSpook]

Wait, ignore me. I didn't realise it was Irish!

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

It's pronounced Rooree where as Roary is pronounced Roaree

[NeedaDiscoNap]

Your mum isn't Scottish is she OP? I love the name Sadie but in the west of Scotland it's quite an old-fashioned 'wee old woman' name - and not in the way the popular old lady names like Lily, Violet, Ava etc. are.

I still think it's lovely though

[Viviennemary]

Liesel on its own is quite nice. But not Sadie Liesel. And as for that Ruairi Atticus Norton. It's dire.

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

Nope not Scottish

[WowserBooooooooooooser]

I really like Sadie

[moxon]

Seems fine.

[MyPandaisasecretmonster]

Thanks everyone apart from Viv

[cruikshank]

Agree about the 'west of Scotland' thing. I'm from there, and any Sadies I know are all bingo playing, hard drinking, neighbour badmouthing matriarchs of a certain age who are what many people would deem 'uncouth'. It's probably due a revival though.

[scarevola]

Sadie is Lady Radlett in the Nancy Mitford books. I'd never think of it as 'chavvy'

[Medibeagle]

You might also like Sasha, Soraya or Saskia.

[BuckskinnedAstronaut]

Sadie is fine - consistently top-200 name for a good while now without ever being wildly popular. Ruairi also fine, provided that you are prepared for getting Ruaidhrí, Ruaidrí, Ruairidh, Ruaraidh or Ruaridh instead (and having it pronounced Rory if you're in England) and aren't going to bristle in inchoate rage each time it happens.

[badtime]

I'm from NI and 'Sadie' was always one of the names used to represent a stereotypical gossipy old women (standing, hoiking her chest and nattering to 'Aggie' about the neighbours), so I think it's not just in Scotland.

[JassyRadlett]

Scarevola I was just coming to say that about Aunt Sadie.

[mathanxiety]

Was going to say what Badtime said about NI + Sadie. However, I don't think it has negative connotations anywhere else.

However, since it's a nn for Sarah I wouldn't use it as a formal first name, but that is just my own taste for a 'proper' formal name.

Would Alexandra, Elsa, Ailsa, Serena or Sabrina work with your surname or are you really keen on Sadie? For a third name would you consider a Scottish name like Eilidh or Marsaili?

I like Ruairi Atticus Norton - good flow to the three names and all stand up well by themselves, plus they reflect the cultural backgrounds.