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Princess for a girl?

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 13:43

Opinions please without being too nasty would be appreciated we are really struggling to agree on girls names i love Sienna or Lola-mae however hubby not liking either of those and suggested Princess.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:24

No you think that she will think that.

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colditz · 21/10/2010 15:24

No, maybe you wouldn't, but then, YOU are in the 3% of the population that doesn't think calling a girl "princess" is ridiculous.

Everyone else will look at her CV and snigger "Princess????? She either used to be a stripper or she used to be a bloke. Next!"

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:22

I didn't call your husband a tosser. Are you illiterate?

I implied that when your daughter is fifteen, she will think your husband is a tosser for lumbering her with a name that induces incredulous sniggers everywhere she introduces herself.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:20

I disagree i would never not employ someone because of a name!

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OhBuggerandArse · 21/10/2010 15:18

Yes. Unfortunate but true.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:16

And if she went to uni and got a 1st in her degree do you think people would really not give her a job because of her name!

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:15

*slagging

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:14

How can you say he's a tosser -because he likes a name you dont?! I didnt come on here to have a slanging match with someone who obv cant accept other people like different things to them. So how about now you do me a favour and fuck off! So you dont like the name fair enough! no need at all to be personally slag off my husband because he likes the name!

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Rhubarbgarden · 21/10/2010 15:13

I like Sienna. I don't know any round here. But Lolas are two a penny.

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 15:11

I think we have an attitude with the OP's DH wanting to call his child a name "to prove a point". I don't think that's a very good basis on which to choose a name that your child will have for the rest of her life.

It's also not about whether people in general will like it.

It's about whether your daughter will like it.

Which I don't think she will.

I think she will be very resentful towards both her parents for choosing a name which could potentially cause her to be pigeonholed, disrespected or even bullied.

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:11

Mine won't, no. My world won't change a jot if someone insists that his daughter is called Princess.

Her world, now ... you're giving her no option but to be a beauty therapist, a model, or a v list sleb.

What if she wants to be a barrister?

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:09

Not everyone. The vast majority of people.

As evidenced by the screetching laughter at Jordan by the majority of the country.

So here's news for you - you allow your foolish husband to give your daughter a ridiculous name, then you are accepting that your daughter is to be an object of ridicule.

can you imagine, in 15 years time?

"What'#s your name?"
"Princess."
"Princess???? What the hell kind of name is that?"
"Yeah yeah I know. My dad's a tosser. he loves me but I don't think it occured to him for 5 seconds that I'm not going to be three for the rest of my life. What baffles me is why mum didn't bloody stop him!""

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:08

Expecting06112010 - Thank you

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Expecting06112010 · 21/10/2010 15:06

gosh colditz!! your going over the top about this! i mean i dont like the name but calm down! your worlds not going to come crashing down because her other half likes the name princess is it!

GeorgeOsborne · 21/10/2010 15:02

Everybody judges peoples names. You mean that some people will judge it and like it. Which is true.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 14:57

Well here's some news for you not EVERYONE will laugh because not EVERYONE is like you. Some people dont judge people by a name and im not disbuting that it would be an unusual name to live with. How you can say he is being ridiculous i dont know as he likes that name and is entitled to like it.

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RockBat · 21/10/2010 14:47

I'm a Sarah and it does mean princess, ironically :o

IggitheImpaler · 21/10/2010 14:46

Maybe it's like "A boy named Sue" and she will work that bit harder than other girls to be taken seriously and end up as the Chair of Philosophy at Oxford or the first socialist Prime Minister?
(It's nice up here in cloud cuckoo land)

IggitheImpaler · 21/10/2010 14:46

Maybe it's like "A boy named Sue" and she will work that bit harder than other girls to be taken seriously and end up as the Chair of Philosophy at Oxford or the first socialist Prime Minister?
(It's nice up here in cloud cuckoo land)

colditz · 21/10/2010 14:46

Ok, I'm too harsh, I'm totally wrong about why he wants to call her Prinbcess, Princess is in fact a lovely name to try and have a career with and he's right to be stubborn and insist on it.

Just in case you come to your senses any time soon, hold onto this piece of information - everyone will laugh at you. And everyone will assume it was your insistance. And once 'hubby' realises his stubborness has made you all a laughing stock, he won't be too keen to stand up in the pub and say "Actually, it was me behaving like a four year old with a dolly, I wanted to call the baby a ridiculous name, it wasn't my wife, she's quite normal."

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 14:43

There was someone on NM whose child was called J-Lo. I kid you not.

Bluebell99 · 21/10/2010 14:39

You said your name is Sarah. Think now, would you really want your name to be Princess? Imagine sitting in the dr's surgery, and having to get up when the dr calls, "Princess Smith or whatever your surname is". One poor child at our school is called "Purple". She may hate the colour purple!Or having to answer to Princess when the register is called. People will laugh at her.

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 14:35

What PaisleyPumpkin said.

puffling · 21/10/2010 14:34

I used to teach a very violent and aggressive 'Princess.' Imagine her as an adult. She may not like to be saddled with this name.
Agree with others that -Mae tagged on to a name is very common at the moment. Sienna as a word sounds beautiful but there re plenty of those about too. Where I live near Manchester I'm always hearing mums in the supermarket shouting 'Sienn-o get 'ere.'

Lola is the best over all. Bit porn starry but still ok.

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 14:34

Well naming a child Princess and not thinking about how it will affect her in later life is a bit selfish imo.

It's like calling your child Hugh Jass or Richard Head.

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