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What did you call your pfb?

81 replies

hightrees · 13/06/2011 14:03

Why? And, do you still like it?

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Greenwing · 14/06/2011 23:51

Fintan nn Fin

It was 20 years ago - so am amazed now to find that Finn and variants seem to be becoming so popular: I have only ever met one other Fintan in the last twenty years.

Lonnie · 14/06/2011 22:18

Phoebe 13 years ago she was named after JD Salingers "the catcher in the rye" as dh read it as a young teen saying if he ever had alittle girl he wanted to name her Phoebe as she was the " coolest sister in the world"

It suits her I still love it would have liked it to not become as popular as it has been but on the other hand she is now in 2ndary school and there are no other Phoebes in her year (one below but )

UrsulaBuffay · 14/06/2011 21:25

Phoebe Elisabeth

I'd go with something less popular given my time again but she suits it.

PippiLongBottom · 14/06/2011 21:24

Madeleine. I still love it. Due to unfortunately tragic events it took a down turn in popularity.

thecatatemygymsuit · 14/06/2011 21:20

Edie, plus a middle name and family name. Love it still, really suits her, vaguely in homage to Edie Sedgewick (apart from the dying of heroin bit), plus I had a great aunt Edith. Also, she has the best surname ever ( I can't reveal as would give me away) so I didn't want to go to ott with her first name, but I adore her entire name and am really, really happy with it.

BikeRunSki · 14/06/2011 21:20

Samuel
Last time I was pg FIL was reseacrhing his family tree and found 5 generations of Samuel Surname prior to his father. I had also always wanted a son called Sam but DH didn't need any persuading.

3 years on. still love it. I really suits him. It is top 15 ish,but have never met another of his age group, and rarely meet any others at all.

Now, what to call No.2?

RockStockAndTwoOpenBottles · 14/06/2011 21:17

Emily and almost 18 years on I still love it. I hated and still hate my name and that is what I wanted to be called. (Still madly in love with her too, funnily enough!)

GwendolineMaryLacey · 14/06/2011 21:15

Harriet. Was top of our list years before we had her. Suits her down to the ground. Middle names are family names.

gapants · 14/06/2011 21:14

As a new born he was LB for ages- Little baby (low birth weight)

Now he is Fergus, or Ferg or baby gus gus.

Still love it, he is almost 3.

Galena · 14/06/2011 21:11

Skye - we had a holiday to the Isle of Skye booked for the start of my maternity leave. However, DD arrived at 27 weeks, 7 weeks before the holiday was due to start! We knew we wouldn't get to go away for the holiday, so, in DH's uncharacteristically soppy words, "We couldn't go to Skye, so Skye came to us."

mintymellons · 14/06/2011 20:06

Maisie.

I love a granny name! Still love it, just a bit miffed that it's become a lot more common in the almost six years since DD1 was born!

AberdeenAngusina · 14/06/2011 12:06

Alexander, for the same reasons as Flaneuse, and also because it's a family name. Still love it and so does he.
I don't know anyone who doesn't like Alexander as a name.

His middle name is my maiden name, which, in the last few years, has become a first name usually given to girls. Who would have expected people to start using surnames as girls names?

manicinsomniac · 14/06/2011 09:27

ah ok, thanks.

Savannah. I still like it but everyone calls her Vannah which I'm less keen on.

LaWeasel · 14/06/2011 09:00

Not telling, it was a 'settling' name because we couldn't agree.

However, her middle name is Ava which I love so much and wish was her first name.

Psammead · 14/06/2011 08:50

Lucia.

A result of many blissful hours of lists, colour coded pens and spreadsheets Grin

5DollarShake · 14/06/2011 02:58

PFB has been known by a diminutive since Day 1 so that now his real name feels like the name of some other child. Grin The short version is him through and through, though.

Mumcentreplus · 14/06/2011 00:48

Kaya Honey (Naa Doley- Ghanian name)

TheLadyEvenstar · 14/06/2011 00:42

DS1 was meant to be named by his father but he came up with an idiotic name so I passed it over to my mum Grin

He is called Karl Barrie Emmanual

OvO · 14/06/2011 00:36

Manic, pfb is precious first born.

OvO · 14/06/2011 00:32

James.

Named after my dad. Still love it.

manicinsomniac · 14/06/2011 00:28

what on earth is a pfb? Some kind of child obviously but which one?!

Loolah · 13/06/2011 20:59

Jaimee-Leigh - read My girl when i was younger so from a young age if ever i had a girl she was to be named after Jamie - Lee Curtis.
Lee is a family name so thought it very apt, I love the name still 7 years on as we don't know any others, although it gets shortened which she prefers

MyDingaling · 13/06/2011 20:51

Maisie -never met any other Maisie's up until 18 months or so ago - now there seems to be quite a few. Still love it though

JentlyDoesIt · 13/06/2011 20:49

oooh, by the way, I still love it and it really suits him.

JentlyDoesIt · 13/06/2011 20:48

Ivan. After my Grandad - I wanted family names and the only ones we could come up with were all on my mums side of the family - Ivan, George, Carlyle and Donaldson Hmm so Ivan he was. DP didn't want a name that could be shortened.

So we called DD 18 months later...... Elizabeth :o gets shortened to all sorts of things. Libby mainly. She is named after my mum.