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Son's name :o)

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 18:43

My son's name didn't exist on the baby name finder here so i added it yesterday and it appears as the name of the day today !!

We have sort of made it up but not really.....I liked Keir or Kerr, OH liked Ciaran. Ciaran means the little dark one and we didn't think he would be little so we took the "an" bit which is the "little" bit and kept the Ciar - pronounced exactly the same way as Keir so everybody happy. :o)

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freerangeeggs · 19/06/2012 21:20

I like Ciar. It's very handsome and certainly nicer than Keir.

I also think what Lisaro said was rude and unnecessary. And a bit weird.

yellowflowers · 18/06/2012 09:13

Ciar is lovely. Congratulations

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amck5700 · 16/06/2012 22:05

It depends LBR, we are scottish and live in scotland so maybe not as much as you would otherwise. If you are sitting waiting at the doctors and someone comes out looking at the folder and looking round the room before attempting to speak, you pretty much know that it's us they are looking for. Occasionally they assume that it's Ciara which seems to be the more common spelling than Keira for the girls version of the name - he likes his hair a bit longer like all the kids do at the moment and he has a very sweet face - maybe when he hits puberty and gets a more "manly" face that will stop too. All in, he likes his name, his middle name is Alastair so if he wanted to use that it wouldn't bother me but he'll always be Ciar to me.

DidYouSmashHerShireHorses - feel free to nick away - we could do with a few more - there have only been about half a dozen babies in scotland named that since my son was born in 2001. My Ciar is beautiful, sweet, incredibly bright and very well behaved (though a bit of a door slammer!!) and he makes me proud to be his Mum every single day.

And thank you everyone for your comments.

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LeBeauReve · 16/06/2012 21:48

OP I think it is a lovely name, I have always liked the Keir version as there is a rather good looking news reporter called Keir Simmons

Just curious, have you found that people have not known initially how to pronounce it, or tend to pronounce it wrongly because it is unusual? This is one of my considerations as I try and come up for names for DS2.

milkymocha · 15/06/2012 12:03

It is not made up, I have a Ciar in my family
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO RUDE

thisisyesterday · 15/06/2012 10:02

Edith, don't be silly :) it's the internet! goes without saying that you just can't read context/tone. I've misread what people are saying on here tons of times

you're right, think we're on the same wavelength :)

usualsuspect · 14/06/2012 21:01

It's a lovely name

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 21:01

Oh hell! Can I apologise in advance, thisisyesterday? I've overreacted to your post and I am sorry for being tetchy.

I think we were both coming at the same thing from different angles, and I read your posts in haste and took it far too personally.

And apologies to OP too, for the diversion to your thread.

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 20:58

I mentioned it because I thought some of the comments which followed avoidable, and saw it as a misunderstanding.

I said precisely nothing about whether they were acceptable, and I find your insinuation that I condone nastiness to new mothers when they announce a name to be offensive.

thisisyesterday · 14/06/2012 19:36

not inventing a prejudice at all edith, at least not from you!
just wondering why it would matter if the op had been clearer that's all, the only thing that it would have changed was that people would have known it was an old name not a made up name.

why would that make a difference if there is no prejudice?

DidYouSmashHerShireHorses · 14/06/2012 18:03

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mumofjust1 · 14/06/2012 17:16

I like it, especially the unusual spelling

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 17:08

I didn't say that.

What is interesting is the way you have invented a prejudice about "made up" names onto my post.

thisisyesterday · 14/06/2012 16:07

really edith? so if someone has made a name up that means people can be nasty about it? but if it's an alternative spelling that's ok and people should be nice?

interesting

badtime · 14/06/2012 15:15

I know of a similar case: a little boy called Aedan, which is an older spelling than Aidan but some people think is made up.
It must be very annoying for the parents.

EdithWeston · 14/06/2012 14:51

It might have been clearer at the outset if OP had said then (as she did later) that she had chosen the older spelling, rather than having 'sort of made it up' as the "not really" seemed to apply to varying existing names, not using a rare one.

But precise drafting isn't many people's strong point immediately post-natally and I hope you are having a wonderful time with your new DS.

thisisyesterday · 14/06/2012 14:46

uh lisaro yes, yes it IS nasty.

are you always this spiteful and unkind? or just when anonymous on the internet?

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amck5700 · 14/06/2012 00:04

lol gnome - our older son didn't have a name for 3 days, Ciar didn't have a name for a week and a half - we had a name all picked out for No1 son and it just didn't look right when he was born so we had to start again! with No 2 we didn't bother even thinking about it until he was born as we thought that something would come to us when we saw him.......it didn't!! Strangely we had a couple of girls names picked out for both but we always knew deep down that they'd be boys. No2 son didn't even look like our child when he was born - he was a section as was No1 - and I was half convinced that it was someone elses baby they showed me over the barrier thingy. It's okay, i know he's mine now lol. We chose the name Ciar because of the meaning too as he is quite olive skinned and had lovely dark hair - then he lost the hair and became blond so it didn't really fit anymore!! - i'm sure he'll go dark eventually........

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GnomeDePlume · 13/06/2012 23:55

It is a strange thing about naming a child. All sorts of people think it okay to make negative comments about the name parents have chosen.

We were careful not to tell anyone what we were naming each of our children until after they were born. Our attitude was that if you were rejecting the name you were rejecting the child (and hell hath no fury....).

threeleftfeet · 13/06/2012 23:30

*A chat, not a char!

threeleftfeet · 13/06/2012 23:29

lisaro I have no idea whether you fall into that category nor do I care. However you certainly have no manners.

Why on earth would you want to tell someone their child had a horrible name?
I don't like most really (IMO) boring, ordinary names, but I don't hang out on their baby name threads telling OPs that! If I don't like the name I say nothing, especially if the child already exists! It's spectacularly mean.

And your first post "What do you want OP? You didn't ask a question or even make a point yet somebody still commented" was totally uncalled for! The OP wanted to have a char about something nice (obviously) if you don't want to share in it then do us a favour and crawl back under your stone, please.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:28

lol Gnome......I hope it is a normal name and you haven't spelt it funny

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:27

It will be interesting to see if this court ruling about websites having to provide details of the identities of internet trolls will have any effect on people behaviour.

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GnomeDePlume · 13/06/2012 23:26

aaahhh! becomes clear, sorry, I thought he was brand new. Any road up, I wish you joy of him nonetheless!

My DS is named after a 7th century Northumbrian king/saint of such obscurity that no one really knows why he was sainted.

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amck5700 · 13/06/2012 23:25

not at all threeleftfeet. I just feel sad that some people have no manners/hide behind a screen. I am a pretty scary woman (so I have been told!!) so i am sure that they wouldn't say those things to me face to face.

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