Name you love now or name you've always loved?

I had never heard of featherstoneshaugh! That is so cool!

I always loved Theodore, nn Teddy. But I couldn't use it for DS as a friend claimed it. I was reading my copy of 'Topsy and Tim and their new baby brother' the other day and he is called Theodore, nn Teddy! So now I know where I got it from.

I love my children's names though and wouldn't change them for anything. They all like them too.

Kaekae - I once had a boyfriend who said his favourite names were Toni and Charlie for girls. That was the end of our beautiful relationship!

He ended up with very good names for his children. But possibly his wife's influence!

I have always loved 'Dorian' for a boy. We chickened out in the end and gave it to DS2 as a middle name. We went for Albert as first name and that is him now. I do sometimes wish I had been braver though.

A friend went for Lettice for her first and I was always very impressed with how she didn't give a shit.

Our first DS is 'John' - my favourite all time name. I haven't met another child under 10 called John ever, but maybe that is because I live in a place where everyone is called Noah, Oliver, Theo etc etc.

I would do Margot or Elizabeth for a girl. Alas, no more kids.

I've always loved Elizabeth, Isabella and Evangeline/Evie/Eva, but if I had a baby now I probably wouldn't use the last two as they are so so popular. Popular names are fine in general, but I don't think it would be ideal having 5 other girls in your class with the same name.

Back when I was a teen in the 90's I liked....Toni Charlie for girls which I really do not like now at all!

I love Florence and wanted it for our DD but sadly it rhymes with our surname. I also love Eliza but due to its popularity and the fact my DDs middle name is Elizabeth I doubt I'd ever use it. Really like Matilda too, not keen on Tilly.

I love the name Fritha, and i have since I was young (found it in a book called The Snow Goose, I think). However, dp did not love it at all, so when we had dd we chose a name we both love together. Just before the birth dp suggested using Fritha as a middle name, which I was delighted about as i was still secretly mourning my favorite ever name.

I think some names stay with you forever.

Fanshaw that's it. I always remember StJohn/Sinjin because of that scene in four weddings!!!

Thank you!

I've loved Ophelia since I was about 8! I am gutted it has become a bit of a comedy name with the O feel of ya tits / bum jokes etc. I would have loved to have called DD it.

Adore the name Darcy for a girl. Always have, always will and regardless of the fact that it doesn't really go with our surname, I will still stamp my feet until I get to use it.

DH suggested DS1's name which is quite unusual for where we are (not UK or US) and we get lots of "wow, what a cool name" comments from people.

I also used to love Roman for a boy. Only like it now.

Fanshaw.

StJohn is 'sinjen'.

Cholmondeley is Chumly and Shrewsbury is Shrowsberry for the school and as spelt for the town. Mousehole, the town not the feature, is Mowzul.

My brain is full of really useless facts

Lambeth, how do you pronounce Featherstoneshaugh please? I have heard it before and I know it sounds completely different but I've forgotten (baby brain!!).
Thanks.

I quite like Ptolemy. :) I think Tolly is an adorable nn, for either that or Bartholomew.

You are welcome.

I'm very good a killing threads myself

My sons name causes tension on.here I think at times!

He has boring classic middle names though!

So it's not wrong.
People are so rude. Thank you for keeping me company after Ptolemygate.

No, its a English spelling i found.

It's Kailum

I have never heard of that name.

Think you may have stopped this thread too!

When I mention my sons name I get told how I spell it wrong

Tolomy.
Although trippy up pronounciations are a bit wanky as I said to StJohn and Featherstoneshaugh.

IAm how do you pronounce it?

I like Ptolemy, really love it.
And have stopped dead more than one baby name thread with that nugget.

I love the name Rebecca - but my MIL has a strong Liverpool accent and the cc becomes like the Scottish lochhhhh sound - and it grates on my nerves.. so noooo I couldn't use it...

I love my sons name. Most people don't like it but I do. It's not popular and its spelt different buy I love it.

I have always always always loved the name Matilda. When I had my daughter I did not call her Matilda.

I think we ARE influenced, consciously or unconsciously of trends and fashions and our preferences therefore change. If a name becomes overused it may lose some of its 'specialness' and we go off it.

In my case, I still love the same names that I did 10 years ago, but they are very timeless, classic names that are far down the popularity lists so will hopefully never become too 'trendy' and overused.