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What's your naming style?

46 replies

BananaBubbles · 04/11/2012 12:53

What type of names do you love? Classic,quirky,place names?,names beginning with a particular letter,royalty,names associated with nature,or from literature?
Do you continue a family name or name them after a musician or author you admire?

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NellyBluth · 06/11/2012 16:03

Classic with a quick for the full name, definitely slightly posh. Abbreviated version is very tomboy. Middle names are very 80s and a bit dull.

Whatever style that turns out to be, its very much against the grain of the other babies around my way!

TessOfTheBurbervilles · 06/11/2012 15:48

Classic some would say boring I guess!

sonniebonnie · 06/11/2012 14:37

We appear to like classic, traditional, slightly 'posh' names that seem to be out of fashion.

chesticles · 05/11/2012 22:48

Ours are all slightly old fashioned, Scottish names that cannot be misspelt ( or have spelling options ie graeme/Graham) so names like Andrew, Duncan, Heather

FunnysInLaJardin · 05/11/2012 22:35

posh slightly quirky. But mostly posh

ditzydrawers · 05/11/2012 22:34

Old fashioned, underused and long with great nickname potential....I have only named one child though so not sure it constitutes a style yet!!

Mintyy · 05/11/2012 22:32

Utterly common.

Bessie123 · 05/11/2012 22:32

I like Victorian names but not boring ones like Victoria or Mary

HairyPotter · 05/11/2012 22:22

Timeless Hebrew names here

exoticfruits · 05/11/2012 22:18

Timeless classic names.

SkyFell · 05/11/2012 22:09

Oops, classic - not classical!

SkyFell · 05/11/2012 22:08

Classical, biblical.

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hellokitty123 · 05/11/2012 20:01

I like timeless classic names that aren't trendy/fashionable.

ChristineDaae · 05/11/2012 19:25

American, funky, surnamey type names. Not for everyone but I love them!

MrsBungleScare · 05/11/2012 12:49

My kids have Scottish/Irish names. I love their names and they're not over used.

I prefer names that are not very popular.

tethersend · 05/11/2012 12:43

Normal names which are out of fashion and people think are common.

VolumeOfACone · 05/11/2012 12:19

For girls I often like what posters here always call scullery maid names. Like... Elsie.

For boys, classic but not top hundred.

wigglesrock · 05/11/2012 12:11

Well according to previous name threads - terribly unimaginative Grin I have 3 daughters, all their names are popular, end in the same letter and I only ever had one name picked - I simply picked my favourite name each time Grin

RubyFakeNails · 05/11/2012 11:34

I wish people would give an example. Pretty/Quirky or whatever, its all so subjective.

I tend to like made up names or at least names that people have never heard before. I really like surnames and quite androgynous names, such as spencer, grier, blair.

Also like place names although need to be a bit different, so not India but maybe Aspen, Dallas, Zaire etc.

Also al my DC have a not too traditional hebrew name, so Avigail, Damaris, Jesse etc.

saskia87 · 05/11/2012 11:24

For a girl I like pretty, ethereal, uncommon, european, mythology or nature inspired.

For boys I like surname/place names, uncommon, some biblical, "cool but not trendy", one syllable names.

Puremince · 05/11/2012 11:12

Traditional, easy to spell, non-faddy first name. Quirkier middle names. It leaves them the option to reinvent themselves later if they want.
Also, their first names are readily recognised in various languages, so they're portable names. Their middle names, not so much. Their first-name/last name combination isn't unusual, but their first name / middle name / middle name / surname combination is unique to them.

MrsRhettButler · 04/11/2012 23:10

I figured that must be it after I posted! Grin hope it goes well for you next year :)

Claifairy · 04/11/2012 22:01

MrsRhett - Birth Mothers name the children. We have already adopted a little boy and hoping adopt again next year.

bigbluebump · 04/11/2012 21:59

We too like classic, old fashioned names names that aren't too popular. DS's name sometimes called 'posh' on here, so I guess I like posh names Smile.