Yoonique names?

What's wrong with Seraphina?!

(It's my daughters name.. Should I hang my head in shame?)

My brother is named Stanley, in my opinion a perfectly normal if old fashioned name after my father and grandfather, when he was in primary school the mother of another little boy commented on 'what a funny name he had'. When my mum asked what her child was called she replied that her little boy was named Sunny

Personal taste.

I'd rather cut my arm off than name my child Nevaeh or indeed Alice. The latter is clearly not "unique".

Peoples views on here do reflect real life, these are the views people don't voice to parents in real life because it simply isn't done. But they are thinking it.

MN is very middle class. Mostly well educated people with associated norms, tastes, values.

These names, well they're a bit common, however distasteful of incorrect that impression may be it's true. MN refuses to use the word chav and shies away from admitting that there are certain indicators of a lower socioeconomic demographic, but that's what it is.

TrojanWhore I'm not suggesting for a moment that those views aren't real or a true reflection of the way the poster feels. Unfortunately I'm very sure they are.

"I mean why do they dislike them at all"

Personal taste.

People will only ever say complimentary things in RL.

On MN people are asking for opinions about names, and people give them, unfiltered by the norms of RL. So of course you only hear those opinions on MN. You wouldn't think people are posting for effect if they say a name is lovely. There's no reason to think they are if they say one is horrible, or has enduring associations or whatever.

On that note I thought I'd share this. I think everyone, on both sides of the fence, will enjoy it! www.telegraph.co.uk/women/11803408/How-do-you-choose-an-original-baby-name.html

I agree with you AwfulBeryl, it's a Mumsnet thing. I saw a thread on here this morning where posters were describing American-style names on children as 'a bit low rent'. That exact phrase was used by more than one responder. I kid you not... this was in reaction to some very normal surname-names. Differing taste is one thing. To consider them low-rent is a Mumsnet fad. We have a little boy called Archer, whose name in the real world is often admired. All of our children were born in San Francisco. I'm not concerned that he'll consider his international childhood or dual nationality low-rent when he grows up. :).

Cats - my name is Summer. It is a fairly common name now although, from what I have seen on MN, it is like marmite. Some love it, others loathe it.

BUT, growing up in the early 80s, it was horrible. There were no other Summers at that time and the name didn't even appear in baby name books. I hated going to school because the teasing was appalling.

On the flip side, my name became ridiculously cool when I started high school because Baywatch introduced a character named Summer.

They don't have to be made to measure in order to mean something, though.
Ds1 is called after my late father (James); that has a special connection for us as a family despite the name being quite ordinary.
I considered calling dd Jadie, after a caravan we stayed in for holidays as children in the West of Ireland . Thank Christ the hormones subsided before we actually had her registered...

It's just a very 'now' thing isn't it? A sort of trying to out do everyone else's unusualness by being the most unusual which often results in using any random word at all.

It's a fashion. It'll pass and Davyonwyn or Aspen will be tomorrow's Gavin or Wayne in that it will put the person firmly in their time

I think it has become a bit of a culture on here - to be sneery and snobby about names. I don't think MN represents rl in this sense tbh.
Although someone will be along in a bit to tell us that whether we like it or not prospective employers / society in general judge people by their names.

Oh, sorry

Niamh and Seraphina are, as you say, completely normal if not to everyone's taste names. Both quite popular in Ireland, actually.
How do they fit into the yoonique category?

I have to disagree. I have an unusual name, I always have to spell it but I love it. I was never bullied for it - picked on for my weight, glasses, music taste etc but nobody ever once said anything about my name.

I like having an unusual name and I have given my DD am unusual name too. I don't understand the snobbery on here about names. An old boss was called Jaden and he was in his late 30s - nobody took the piss out of his name either

I was bullied at school because of my maiden name, it's German so not only did I have the German sigma I also had a weird name that in English is a funny word, apparently. I also have a normal first name but it's spelled differently, didn't get any grief over that though. I would say in the main kids will always find something to tease a child over though, whether that be a name, glasses or something else.

For me personally though, I like a name to have some history and some kind of meaning, which a made up name wouldn't have.

I thought the hallmark of yoonique names was kre8iv spelling?

Unusual names aren't usually criticised as yoonique. But random nouns as names often get a hard time on here (Persimmon, anyone?) as do things that look like the result of a nasty spill at a scrabble championship.