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Everyone’s hates the name!

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flyingtnx · 16/12/2017 14:39

Baby girl name Nancy

Everyone hates the name but I love it, what do you all think?

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C0untDucku1a · 16/12/2017 15:17

I went to uni sith a Nancy. She was cool. I like the name.

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flyingtnx · 16/12/2017 15:16

We also aren’t finding out gender until birth so as I see it the baby is nameless until arrival, we don’t have to worry about baby not suiting name and having personalised clothes or anything! I guess it could be a waiting game of if we think the baby suits the name

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itusedtobeverydifferent · 16/12/2017 15:15

It's a lovely name

category12 · 16/12/2017 15:15

Sienna Nancy would be a strange combination. Or vice versa. I wouldn't keep discussing names with people, next thing you know someone will have 'stolen' it.

apoppetonastring · 16/12/2017 15:15

Do people never learn. NEVER tell people the name you are going to give your baby.

NEVER!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 16/12/2017 15:15

I love it! I have a friend called Nancy and she's lovely, so i'm biased.

Re{ Swallows and Amazons - if you'd chosen to call her "Titty" now . . . . Hmm

BlazingPaddles · 16/12/2017 15:15

It's not even that unusual a name these days. Look how much it's shot up in popularity

names.darkgreener.com/#nancy

apoppetonastring · 16/12/2017 15:15

Don't like Sienna. Reminds me of something you take to make you shit. Blush

ALemonyPea · 16/12/2017 15:15

I think it’s lovely. Tell everyone something else, then use Nancy if you still like it when your child is born.

We told everyone DC3 was going to be called Raoul because didn’t want any negative comments in the name we had chosen.

Ladydepp · 16/12/2017 15:14

Lovely name!

Growingboys · 16/12/2017 15:14

Love it. Go for it.

BlazingPaddles · 16/12/2017 15:14

Ah the Nancy is yet to be born. That makes their freely given opinions less rude.

BrutusMcDogface · 16/12/2017 15:13

Nancy is way nicer than sienna!

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flyingtnx · 16/12/2017 15:13

Yes it is from stranger things the teenage daughter is called Nancy!

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BlazingPaddles · 16/12/2017 15:13

It's fine. Unless you've actively canvassed their thoughts I think it's a bit rude that people are being so free with their opinions?

If I meet a baby with a name I think is really awful I keep that thought to myself! None of my business.

Casmama · 16/12/2017 15:11

I think Sienna is lovely, not so keen on Nancy- sounds a bit old ladyish to me.

apoppetonastring · 16/12/2017 15:11

Is this from the netflix show 'Stranger Things?'

The name is OK, but I have to say I would not give this name to a little baby girl of mine.

purpleflower23 · 16/12/2017 15:10

Lovely name!

Gemini69 · 16/12/2017 15:10

reminds me of a dear old aunt long since passed.... it's not a name commonly used... which makes it unique... Xmas Grin

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flyingtnx · 16/12/2017 15:09

We do have our boys names chosen so hopefully we can stick with Nancy for girl. Husband likes Lorelai but I’m not sure (I think he has a secret love for Gilmore girls)Grin

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ImminentDisaster · 16/12/2017 15:06

I think it's really cute!

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flyingtnx · 16/12/2017 15:05

DH isn’t too keen on the name either but I love it. We both like Sienna for a girl but I have my heart set on Nancy whereas he isn’t

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AssignedPuuurfectAtBirth · 16/12/2017 15:05

Like it

daisypond · 16/12/2017 15:02

I quite like it. I do see it as a diminutive, though - it's a pet form of Anne - but it's been a name in its own right for a long time now. I always think of poor abused Nancy in Oliver Twist, so it's a bit of "servant" name to me. Mind you, ex PM Cameron's daughter is Nancy.

Ponyboycurtis · 16/12/2017 15:02

flyingtnx - I have a story for you Op. When I was pregnant with DT's I wanted Nancy as a name, husband really really didn't want it/like it, we didn't use it and instead picked 2 names we both agreed on BUT....... I have regretted it ever since!!! So please, for me, even though we will never meet, use it!!!!!