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Do I use a Kardashian name?

96 replies

JadeLucie24 · 10/09/2018 07:28

For a girl I love the name Rain/Reign/Reine (not sure how I’d spell it) but baby daddy is reluctant as it’s one of Kourtney Kardashians kids and he thinks that people will just assume she’s named after that...which she’s not!! What are your views? X

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TatianaLarina · 11/09/2018 08:26

please come back and explain what you mean about racism

Baby father derives originally from the Caribbean, Jamaica specifically, Baby daddy is a variant via African Americans.

In the U.K. it’s commonly used in Afro-Carribean communities.

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 02:58

bedtime he was probably christened something like Norman Oddbits so you can’t really blame him 😂 Vancouver in the 70’s makes you ultra cool 😎respect!

passwordfailure · 11/09/2018 02:44

I knew a Cheyenne Rain if she was a boy she would have been called Cherokee Rebel. I quite like it but wouldn't have the courage!

BedtimeTea · 11/09/2018 02:39

Nope, for real! But I doubt that name was on his birth certificate. He was a drifter that I met in Vancouver in the 70's.

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 02:34

bedtime gentle wind?!?
😳 that has GOT to be a joke 😂

DelilahandDaisy · 11/09/2018 02:30

@TatianaLarina please come back and explain what you mean about racism.

BedtimeTea · 11/09/2018 02:30

Well I would not assume that as I know nothing about the Kardashian's. 😀 I like the name Raine or Rain.
I met a man once...a "poet". He went by the name Gentle Wind, people just called him Wind. I thought that was a dumb name.

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 02:18

Viz fan?

BusterGonad · 11/09/2018 02:16

😂

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 02:07

Still bewildered by that one buster

BusterGonad · 11/09/2018 02:00

Ain't yeah, I know, but how is that racist of me to hate the expression 'baby daddy'? I'm baffled, is it something only a certain race says? I clearly need educating as I'm stuck on to what part of my original comment was racist. Once again the perpetually offended have crawled out the wood work!

RosiesYellowDress · 11/09/2018 01:40

I like name Raine, certainly not one you hear everyday that’s ‘fashionable’

Arent the Kardashian’s getting on a bit now, youngster will soon want to be like someone else that’s not old enough to be your mum as that’s not ‘cool’ thing?

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 01:35

Hi buster I reckon that tat thought that you was being disrespectful by implying that to use the expression ‘baby daddy’ was somehow racist, or have I got it the other way round?🧐
Aaaaanyway I’ve kinda lost track a bit here

Aintnothingbutaheartache · 11/09/2018 01:31

Raine is lovely
Rain, Rein, Reign are not

DurhamDurham · 11/09/2018 01:28

Raine is a lovely name for a girl, Reign is awful Smile

BusterGonad · 11/09/2018 01:21

Tat wtf is racist about it? Please enlighten me!

Ngaio2 · 10/09/2018 23:14

I knew a Laraine and a Lauraine.
It’s just the teasing that puts me off Raine. Otherwise sounds good and has a nice meaning

abbie9 · 10/09/2018 20:06

I love the name. Kourtney's other babies are Mason and Penelope and I don't think either of them names are commonly associated with the Kardashians, they're all names (including Raine) that could be used without the association. It isn't like Stormi/North/Chicago/True which are the names that would be associated more with Kardashians!

SumAndSubstance · 10/09/2018 19:25

I think Raine is sufficiently mainstream that people won’t automatically think of the Kardashians. I didn’t know they had one, but I’m gathering it’s not spelt ‘Raine’ and it’s a boy? I think it’s fine.

hoping2018 · 10/09/2018 18:19

I liked Penelope but one of the kardashians has a kid with this name and it prevented me using it!'

TatianaLarina · 10/09/2018 17:48

Yep, I was itching at 'baby daddy' too. Makes me want to vomit!

Did you mean to be so racist?

fadeintoobscurity · 10/09/2018 17:01

What about Raina?

Icklepup · 10/09/2018 16:19

Raine

Enko · 10/09/2018 10:31

You could always call her Loraine and just use the NN Raine.

I love it as a name it was on our shortlist for DD3

BusterGonad · 10/09/2018 09:59

Yep, I was itching at 'baby daddy' too. Makes me want to vomit! 🤣