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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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I just searched my own name on mumsnet...

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cavycavy · 08/01/2019 22:23

So out of curiosity I searched my own name in the mumsnet search function to see what opinions are on my name as a ‘baby name’.

Turns out I have a very very horrible name that everyone hates!!!

Makes me feel a bit sad. I always thought it was quite nice.

Oh well....

Has anyone else done this?

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MissLanesAmericanCousin · 09/01/2019 00:29

I didn't know about the baby name finder until now (I just read threads about my name) but according to it, the outlook is quite good and strangely familiar!

Love it-about 95%!
Occupation-I am a film directing interior designer who is a high court judge in her spare time (I love interior design and I love film and I can be quite judgy at times! Blush
I wear-Dolce & Gabanna (I do have a dress and a pair of pants!) Burberry (too preppy for me! Monsoon (?) and Lands End (blergh!)
I shop @-Fortnum & Mason and Waitrose! Fancy!
Biscuits- Duchy Originals and Stem Ginger Organic Wheat -Frees (which I've never tried, but now I want to! Grin

NoMoreMarbles · 09/01/2019 00:26

I had a friend in school called Cheryl who went by NN Cherry which I thought was pretty cool!

secretmetoo · 09/01/2019 00:26

My name is classic and is making a comeback. I’m very smug, I always did like my name Smile

NoMoreMarbles · 09/01/2019 00:25

On the nose! I have always disliked it... I used to dream of being called Rachel or Emma or something more 'normal' rather than an old lady name (my sad life I knowHmmSmile) I'm named after my auntie who died at age 23 before I was born so I would never dream of changing it!

Seahawk80 · 09/01/2019 00:24

Just searched my name and it seems a real marmite name, comments range from love it and it's due a massive resurgence to plain and boring! Funnily enough I then searched DS' name and it was the same kind of love or hate it reaction. One poster said "I honestly would burst out laughing if I heard someone in the supermarket say "DS' name" put that back immediately "! I'll look out for someone sniggering in the aisle next time we go shopping!!

Nottheduchessofcambridge · 09/01/2019 00:24

Susan?

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cavycavy · 09/01/2019 00:21

EILEEN!!!!!

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NoMoreMarbles · 09/01/2019 00:21

Haha nope...

I've just done the baby name finder and I got:

Loved and hated equally
Would be a dinner lady
Shop at Laura Ashley or George@ASDA
Eats stem ginger biscuits or hobnobs

Think Come on... and you will get it Grin

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/01/2019 00:19

nomoremarbles Jolene?

magentastardust · 09/01/2019 00:18

Oh doing the search in the baby name finder is much less harsh ! Everyone loves it afterall. haha names are such a personal thing yet have nothing to do with choices we made, such a funny thing to judge people on!

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cavycavy · 09/01/2019 00:16

NoMoreMarbles

Cecelia??

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AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 09/01/2019 00:15

Mine veers between "pretty, sweet, classic" and "dull, bland, done to death in the 70s and 80s".

It's not very fashionable now. My mum actuary named me after her great aunt, who was born in the late 1890s, but coincidentally my name was also ubiquitous in the year I was born.

NoMoreMarbles · 09/01/2019 00:14

@cavycavy Grin no not Mandy!

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cavycavy · 09/01/2019 00:12

Chella45

I love your name

(And Billy Joel)

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cavycavy · 09/01/2019 00:12

NoMoreMarbles

Is it Mandy?

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Chella45 · 09/01/2019 00:10

Leyna

Aparently mines made up and too "younique".

Well billy joel disagrees as he wrote it in a song. It also does appear in baby name books!

waterlego6064 · 09/01/2019 00:06

I’m sad for those who are hurt by the reactions to their names! 💐

NoMoreMarbles · 09/01/2019 00:06

Mine gets slated in all baby name threads! I hate it and I've never been complimented on it... I get a lot of "hmm...you don't hear many people with that name nowadays" Hmm there's also a pretty well known song that's been sung at/to me by every person who I have ever met...

Aloethere · 09/01/2019 00:04

Wow! I just looked up my name on the baby name finder and under 'nicknames' is whore and under 'When I hear x I think of' is bitch. Apparently I am a chavy, vapid bimbo who works as a dinner lady.

I never much liked my name but fuck me that's harsh!

waterlego6064 · 09/01/2019 00:03

Oooh, i’ve just looked at the Baby Name finder and I’m pleasantly surprised- mine is liked a lot more than loathed.

Apparently I’m likely to shop in Waitrose or M&S, clothe myself in Burberry and Fatface, and work as a drama teacher or interior designer. Not too far off!

Til89 · 09/01/2019 00:01

My name has made a comeback, nothing really negative.
Searched my son’s name... mostly negative. Searched the name I’d have used for a girl and it’s all nice comments.

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cavycavy · 08/01/2019 23:58

Shart not shaft

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cavycavy · 08/01/2019 23:58

Shaft, same here! But one day our names will be top of the list.

Probably when we’re dead.

But we will be cool again one day.

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cavycavy · 08/01/2019 23:57

GrandmaSteglitszch

That’s true! It feels weirdly personal though.

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ShartOfGold · 08/01/2019 23:57

Well... my name got ripped to shreds 😭

I can't help but feel incredibly hurt!