Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

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

Original poster

Eden or Shay for our baby girl

114 replies

AutumnLoves · 29/06/2020 18:05

Hi everyone, my boyfriend and I are really struggling picking a name for our daughter who is due in September. My boyfriend has his heart set on the name Shay but I love the name Eden. If we choose shay the middle name will be either Olivia Talia or Alexia. If we choose the name eden the middle name will be Renée. The surname is Smith. What do you guys think.. Shay smith or Eden Smith?? Just thinking to think if the names will age well too.

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
ZoyaTheDestroyer · 29/06/2020 20:15

Eden may appear in the Bible but it isn’t a ‘biblical name’ any more than Babel or Gomorrah.

Elllicam · 29/06/2020 20:03

I love Eden for a girl.

lardass88 · 29/06/2020 20:01

Both children called Eden I know have been boys. But I like it for a girl as well. Also love shay (shae) for a girl. It's pretty. Sorry not much help there 😆

CurlsandCurves · 29/06/2020 19:57

I know a little girl called Eden, it’s a lovely name. Friend of a friend has recently named her baby boy Eden and it doesn’t sound right to me, probably because I’m used to it being attached to a girl.

The only Shay I know is a boy.

Miltonroad · 29/06/2020 19:53

I'd think you were a Real Madrid fan with Eden

Both surely boys names

MrsBungle · 29/06/2020 19:51

I like Eden. Shay is terrible.

CottonSock · 29/06/2020 19:50

Don't like shay sorry

DivisionBelles · 29/06/2020 19:48

Shay isn't nice and the only one I've ever know on was a boy but it was spelt Ché. Of the two, Eden is better but I'm not a fan.

SquigglePigs · 29/06/2020 19:41

Sorry I'm with the others that Shay feels like a boys name, or a nickname. Eden is lovely.

Allmyeye · 29/06/2020 19:40

Eden isn't my cup of tea but it's a billion times better than Shay.

I have to agree. I don’t like alliterative names either. Sorry.

Spidey66 · 29/06/2020 19:40

Shay to me is short for Seamus so a boys name.

Eden's a nice name.

AlexandPea · 29/06/2020 19:36

Shay is usually a boy’s name.

Eden is much nicer for a girl.

notso · 29/06/2020 19:36

Eden is a million miles nicer than Shay.

MamaLion1319 · 29/06/2020 19:34

@MikeUniformMike what's chavvy about a classic biblical name? 😂

Orphlids · 29/06/2020 19:32

Shay is unfortunately the name of a great many teenage boys whose photos appear on the walls of police stations. I’d assume a girl named Shay would probably be doomed to a similar fate. Sorry, I know that sounds horrible. Eden is not to my taste, but it is much better, and I do think that Eden Renée sounds rather good.

MikeUniformMike · 29/06/2020 19:24

I'd think Shay was a boy, maybe short for Seamus.
Eden is chavvy. Edie isn't, but I'm not keen.

Alexia is a condition.

LotusClover · 29/06/2020 18:42

I know two Edens, one boy and one girl. I definitely think of it more as a feminine name though. Shay on the other hand I think is very masculine (and not a name that I particularly like either).

Eden 100% gets my vote.

TeaSoakedDisasterMagnet · 29/06/2020 18:41

Shay sounds like Shae, who is a prostitute in Game of Thrones who ends up murdered.

Eden is much better.

Shayisgreat · 29/06/2020 18:33

My DS is called Shay. Really sad that people think it's horrific and associate it with bold boys but I still really like it. (I wonder if it's more acceptable as my DS is Irish?)

I'd consider Eden to be a girl's name and I think it's quite pretty.

Roselilly36 · 29/06/2020 18:28

Eden is lovely.

FredaFox · 29/06/2020 18:27

I only know boys called shay though in this day and age who cares about that!

DanniArthur · 29/06/2020 18:27

I much prefer Eden. I know lots of Shae, Shea and Shays... all very badly behaved boys.

Boireannachlaidir · 29/06/2020 18:26

I only know boys with these names.

Pinkblueberry · 29/06/2020 18:24

I know a Shaya - it’s a nice name I think. I would avoid Shay, makes me think Shae (pronounces the same) as in the prostitute in GOT - she didn’t meet a good end.

Thisismytimetoshine · 29/06/2020 18:23

They're both boys names in my mind, Shay definitely so Confused