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Middle name for Stormi?

458 replies

astyr · 02/12/2022 07:08

Having a hard time choosing. I like Autumn and DH likes Rose. But not keen on either as it sounds like a description rather than a name. Open to any and all suggestions

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Butchyrestingface · 02/12/2022 09:52

I would also be concerned that she might marry and change her name to her husband's. Stormi Day, Stormi Knight, Stormi Weekes, Stormi May, Stormi March.

It won't come to that. Either she'll have changed her name by deed poll by that point or gone for the nuclear option and will be serving a life sentence for burying her parents below the patio.

Personally, I would choose violence.

KirstenBlest · 02/12/2022 09:51

I don't think this is a serious OP.

LittleCrackers · 02/12/2022 09:51

As per a PP, Wevva is perfect.

JinglingXmasbells · 02/12/2022 09:50

@Alondra You have clearly not experienced the staff room eye rolls.

Maybe you are a nun.

lemons44 · 02/12/2022 09:49

Stormi CauseMctravelchaos

PatriciaPattersonGimlin · 02/12/2022 09:49

I would also be concerned that she might marry and change her name to her husband's. Stormi Day, Stormi Knight, Stormi Weekes, Stormi May, Stormi March.

My SS and his wife have picked an insane name for their kid. We have fallen out with them because we cautioned against it. Everyone else in the family think it's an insane name but have kept their trap shut. We were at least honest.

TheMoops · 02/12/2022 09:49

No one in my real life gas disliked the name as a matter of fact everyone loves it. I even asked my family if they thought changing the last letter to match my name was off putting and they said not at all.

That's because people are generally polite to people's faces but feel more conformable being mean anonymously or behind your back.

However, if you pick a name like Stormi I'm afraid you are are going to be judged and people will roll their eyes. It depends whether you can put up with that and if you feel it's fair to put your child in that situation.

Noodlewave · 02/12/2022 09:48

McStormFace

loislovesstewie · 02/12/2022 09:47

Are you naming your dog?

girlmom21 · 02/12/2022 09:47

Butchyrestingface · 02/12/2022 09:44

If you are adamant you are having this name would you consider Storm instead of Stormi?

Then people will think she name her kid after Ronan Keating's wife. I'm not sure which is worse. Grin

Do that many people really know Ronan Keating's wife's name? Grin

Herejustforthisone · 02/12/2022 09:46

What about Leylandii as a middle name, and then pronouncing Stormi so it matches?

Alondra · 02/12/2022 09:46

canyoutoleratethis · 02/12/2022 09:30

You seriously sit around the staff room slagging off children?? You do realise what a terrible person (and professional) that makes you. Grow up and act like a proper, decent adult. You're paid to do a job - teach children, teach them well and teach them like equals. End of discussion

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B1993 is a teacher like I'm a nun. Teachers have enough problems dealing with luck of funding, classroom sizes, bullying, family issues, poverty etc etc to be rolling their eyes at the name of a student when diversity means they spend a fair amount of time trying to pronounce the name of their student, let alone rolling their eyes or making statements like their name will be a life sentence for them.

Some posts are beyond ridiculous.

RandomMusings7 · 02/12/2022 09:45

Something to ponder - it's already hard enough to be taken seriously as a woman in a professional environment, even more so if male-dominated. When you sign every work email with "Regards, Stormi" you are making it 100x harder than it needs to be.

Unless your aspirations for your daughter ar more along the lines of adult entertainer... in which case do ignore me.

linspins · 02/12/2022 09:44

PlainJaneSuperBrain99 · 02/12/2022 09:34

Don't really care what you call your baby, but I have to thank all the posters who have responded and made me actually laugh out loud. Favourites were:

Ferry-crossing
Wevva
McStormface

Can't remember the last time I laughed. Really needed this today, thanks MN.

omg, Stormi McStormface, best ever ridiculous name! That one really made me laugh! 🤣🤣
But seriously OP, don’t use Stormi. It’s AWFUL.

fridascruffs · 02/12/2022 09:44

My niece is called Storm, she's a lawyer in the States. There was a full blown storm the night she was born, thunder and lightning and everything, which is rare where she lives, so I always thought there was a good reason for her name. No-one who met her would downgrade her on the basis of her name. Do what you like, it'll be fine. A friend gave me some good advice- give the child a bland anonymous middle name that they can use if they hate the 'distinction' of the first name. Then it'll be their choice how they present themselves later in life.

Butchyrestingface · 02/12/2022 09:44

If you are adamant you are having this name would you consider Storm instead of Stormi?

Then people will think she name her kid after Ronan Keating's wife. I'm not sure which is worse. Grin

Appleass · 02/12/2022 09:44

weather

spare123 · 02/12/2022 09:43

Luredbyapomegranate · 02/12/2022 09:41

Don’t be hysterical.

The PP didn’t say she sits around slagging off children, she said she rolls her eyes at some parents’ name choices.

Names carry associations for teachers because teachers are human like everyone else.

This name doesn’t have helpful connotations and she is simply pointing that you.

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HCPs do it as well BTW. There are certain names that are very much over-represented in the population of children who are known to the child protection team......

User38899953 · 02/12/2022 09:43

I don't hate the name. Lots of nature names are in now.

The trouble with stormi as a first name is that it is a descriptive word. I would at least use a common middle name so your daughter has an option of using a normal name as she gets older.

caitlinrose · 02/12/2022 09:43

RandomMusings7 · 02/12/2022 09:42

People judging others for their names should be ashamed, genuinely.

people who give innocent kids awful trashy made-up names should be ashamed, genuinely.

There, fixed it for you :)

🙄How original.

KeepingTheWaterOut · 02/12/2022 09:43

I've skipped to the end after reading the first four pages., so someone else might have said this.

The first time I came across the name was Stormie Omartian. There seem to be lots of suggestions that it's a stripper name, but to me it's the name of a conservatively dressed, married, evangelical Christian woman.

www.stormieomartian.com/

It's weird how first impressions of a name can stay fixed.

Having said that, Stormie Omartian's real name is Virginia, so she chose Stormie.

B1993 · 02/12/2022 09:43

tenbob · 02/12/2022 09:41

^^ gave their DC a yooo-nique name and spelling

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Yes, and is now wondering what the teachers REALLY think 👀

PickyEaters · 02/12/2022 09:42

"Stormi"? Oh dear, that poor child.
As she will undoubtedly be changing her name at some point anyway why not go all out and give her Ashleigh, Britney, or Courtney as her second name.

Sirius3030 · 02/12/2022 09:42

Daniela?

RandomMusings7 · 02/12/2022 09:42

People judging others for their names should be ashamed, genuinely.

people who give innocent kids awful trashy made-up names should be ashamed, genuinely.

There, fixed it for you :)