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elliehoneysnow · 2023-07-13T18:11:57+00:00

What do you think of the name India-Mae? Any similar names you can think of?

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AxolotlOnions · 14/07/2023 09:10

Early 2000s stripper name.

youwerentthere · 14/07/2023 09:03

Windercar · 13/07/2023 23:36

Hyphenated Mae will massively date. Sounds like an influencer baby

Hyphenated Mae is beautiful!

PossiblyNotOne · 14/07/2023 08:47

Mae is so overused. Every girl is an Evie-Mae/Lilly-Mae/Ellie-Mae/Ava-Mae/Isla-Mae.

I like India.

DuchessOfSausage · 14/07/2023 08:18

India - no
Mae - no
May - no
hyphen - no

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PurpleChrayne · 14/07/2023 06:59

Dreadful.

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 06:47

villamariavintrapp · 14/07/2023 00:15

Yes I think it's most commonly used by white British, but I don't like it-especially in that context. It has colonial connotations.

I really disagree with this and think it’s quite offensive to reduce a huge and interesting and beautiful country with such a long and vibrant history, to colonialism. It’s almost like saying there’s not much else to India but the short period in its vast history that it was a British colony.

StopStartStop · 14/07/2023 06:38

Indira. It's not a typo, it's an actual name.

villamariavintrapp · 14/07/2023 00:15

Yes I think it's most commonly used by white British, but I don't like it-especially in that context. It has colonial connotations.

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 00:12

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

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Oh here we are! The really offensive, patronising comment that always comes up on Mumsnet when someone asks about this name, saying nobody British can use the name India because of colonialism. As if there NOTHING more to India than being a British colony 🙄 It’s a lovely name, OP, but I’d lose the ‘Mae/May’ and definitely lose the hyphen. Both overdone.

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 00:09

villamariavintrapp · 13/07/2023 23:32

I don't like India. Especially if you're white British?

But the name India is most commonly used by British people? It’s not used as a name in India. My (Indian) husband’s sister has a totally different name which means India but isn’t the word ‘India’ in English. Her name is fairly popular but the name India isn’t. I’ve never met an Indian called India and we live in India for half of every year!

Yellowdays · 13/07/2023 23:52

I'm not personally keen on place names for children. .

midsomermurderess · 13/07/2023 23:48

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

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This site is full of pompous bores.

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

midsomermurderess · 13/07/2023 22:49

You no more have to have a connection with India to call your daughter that than with France to call her Louise.

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

fairycupcakes · 13/07/2023 23:41

No to the hyphen India May Surname is nice though.

JeandeServiette · 13/07/2023 23:38

Windercar · 13/07/2023 23:36

Hyphenated Mae will massively date. Sounds like an influencer baby

It will. A whole tranche of young women will be stigmatised by it in the thirties and forties, in the same way that Sharons and Traceys were in the eighties and nineties.

Windercar · 13/07/2023 23:36

Hyphenated Mae will massively date. Sounds like an influencer baby

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elliehoneysnow · 13/07/2023 23:36

PrayerFactory · 13/07/2023 23:35

Not unless you’d call a child Poland or Guatemala.

And Anything-Mae is bad.

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PrayerFactory · 13/07/2023 23:35

Not unless you’d call a child Poland or Guatemala.

And Anything-Mae is bad.

villamariavintrapp · 13/07/2023 23:32

I don't like India. Especially if you're white British?

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 13/07/2023 22:50

youwerentthere · 13/07/2023 19:25

EVERYONE is tagging Mae on the end of name just now, don't do it

This. India is nice though.

midsomermurderess · 13/07/2023 22:49

You no more have to have a connection with India to call your daughter that than with France to call her Louise.

mrswarthog · 13/07/2023 22:39

It's my (25yo) niece's name - but May rather than Mae - so I love it. Don't hyphenate though

shoopshoopdedoo · 13/07/2023 22:29

Personally, I would lose the hyphen. But if you like it, then you shouldn’t care what I think!

Growuppeople · 13/07/2023 21:17

Mae is lovely was my nans name 🥰 luckily she won’t no people think it’s “ugly”. Only ugly thing here are those judgmental people 🤮
it’s a lovely name and definitely hyphenate it!

Aquamarine1029 · 13/07/2023 21:13

Hard no to a hyphenated name, and Mae has been done to death. It also doesn't go with India.