Please, tell my wife that her names suggestions are awful!

Demainsdeslaube · 2023-12-12T21:25:07+00:00

Hello everyone! I am 5 months pregnant, and my wife and I are having a hard time agreeing. After weeks of "arguing", we decided to forget about all the previous names suggested before and make a new list. I absolutely hate all the names she wrote down : - Bradleigh ( her favourite) - Dallas - Paris - Lisandry - Helen ( The only one I like) Whereas my favourite names are: - Romy ( She likes it but not love it) - Dahlia - Neva She is so sure, those are pretty names. Pleaaase help, she'll be reading all the comments!

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Shinealight9 · 23/12/2023 18:30

Demainsdeslaube · 20/12/2023 08:52

We finally found a name we both like. Thank you everyone!

Now we are all invested,please let it not be Romy 🤦‍♀️🤣

Shinealight9 · 23/12/2023 18:28

Anametolove · 22/12/2023 14:12

Romy is very pretty but I wouldn't saddle my child with any of the other ones

Agree & great to hear OP has found an agreeable name. As far as Romy is concerned, I honestly can't understand the popularity here & apologies to anyone called this. 🤦‍♀️

T1Dmama · 23/12/2023 10:28

Well done and good luck

Anametolove · 22/12/2023 14:12

Romy is very pretty but I wouldn't saddle my child with any of the other ones

forgotmyusername1 · 22/12/2023 09:27

Calliopespa · 20/12/2023 18:00

… methinks OP is unlikely to divulge the final choice after the candid opinion fest on their first cut!

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some of the ones on the updated list were lovely

Calliopespa · 20/12/2023 18:00

NewbieTwentyFour · 20/12/2023 12:54

That’s exciting, what is it?!

… methinks OP is unlikely to divulge the final choice after the candid opinion fest on their first cut!

floofbag · 20/12/2023 12:57

Here are awful !!

Lisandry reads to me like disentry

Can you not find better names than all of them 🙈

NewbieTwentyFour · 20/12/2023 12:54

That’s exciting, what is it?!

Seamist22 · 20/12/2023 11:17

Ooh please give us a clue!

JayJayj · 20/12/2023 11:03

Ahhhh I want to know what it is!! Totally understand why you wouldn’t share though. Definitely going to be thinking about it all day 🤣

MarthaMayWho · 20/12/2023 08:56

Congratulations. Am hoping its a French feminine name and not a made up one though. 😅

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Demainsdeslaube · 20/12/2023 08:52

We finally found a name we both like. Thank you everyone!

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NewbieTwentyFour · 18/12/2023 12:49

I love Romy. Helen is nice. Not a fan of the others.

Thinking along those lines/sounds… Mila? Melanie? Eleanor? Nell? Leonie? Lyra?

Fink · 18/12/2023 12:29

FlipFlop1987 · 18/12/2023 12:11

It isn’t made up spelling of anything because there is no official book of names, no one owns them, there is no name police (though you like to think you are).
It is phonetically correct in the English language. Letters put together to make a sound. It is not owned by the Irish. If someone is offended by the spelling of a name, I think they have much wider issues in life.

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In the UK there's no official book of names, there are in some countries. Try moving to Scandinavia - many of the countries there have restrictions on name choices, including no surnames used as first names and you must be able to tell the child's sex from their name.

FlipFlop1987 · 18/12/2023 12:11

Mirabai · 15/12/2023 09:45

It’s better not to saddle kids with made up spellings imo, it looks slightly illiterate, quite apart from the offence it causes the Irish to anglicise names.

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It isn’t made up spelling of anything because there is no official book of names, no one owns them, there is no name police (though you like to think you are).
It is phonetically correct in the English language. Letters put together to make a sound. It is not owned by the Irish. If someone is offended by the spelling of a name, I think they have much wider issues in life.

ToWhitToWhoo · 17/12/2023 14:45

martinisforeveryone · 17/12/2023 14:16

I've seen so many posts saying the same about Helen and yet suggestions of names like Maud or Edith and so on.

When names come back again, someone has to start the trend. One of my GCs has a name that is very 50s to my ear, but they've made it their own.

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Yes- Helen seems to me fairly timeless; whereas Maud sounds very older-generation to me. Perhaps I'm biased, as it was my grandmother's name!

martinisforeveryone · 17/12/2023 14:16

Lavenderblue11 · 15/12/2023 21:32

I think Helen is old fashioned, sorry to all the Helens out there. All the other names aren't great either, just my opinion.

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I've seen so many posts saying the same about Helen and yet suggestions of names like Maud or Edith and so on.

When names come back again, someone has to start the trend. One of my GCs has a name that is very 50s to my ear, but they've made it their own.

VanityDiesHard · 17/12/2023 11:31

OhsoNat · 17/12/2023 00:12

It’s often hard to agree but you’ll get there in the end just keep looking
its quite a wide selection ,like Paris and Helen are totally different names so I can’t really see a certain style she’s going for so I’m sure you’ll find something
i do quite like Paris but prefer for a boy, Romy is ok as well

Oddly enough, Paris and Helen come from the same canon IF Paris is used as a boy's name. It wouldn't be a suitable name for a brother and sister, however, as the characters in the classics were in a sexual relationship.

SydneyMamma · 17/12/2023 02:49

All terrible names. Please rethink your choices and come up with a better list.

OhsoNat · 17/12/2023 00:12

It’s often hard to agree but you’ll get there in the end just keep looking
its quite a wide selection ,like Paris and Helen are totally different names so I can’t really see a certain style she’s going for so I’m sure you’ll find something
i do quite like Paris but prefer for a boy, Romy is ok as well

CountessWindyBottom · 16/12/2023 23:28

You can’t possibly both have such appalling taste surely?! You’ve both come up with names that you couldn’t possibly contemplate bestowing on a child, even for spite!

Inthebleakmidwinter2 · 16/12/2023 15:04

I know 3 Rebecca Louise's and every girl at school in my day either had Louise or Marie as a middle name.

A lot of posters have missed that op's wife is French, which explains a lot. And there is now a nicer updated list of potential names as well.

StockpotSoup · 16/12/2023 14:48

As someone who grew up in the eighties, I can confidently say that if someone of my age asked me to guess their middle name, Louise and Victoria would be my first two guesses.

StrikeItMucky · 16/12/2023 14:26

@VanityDiesHard Not a weird post at all! I grew up with a lot of people who were also named Emma and the vast majority of them had the middle name Louise.
Just because you've never met an 'Emma Louise' doesn't make my post weird. Nor does it invalidate my opinion that my 1st name, Emma, is drab.
And rest assured my children don't have chavy, whacky names, just because I think my "classic" name is drab.
What a weird response! 🫤

Blueink · 16/12/2023 13:11

VanityDiesHard · 16/12/2023 12:01

What a weird post. I have literally never met an 'Emma Louise'. My middle name is Emma but I often wish that my father's wish for me to have it as my first had prevailed. Classic names are classic for a reason, I don't get people that call them 'dull'. People calling classic names dull is what has got us all the little Bratleigh and Chavleighs.

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Sometimes generational, Emma Louise was a common 70s combination so for some very bland (at best).