please remember your child will probably live for more than100 years into the future

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southeastastra · 30/08/2008 21:53

so don't saddle the poor things with silly names

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frazzledoldbag34 · 31/08/2008 11:28

Maybe in 100 yrs Madison will be thought of as old fashioned and Mary will be a bit racy and/or common??!! Who could predict?

frazzledoldbag34 · 31/08/2008 11:27

I'm interested to know where you draw the line to distinguish a 'silly' name from a 'sensible' name?

I mean, I assume that Mary would be regarded as 'sensible' and Madison (for example) is a bit more modern and therefore potentially 'silly' but who decides that one is sillier than the other?
Just wondering..................
(Although there are obviously some obvious sillies out there (Tallulah does the Hula from Hawaii, Fish, Chips etc) which are so silly as to be off the scale.

Clary · 30/08/2008 23:53

yeah agree with others.

None of my kids look askance at some of the names I think odd. It's just what their friends are called, so what?

hatrick · 30/08/2008 22:28

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TheNaughtiestGirlIsaMonitor · 30/08/2008 22:22

Yeah I think it's the parents who snigger!

I went to school with an Omar. I had no idea it was 'foreign' ooo-er 'til I was about 11, and even then, I thought it was Irish for some reason! Because I grew up with one, I still feel it's quite a normal name.

BroccoliSpears · 30/08/2008 22:01

I think that the idea that some names are silly and some aren't is already a little old fashioned and will only become more so. When you have a generation of children who have grown up with Milos and Vashtis and Atlantas and Brooklyns alongside the Christophers and Jennifers, they are not going to know or care that some of their friends' names are newer than others, or that their parents think that some of their friends' names are silly.

It's also a cultural thing. Once upon a time in this country you got whole schools of white british children called David and Elizabeth and the like. Now you have so many different cultures and ethnicities and names you have never heard of that no one is really going to notice one little boy who maybe should or maybe shouldn't be called Dante.

Olihan · 30/08/2008 21:56

Is this off the back of Harley, amongst others?

I completely agree.

Imagine them as a balding, middle aged man with a paunch and then decide.

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