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Liesha? Come tell me

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RagingHormone · 01/11/2008 15:00

What do we think of Liesha? Lacey? Libby? Lainey? Taree? Brooke Marie?

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Lonnie · 04/11/2008 14:39

Btw I really like the name Brooke I think it is pretty

halfaquark · 03/11/2008 23:22

I haven't heard the names Liesha, Lainey or Taree before and I think if names are unfamiliar you can really only go on whether you like the sound. I'm not perticularly taken by Liesha or Lainey soundwise. Taree could grow on me though. Sounds like a fantasy heroine's name.

Lacey I quite like. Have a nice family member with connections to this name.

Libby's fine. Contrary to you, I like the name Elizabeth, but I completely agree that there's absolutely no point in putting it on the birth certificate if you don't like it! Libby's a perfectly good name in its own right.

Brooke - no, not keen.

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Lonnie · 03/11/2008 22:47

My daughter is Aoife and it is not pronounced Ef-eee it is pronounced E-fa (the o is silent and you pronounce it from the back ) one thing I will say about it is no one can spell it and if they do not have Irish connections they do not know how to ssay it..

Other lovely Irish names are

Niamh
Maeve (what our dd nearly was named)
Ciar
Fenella (dd goes to school w a Fenella first time I got to hear of it I think it is lovely)
Grania
Keena
Keelin
Orla
Saoirse
Tierney
Una

If you like Irish names perhaps you will like Welsh ones too here are some suggestions

Angharad
Anwen
Bethan
Bronwen
Cerys
Elin
Iola
Megan
Nia
Rhian
Sian

Liffey · 03/11/2008 22:45

ps, maybe it's crazy or sad that people pick up clues from names, butthat's the way it IS.

There's no point getting angry about it.

Use the information available to your advantage BEFORE you name your child.

Liffey · 03/11/2008 22:37

I'd put Elizabeth on the bc. I like Beth, Libby, Eliza, Elsa.

I know it's considered nasty by some to say the word chav, but it's just meant as shorthand for "this name gives the impression that the child hails from an under privileged uneducated sort of background."

TheSmallClanger · 03/11/2008 22:33

If you like Leisha, what about Alicia or Elisha? They sound more like "finished" names to me, and are easier to spell.
Libby is okay, but the rest are awful - sorry. Although Marie is part of my DD's name, and it does incorporate with lots of other nice names.

MadBadandDangerousToKnow · 03/11/2008 17:33

Sorry. Another one in the "no, no, no except for Libby as an abbreveiation for Elizabeth" camp.

But each to their own and you don't need to pay any heed to what mad old biddies on the internet think.

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BabyBaby123 · 03/11/2008 14:09
Hmm
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RagingHormone · 03/11/2008 14:05

And then 3-5 months after I have that baby.

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RagingHormone · 03/11/2008 14:04

Planning to get pregnant in 3 months.

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GuysballsintheSky · 03/11/2008 13:11

Don't understand why you would get into a naming thread unless you are pg and really have to think of one. You know they always descend into fights so why start one for the hell of it?

Plonker · 02/11/2008 21:43

Liesha - not keen, sounds like Sean Connery saying 'Lisa'

Lacey - Ok, much prefer Lucy

Libby - Lovely name. I would use it as a shortened form of Elizabeth but thats because i love the name Elizabeth. I totally get your point though, absolutely no point in naming her the longer version if you don't like it

Lainey - not keen

Taree - prefer the suggestion Thea, very pretty

Brooke Marie - don't like

Good luck and don't get too upset by comments on here, people tend to go for a no-holds-barred approach when it comes to baby names

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RagingHormone · 02/11/2008 21:37

It wasn't a strop over a weaning thread, everyone else stropped on my weaning thread.

Honestly Nancy, trying to start another virtual row are we? I'm off to do more important things. Bicker with someone else. Night.

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RagingHormone · 02/11/2008 21:36

Well I'm hardly going to bring my children up to be liars for one. Secondly, my family are all teachers, I'm a teacher, we have teacher friends, my DP is a professional in his field, as are his family- and we have no interest in politics. I assume we will have quite an influence on our children and so they are very unlikely to become MPs. Also, have you ever known of an MP who went to a public school? Probably not. We also live in the NW, away from the action.

I was being realistic.

I also don't think Tony is much of a PM name. Gordon is, I suppose.

Anyway, I'm not at all interested in getting involved in MN bickering.

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Nancy66 · 02/11/2008 21:31

RH you just seem to be ridiculously over sensitive - not just on name threads but on others as well. You had some strop over on a weaning thread because people had a different opinion.

It's a public forum - you asked for opinions and people gave them. What you actually want is for people to agree with you all the time.

mabanana · 02/11/2008 21:30

I am still interested as to why you are so sure your child could never become an MP, actually.

mabanana · 02/11/2008 21:30

NObody has insulted you RH!

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RagingHormone · 02/11/2008 21:26

I just can't see the point in being horrible/offensive to other people whether on MN or in RL

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Heated · 02/11/2008 21:24

The MN naming board is not for the faint hearted. I do think you will get a fairly representative response of what the general public thinks on here. The Babycentre baby name forum is more tolerant of Hubert and Brynhild and more politely sniffy about Chelsea and Banjo.

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RagingHormone · 02/11/2008 21:20

FFS every single thread on MN seems to descend into petty bickering. It's boring! Why do some people have to insult other people, start arguements and play devil's advocate?

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Miyazaki · 02/11/2008 21:16

Same old shit about chav names, not proper names. blah blah blah.

surely you can just say which ones you like without wheeling out all this rubbish. And if you don't like any of them a simple I don't like any of them would probably do.

mabanana · 02/11/2008 21:11

oh come on, we all know what it means. I didn't say the OP was chavvy or insult anyone. I merely said that the names were ones that many people will think of as 'chavvy/common' and if that would bother her, maybe she should think again. She did ask! I don't really know why people ask if they don't want to hear an answer. Yes, ask about pronounciation or if a name is popular or whatever, but don't ask for opinions if you don't want to hear them, no matter how they are phrased.

barnsleybelle · 02/11/2008 20:41

Mrsmattie... Your comment about 90210 has properly made me giggle.

I like Libby but not too keen on the others. My favourite irish names are Niamh, dervla and roisin.

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