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I went to a college open day with my daughter today, and i was really glad she wasn't called....

220 replies

Tortington · 04/11/2008 17:52

poppy or daisy type names

but a lovely traditional name.

she wants to do Law - and i would have felt silly saying "poppy wants to do law"

i really think people should think beyond the immediate future.

not putting on hard hat cos am hard !

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NotanOtterOHappyDay · 05/11/2008 22:22

'hard' enough for a president ?

NotanOtterOHappyDay · 05/11/2008 22:22

how silly

its a NAME

how do you class Barack?

Lilymaid · 05/11/2008 22:19

I think that Daisy and Poppy are nice names but I would class them as "soft names" and find it difficult to see them one day as business people (or lawyers as OP suggested). I will be proved very wrong.

NotanOtterOHappyDay · 05/11/2008 22:17

sorry her mentor had ds's name!

NotanOtterOHappyDay · 05/11/2008 22:16

its bolleaux

my ds has got a ridiculously cutsie name

when he was 'under' a paediatrition when first born i was quite shy of his giddy name

she informed me that her mentor was a super high flying paediatrition in germany

no one jusged him on his name

nor should they

PeppermintPatty · 05/11/2008 22:13

The Daisy, Poppy, Lola and Lily's etc. born in the 2000's will be the equivalent of the Emma, Sarah and Claire's born in the 1970's, ie. just an normal name.

No-one will think there's anything unusual about these names in 20 years.

LynetteScavo · 05/11/2008 21:51

Which is why I have an Amelia (AKA Milly), HeadFiary.

HeadFairy · 05/11/2008 19:32

My niece asked her mum the other day "won't it be really odd being Millie when I'm grown up? Isn't that a little girls name?" Bless her. She's already thinking how it'll come across in the boardroom and she's only 6.

poshtottie · 05/11/2008 19:30

Fimbo, not the same but liffey got it right.

Unfortunately got Tracey as a middle name.

Merrylegs · 05/11/2008 18:11

Oh purleese.
I have a lovely, super-bright, feisty, adventurous Daisy. Who knows what she will be when she is older? Will her name have any bearing on it? No.

Barack Obama, anyone?

Thank you.
Goodnight.

Majeika · 05/11/2008 17:42

I am Joanna and prefer Jo as lots of people call me Joanne which I do not like.

At school there were lots of

Sharon
Tracey
Nicola
Deborah
Joanne
Jackie
Jill
Mandy
Kate
Louise
Jeanette

LynetteScavo · 05/11/2008 17:24

Cupcake is way better than La'Vette.

And you'd have top be quite gustsy to carry it off

NosfeRaahhTu · 05/11/2008 17:16
Grin
Simplysally · 05/11/2008 17:13

No my sister likes to be known as Jo as well .

Liffey · 05/11/2008 17:12

Kim Novak?

NosfeRaahhTu · 05/11/2008 17:05

i'm a joanne too- so many of us around when i was groing up, but i never meet them now (unless they have either changed their names, or answer ONLY to Jo, like me!).{grin]

unless, Sally, you mean your sister is called Woodward!!

Simplysally · 05/11/2008 16:59

My sister got her name as my Mum read it in article about Joanne Woodward.

NosfeRaahhTu · 05/11/2008 16:53

is anyone else trying to think of 60's actresses now??
Natalie Wood is the only one i can think of with those initials..

FimboGotAxed · 05/11/2008 16:40

Ooh Poshtottie I wonder if it it the same one?

I even had the same initials as the actress N.W.

poshtottie · 05/11/2008 15:42

fimbo, I was also named after an actress in the sixties that my dad liked.

JumpingJackFlasher · 05/11/2008 14:54

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MannyMoeAndJack · 05/11/2008 14:43

According to her memoir, Cupcake's 'mom' had a craving for cupcakes every day...when the nurse asked her mom what she wanted to call her daughter, her mom said, 'cupcake' and then passed out. Cupcake's dad didn't like this name and he had her mum agree to call her La'Vette instead.....years later, she decided to rename herself Cupcake in honour of her mom's memory. The memoir is an interesting - and funny - read.

Fillyjonk · 05/11/2008 14:35

yes but I do think that the real issue here has been missed

you actually want your child to become a lawyer? Are you sure on that one?

FimboGotAxed · 05/11/2008 14:34

Paddington- I was named after a famous 60's actress that my dad loved. The other options were Heather and Fiona. Why they could't have stuck with one of them I don't know.

LuLuBai · 05/11/2008 14:32

I know a woman called Daisy who is a very high powered lawyer.