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My kids say they have horrid names!

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 20:46

I have 6 kids... 4 dd's and 2 ds's... both my son's and one of my daughter's hate their names and middle names.

I feel like such a failure!

Linnie A
River D
Russell-Jay A
Nemea L
Coral V
and
Acacius J

I think they are lovely, does anyone like them?

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FIMBOingaroundtheChristmasTree · 17/12/2008 14:28

Loads of teens in town today, I guess the holidays have started early.

Love the failed name change post and swift follow up - pmsl

migolapland · 17/12/2008 14:21

I HATED my name when I was younger, then I moved to a different country when i was older and people commented on how pretty and unusual my name was, so I've grown to like it now.

southeastastra · 17/12/2008 08:28

weird, people must be really bored

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 17/12/2008 08:16

Ah, right. Troll.

sorkycake · 17/12/2008 08:11

I like them.
One of my kids' names is in that list

Fillyjonk · 17/12/2008 06:50

"tbh i'm hurt that they would want to change their names.

it's the names they have grown up with and have always been called."

ah now that is harder. I think as parents we do have to accept that the name we give our kids is just a guess and that they might not like them. After all, they have to live with them, not us.

I'd be more than happy for my kids to change their names, tbh. I'd much rather that than have then cringe each time they inroduced themselves!

(I say this because THEY are saying that they don't like the names, not because I think they are awful or anything. People are funny about names)

Salleroo · 16/12/2008 22:46

Seriously unusual, I must say. Dont like River, quite like Russel-Jay. Maybe you should have gone easy on the second names so they had a fallback.

We were going to call our ds Dexter, which got serious bad press from prettymuch everyone we told. We ended up with a dd much to my mother's relief. She has made me promise if we have a boy we wont call him Dexter . He would have had a great name/surname combo though.

This time, we still dont know what we are having but are sharing our names with no-one, its going to be a done deal when we see our little munchkin and decide what name suits best.

VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 22:14

Sigh, drawn in again by transparent trollery. I just wanted that family to exist for some reason...

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 22:14

No Nemea is the correct spelling and thank you.

subtlemouse, we live in Cyprus but we are English. I don't know how that could of happened.

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VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 22:13

Yes, as given away by failed name-change below.

subtlemouse · 16/12/2008 22:10

Nobody aged between 24 and 4 with any of these names has been registered in England or Wales. Unless OP is a) Scottish or b) other nationality, this is a wind-up

VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 22:09

Hmm, reading a few posts down, was that a failed name change which MmmMum then "saved" with a followup post? Ah well. Not v harmful trollery...

SantasNuttySTaff · 16/12/2008 22:08

river, nemea (sorry sp?) and coral are lovely names

i love the fact that you have chosen something different and i think the fact that you have named them after god/goddess says alot about how special you think your children are, and the fact that you have spent alot of time thinking about what you wanted to call them so dont feel like you're a bad mum

your children will get used to them i'm sure it's just a phase

fwiw my dd has a fairly unusual name forename and middle and my dh and i got alot of rather nasty comments at the time, but it has a special meaning to us as does she so we feel she's named appropriately.

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 22:05

I think will try that out on them tomorrow. That's the best advice i've had.

Thank you, i think it might even work a little.

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Clary · 16/12/2008 22:02

FWIW my ds1 really loves his name - which is unusual (not as unusual as the OP's DCs' but still the only one in school) - "because I'm the only one Mummy".

Maybe yours will come to see that as an advantage. I'm not mad on my name (I find it rather un-euphonic) but I am the only one most people know which means I can ring someone up and say "it's Clary" (not my actual name ).

Can you not put it to them like this? Surely Acacius is better than being another endless Oliver J (20 boys in DS2 yr and 3 called Oliver)???

MrKipling · 16/12/2008 21:58

I don't like them at all tbh.

Maybe I'd feel differently if I met them. But I don't think they're nice names.

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 21:56

that's what i would of said to me but i didn't get it from no one.

thanks anyway.

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 21:55

i actually really really like your children's names.

i think some people are just narrow minded and can't get round the fact some people are creative and not boring. i don't have any children but i can assure you i hope to follow your footsteps and not call my kids the conventional names like 'Dave' or 'Lisa'.

Also i think your daughter will come to terms with it but i think your boys won't adjust as easy.

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piscesmoon · 16/12/2008 21:53

I quite like Russell but not the rest.
The problem is that when you give them names that are a bit different you don't know whether they will have the personality to carry them off!

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 21:42

agree with you that it matters what they think hecAte but really it is a big deal, for so many reasons.

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 21:42

agree with you that it matters what they think hecAte but really it is a big deal, for so many reasons.

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VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 21:34

Egad, extra "s" crept in there - "DCs'"

hecAteAMillionMincePies · 16/12/2008 21:34

I like Delilah and Virginia, but not the others, since you asked. Well, maybe Jasper, but I kind of feel that's more a dog name. Alyssa not so bad I suppose. just my opinion though. And it doesn't really matter what we all think, does it?

It DOES matter what your children think though. - if they really hate their names, they can always change them by deed poll, it's really no big deal.

VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 21:33

I really think that individually they are not terribly outlandish - would not raise eyebrows at my DCs's school anyhow. Coral and Russell-Jay - really not even especially unusual apart from the hyphenation thing.

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 21:32

Liffey - Nobody really likes their name... but i didn't think that they would dislike theirs to such a huge extent.

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