If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

I guess not, seeker. I hate all the virtue names we give to girls though. Why do boys never get saddled with guff like Faith Hope Charity Honor Chastity Patience Constance etc? Mind you they don't get sickly sweet Honey type names either, I suppose. I think that's why girls' names are so difficult- they are all sweet or worthy- yuk!

I don't like Honor either, but nobody is ever going to say "What did you say?" or suppress a giggle when they meet an adult Honor.

I disagree, numal. I think both names are awful but Honor infinitely more so.

Honor is classic, beautiful and cultured. Honey is quirky, girly and cute. How do you want to see your daughter in the future? Your child, your choice.

Prefer Honey to Honor, I must say.

Don't under any circumstances call your baby Honey if it turns out to be a boy!

yeah, Peachy, you do have to stay away from food-related names!

Hmmmm, I amliking it

Honey Peach

Whaddya think?

it must be said actually that it was the purpose of the thread by the OP to put people off the name Honey and in all fairness to her.....it has totally achieved that aim for me....i truly had no idea that Honey was such a contentious name BUT i do still think it is very pretty and an adorable nickname but i certainly will not be using it for my daughter [who will probably now be a boy anyway me ha ha].....

The thing is, if someone comes on here and asks what various people on the internet think of a name, presumably they want to know. If you ask people's opinions, I suppose you must be prepared to hear them, even if they are very negative.

Obviously we all like different names otherwise everyone in the world would have the same name. I'm sure many of us have idiosyncratic reasons for liking or disliking names. I've seen DS2's name described as 'yeuch' or something similar on here, and DS1's name is often slated by people.

I think Honey is a daft name. I think it's a bit like calling your child "Sweetie" or "Darling". I don't much like it as an endearment either.

As it happens I don't much like Honor either. But I don't think it's daft.

My friend has just called her daughter Honey. I like it each to there own i say

Honey in Gone With the Wind is a nickname, given because it is what she calls everyone.

And Clarabel is one of Thomas the Tank Engine's carriages.

I would be intrigued to meet someone who had named their children based solely on other people's ideas of what is risible/ potential solicitor material/ sensible and not even a tiny bit on their own personal preference.

If such a person exists I would feel they had desperately low self esteem.

On the other hand if those people who are so vocal about naming a child something traditional/ a proper name have used a name for which they have the slightest preference I would like to know why they don't think everyone else should be able to exercise the same right to choose names for which they have a preference.

It all comes down - as someone commented earlier - to the names that people like. Some people like unusual names - get over it!

Btw I have a Poopy Poppy and have made the unfortunate typo on occasion. Does not put me off the name either. Neither does the idea that someone else thinks it is 'cutesy', as I have said before I think of a gorgeous scarlet colour - nothing cutesy about that. She is certainly shaping up to be more of a feisty girl than cutesy in any case and I imagine people will spot that when they meet her.

I have a name which a lot of people on here love but which I have been told is 'not an adult name', is really the name of a dog and is very 'of the moment' - all untrue in my case (especially the dog one). It is both traditional and sensible and I am sure there are many doctors/ solicitors etc named the same as me, unfortunately I have never really felt it suited me and there is nothing my parents could have done to have predicted that. They just chose a name they liked.

but poopy does have a certain ring to it....

Guinevere and Genivieve are both really nice, unusual but not unknown names. I prefer Gwinny to Winnie as a nn though.

I really dislike Honey as a given name. To me it is not a name, not even a nickname, but an endearment that I don't like at all because it is patronising and sickly sweet. I really object when anyone tries it on me (including dh). I seems unnecessary as a name somehow, because you can use it anyway, so you could choose a proper name (unusual as you like, I like unusual names) and then call your child a range of endearments as the mood takes you.

Why not Beatrice/Beatrix/Bridget/Clarabell and Bee as a nn if you really like sweetness so much!

Honey is a character in Gone With The Wind, sister of Ashley and India. So it isn't really new and trendy.

I think it is personal choice and what is to say that Honor is a better one?

just absolutely pmsl at "poopy"...Made my night that has

Soupdragon I am intreged as to what your name could be. Do you mean your surmname rhymes with Lorraine? As in Mrs Drain or something?

Poopy is fab but I don't want to gush over it too much incase I induce vomitting again

Can we get back to Poopy?

I'm still snorting over NL's 19.58 post - surely a contender for post of the week?

Lockets, I gave consideration to both of those names for Dd too!

Definitely have no intention of reading the whole thread, though I've read a lot of it. I think that whilst the name Honey would not be my choice ~ and I have a Willow(is that silly/regretable too?), so not against 'different' names at all, I actually think Honey is very nice for a child, or an adult and Honey Smith(as was brought up by someone)makes a lovely name with Honey making for a distraction from an ordinary surname. I like it.

I'm amazed that anyone thinks the opinion of '30% of people' relevant to anything. At least 65 percent of all people are fucking idiots whose opinions (if they can cope with actually formulating any rather than parroting the latest from Heat/The Sun/The Mail) are irrelevant anyway.