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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

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 24/04/2009 19:53

Thank you. That is all

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Jajas · 25/04/2009 18:37

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MrsMattie · 25/04/2009 18:37

Honor. Is it even a word? I don't get it.

Honey sounds like a porn star.

LauriefairycakeeatsCupid · 25/04/2009 18:33

Honey is a dreadful name for a child

as is Snowdrop

and Poopy

Honor is a lovely name

spenthen · 25/04/2009 18:31

Those people who couldn't entertain the idea of a politician or lawyer called Honey (or other non-classic name), I wondered what do you do when you encounter a professional with a name from a different culture? For example I was recently treated by a doctor with an Arabic name - it never occurred to me to get out the big book of Arabic names to check that this was a good sound doctorly name!

Yet if a doctor introduced herself as Dr Honey Smith it seems you'd expect me to run a mile. Why?????

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wombleprincess · 25/04/2009 18:17

honor is lovely, not american or pukey or hideous

why not just call her honey?

seeker · 25/04/2009 17:57

But it is at least a name with a tradition of being a name and isn't a term of endearment. I call my ds Bunny as a pet-name but people would justifiably think me bonkers if I put it on his birth certificate (or used it outside our own 4 walls for that matter!)

MrsMattie · 25/04/2009 17:51

Honor is hideous. So American and just pukey. No better than Honey.

seeker · 25/04/2009 17:47

"Seeker, every sympathy to the children, but there are plenty of school refusing Toms and Rachaels too. And plenty of popular, happy children with unusual names. It is not down to name alone."

Of course there are. But why risk it? I don't see why anyone would deliberately choose a name for their child that is likely to make life difficult for them. There are enough factors that we can't have any influence over that might cause them problems - this is one that we have COMPLETE control over!

lunamoon2 · 25/04/2009 15:29

I agree with soup and themildmannered-why on earth would you give a child a name that will ALWAYS cause them embarrasment??????

And for those "liberal minded people" read the bloody thread if you don't think that people will take the piss out of a name like Honey.
btw you might like the name but seriously will your child.

TippytheTipsyTurkeychick · 25/04/2009 14:54

Do you not have to think "Will this name harm my child if she chooses to practise law/go into politics/head up amnesty intl?" In Honey's case the answer, surely, has to be yes. Women have a hard enough time being taken seriously, a name like that can't help. Call 'em what you like but maybe give them a solid middle name so that the poor things can use that instead.
Am loving the welsh snowdrop name though

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MsMargotBeauregarde · 25/04/2009 14:41

Takver, no, that would be really boring,. But there is a huge middle ground between an unusual name and a sexualised and inappropriate name. that's what I find so appalling about Honey, not just its cutesy nature, that in itself isn't so awful. there are so many Lilys etc, that cutesy is just what's in fashion right now. It's the lapdancer about it that makes me want to go up to parents who've called a dd Honey and shine a torch in to one ear to see if there's anything in there.

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Takver · 25/04/2009 14:36

Clearly, we should all name our girls Kate, and our boys Jack. Very simple, we can just give them numbers for identification purposes if required. So much saving of time.

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TheFallenMadonna · 25/04/2009 13:59

TMMJ makes a good point. I listened to one of my year 11s discussing names for her baby the other day (a whole other thread), and -yikes.

cornishwelk · 25/04/2009 13:56

I think this is a horrible thread. I have a Honey and she is not a porn star.
She's a golden retriever who lives with my parents

Candy and Bunny are in the same category as Honey imo.

Mumcentreplus · 25/04/2009 10:42

Hey ya gits! my DD1's middle name is Honey!

themildmanneredjanitor · 25/04/2009 10:38

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CandleQueen · 25/04/2009 10:30

If you like Snowdrop, try using the Welsh version Eirlys. Very classy IMO.

(Pronounced Ire-liss )

seeker · 25/04/2009 10:26

If you think that is utter bitchyness you must have lead a very sheltered life!

Leannabanana · 25/04/2009 09:40

i can't believe hoe rude this opening post is considering you have posted on my opening thread margot and know that there is at least one lady on there who has shared that her child is named Honey....what is wrong with you?? smacks of utter bitchyness in IMO

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edam · 25/04/2009 09:26

I once met a Doctor Nurse. Imagine how fed up he must have been with all the jokes...

If people really want their child to be different, these days you are better off calling them Peter or Jane. Or John or Mary I guarantee there will be no-one in their reception class with the same name!

Mind you, I am quite pleased with the popularity of Jack. Once met a children's storyteller who pointed out that there are LOADS of Jacks in traditional British stories - more Jacks than any other name. So it's kind of honouring our traditions and culture, innit?

whomovedmychocolate · 25/04/2009 09:20

There's a proctologist at our hospital called Dr Hole

But you can change names within the first year if you completely fuck up naming your child change your mind

TheOldestCat · 25/04/2009 09:19

Would the nickname for Honey be Hun?