India or Savannah - Pretentious or pretty?

Someone on the wind up I reckon

What is it with the resurrecting of these old threads today?

9 year old thread

Not pretentious at all however everyone has their own opinion.
Savannah #1
India #2
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I like Savannah but not India - it is too ‘Old colonel in the dying days of the Raj’ for me. Katie Hopkins called her daughter India, which says it all.

I like them

We have a Savannah Mae love it could imagine her being anything else plus she is the only Savannah in her class

Another downside (to go with the others on this thread) to one of those names is that if you drop one of the letters you end up with the name of an alcoholic drink which I was named after.

Way to go mum, you killed 2 birds with one stone there, Naming me after alcohol and a place. (and yet my younger brother has such a normal name)

And I don't think the child's appereance should have anything to do with the name you choose. India and Savannah will be the children you meet that are called that, not who you 'think' should be named that. Iygwim?

I think India is very 90's, I hate to say I don't like it because names are so hard to come up with, but since you're asking, sorry, I don't, like an earlier post said, there needs to be a connection with the country.

Savannah, it seems to be trying too hard, Suzanne is so much nicer although tried and tested, but maybe that's a good thing. Sorry.

Another thing about the name India is that I always think of that clip from some comedy where twins in pushchairs are introduced - 'India and Ireland'. I didn't watch the show but I thought that bit was funny.

Sorry.

As an "exotic" person myself, I don't see racism nor any other offensive content in pointy and rindercella's posts. Spangles, you are way off the mark here.

I agree with them re exotic names looking strange on little blond blue-eyed girls. Laila/Leila, for example. A Muslim name meaning "dark night" that has bizarrely become popular among Christian, pale blond girls I don't think India sounds that strange on pale English girls. If parents have a particular love for the country, why not? Still, I doubt if there are so many people in the UK with a personal connection to India, so have to say the popularity of this name is just a fad.

India and Savannah will date, and Rose as a middle name is extremely overdone, having reached a glorious nadir with "Sunday Rose". And why anyone would wish "India-Rose" on their child is a complete mystery to me. (Sorry).

Am having trouble keeping a straight face when reading some of the comments.... my 1stDD is called Scarlett India... she is neither red or concieved in India! we just loved both names, I was also a makeup artist & colour is important to me, I also love India - a beautiful place.
She is blonde with light olive skin and hazel eyes, beautiful to me ... it didn't cross my mind to think what she would look like and would her name go with her looks !

Pretentious

Thanks Foxtrot! Yep, decided on Jasmine - we think India and Jasmine go rather nicely together

ps Fionn and finn mean 'fair' and I like the name but no way were any children of mine going to be fair. So I wouldn't use the name. As thesecondcoming says, it's a question of carrying off a name. I would hesitate to you grace, joy and willow as well ! (although I like them.)

On this thread it's definitely been code for 'wouldn't suit a pasty faced moussey plain white child'.

Spangles, no idea what your racial origins are but you should probably concentrate on racism where there is prejudice against non-white people and let us deal with naming our pasty faced moussey children! I know I said a similar thing about Ophelia. It wouldn't suit an ordinary plain mouse haired child. It would draw attention to her ordinariness.

Good luck Rindercella. You chosen a name yet?

I have nothing else to say on this thread other than India is a beautiful name suited to beautiful children

They are both lovely names imo.

Love both of them. I don't think they are pretentious but then again my children's names have been described as 'pretentious', not to my face but when they have come up on here.

Doesn't bother me one jot. Still love them! So use them if you like them and pants to everyone else. It's what you think that counts. Years down the line you might regret not using the names you loved because of what other people thought.

AND names grow on children. Everyone tells me how much mine suit their names. And none of my girls are pretentious as it happens.

I don´t like Savannah, but I love India.

I don´t think it´s pretentious & certainly not common-think India Hicks.

Not overly keen on Rose as a middle name.

Cecily, Elizabeth?

I just dislike any children named after places - sorry! It's like a game of geography snap.

FWIW, my Anglo-looking children are very much the ethnic minority in their school and I've been told by various people that they look exotic and that their names are exotic. (I would say they have Pretentious European Names myself :D )

I love the name Savannah but it would get shortened here and I don't like any of the nicknames.

I am less fussed on India, although I prefer it to Indianna, which seems to crop up a bit in Oz.

FWIW, my Anglo-looking children are very much the ethnic minority in their school and I've been told by various people that they look exotic and that their names are exotic. (I would say they have Pretentious European Names myself :D )

I love the name Savannah but it would get shortened here and I don't like any of the nicknames.

I am less fussed on India, although I prefer it to Indianna, which seems to crop up a bit in Oz.

Greensleeves many 'exotic' people, like myself find the whole 'exotics name' thing racially offensive. I was pointing that out. Racism like many of the other 'isms can be subtle as well as overt. Although you clearly have alot to spare I suggest you keep your shite.

Rindercella, there is nothing wrong with being proud of your children for being bright, beautiful etc. Good luck with your labour, I hope all goes well.

ooo, Rindercella - hope it goes well if it's started!