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Minnie

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 12:05

Im expecting dc 1 and we don't know the gender. We have a shortlist for a boy; Sonnie, Freddie, Cassius.

We can't agree on a girls name though, I like flowery names like Daisy, Flora etc but dh came across the name Minnie and I think I like it apart from the minnie mouse thing.

Opinions please

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Slubberdegullion · 10/05/2010 18:51

okey dokey then

I'm finding it slightly odd that although YOU don't have any problems with the name you seem to be unable to grasp that one day you daughter might.

She is going to be an independent woman one day, you know capable of travel to realms where minnie is another word (albeit a silly word - not sure if that makes it better or worse tbh) for female genitalia.

yummymummie1 · 10/05/2010 18:50

and marianne is much better!!! i'd go with that instead!

yummymummie1 · 10/05/2010 18:47

dont want to sound too rude but seriously.... minnie or sonnie??? i can see them being tormented at school already and when chosing a baby name you should remember they are not a baby forever they grow up and these names!?!? not good. x

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:45

marianne is lovely I think that will go on my list thanks .

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TabithaTwitchet · 10/05/2010 18:43

Never heard the slang term myself.

I think you should call her Marianne - then she can be Minnie for short in the privacy of her own home, and have an absolutely gorgeous grown-up name for when she doesn't want to be known as Minnie (for whatever reason)

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:41

Slubber-Im not getting cross as you said I asked for opinions and I have thanked everyone who has contributed.

I have stated why those reasons don't put me off.

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BallpointPen · 10/05/2010 18:36

Vagina

Slubberdegullion · 10/05/2010 18:34

Why are you getting so cross mrsSmurf? So far it's a name floating around in the ether. It's just a word that is yet to be afixed to a person.

You ask for opinions and you are getting them. imo it is a dreadful name to give to a girl, for all the reasons listed below, oh and further associations with a cartoon mouse and a mediocre actress.

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:27

Exactly Magaly it makes no difference to you i asked for opinions and you gave me one so thank you .

Slubber-Thanks

Any more?

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Slubberdegullion · 10/05/2010 18:22

My sister's mil's dog is called Minnie. It's an unfortunate name for a dog, and even more unfortunate name for a woman (which your dd will be one day).

Magaly · 10/05/2010 18:22

Ok, better call your child Minnie then. What do I care!?

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:20

No if you read through the thread you will see a few others have not either, also it is not as if i don't know any children and therefore would be unaware of the usage.

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Magaly · 10/05/2010 18:17

If you have not heard it, that is a straw poll of ONE person.

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:14

I don't live in a village and I have worked with children throughout Wales and never heard it used as a nn for that.

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Magaly · 10/05/2010 18:14

[Throws hands up in the air]

Surely that shoots the idea down?? I suspect not!

seeker · 10/05/2010 18:13

It's used in The Vagina Monologues!

Magaly · 10/05/2010 18:11

Well, there is no village now. Internet, planes, cars, radio, tv.

The World is the World. Especially the english speaking World. There are no parametres. Children will get to hear what minnie means. I know! and I'm hundreds of miles from other people who understand it to mean the same thing. It's not some obscure piece of cornish dialect. It's fairly widespread through different parts of the UK and Ireland. But if all of that doesn't put you off, then and

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 18:08

Magaly why should it put me off when it is not used where I live?

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Magaly · 10/05/2010 18:04

Seeker, I totally agree. If that doesn't put somebody off a name, then their name-choosing criteria are ahem

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 17:43

Seeker children teasing is unlikely to be a problem because it is not used in this area, so what your ds would do is irrelevant.

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seeker · 10/05/2010 17:37

Ok - can everyone on this thread who has a primary school age child ask him or her how they would react to hearing that a new classmate was named Minnie. I just asked mine - and he said "I would try very hard not to laugh" Long pause "Dick's a really funny name too"

LadyThompson · 10/05/2010 16:46

Seeker - I only know one Willie!

As for Minnie, well - Minnie Driver seems to do ok.

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mrsSmurf · 10/05/2010 16:17

I don't like Mary or John though. Maybe I will hear a name that I fall in love with if not she may indeed still be Minnie .

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brogan2 · 10/05/2010 16:14

You can never tell with classmates though. In the class above DS, there are 4 little girls called Eve and there are only 11 girls in the class. He also has 2 Edwards in his class. He is James and you'd think there would be lots but he is the only one.

brogan2 · 10/05/2010 16:11

If you don't want another in the class, call her Mary and if it's a he, call him John.