To think naming a new baby Gypsy will give her a life long affliction.

[MissMap]

Having been saddled with an unusal Christian name myself I must ask this question.

I know of a Gypsy, she's sometimes called G. Shes a teen now (makes me feel old!) Shes never had a problem with her name as far as I know, she is quite a hippy chick and carries it very well :)

I know a Gypsy in RL! They are quite posh!

It's very Angela Brazil.

Just thought I'd say that this thread had the potential to go astray I think you all know what I'm talking about. Very pleased that it hasn't. Thanks to the determined efforts to talk about hamsters.

Is it just me who's constantly alert to the dangers of B ?

I started the hamster obsessive talk!

Another bunfight prevent my the meandering and random tangents of Mumsnet....hurrah!

FinallySpring I was worried too this may all be part of a cunning plan involving B. Time will tell.

I like the name but think it may bring out the worst in people as the child grows older.

Honey we should go and talk shit on all the bunfight threads That'll learn em!

It's a funny thing, though, to name a child after a cultural/ethnic group with which she has no connections.

Scouser? Mackem? Not quite the same I
know, but where will it end?

imagine shouting it out in a shopping centre and explaining that you were not being rascist,you were calling your child.frequently.

IMissB

Hamble was the ugly doll. I named one of my Tiny Tears Hamble in an odd, piously smug attempt to prove that I was all for equality and shit. Then secretly called her Anglelina cos I hated Hamble and her ugly face.

I am a big fat bigot and have been for twenty odd years it seems.

Can you imagine a creationism thread on phillosophy?

"God!"

"Darwin"

God you heathen"

"Darwin...twatter"

"My Cats called Dereck........."

We had a pony called Gypsy-she was very sweet.Dont like it for a person-I know a Romy which I quite like.

I have a cousin called Romilly.

HTH.

I actually like the name but think it would potentially be hell at school and perhaps would lead people to make quick-fire judgements later on? But I do think it's very pretty. I can't talk, anyway, my (quite posh, otherwise very traditional) DH wants to call our first born daughter Trinity...

Oh yes, and I also knew a pony caleld Gypsy.

There was a little girl having a party at soft play whose name was announced when they called all her guests in for their floppy sarnie and crappy bit of pizza. She was Gypsy, combined with her surname though it made me It's unfair to name her but her surname was that of the famous lady with the lamp/a bird name.

People call little girls 'India' because they like the country. They do not call them 'Indian', as that would be strange.

Think we should start a thread on the worst names you have ever heard for children (throws hat in ring) i'll start with Heathcliff a right little wotsit who ran around creating havoc and got called eeffcliff by his parents. Piper, Rumer, Thunder and Lightening (yes they were twins!) and finally a woman i used to work with called Cricket.

Ebony - scottish child pale freckled blondish fading into ginger hair

J - just the letter. Not Jay

ANd yes, I remember Gypsy Carson from the Chalet School as well. I thought it was a fairly silly name even then.

It's already shortened - it means Little Egyptian, so if she's dark skinned it will sit ok, but if she's white and blonde or red haired it will sit badly.

It's a pretty name, for a spaniel or a horse.

Piper was in my top 10.... Got vetoed though:(. I was chortling at the poor child in softplay yesterday saddled with the name Dolphin, everyone kept looking up when his mum shouted at him, which was often. It wasn't until I was leaving that I realised his mum was shouting Dalton. Still, plenty of other people seemed to have mis-heard it too.

Honey - I Just dropped my laptop laughing at "My cats called Derek!"

Worst name ever was a girl I knew called Cherry. I can't really say her surname out of fairness but it was an item of confectionery. Her parents were also thinking of Kandy. With a K.