To wonder where all the kids from the baby names are?

[Abbinob]

Was browsing the baby names forum doing a bit of daydreaming about a future not yet existant tiny squishy baby, as you do..
Algernon.
I have never in my life met a baby algie

I had so many (wanky) criteria.

-Not currently very popular
-easy to spell
-works well internationally
-sounds a bit 1940s

'Try hard' would I'm sure be the category I'd slot into.

I don't know anyone in real life who has criteria for names. They literally just pick a name they like the sound of.

Surely you can just put them in a Ramones babygro if Rock'n'Roll is the criteria?

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I love names and respect the fact people take such time and care over them

I know kids by the following names:
Esme
Jayden
Raine
Rocco
Evangeline
Loveday (went to school with them it's an old travellers name I think)
Caoimhe
Bleau
Henry
Agatha
Edith
Seraphina

All brilliant names imo

I just looked at DD's class list and 9 out of 30 have the sort of name that would apparently attract bullying. None of them have been bullied over their names. It is a perfectly normal state primary in Yorkshire with a demographic that is pretty much the national average for all the things that get measured.

DS has a name, I'm sure some of you would say is 'silly'. Only one person has made a comment to our faces. Though you could tell a few individuals didn't like it from the face they pulled. I'm kind of immune to that face now. We did ask a friend and her friends had pulled faces and made comments when she told them the name.

She is currently about to pop and is desperate to pick a name that 'fits in' with this group of people, which I think is a real shame. The reason is because she likes lots of names but is too afraid to use them, and I find that really wrong. She should be free to choose a name. I think that's my gripe with a lot of people who choose a common name - I think its fair enough if you genuinely love that name, I think its less so, if you are just doing it because you are too scared to use the name you really loved and would have had if you hadn't been influenced by others.

With regard to DS's name. Those people who pulled faces when they first found out DS's name, now don't blink at it, and think it suits him (and us really too). Its just 'normal' now as they have merely got used to it.

That's the thing, its just about getting used to different things and being open to change. Its really about open mindedness.

...almost as bad as babies in jeans

So by mumsnet criteria the signals I wanted to send with my sisterdcs were

Dd1 - try hard
Dd2 - stripper
D's - dull and over popular.

Righty ho

Oh fuck you're kidding. i just was joking about that. I didn't realise there was an opinion about it. What is the MN consensus then? Unless it's Boden you should be publicly flogged?

DC1 - try-hard
DC2 - horrible - sounds like an electrical appliance (or possibly rabid socialist).

They both like their names.

I also have swanky with a silent 's' criteria for names...to be honest I thought everyone applied some kind of criteria?

• Not 'chavvy'....yes, I will most probably be flamed, especially as I'm working class by origin but I'm being honest

• A 'pretty' sounding name but also has some strength to it

• An English name by origin

• A traditional name (i.e. it has been recognised as a name for some time)

That being said I don't care a great deal what other people call their children and I wouldn't judge a child on their name.

Someone on Baby Names recently said that when naming her son, she had tried to think of a name that would suit a middle-aged accountant.

Did she plump for Colin?

If I had another child I would definitely be aiming for misogynist megalomaniac with Donald

When i chose my dc names my thought process was 'i haven't got a pension, so i'm going to choose a name that ensures they earn serious wedge, something like a high end defence lawyer that gets scum bags off'. So now i just have to sit back and watch the Duane Eddys rolling in.

Obviously i know that's just half the job - i also have to sabotage all their relationships too. I am ensuring this by pandering to their every need and taking notes from the MIL threads.

I went to uni with an Io.

It felt very exotic after growing up with classmates invariably called Mandy, Paula, Tracey, Dave, Kevin and Gary.

Lordy my sporning habits have been revealed on a baby name thread!
Fat fingers squinty eyes

Aieeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

I have to hide sporner threads because the thought of it gives me the heebee jeebees...........now you're spreading your weird sporny ways around mumsnet!!

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How can anyone not want to know about my boob stone?
Sorry.