To think my DD's name is not that unusual....

[maddiemookins16mum]

Her name is Imogen Mary. She is 12 years old. Mary is after my mum, Imogen, well, because I think it's lovely. She has friends called Chloe, Grace, Vanessa, Victoria ((Tori), Layla, Lola, Bethan, Emily etc. I was just looking at threads recently and Imogen never comes up and she said to me today, "Mum, why did you call me Imogen?".

I love the name Imogen. It was on my list for DD and back on for this pregnancy. I can't seem to talk DH round to it though. I don't know any Imogen's, but I don't think it's unusual.

I know a load of Imogen's, including my niece. It's pretty.

Imogen is a lovely and well used name. However I don't think I've ever come across a child called Vanessa, or many adults for that matter!

To be fair, it might have been "unusual" 13 years ago, but I know no others. We live near the south coast (Hythe in Kent).

Imogen is what DS would have been called if he'd have been a girl.

He even looks like a Walter (if that's possible). The most amazing jet black curly mop of hair I have ever seen on a baby!!

It's been popular for years

names.darkgreener.com/#imogen

Imy is my SGD she is 5 (Imogen) lovely name.

No doubt other kids have said 'my mum called me Dave because its my granddads name' and 'my my was called Catherine so I'm called Katie' and so on.

Just curiosity.

My DC asked the same because they have 2 middle names and most of their friends only have one and DC doesn't have their bio dads name and knew I was never married.

PS you can rarely find my name on pencils, stickers and rulers and even now my gran gets silly and buys me pink plastic mugs and glittery stickers just because it has my name on. I'm 31 not 3

Not unusual at all know 3 Imogen's

It's a lovely name

In 2004 it was no 66 in England and Wales apparently. www.baby2see.com/names/top100ukgirlsbabynames.html

Equivalent to Jay for boys.

It's a lovely name, not too popular but not too rare either

I have a name that I think is more unusual, it's noteworthy on the rare occasions I meet someone with the same name. I used to hate it. Still not hugely love it

Just reassure her that she can change it by deed poll when she's older if she still hates it then

This thread is incredibly identifying

I was just thinking that crisscross very identifying username, daughters name and names of friends, cousins names, description and age of Walter ... Hope you have name changed OP as I'm sure people you know could search for your other threads/contributions easily?

My friend has an Imogen. It's the most gorgeous name. Timeless

Very uncommon around here though. I don't know any others and certainly nothing like Jay for a boy.

I think she gets Imi for short. So cute.

Although I think my mate regrets it a bit as it's mispronounced a lot. Emma Jean lol

Imogen is a nice name. Not over used (here anyway) but also not 'out there'.

Would she like you, or her friends, to call her a shortening of her name?

I tried really hard to get my parents to call me a nickname when I was about 11. Most of my good friends, their parents shortened their names or had other nicknames for them. My name shortened isn't another proper name (like Samantha being Sam) it's a non name (like Imogen being Immy). My parents were having none of it. They just said if we wanted to call you 'Immy' we would have & 'pumpkin' or 'insert cute nickname' is just silly.

It's hard to explain how I felt, but sort of not as close to my parents as my friends were to theirs. I felt that they didn't listen to what I was saying, nor care how them not going along with what I wanted to be called made me feel like my name & my identity belonged to them & not to me.

I get that they hated my name being shortened (it's not as nice as Immy) to the point that they'd tell my friends off for shortening my name too, even now I flinch when one of my friends does it in earshot of my mum. But it's weird to hear them call me my full name 😁 But would it have been that hard to choose something else that they did sometimes occasionally use (pet, tuppence, love) or something similar & call me that more often for a while? I wasn't asking for an actual name change, just a nickname 😁😁

My 14 year old DD is Imogen. When we chose it the only other Imogen I could come up with was the actress Imogen Stubbs. I really didn't want a name that could identify a particular birth year or fashion. Since then (as is always the way once a name is in your focus) I've come across quite a few and it's definitely on the published top 50 name lists in a way it wasn't 10 years ago.

Assuming your daughter was born in 2004, Imogen was that year the 67th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 799 of them born. The most popular was Emily, with 5399. I'm a bit of a nerd.

I was thinking exactly the same. You have a big posting history op! Are you not bothered about being identified? (Love the name Imogen though!)

It's got a pleasant level of popularity in that comfortable middle ground between a familiar safe name, but not overly popular and particularly identified to a small age group.

Yup, only 163 Ruths born in 2004. 264th most popular girls' name.

I think it's lovely! I suggested it for dd's dc2, since she was stuck for names, but 'she' turned out to be a boy.

(I'm a nerd too!)

DH is very popular around here. Lovely name.