To think they could have had more imagination (baby name related)

[freemanbatch]

Millions of names to choose from, nine months to think about it. baby is born and initially has no name. Hours later we're finally told the name and it turns out that first and second names are both middle names of cousins of the child.

After all that time and with all the options in the world could they not have managed something more imaginative? More new? More totally awesome and special for the new little person?

I know people can call their kids whatever they want but not giving the child any names of its own just feels really sad when it's really a very cute new person.

My younger cousin has my middle name. I felt really flattered!

I was just pondering whether I knew my cousins' middle names and realised that yes, I do. And I'm called after both of them.

How this has never struck me before, in the past nearly five decades, I don't know.

DC's share my Grandparents Christian name (well, one has the same, one is a variant). Before I was married DS had my surname. Took him to the cemetery to lay flowers one Christmas and he was very confused as to why the gravestone had his name on it

Not that I lacked imagination, more that I loved their names. Grandad died when I was about 8 months so it's not that I was even close to him, just liked the name.

My cousin is one of my best friends. I have no idea of her middle name and I'm 99% sure she couldn't tell you mine either.

My DD has the same middle name as 2 of her cousins, one older and one younger. It's because it's a nice common simple name that goes with stuff. I don't see the issue?

Also sometimes you have a name all picked out then thebaby is born and it just does not suit (DS I'm looking at you) and turning to middle names of family is as good an idea as any for inspiration.

Also surely more unique than using a parents name which is fairly common?

What? I'm sorry but this is just crazy!

So, now, not only do new parents have a find names that they both love, that fit with their surname, fit with any siblings names, etc. etc. - but they now have to astonish the waiting public with their imagination and originality?

What a strangely self absorbed way to look at it!

to not "a". Autocorrect is working overtime today.

My sister called her son my sons middle name, she didn't even know. Its no big deal.

OP I get you as a fellow person who just adores names.

I think you would have been better posting this in name board.

Hoping for you the next little one has a exciting one to research. (the last one I had was my cousin who named her dd Filuca)

I have 18 cousins I know all their names first and middle.

I'm of the opinion that people would do well to be less imaginative with children's names. Calling kids Chardonnay ffs, or place names (Chipping Sodbury, anyone?) or ordinary names with "creative" spelling, which just makes the poor kid look as if their parents are illiterate. Choose an unusual name, fine. Make one up? Unwise.

When naming an infant choose a name that'll work whether they grow up to be a rock star or a high court judge. Simple rule of thumb. Oh, and check out the initials, like the poor woman on another thread whose DH wants to give their baby the initials SHAG.

A GP I knew had to point out as tactfully as possible that calling a baby Hugh Janus wasn't perhaps the best idea.

I know you will get lots of criticism OP but I feel the same. There are so many brilliant names it seems odd that most people choose the same 10 or so. Its not a choice between Ben or Moonunit there are hundreds of lovely "proper" names that are underused.

So bored of Lily, Eve, Isabel/la, Amelia. Why not Miranda, Zoe, Mary, Tess?

YANBU - there are loads of names, be original!

I knew someone who's baby was nameless for a week and then it was announced he would be called the name that has been no.1 in the lists for the whole of bloody eternity... yawn... You had 9 months of pregnancy and then a week of baby and that was all you could think of?!

Like when kids are named after their dad - sorry but it looks so vain! Like the only name that is good enough is your own!!

Several of my cousins have given their kids the same name as other cousins. I find it odd to be honest but its up to them.

We knew a family who agonised for weeks then chose the no 1 top 10 girls name. Then agonised some more and changed it to the second most popular name. So much angst and child still ends up being one of 3 in a class!

Two of my DNs have the same name as my DC. My DC came first and siblings likes the very standard normal name so much their DC now have it as middle names.

DC was nameless for a few days because I couldn't come up with a good name ( I was also very very ill so least of my worries) and it took another 2 weeks to figure out the right middle names!

even more pissed off siblings 1, 2 and 3 have all chosen partners who go by a variation of DCs name! That can't be helped but FFS

Yes 3 of my siblings are married/engaged to people with the exact same name.

Hours wasn't quick enough for you?

Do you think babies have to be named before the cord is cut?

For those of you who like unusual names, can I just point out that it's perfectly possible to change your own name ?

I have no idea what my cousin's middle names are and only a vague idea of the dc's cousins middle names.

I've got a lovely old name that isn't popular and I've never met someone else with the same name. However two families who have known me have given babies my name not because I'm so amazing but because I made them aware of the name's existence, iyswim.

I have two children who were unnamed for about 3 weeks mainly because of a bit of a stand off over two names meh sometimes it happens

I know baby names are always a strange subject so thank for not totally ripping me apart

When I was in high school one of my friends got a new little brother, his father had moved out of home and in with another woman because they'd been having an affair and she was pregnant. My friend's new little brother was given the same name as my friend, first, middle and surname, and the whole thing was quite upsetting for my friend and was the first time I thought about naming children. my interest in baby names really came from there and just increased as I got older and friends and family (and I) had babies of our own. Childhood fascination turning into adult unreasonableness I guess

I know, as I said up thread, that the parents can call a child what they want to and that it is totally unreasonable for me to want new names to look into when really the best thing to do is to look at all the beautiful pictures of the little one listen to mum's great story about the birth and how she can't remember what she used to do with the time before