To think people should own a baby name dictionary?

[MrsScavo]

..especially if your're pregnant and will have to name a child.

Why? Dreadful things

If I brought one into the house, DH would probablu burn it

you should have 1

why,when there's mumsnet ?

Many of them are crap, though, with ... imaginative ... "meanings" of names.

the one i bought was dreadful, implied that names like swan and drake were feasible choices.

Why - we have t'internet these days

I have two, an English one, and a Norwegian one. Interesting reading.

True there is internet, but I rarely bring my laptop to bed (like a book)

I'm just getting annoyed at all the name threads on MN.

I have some - but am not going to open it until after little one is born. Took us a week to name DS

(I am 32 weeks and in denial)

your choice of name for your child should be personal.

i thin you should stumble across the name...almsot so fate can have a play in the choice.

so your walkign along and then hear someone on the phone talking about her friend XXX. you love the name, mention it to your Dp and away you go...there's your name

that's how we named our dd1 mamazon. Dh came home from work to say that he'd heard a man in the restaurant talking to his daughter and her name was XXX and it was such a nice name, actually it turned out it was the only girl name we could agree on. When I gave birth and we found out we had a girl that was what we called her.

A lot of baby name books are churned out with no research. My own name is a good test - a crappy book will pretend it's a derivative of another name, just because they have a few letters in common. It isn't!

Wow, Aviatrix! That was brave! Did you approve?

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my dd was named after a song and her middle name is after my dh's alsation he had as a child

what do people think about what katie and peter called there gir princess just think about when shes older

but people really like to try names out in a "real world" kind of situation without having to commit to the name for life, iykwim. getting an impartial reaction on here is very different to picking a name from a book.

(pd guilty of more than one name thread of her own recently )

But don't you enjoy it when they are surprised that no one thinks 'Rock' is a good idea for a little baby girl?

All the putting into context and trying other variations on the spelling (Rhoc, Roc) passes a dull weekday evening for me.

People who ask about names should just be sent

here

Hours of fun...

Rocce?

ROFL at 'brought to you by the letter Y' unquiet dad.

Mykynzie