To intensely dislike the “y/ie” suffix name craze?

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Alfie Archie Albie Blakie Bertie Denny Ellie Evie Edie Georgie Lenny Ralphie Ronnie Reggie Vinny.

Today I came across a Jeffie. Why?!

If want to give you kid an old fashioned name, then name it Alfred, Eleanor, Leonard or Vincent. Or Jeffrey.

Added to the naff-ness of it is the fact that when that child starts school, he’s going to be one in at least half a dozen others with the same name.

I just find it it very unoriginal and effortless to give your child a “trendy” name that 50% of parents seem to also be naming their child. I’m assuming they think it’s quirky or cute but I can’t be the only person who thinks it’s naff and tasteless.

I get sometimes it’s to honour a relative. My grandad was called Bernard, but if I wanted to name my son after him I wouldn’t name him Bernie. I’d call him Bernard. As that was my grandads name.

Oh go away. You do you....the rest of us will do us! In who's world does a parents choice of a name affect you?! Clearly you have nothing better to worry about!

Isn’t Molly a diminutive of Mary?

Christ, who cares what you think? It’s a name. You’re the naff one with so many rules about you’re life 😂

Some of my great great aunts and my great grandmother were called Emily, Annie, Effie, Jessie. There were more probably all ending ie or y. It isn’t a new thing - these women were born in the 1870s/1890s.

my DCs are Rosie Maisie and Archie as is on their birth certificates and to be perfectly honest I couldn’t give a flying duck what anyone thinks we love their names 👍🏻

Well my name sounds like the end of those but it’s not got a ie or y on the end so work that fucker out. My mother (1961) is Elizabeth, they called her Lizzy her entire childhood but my grandmother Frances (aka Franny) wasn’t trying to be hip either. They’re not your monkeys, it’s not your circus; so take yourself back to Waitrose where your snobby arse belongs 😂

ps my parents nicknamed me Bob, it stuck. I’m a 30 year old woman called Bob. Now feel sorry for me, not these innocent kids you’re needlessly judging

I chose a very strong and quite unusual name for my DS (not a crazy one though!) as I'm not really in to all the 'ies' and 'ys' as I think they feminise a name for a boy, but that's just my personal choice.

My son's name is shortened at school, etc., but it is still a very strong name even when shortened.

However, I wouldn't criticise anyone for their choice of name for their own child.
It is up to them and doesn't affect me, so it is none of my business.

A lot of them are baptised with the diminutive, cute when little but infantile in later life. My neighbours cat is Alfie, personally he's a bit too dignified for it.

I will start by saying my DS has a long full name on his birth certificate. Not spelt how it is frequently spelt in England but using the Scottish spelling as ….. both my parents are Scottish. I don’t call him his full name, never have unless he has been such a pain and made me cross (prolegs than 5 times in his life as he is almost perfect) his shortened name is spelt a bit different but is essentially a girls name. He doesn’t care if it’s viewed as a girls name he is completely comfortable in himself.
Anyhow …… this post got me thinking back to the Katie Hopkins rant years ago about her views on calling a child after a geographical place ………. One of her children is actually called India 😂 I just remember her trying to justify this by saying yes but not after the country 😂

Probably less not prolegs

I have a Betsi - with just an 'i', not an 'ie' or a 'y'

is that acceptable? It's the Welsh spelling - so does that make it better? Is it too cutsie for you? Because it was strong enough for the kick ass nurse from the Crimean war she was named after...

What a silly thing to be annoyed by 🙄

You need to get out more

I have an ie shortened name but the full name on my birth certificate. I don't consider the full name as my name at all and I don't like it. I can't tell you how annoying it is having an "official" name that you don't want to he called by doctors, nurses, teachers, new employers etc etc and having to continuously ask them not to call you that. I wish my ie shortened version was on my birth certificate!

We did this, called DS a diminutive of a name which has been popular for a long time and is in my family history, and we put the diminutive on his BC (because I don't like the 'proper' version), but now he gets the proper version as a nickname from friends and some teachers! E.g. named him Alfie and he gets Alfred from friends. 😆

Reading original message with the voice of Fanny from Ghosts x

Howling at the Fanny from Ghosts comment! 🤣
Quite the bombshell that your own child’s name has a ‘Y’ suffix OP! Reminds me of when Katie Hopkins went on a rant about children being named after places, and was reminded that her own daughter is called India 😂

I am sure the Archies and Alfies of the world really wouldn't be too concerned about 1 persons opinion.

Names evolve and if someone wants to make Archibald into Archie and Alfred into Alfie then so be it, they are nice names at least they are not called an appliance.

As for your daughters name, you stating that she is the only Poppy in a 200+ year group. How on earth would you even know that or your daughter for that fact. Assuming your daughter is at high school, there is no way, everyone knows everyone. (I thought Poppy was pretty common to be honest, not that I think there is anything wrong with that but I have heard a few mum's calling out that name in my kids school playground).

Ha. My mother said the same as she hated “soft sounding” names and while I liked them when I was younger when it came to naming my kids it had obviously become ingrained as mine have hard sounding / old fashioned names. Not an ie or ee in sight!

Them names sound better than what i hear around my town.
Slater ocean lemmy art dimond rice and plenty more of silly names.
One of my most dislike name as to be scarlet i dont know why but i just hate it
I hear it i think hooker.

My kids i have 6 and i love their names boys sparrow finch & robin
Girls lily rose & daisy.
Yes my children are named after birds and flowers.

OP get over yourself

It is a bit wanky yes.

my son has a bog standard British name (it would sound excellent as a plumber or builder when he’s older but also
as a solicitor or surgeon)
that we shorten. If people put a y or ie on it I want to punch them
in the face.
my daughter (and I actually) have names that do actually end with ie or y. Not as a suffix, just as the name. That’s ok though I think.

My daughter is Eleanor but calls herself Ellie. Should I send her to her room to think about her life choices? She’s in her 30’s 😂😂😂
I worked in a school for many years and the names that drive teachers insane are the parents giving their children ridiculous spellings of normal names.

*GYNisaliarWTF"· Yesterday 19:49

ps my parents nicknamed me Bob, it stuck. I’m a 30 year old woman called Bob. Now feel sorry for me, not these innocent kids you’re needlessly judging

How's Captain Blackadder?

😀

Incidentally, I used to work with an Australian Roberta, who went by Bobbie, or Bob.

My great-grandmother was Elsie, born 1893. Not Elspeth or Elizabeth, Elsie.