To be grateful to have discovered the mumsnet name board before having my children and giving them “stripper names”

[Krystalmethany]

Well excluding my first child who is male so thankfully has a very generic boy name.

But the names I liked for my girls thank god I mumsnet searched them first 😂 there are some brutal opinions on here that I suppose people are thinking irl but too polite to say to your face.

Mumsnet saved my kids from having stripper names or methhead trailer trash names

@KitWyn you are spot on with the spelling. My instant reaction when reading those was to think less of the wrong spelling name, like I mentally eye roll and say 'ffs'. Which is quite shameful actually because I work with young people and we have done a heap of training on inclusion. One thing that's flagged in our anti bias training is to identify and articulate your own biases, they are deep and often unconscious, so this might be one to work on for me.

I think Mason, Kyle, and Mason are OK too.

I guess your kids have to be called Pythagoras, Balonz, Jimothy, Felicitina, Jimberley, Hugo, Peregrine, Sebastian, or Jonty, or some kind of Mumsnet-accepted name. 🙄

Kanu? 🛶
Dinghi?
Trawla?
😉

I wouldn't automatically think no to any of them based on their name because the name is the last thing I would look at on someone's CV. And I hope I'm not that shallow anyway.

A dm I know has Skye, Star and River..
She is a feisty woman and the kids are bloody fab.

I very much doubt Jade and Amber were popular in the Edwardian era. In Victorian times, the word "jade" used to refer to a 'lady of the night'.

I doubt "Amber" was used much then.

Ophelia is classed as a posh name, but all anyone is ever going to associate it with is Taylor Swift now. 😆

Imagine! I was just trying to guess names of naughty boys...to be fair I've taught nice boys with all of those names.
Plus I taught a really delightful girl called Krystle

I think those names are lovely.

Never!!! It will always be this Ophelia for me!!

Well yeah. A few girls at my DCs unis didn't have Mumsnet apporved names, and they did fine. Good degrees and successful careers.

I'm talking Kylie, Paris, Taylor, Harmony, and Tilly.

And lads. (She knew a Tyler, a Riley, a Mason, and a few more with similar-ish names.) All nice people, and also went on to be successful/have a good degree.

Yes, me too.

I've only known one stripper. Her name was Catherine. Like the Princess 😂🫣

True. I had an A level group with a Lola, Callum and Tyler among the usual Issy, Eva, Lily and Oliver. Lola got into Cambridge.

😂😂

I think there are just so many at the teenage stage...bound to be some naughties!

Nice attempt at being cool and edgy but NO-ONE is going to immediately think of a song that didn't even make the top 60 in the charts 50 years ago, (that 99.9% of people have never heard,) by a band most people under 65 have never heard of.

EVERYONE is going to think TAYLOR SWIFT.

Sorry and all that. 😆

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🎵 You dug me out of my grave
and saved my heart from the fate of Ophelia! 🎵

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Don't forget Connor :-)

Sorry to be a pedant, but you can’t get a ‘first class honours Masters’. You can get a distinction though. (Unless it was a 4 year undergrad degree in Scotland…)

My dad knew a Jonty. He and another family member were both John so one used Jonty and one used his middle name as the family was heaving with men called John.
Edited to say Jonty was a perfectly nice bloke, apparently.

In P&P her real name is Elizabeth Lizzy is her nick name. I'm not sure if Kitty is Kitty or Katherine though

(you may know of course, but...)
In Spanish-speaking countries, Lola is a very common diminutive of Dolores (itself a fairly standard name with religious roots -meaning 'pains' or 'sorrows', alluding to Jesus's mum, who I don't think was a stripper 😂)

You can - in some subjects you can do a four year undergrad with masters in England, which gives an honours result for the whole thing. My DH has one.

I have known a Sapphire and a Crystal and they were both lovely (and I thought the names were pretty not trashy).

I once knew a stripper/escort who had the unremarkable name of Paula. And a burlesque performer called Lisa (different stage name though!)

Unfortunately I named both my kids before discovering mumsnet and finding that i had given them "dog's names". Oh well, Fido and Rover don't seem to mind that much.

Exactly! And that’s why names really matter 😂