Princess for a girl?

[yummymummie1]

Opinions please without being too nasty would be appreciated we are really struggling to agree on girls names i love Sienna or Lola-mae however hubby not liking either of those and suggested Princess.

I've always liked Angelica, but it reminds me of that stuff my gran used to put on cakes.

Belle is the princess from Beauty and the Beast so could that work?

If I was you I would call her a long name that can be shortened to something girly.

If she grows up to be a 40 year old lawyer she might not want to be called Princess.

ha ha well she defo wnt be a 6fter but yes i know that she may not be a girly girl like i am - i did also like Jacob but it wasnt my favourite and as it was the only he liked out of the list we went for Jacob. sorry not keen on any of the other suggestions yet still sticking with Sienna and afer being told about Jordans Daughter Hubby may let me have Sienna! he hee

Just remember that your DD will be stuck with her name, and it could well affect her future. Princess the lawyer, princess the PM's wife? I don't think so!

Also would it bother you being compared to Jordan?

I like it spelled Siena

Colditz- she will like whatever she wants to like he would have no issue if she wanted to be a footballer at all i think some people are being quite mean he does just really like the name if you cant be constructive then i dont want to know

I have tried to inform him that as she gets older she may not appreciate he name but he thinks it wont be an issue i'm not bothered who were compared too tbh because im not her but i know he doesnt like Jordan so it might sway him

OP, I don't mean to be rude, but I'm finding it quite difficult to read your posts. Would you mind popping a few full stops in there please? Thanks .

I am being constructive. I really, honestly am.

I am constructively suggesting that a father who is so prescriptive as to want to call his daughter 'Princess' is a father who will buy everything in pink and guffaw jovially "You don't want that, Princess, football's for boys!"

I didn't say he was a bad person, just an extremely blinkered one.

And I suggested a very pretty feminine name that won't make the teachers laugh and judge the first time they read the register for her first class.

hmmm i think you do seem to be being a little harsh on her fella, just because he like the name princess, your hanging him out to dry! and commenting on how he may bring up his daughter purely on a liking of a name is a bit strong dont you think!

Surely naming a child should be a joint thing?

Your not being constructive at all, actually i think you are being very harsh. So he likes quite a girly name - he wouldnt care if her favourite colour was blue and she wanted a quad bike!

Expecting, I think this is why he might be being spoken about harshly:
"he can be very stubborn and may want it even more just because other people dont like it to prove a point that he's not bothered what other people think"

the poor girl would then be stuck with the princess label just because of his stubbornness.

Well naming a child Princess and not thinking about how it will affect her in later life is a bit selfish imo.

It's like calling your child Hugh Jass or Richard Head.

I used to teach a very violent and aggressive 'Princess.' Imagine her as an adult. She may not like to be saddled with this name.
Agree with others that -Mae tagged on to a name is very common at the moment. Sienna as a word sounds beautiful but there re plenty of those about too. Where I live near Manchester I'm always hearing mums in the supermarket shouting 'Sienn-o get 'ere.'

Lola is the best over all. Bit porn starry but still ok.

What PaisleyPumpkin said.

You said your name is Sarah. Think now, would you really want your name to be Princess? Imagine sitting in the dr's surgery, and having to get up when the dr calls, "Princess Smith or whatever your surname is". One poor child at our school is called "Purple". She may hate the colour purple!Or having to answer to Princess when the register is called. People will laugh at her.

There was someone on NM whose child was called J-Lo. I kid you not.

Ok, I'm too harsh, I'm totally wrong about why he wants to call her Prinbcess, Princess is in fact a lovely name to try and have a career with and he's right to be stubborn and insist on it.

Just in case you come to your senses any time soon, hold onto this piece of information - everyone will laugh at you. And everyone will assume it was your insistance. And once 'hubby' realises his stubborness has made you all a laughing stock, he won't be too keen to stand up in the pub and say "Actually, it was me behaving like a four year old with a dolly, I wanted to call the baby a ridiculous name, it wasn't my wife, she's quite normal."

Maybe it's like "A boy named Sue" and she will work that bit harder than other girls to be taken seriously and end up as the Chair of Philosophy at Oxford or the first socialist Prime Minister?
(It's nice up here in cloud cuckoo land)

Maybe it's like "A boy named Sue" and she will work that bit harder than other girls to be taken seriously and end up as the Chair of Philosophy at Oxford or the first socialist Prime Minister?
(It's nice up here in cloud cuckoo land)

I'm a Sarah and it does mean princess, ironically :o

Well here's some news for you not EVERYONE will laugh because not EVERYONE is like you. Some people dont judge people by a name and im not disbuting that it would be an unusual name to live with. How you can say he is being ridiculous i dont know as he likes that name and is entitled to like it.

Everybody judges peoples names. You mean that some people will judge it and like it. Which is true.

gosh colditz!! your going over the top about this! i mean i dont like the name but calm down! your worlds not going to come crashing down because her other half likes the name princess is it!

Expecting06112010 - Thank you