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Princess for a girl?

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 13:43

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.

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colditz · 21/10/2010 15:09

Not everyone. The vast majority of people.

As evidenced by the screetching laughter at Jordan by the majority of the country.

So here's news for you - you allow your foolish husband to give your daughter a ridiculous name, then you are accepting that your daughter is to be an object of ridicule.

can you imagine, in 15 years time?

"What'#s your name?"
"Princess."
"Princess???? What the hell kind of name is that?"
"Yeah yeah I know. My dad's a tosser. he loves me but I don't think it occured to him for 5 seconds that I'm not going to be three for the rest of my life. What baffles me is why mum didn't bloody stop him!""

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:11

Mine won't, no. My world won't change a jot if someone insists that his daughter is called Princess.

Her world, now ... you're giving her no option but to be a beauty therapist, a model, or a v list sleb.

What if she wants to be a barrister?

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 15:11

I think we have an attitude with the OP's DH wanting to call his child a name "to prove a point". I don't think that's a very good basis on which to choose a name that your child will have for the rest of her life.

It's also not about whether people in general will like it.

It's about whether your daughter will like it.

Which I don't think she will.

I think she will be very resentful towards both her parents for choosing a name which could potentially cause her to be pigeonholed, disrespected or even bullied.

Rhubarbgarden · 21/10/2010 15:13

I like Sienna. I don't know any round here. But Lolas are two a penny.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:14

How can you say he's a tosser -because he likes a name you dont?! I didnt come on here to have a slanging match with someone who obv cant accept other people like different things to them. So how about now you do me a favour and fuck off! So you dont like the name fair enough! no need at all to be personally slag off my husband because he likes the name!

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:15

*slagging

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:16

And if she went to uni and got a 1st in her degree do you think people would really not give her a job because of her name!

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OhBuggerandArse · 21/10/2010 15:18

Yes. Unfortunate but true.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:20

I disagree i would never not employ someone because of a name!

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colditz · 21/10/2010 15:22

I didn't call your husband a tosser. Are you illiterate?

I implied that when your daughter is fifteen, she will think your husband is a tosser for lumbering her with a name that induces incredulous sniggers everywhere she introduces herself.

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:24

No, maybe you wouldn't, but then, YOU are in the 3% of the population that doesn't think calling a girl "princess" is ridiculous.

Everyone else will look at her CV and snigger "Princess????? She either used to be a stripper or she used to be a bloke. Next!"

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:24

No you think that she will think that.

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ApocalypseCheese · 21/10/2010 15:26

Oooohhh, call her Anna, it's a lovely name, very underused and wouldn't look out of place on a doctors badge ! Grin

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:26

Yes I do. I do think that your daughter, at fiftenn years of age, will think that her dad is a tosser for stubbornly insisting on a name that is absolutely unequivocally chavvy and awful. It's comedic, yummiemummie1. People will firstly think you are joking and they will laugh in your face. Then they will realise you are serious and they will be flabberghasted.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:29

Are you still here? Fucking Hell! As I said - you dont like the name fair enough! Now you can sod off!

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ApocalypseCheese · 21/10/2010 15:33

yummiemummie1. Colditz is quite rightly concerned about your future childs playground experiences, seriously, names are something which should be carefully thought over.

Tell your husband to stop being so selfish and put your damn foot down ![hsmile]

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:34

I'm not going to 'fuck off' or 'sod off' as you have so sweetly put it. I'm not going anywhere mate. It's a free board, and I am allowed to express an opinion. You are equally free to ignore me. I just think you should be thinking more about your daughter's feelings than your husbands, which you don't seem to be doing.

ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 15:36

OP you are actually a bit of a hypocrite aren't you?

From someone else's baby names thread:

"dont want to sound too rude but seriously.... minnie or sonnie??? i can see them being tormented at school already and when chosing a baby name you should remember they are not a baby forever they grow up and these names!?!? not good. x"

emptyshell · 21/10/2010 15:37

Princess, Honey, Angel... few of 'em round here - lovely and cutsey when they're three... but I always feel sorry for these kids because when they're 14, have decided they're a goth this week and are going through that slightly gangly arkward teenage bit with a few zits to boot - they're really not going to fit their name at all.

Lola - becoming massively popular, suspect "Charlie and" to be the cause of that one.

My mum thought it was cute to name me an alternative word for Fairy (but still a conventional girls name). I'm the most ungraceful ladylike feminine lump known to mankind and I flipping HATE the meaning of it as an adult.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:37

Yes its a free board but I didnt come on here for a slanging match and did ask for people not be nasty. You are obv ignoring that and doing it anyway which is very disrepectful.

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yummymummie1 · 21/10/2010 15:37

Simply writing ' I hate the name' would have been sufficent.

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ManiDeadi · 21/10/2010 15:38

"I didnt come on here for a slanging match and did ask for people not be nasty"

I think you are on the wrong forum I'm afraid Grin

colditz · 21/10/2010 15:39

I'm not being nasty. I'm being honest. If you don't want to participate in a slanging match, may I suggest that you stop screetching at people to fuck off and sod off?

You are considering your husband's feelings about wanting to name his daughter Princess more than you are considering your future daughter.

Saying that isn't nasty, it's just stating what has happened.

HollyGoHeavily · 21/10/2010 15:51

Do not call your daughter Princess.

It is an appalling name on every conceivable level.

emptyshell · 21/10/2010 15:55

If you HAVE to go down the Princess route (I'd urge you not to), please do it as a middle name so the kid's got an option other than that for later in life. You can always choose for her to be called by the middle of two Christian names - but at least on official forms and things it's not going to be jumping out.

Not that I agree with the choice at all - but at least try to make it semi-bearable if you're going to open that can of worms.