Ivy?

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I have a feeling I know how this will go down, but just to check!

If it's not Ivy, it's going to be Kate, but I just can't help feeling that although Kate is liked, it's just a bit dull..

Thanks all

Ivy's not an exciting name either, but in a pleasant way, you know? I like it.

Interesting...!

I like both of them.

Both nice. DD had an Ivy in her class at preschool. My nana was called Ivy as well.

Ivy is much better then Kate. Kate is a nn.

I really like Ivy!

Gorgeous name - it's DD's middle name after my favourite Auntie and Grandmother. Sometimes wish I had been brave enough to use it as her first name, although still love the name that we gave her. Somebody will be along in a moment to say "Poison Ivy" but I've never had anything but a positive reaction to her name.

Jesus, it's half term isn;t it. Have reported this twit.

Thanks EUM - I'll do same.

Ivy is beautiful, it was one on my girl list, but it so happens i'm having a boy. If it were a girl i was gonna use Ivy Violet or Lily Violet :)

Mumsnet are on the ball tonight - thank God the twit (polite version of what I'm actually thinking) got deleted swiftly!

Violet and Lily also both fantastic names!

Oh that's better. Ivy is a really lovely name, but it's my Grandmother's and relations with her are not that easy, though I love her very much.

So I don't feel I can use it. I'd like other people to, though!

Kate is a very good name too.

I agree with all you say, TattyCatty!

Oh and Kate is a lovely name, but there are many Kates and Katies around these days. Catherine, on the other hand, gives you lots of options and also happens to be my name :o.

Ivy is a lovely name. Prefer it to Kate.

I'm a Kate and I like it, but at one point I worked in an office of 10 with 4 of us called Kate. Anytime anyone started a sentence/question with 'Kate..' we'd all look up, it got really annoying. Your daughter could end up in a similar boat with the royal wedding this year and everything.
Ivy's lovely too though - very Hollywood :)

I like Kate a lot.

Don;t like Ivy at all.

I love Ivy - it's a contender if one of these twins I'm expecting is a girl.

Trouble is, I just don't like the plant and so I can't really like the name. I used to work with an Ivy who called herself Babs ? she only ever used to admit to her 'real' name when she was drunk at office parties :)

How about Iris?

That's quite funny, Notnowcato!

Funnily enough, niece is Iris, or she definitely would be...