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Baby names

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tallulah...

16 replies

yummybutterbiscuit · 17/04/2011 19:40

feelings? I love it but my mum thinks im joking everytime i mention it, and tells me that no-one will take me seriously becuase I would be a young mum with a kid called tallulah...

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Hassled · 17/04/2011 19:42

I can't hear Tallulah without thinking Jodie Foster in Bugsy Malone . Don't do it.

Reality · 17/04/2011 19:42

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deemented · 17/04/2011 19:43

TallulahDoesTheHulaInHawaii.

No, don't do it...

LetThereBeRock · 17/04/2011 19:49

No,no and a thousand times no. It sounds like a stripper,and it's an awful name.

LetThereBeRock · 17/04/2011 19:49

It doesn't age well either.

BertieBasset · 17/04/2011 19:53

I really liked it and then heard someone call it out at the shops and it just sounded a bit pretentious somehow? Sooooo I wouldn't go for it.

SherbetDibDab · 17/04/2011 20:00

I like it.

SolarPanel · 17/04/2011 20:14

I like it :)

SolarPanel · 17/04/2011 20:14

Also like Delilah - similar syllables and "lah" ending.

ellesabe · 17/04/2011 20:19

No. Just no.

surprise · 17/04/2011 20:23

Hideous, chavvy, horrible.

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yummybutterbiscuit · 17/04/2011 20:31

ooo I really like delilah, and that gets away from the chavvy/stripper connections with tallulah... I think that might be my new favourite!

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MelinaM · 17/04/2011 20:38

I love Tallulah, I don't think it's 'chavy or pretentious' at all, I think more of Tallulah Bankhead than Miss Foster. It's a Native American Indian name meaning leaping water, if you want chavy let's talk Jasmine, Evie and Lola

Delilah's fab too yummy

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catinboots · 17/04/2011 20:46

chav and vile

MuffinMouse · 17/04/2011 21:27

I like it but I would seriously avoid it. I think people would make lots of stereotyped assumptions about her. You could get around this by using it as a mn and then if she wants to use it when she's older, and she can get around any stereotyping ie she just doesn't give a f then fine...

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