What's wrong with Hazel?

[SunSoakedStone]

Not mine, but SILs getting some stick from DH. I like it!

Nothing :)

Nothing!

Nothing. It's a beautiful name.

That's what I said.

It just makes me crave nuts.

I love it

I like it too, it's a lovely name.

I like it- was on our shortlist for dd. The thing that put us off was Hazel Blears.

I know someone with a Hazel and, honestly, people are gushing in their compliments. It helps that she has lovely brown eyes too (interestingly, parents both blue-eyed!)!

Nothing imho. It's beautiful.One of my favourite names.

Nothing - lovely underused name.

Lovely name but bebebelge.. . am pretty sure genetically it is impossible for two blue-eyed parents to produce a brown-eyed child...

I thought it was impossible too, blue eyes are from recessive genes.

Thanks for the Hazel support though!

Sunsoaked

It is perfectly possible for blue eyed parents to have a brown eyed child. Not common but perfectly possible.

That just what I was thinking

DP has brown eyes, both his parents have blue. I'm fairly sure there is nothing 'suspicious' going on as he looks so like his dad, other than eye/hair colour!

Genetics is sometimes a bit more complicated than the stuff you learn at school :)

Hazel = lovely name

Yeah I'm thinking in terms of GCSE biology here, always willing to learn :)

Fab name, I love it. I want it on my baby name list but my husband is not as keen. However, it is classic and underused and will be agre appropriate at any age.

It's lovely, on our list.

Sorry, but I'll always think of Watership Down "briiiiiighhhhhttt eeeyyyyeees, burning like fiiiire".

But SIL should ignore and go ahead, I wanted to call DD2 Grace , and after 2 months of my SIL coming out with "Amazing Grace" whenever we spoke, I'd cooled on it. Your baby, you choose the name.

GCSE biology did get it wrong acc. to google (and so did I)!
Sorry for casting aspersions.. am pretty sure I remember classic chick lit book of 70s - LAce - where the plot hinged on blue-eyed parents not being able to have a brown-eyed child.
And have been told by website I have a 98% chance of having a brown-eyed baby, when in fact DD has grey eyes...

Hazel is a 'Doreen, Sandra, Pauline' type of name.

Nothing actually wrong with it but a bit drab.

I have blue eyes, mum and dad both have brown, my nanna has blue though, so i guess it can happen.

oh, and Hazel is a lovely name