What exactly is a Mumsnet name?

[WithACherryOnTop]

I'd appreciate it if someone could enlighten me,and perhaps provide a few examples,as I keep seeing it mentioned on this board.

Fuck knows but I do know they don't like names with K's. Join the baby name munity thread and you will see what names are frowned upon

Ptolemy.

It has to be outside of the top 100, yet still be recognisable, classic, easily spellable and pronounceable, not start with a K, contain no hyphens and not be made up.

Pretty is bang on. Her definition shod be in the dictionary under 'Mumsnet Name'

Artemis

I've seen Sholto on here for a boy which, IMO, is not a good name. Sholto is definitely a MN name; don't know how well it would work in RL ...

Justine
Carrie
Gerrie (though I think that's more of a Gransnet name these days)
Olivia
Helen
Rowan
Tech

Arlo
Seren

I wonder if ds has a MN name. Because in rl people sometimes look a bit about it and a few people have labeled it try hard. But on MN the thread I started about it was universally positive. It is a recognised name (biblical), easy to spell and definitely not top 100.

Names can't begin with a K? I always knew I had a crap name [sceptical]

Lysander and Xander also seem to be popular here.

Elizabeth
Katherine
Beatrice

Gregory
Quentin
Edward

Makes my brain go to sleep. You get a lot of threads saying 'what do you think of Jilly / Trevor / Trixie?' only to be met with Mumsnet 'helpful' advice persuading them to go for something clearly not the same style at all.

Oh, you missed one, Pretty. Has to be a full name, not a shortened version. In case he/she ends up being a High Court Judge, FFS. As if that sort of reasoning really held Cherie Blair back. Or Tony Blair, or Ted Hughes, or Bob Hoskins....

Most mumsnetters wet their pants at the mention of Hamish, Daphne and
Phyllis. Go figure!

Oh yes, forgot the shortening thing. However for most I think that falls into the same category as 'made up'

Mustn't alliterate. Again, didn't harm -

January Jones
Hugh Hefner
Howard Hughes
Jesse James
Michael Moore
... or me!

"It has to be outside of the top 100, yet still be recognisable, classic, easily spellable and pronounceable, not start with a K, contain no hyphens and not be made up."

That is probably good advice, regardless of mumsnet.

Beauden?

"That is probably good advice, regardless of mumsnet."

Even the bit about being outside of the top 100, not starting with a K and not having a hyphen

Beauden -really ?

Why can't it start with K?

I don't get that

You're right, there are lots of lovely names starting with K - sorry. But I do think a name outside the top 100 is likely to serve a better purpose of identifying a person than a very widely used one.

baby I dot know but on a thread about baby names it came up that K names aren't nice.

I have a K name and so does my son

My dd is a K name, very beautiful, classic etc, and bollocks to anyone who says names beginning with K aren't nice

Atticus

It was me who said I didn't like names that start with K

I was thinking of; Kaiden, Kyle, Krystal, Kevin, Kian, Kelly......sorry!

I know there are nice names beginning with K!