In your opinion, can people with names like 'Posy', 'Kitty' or 'Dotty' be taken seriously?

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...I happen to think so, but my family and a few friends disagree. Strongly.

Almost every name I have considered is of the 'cutesy' variety - as well as the above three, I also like Polly, Lola and Nelly. I seem to just like girly names. My mother is fond of telling me ''You are naming a person, not a baby'' as if I am not aware that baby will grow up.

I know that you shouldn't tell people the names before baby is born and present the name as a fait acompli, but I really don't want to pick a name which everyone else seems to hate...

Any thoughts / experiences on this? My mother this morning has just told me that ''she wouldn't trust a Doctor called something ridiculous like Posy'', which is actually one of my favourite names.

Any thoughts/experiences on this?

I feel sorry for him. His parents are idiots.

Well I have a Kitty - not nn as it's a 16th century name in is own right and she was named after my great aunt. She's 2 so not sure of her job prospects yet but we are a high achieving family so don't see why she will be anything else due to her name. The other name we considered was Polly - the only other Polly I know is a barrister.
i've never had a negative comment about her name and it really suits her - classic but not common. All or girls names have literary connections - Kitty being in pride and prejudice.
Go for a name you love and can imagine saying.

Afraid you're not coming across as so mature yourself twirly.

Bear makes every other name mentioned on this thread seem utterly beyond criticism. The names in the OP are all of a certain style. They're all names though.

Oh and he doesn't need your pity, thanks anyway.

And by the very fact that several people are actually named it, so is Bear.

It's such a selfish thing for a parent to do. Why would you hand a mill stone like that round your child's neck? It even makes Tiger sound reasonable because you don't have the homophone issue.

Hopefully his parents have the money and/or connections to make it a non issue.

You do understand that homophones have the same pronunciation but different meanings?

It's only people with attitudes such as yours who make it an issue.

One of my sons is named Buddy. You'd have a field day with that I'm sure.

Are you Jamie Oliver? His child is Buddy Bear.

Your mother would never know Doctor surname was called Posy, would she?

All those names do sound cute for smaller people, but I'd give your baby the formal versions on the birth certificate in case they want something more serious when they grow up. E.g. Katie/Katherine. If you just give them the shortened version, they don't have the same flexibility.

No, although I wish I had his cooking skills (and bank balance). My son (one of four) is Buddy, my mates eldest is Bear.

Btw, a registrar told me she gets lots of names with crayzee cr8tive spelllings these days, but the funniest one was when a father told her he wanted to call his son a word she'd never heard before. She asked him how to spell it - and the father stripped his T-shirt off to show her his tattoo! Seems even the father didn't know... (She refused to tell me the name, though, spoilsport.)

Earl Spencer (princess Diana's brother) has a daughter called Kitty. Also I think one of Camilla's grand daughters is Lola. Both seem to be the proper names not nn (according to google).
after comments on here I was all prepared to defend or choice of names but actually never had to.
I think people get used to names, so people who know my family will be used to the name Kitty and it will be normal to them.
Dd has a Dolly in her class - lovely girl so I'd never look at her and think she won't amount to much. Mind you I'm a girlie woman and proud - not sure why being girlie is a negative thing. I like pink and sparkly things, but also had a senior management role before having children. Both can go together.

I'm with you twirly why on earth give your child such a silly silly name. Can you imagine him with a part time job somewhere and his boss shouting Bear fill those cans up. Not all kids grow up with famous parents.

Dr Dotty Smith

Not taking any of this personally, but had my 14 year old DS been a girl he was to be Kitty

Well, I was with the 'it doesn't matter child grows into their name' believers until someone mentioned CVs or, say, perhaps, their Physics Dissertation for a Masters in Astrophysics. Because there is evidence of racism in the marking system, due to the candidates name, so there could also be a small disadvantage if you had a ditsy name.

Thank God people are legally allowed to change their names, that's all I'm saying

I've come across a Tiger, a Lion, a Prince and even a Tinkerbell.

What is wrong with some parents??

Our dd is Rosie, she is 5. Occasionally instead she likes us to call her 'Rose', sometimes 'Ro'.

She has a choice in term of name variants even tho it is Rosie on her birth cert.

I don't understand why people seem to think you can choose to call yourself 'Rosie' if you're a 'Rose' but not vice versa.

My family doctor growing up was called Donald. Donald Duck. That is true.

People will do the jobs they so because they have the skills and qualities to do them. Not because they are called something which someone 25 years ago deemed appropriate

I'm actually speechless

Especially as Doctors are nicknamed "Quacks" - it is too funny