Kyle...

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Opinions please

Thanks ethethethe

iamanelfjusuisuneelf, will you share your DD1s name ?

It's funny, I was going to say I think it sounds dated. I've never met a Kyle much younger than me (30) and I was at school with several. But everyone else seems to know loads so I guess it isn't dated at all!

I don't know. It's a nice enough name. I don't love it, don't hate it.

I named my son Kyle as it was my Mother's maiden name. She passed away when I was just 15 and I've pretty much known since then that I was going to name my first born son that. It is a strong Scottish name that for me has a lovely meaning. I like the way that it sounds and it makes me think of my mother when I hear it. I live in England now and have only met one other Kyle, who is also lovely. I have worked in recruitment all my life and have searched through millions of CV's over the years and it has always made me consider names and whether they would be suitable for a young child, a teenager right through to a Managing Director and Kyle I think is one of those names.

Don't let anyone advise you not to use a name. Clearly not everyone will like every name. Where half the population will think a name is classic or regal, half the population will think it is boring and overused. Everyone will know someone at school that they didn't like with such and such a name and everyone will have been in a class with 3 naughty so and so's.

Ultimately the name that you choose will definitely be liked by some and definitely disliked by others, some for rational reasons and some for irrational reasons just as there are names that you like and dislike.

So just choose a name that you and your partner like. Your child will give the name personality of it's own and anyone who would actually be so ridicilous as to pre judge a child based on their name shows a lack of intelligence really and says more about them than the child or parents.

Yep, it's Abby. Not Abigail, just Abby.

Personally I don't like it... I've known 2 Kyles pans they've both been bullies.

I don't know where the pans came from...it was meant to be an 'and'.

Great post ilovelamp82. Sorry about the loss of your mum. I totally agree about it being a name with a lovely meaning (and the Kyle of Lochalsh is a beautiful spot, right next to the Isle of Skye!).

I must admit this thread has given me a couple of unsettled evenings worrying if I have lumped my child with a name that he will forever be judged by.

iamanelfjesuisuneelf- I like Abby. I would never have said it's a "chavvy" name (although I don't tend to use that word). I know two Abbys here.

I am sure this whole 'judging' of a name is regional. Certainly here Kyle isn't thought of badly (not that I am aware of at least). I only know of one other. Will have to make sure we don't move to South Norfolk (based on a post above!)

The whole comments too about it being screeched across estates/shopping centres. Well, anyname being screeched by a parent sounds terrible, no matter what it is!!

I don't like it at all, sorry. It is very difficult to pronounce in any language other than English.

When an OP specifically asks for opinions, then they're going to get them. It doesn't matter who else posts on the thread, people are still entitled to respond to the OP, surely? For what it's worth, Kyle in my current area tends to run in families with the negative connotations described quite fully upthread. In my husband's scottish side of the family it is a lovely traditional name, used for generations, and still very popular in the lovely middle class area most of them still live in. Two very, very different experiences and connotations of the same name. Take your pick.

I like it, but I associate it with a really sweet guy at my previous workplace, he's American where I think this name is popular.

I brought this thread up at work today and they were all genuinely surprised it has been deemed by so many to be a 'chavvy' name. Maybe it is a regional perception then as mentioned above.

OP, where are you based ?!

Maybe when Jeremy Kyle (who I was oblivious of until this thread, now I do know who he is) leaves his show then the name might not be perceived so badly!

I still love it though, and it really suits DS. I cannot imagine him by any other name now (he is 4)

The connotations are nothing to go with Jeremy Kyle, it's the sort of people that have 'hijacked' (for want of a better word) the name. The type of people that possibly do go on the JK show, but nothing to do with his name at all.

What area is that Miaow?

I don't think i've ever see a name take such a slating

I don't like it. But to be fair, any name that isn't Duncan, Adrian or Gavin doesn't really meet with my approval.
I know DD has a couple in her year. She speaks very dispariginly about them.

I love it. I don't think of it as at all 'chavvy' and the Kyles I know,certainly aren't.

Personally i don't like it, probably because i immediately think of jeremy kyle.

I'm not keen on Kyle. But I do like Jeremy.

I like Kyle and dont think there's anything wrong with it. I am Scottish, living in Scotland and think its a good Scottish name

I think it's an ok name. I absolutely hate when folk say "it's a naughty boys name". Since when does a name determine whether a child us naughty or not? I find it especially distasteful when teachers says this! Have you written off children from the beginning?

I know christmasbungle, this name crops up on nearly every thread where teachers are asked their opinions on names (with negative comments). Surely teachers should be leading by example, and not pigeon holing children before they have even met them.

I hope when DS starts school next year he isn't met with such judgement about his name before the teacher has even met him.Or, if he ever meets the majority of posters on this thread !

I don't think its ...chavvy or common but I think if you try harder you could come up with something a bit better.

It just lacks imagination IMO.

Lacks imagination? In that case you must also mean every other name on the baby name lists.

It isn't my personal favourite style of name, but then the names I have chosen probably aren't yours.

I think it's fine. I think it sounds nice with a longer middle name (assuming you are planning to use one) and best with surnames that aren't super short (it would sound awful with ours).