baby names survey

[Beccy1974]

i just had an email about this.. i know it's really a 'pregnancy' thread topic but thought you might all like to vote:=

baby-name-survey

Elizabeth and Jonathan for me.

POPPY AND SAMUEL FOR ME!!!

Annabelle and George for me

I have a Coope in my class at school. He was also in my class last year. He is one of the nicest kids I have met in all my years teaching.. so for me that's probably more important thatn what the meaning is.

Never actually found a meaning for the name before though. Coopers is a brand of beer here though.

I also like Amber and Regan for girls. I used to like Cameron too.. but now prefer Logan.

Cooper I meant... oops

This thread wouldn't be half so good to read if it wasn't for the likes of Cod and Nailpolish...

I like what spidermama had to say - (having a dd with an unusual name) but to add more, it is partly where we wish to place our children in society that makes us gun for one name and not another

My fave names are

Jemima
and
Conrad

for all of those who'd like to judge

Wabbit, I'm not sure people conciously want to place their children within society. I didn't.

For us we chose the names we love. They happen to be uncommon names. I know some people won't go with their heart on name choosing because they fear prejudice by others. It's not a fear I share.

a lot of them do sound liek mills and boons names

ro porn star nnames

Me either SM. Part of our reasoning in choosing the names we did was because me and my DP have very 'common' names and we get sick of someone shouting one of em in a shop (eg) and about 20 people turn around.

Our babies names suit OUR babies... not to everyones taste, so fair enough!

aha well ny dh an my kdis ot some extent have unsusal names an i did hte "bacon aisle test"

shout it down the bacon aile of tesco and do peopel turn around
kids dot always want to stand out

Same here Xav.
My name is very common. When I phone people up I say, 'Hi it's spidermama here' and they say, 'Oh hi, which spidermama? Sorry but I knows loads of spidermamas'.

I really dont think standing out has anything to do with a name TBH... Unless you call your child shitface or something.

hmm am not so sure

lol atshit face

People down that bacon aisle might stop and stare at all sorts of things. I'm not going to waste any time worrying about what they think. I can only be myself because that's all I'm good at. I can't be bothered second guessing other peoples prejudice.

Gwenllyan and Ashley for me (got to have one welsh and one english in this house coz we're half and half!)

hope there isn't such a thing as a bacon aisle in any supermarket - sounds hugely lardy and heart attack inducing

Hmm, I'm inclined to agree with Nailpolish; our taste in names is partly to do with 'placing' our children in society, which is partly why everyone gets so het up about it (!). There's a fairly entertaining chapter in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point about this, although he's talking about 'upwardly mobile' vs 'black' names in the US. And, before I get jumped on, he's not intimating that one is better than the other, just commenting on both...

But what gets my goat is names that aren't spelt right. I know someone who's given her daughter a perfectly normal girl's name - but then put an extra 'e' in it. I wouldn't mind, but she complains that it keeps getting spelt wrong...

It was wabbit who mentioned placing in society. (nailpolish just sniggered I think )And I don't disagree, although that wasnt my intention, it can be the way things are viewed.

I chose Lily and Nathan.

I've always loved Nathan but it's too English to go with our 'foreign' surname (also Greek, but Cypriot in our case)

I've grown increasingly fond of Lily since someone started using it as a nickname for DD. I was tempted to go with my second favourite but I don't know how to spell it properly DH veto'd it with DD for being 'too Greek'!

we'd all be called Brian or something if we all liked the same names surely

my dh tries to reject a lot of names just on the grounds that someone famous shares the name. unless he is fan of their films or something

whilst i love the fact that he is young at heart, i like to think he'll come round and basically let me have the names i want

personally i just get a hunch about names and there are some which some people might think chav or something and others which might be considered from another social class or whatever .. i don't care, i just like the names.

i wouldn't choose certain names for my kids but who's to say that in five years those names might be trendy or something and every kid would love to be called xxx

at the end of the day you can't guarantee that an infamous dictator / serial killer won't come along called candy or something equally innoculous and sweet, rendering your sweet little girls name forever linked with something grizzly.

I vote go with what you like

waffling over

DP is Cypriot Greek also.. but we just say Greek! lol

brian is just an example, not one i'm thinking of although my dad is called brian and therefore i don't dislike it. i meant to say we'd all be called 'brian or something' if we had no choice, if it didnt come down to personal taste and was something imposed or just without choice or feeling

phew! long week sorry

I know what you mean Beccy1974. I have vetoed sooooo many names that DP liked because I knew someone of that name and didn't get on with them.
So we picked fairly 'uncommon' names (in this country anyway) that we both liked.