Baylor?

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We were originally going with Laurel for our DD, but DH discovered this today and really likes it, but I'm a little unsure - what are MN's opinions?
He really likes the meaning of it and it does fit our family - it means horse trainer.

Ridiculous to get the kids to have an input really unless a middle name.

Ridiculous to discount a name because you know someone else with the name - except it isn't even the same name .

Bayler = short stocky woman in my mind.

Don't like Laurel either.

I wonder what it is about Baylor which is provoking such a reaction? Obviously I hate it too. Is it the sound? Is it the look? Does anyone know anything about the science of the-way-words-look-on-a-page?

Interesting

I think this is a wind up, simply because the more people say how awful Baylor is, the more OP says she likes it.

Do your daughter a favour, don't name her Baylor and don't let your DH 'discover' any more names

Good question Hester

Sounds like a made up name.

Baylor sounds like a job title from the 15th century. But nobody grows up wanting to be a baylor, they have baylorness thrust upon them.

Also, Caltech is a great name. Embodies so much bland wonder.

Another top US university: Yale. Even better if you use the middle name Caius.

Genius.

Ivy League? Ivy for short of course.

Like a hay baler?

Fucking Mowgli????

Meet the Uni triplets: Wellesley (girl), Yale (boy), and Baylor (outlier).
Also: mimsy

Newnham, Gonville and Caius.

Baylor? No. Just. No.
I understand that your DP loves it but still, No.

Have you considered Threshor, Ploughor, Harvestor, Muckspreador?

Please, no.

It would mean that she had access to personalised cheer-leading outfits though.

Hester - if The Archers recently, a new mother had to be talked out of naming her baby Mowgli. After brief consideration of Montezuma she settled on Mungo.

Sorry, did you say personalised jeerleading outfits, Legion?

Baylor is a lovely name. Best friends with Balonz, I believe.

Hester it is the heavy sound I do not like.

Roaring at "Muckspreader" :o

It sounds like someone throwing up.

"Baaaaaaylooooooor'

Hester I'm no sure what is quite so awful about Baylor. Maybe it is a combination of the sound, the meaning/associations and the fact that this is MN.

But I am amazed at how passionately some people feel about names on here (myself included). There was a thread recently about Mabel (which seems to be a marmite name) and the strength of feeling from some posters was extraordinary considering it's just a name.