How is the name Skype perceived in the UK?

[lill72]

We are thinking of this name for baby if it' a girl (due in just over a week) , but I am not sure what people think of it in the UK. I am oringinally from Australia, where it is thought of quite well and would be a good choice, possibly thought of as slightly hippy as it seemed popular in the 70s.

What are your perceptions, the connotations of it here?

Skype!!

suppose if it calls to you then you should use it

don't call me, I'll call you ....

Ah please stop. Baby Names topic is just too much this morning

OMG I meant to say Skye - ah how do I change this??

Gilbert & smash

Meant Skye!!!!!!!

is this a typo for Skye?

Um, it would be seen as "you named your baby after a messaging app?"

I didn't know it was a name as well - pity as it sounds nice! But the overwhelming association would be with the app.

x posted!

Yes Mrs!!! Hmmm there's my first issue!!

I'm assuming you mean Skye.
I have known a couple of Skyes.
In my opinion it is perceived as a proper name now, rather than some hippy nonsense.

Please let the thread continue for the name Skype

Skye is lovely, Skype not so much

Skye is lovely. I'd wonder maybe if she was a connection to island. But I think it's a lovely name.

Your autocorrect would soon learn!

You don't change it, you just enjoy it

Presumable DYAC as middle name?

(Skye's fine, BTW)

Ah okay, typo

Maybe you could ask MN to edit it? Or just start a new thread....

I'll let it go Cote - at least it's getting lots of responses - and funny ones at that!!

if she was a connection? if she had a connection!

I like Skye. I think it's considered a not too out there name nowadays. I love it actually, wanted to call DD2 that (turned out to be a DS).

Oh how I lol'd.
Skye is fine, even though not to my taste (cf Savannah, Sienna, etc etc etc). It be an island, you know.

I just saw another typo in my original post - think it is too early in the morning for this!!

I'd wonder maybe if she was a connection to island
Hahahahaha.

FWIW, Skye doesn't sound particularly "out there" or hippy. Unless her second name is Rainbow or Cloud IYSWIM.

Totally normal name now, but I remember when Skye Mangel was born it was a hippy name. There are quite a few 'normal' Scottish Island names.

Whew that it's Skye!

Perceived as a perfectly normal name. Nobody would really think little Skye had any more to do with the Isle of Skye that a child called Iona, Harris etc was connected to the islands.