Laney

[fishsausage]

Hello. Expecting first baby and came across the name Laney. Just wondered what everyone thinks. I guess a lot of people will suggest that its a nickname for Helena or Elena but I prefer Laney.

[CrispyFern]

Isn't someone on Eastenders called Laney?

It sounds like an Eastenders sort of name to me somehow.

I like it anyway.

[TheLostPelvicFloorOfPoosh]

'the school slapper'

There's nice.

[BobCrabbshit]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/a828190-Another-MIL-story
It's a corker!

[CheerfulYank]

I like Laney but only as a nickname. :)

[BobCrabbshit]

Doesn't anyone remember Special Grandma Lainey-Lou, of MN crazy MIL fame?

[Yorkshirelassreturns]

Sorry but it's dreadful. Sounds really naff to me. The only person I know with that name is the daughter of the school slapper.... I think it's one of the worst names I can think of. Say no more. Sorry but you asked.

[GristletoeAndWhine]

I knew a Laney (or Lainey, I don't know which spelling it was). I'm not that keen.

[watchamc]

Lainey yes absolutely. Laney no.

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

Actually it's more pronounced Lay-uh-nee

[GlitzAndGigglesx]

I know a Leonie who pronounces is Laney instead of Lee-oh-nee

[bubalou]

I know one called laynee

I think it's lovely.

[Molotov]

I love Laney.

I would choose Lene (pronounced Ley-na, I think) as that disassociates it from the dated/frumpy Elaine and breathes fresh life into the name. Laney would then be my nn for her

[TheLostPelvicFloorOfPoosh]

I really love Shirley.

[LeoandBoosmum]

It's awful. Very 1970s. It's up there with Sharon, Shirley, Sandra, Andrea for me. Dated.

[laineylou]

Have returned nervously . I'm an I-laine not ever ever ever an Eeeelaine

[Only1scoop]

Nn for Elaine....although always thought sounds a bit twee.

Awful as an actual name ....sorry.

Delaney being an Irish surname and the name of my cousins horse.

[fishsausage]

Sorry! Laineylou! Is your real name Eeelaine?

[laineylou]

And my real life name has been mentioned disparagingly

[laineylou]

Oi!

[fishsausage]

Laney-Bug
Laney-May
Laney-Boo

No hyphens!

[Beangarda]

That's who I meant, Fuckmath, thanks. I think she's pretty problematic, or was when I read her blog more regularly (which is a while ago, so my impressions may be dated), though perhaps no more so than many of that kind of blogger - the highly staged plastering of her young children's daily lives all over the Internet for profit, and some of the ways in which she writes about her younger daughter's Down's syndrome, which I think are trivialising.

Lainey the name is starting to grow on me, as long as it's not put with a cutesy middle name or - god forbid - hyphenated.

[UmizoomiThis]

I know a Lainey too, non for Helena. Lainey is commoner in the States (there was a sex and city character with that name I think)

[Fuckmath]

Beangarda I think you mean Kelly Hampton. Not sure why she is godawful she seems fairly inoffensive

Lainey is nice enough, not my thing (prefer Lena) but nothing wrong with it

[Purplevicki]

I know a Léanie - which is pronounced 'laney'

[bouncingbelle]

I like it! But I'd spell it Lainey.