Holliday for a baby girl?

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My DP and I disagree on most names but both love this one. Just curious what people thought of it really!

I quite like it! I seem to remember there was a character in some kind of Saved By The Bell-esque 90s sitcom called Holliday, and I was quite taken with it then. Is it fairly common in the US? There don't seem to have been any babies called it in the UK in 2014, which is surprising really - I'd have expected a couple at least.

I thought you were posting on the wrong board asking about holidays suitable for a girl and have poor spelling. It's not a name.

Awful. Sorry.

I can't stand random nouns as names.

Or the trend for naming people 'after' someone using the surname. Susan Sarandon told a story that she met a child named after her. Oh lovely she said, not many Susan these days. Nope, girl was called Sarandon

Terrible. Why when there r so many lovely actual names? Sorry, OP, think baby brain has got to u here!

Why don't you just give her a proper, normal name - and then if you or her ever become Hollywood actors you can decide if you want to change it to Holliday?

No no no Holliday, wtf are you thinking, it's awful, holly is ok but not good.
Just sober up and think this through.
PLEASE!

Billie is cool though. I like Billie.

I love it.

It was on my list of names but never bothered mentioning it to dh as his reaction would have been like most of those above.

Actually I don't mind it and I usually don't like random words as names. I quite like Halliday too which I am fairly sure I have heard someone call their child.

Halliday is a surname - it's not random, and it's spelt correctly!

Halliday would be an ok alternative?

Or Halide [pronounced Halliday] is a Turkish girls name?

Hmm - not unless you a)have Turkish connections and b)don't want to spend the rest of your life (and hers) saying "no, not Halide, it's pronounced Halliday". I have one of those names. Believe me, it is a monumental PITA.

Holly is lovely

Holliday is

I like it!
Don't go for Holly, that has to be one of the most boring, prissy names ever.

It's awful, I like Sarandon though.

Hooray, hooray, it's a holi-holiday!

I would never, in a million years, use it myself. But if I heard it on another child, I'd probably raise an eyebrow and that would be it.

It's the sort of name that would quickly become greater than the sum of its parts, as it were. People get used to names very quickly and they just become the person's name. There are far, far odder names than 'Holliday' around. My DC went to preschool with, off the top of my head, an Eartha, a Zephyr, an Elvis, a Rocco, a Charlize, and a Sinjin (no, not St John, pn Sinjin; actually Sinjin) - and this is a very middle class area.

I don't feel as strongly as most people on here. I agree with the Dowager.

My only issue would be that it doesn't pass the 45 year old test. I can imagine a little girl Holliday and a very old woman but not a 45 year old with a mortgage and a job. Having said that, I do know a Bluebell which I think has the same issue.

"People get used to names very quickly and they just become the person's name."

Totally. Dowager, you should arrange to autopost this on every baby names thread, ever.

Ha ha, well, I don't deny that people make judgments about names - I do it myself (I'm only human), although quickly readjust that judgment on actually getting to know the person.

Personally, I do favour classic names, but I actually tend to think that slightly 'out there' names are a lot easier to carry off than, um, :-/ chavvy (for want of a better word) names, and are certainly much more interesting that the slew of ubiquitous names that hover in the top 10.

Please don't - it's awful.

As in Billie Holliday?

I kind of like it, but I think there would need to be a genuine connection to the meaning behind it do me to consider something so unusual.

I really like Mackenzie. It gets a negative reaction from pretty much everyone I talk to who think it's chavvy, American and trying to be 'cool'. However, it was my great aunt's middle name (she would be about 105 now if still alive) and my granny adored her and talked about her fondly all the time, so it has a special meaning to me.

Probably still won't use it though. I can't be arsed with all the raised eyebrows and opinions.

I'm not keen on 'Holliday' personally but I came on to tell belly that I know a Mackenzie and as far as I know no one has ever batted an eyelid about her name. I've certainly never heard anyone comment on it either way.