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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Sedah?

23 replies

GretaGip · 23/01/2016 00:19

Looking for something unique.

Don't want DD or DS to be one of 4 in the class.

TIA

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Elemental · 23/01/2016 00:21

Hades backwards?

ladybird69 · 23/01/2016 00:23

I've heard of Heaven backwards but not Hades! personally I wouldn't use it.

MrsLeighHalfpenny · 23/01/2016 00:36

Did you make it up? It sounds vaguely Hebrew/Jewish, but I've never heard of it before.

SnuffleGruntSnorter · 23/01/2016 00:37

Like cedar?

TiddlyFitShaced · 23/01/2016 00:39

The only way to get unique is to completely make up a name.

But please don't.

It's not that hard to be a little different without making shit up. I have four children, all if them have names that are known by all as names, are easy to spell, but they are the only ones with their names in the whole school.

torthecatlady · 23/01/2016 01:00

Is that pronounced Cedar (as in the wood)? I agree, that it looks like a hebrew name. I'm not fussed on anything ending "eh" or "ah" unless of course it is originally spelt that way. I like traditional names so personally, not for me. But that doesn't mean that someone else won't like it!

CaptainWarbeck · 23/01/2016 09:58

Never heard of it, not a big fan.

Setareh is similar though?

MaelstromOfLunacy · 23/01/2016 10:03

I know a Seda, pronounced said - a. I quite like it

Natalie12288 · 23/01/2016 12:55

I also know a Seda! Pronounced Said-ah! I wouldn't use it, but it's okay :)

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GretaGip · 23/01/2016 15:14

Oh. I thought I'd found a hell of a good, unique, unisex name.

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BettyBi0 · 23/01/2016 15:16

Sounds like a car but spelt weird

IoraRua · 23/01/2016 15:16

Hades backwards.
It'd be alright apart from that...

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ScandiManny · 23/01/2016 15:41

Sounds like Fred Elliot saying Sadie to me, sorry

midsomermurderess · 23/01/2016 16:12

It looks like it might be a Turkish name to me, is it or something you've come up with yourselves?

Sofiria · 23/01/2016 19:09

I immediately saw Hades backwards.

Selah for a girl, maybe? It's Biblical, but unusual.

PaulAnkaTheDog · 23/01/2016 20:43

Yup. Hades for me.

nooka · 23/01/2016 20:47

I suspect that the best way to avoid being one of four in your class is to choose an out of trend name, which at the moment probably means looking to names popular in the 70s or 80s.

We used to know a family that made up all their children's names in a quest to be different, only to discover that they weren't unusual in that and two of their three children shared their names with at least one other child in their respective classes.

Plus having a name that's unrecognizable as a name pretty much guarantees that it will always be misspelled and mispronounced, and often be commented on unfavourably. Which is a bit rubbish really.

ChristineDePisan · 23/01/2016 20:50

I saw Hades backwards, too - sorry OP, back to the drawing board...

What is it that you are after? Just something that no one else will have, or are there other criteria?

Seriouslyffs · 23/01/2016 20:51

Cedar is nice!

StitchesInTime · 23/01/2016 20:57

Hades here as well.

Sophronia · 24/01/2016 00:10

I prefer Selah.

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 24/01/2016 15:39

Did you make it up?

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