Joanne

[littlejolee]

Not expecting but have a DS, was talking to dp about what name we would choose if we ever did have a girl, he suggested Joanne, thoughts?

Love Joanna.

But no idea why you would name a child after yourself. Imagine the problems with post. Hard to imagine at this stage I know, but it will be a problem in the future.

Dislike, it has a 70's feel to it.

I'm glad you've all said no, I wasn't keen on the idea either, DS isn't named after dp. So that's deffo off the list and I can show him this thread to prove its as bad an idea as I thought it was :)(But my cousin is named after my uncle and even as a kid I thought it was a bit)

Rousette - used to be quite the norm to name a child after the parent (generally on the male side).

X post. My brother is named after my dad, my uncle is named after my grandad, DH's cousin is named after his father. I don't see it as anything unusual bit it is a tradition that seems to by dying out, especially as boys these days have 'grandad' names rather than the Steve, Dave, Graham, Martin etc that their dads are called.

I really like Joanne

I had a boy Joe first so couldn't use it for dd

I love Jeanne too

Did it Margot? Didn't know that, thought that was just in the US with for instance "Thomas Cruise Mapother IV". (Tom Cruise that is. I'm a mine of useless information )

I'm Joanna, born mid 80s and I second the constant having to tell people it's with an A not an E. It's sounds so silly but Joanne isn't my name. So everyone just calls me Jo, and I go by Joanna in formal situations.

Also, I'm not sure how relevant this would be to where you live, but I am cockney born and Joanna is rhyming slag for a 'Piano'. All though primary and secondary I would get 'Joanna the piano'. I hate pianos now.

Ha Rousette I knew who you meant with that one. I don't know whether it was perhaps more of a 'w/c northern' tradition in this country.

It sounds very dated to my Seventies-born ears!

Really?! Margot this is why I love MN, you learn something new all the time (promise am not being facetious! )

"For some reason, Joanne was the cool girl at school who always played centre in the netball team and all the boys fancied, and who I never liked"

I had one of those too, and she never liked me either! I think there might have been a Joanne like that in every girlies school in the 1970s.

And it's one of the reasons why I prefer Joanna.

Well I certainly wasn't the sporty popular one if that helps! I'm a 90s baby (90) and I was the short specky bookworm with no mates doing maths with the year above (I hated maths, I still do)

little- you sound exactly like me - only I started university in 1990