Anyone met a baby/child called calais?

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Dd named calais and wondered if anyone had heard it before/opinions (good or bad) on it.
I'd never heard it as a name until oh mentioned it but I love it now

Fifa read the question? How rude is that? You can relax, op, the name is probably unique. Because no one else would even imagine it was a name.

Obviously they do do little research hehe
Each to their own

But you know the answer - it's very bloody unusual obviously, given its association with such an awful place

Its actually quite a pretty name. Its a shame its so well known for being quite a grim place. Do you have connections to the area?

It's a pretty word, but a strange choice for a baby born this year for sure

I'm sure your dd will be thrilled to be named after a port

Oh, you've already used if. Fair enough OP, as long as you like it that's all that matters really. Hopefully by the time she understands her name the migrant crisis will be over and her name won't make people think of actual Calais.

No I haven't heard of anyone called Calais because it's not a name

This is what I always want to say on threads like this.

Does Calais have a special significance to you, OP? Was your daughter conceived on the ferry?

No, because it's not a name, it's a grim French port currently home to a huge refugee city. Why on earth anyone would want to name their child after it I can't think.

13 since 1996.

You asked for opinions, OP, which is a bit daft considering a) you've already chosen it and b) you don't actually want opinions!

Calla would have been much better (like the lily)
Calais is just so odd! It's not a pretty place and it's actually a pretty sad and horrible association with all the refugees and homeless children

If it matters

Calais (the place) is named after a celtic tribe that lived there around 2000 years ago - the Caleti.

In Ancient Greek myths, Calais was the son of the North Wind

Today, as others have said, it is a place of suffering and tragedy

It's pretty horrible criticising op's name choice when her DD has already been named. Her OP makes it clear that's the case.

She asked
And people will be thinking it - maybe it's better she knows this now

I have a distant relative with the name and tbh I did snigger a little when I was first told. They are in the US though so I don't think they have the same UK associations with refugee crisis etc

I have not heard of anyone called Calais because it is a French port, not a girl's name. And I live in a country where you can't just call your child whatever you want because you think it's yooneek, you have to use a recognised name (a human name, not the name of a geographical feature). I'm rapidly coming round to the idea that this rule should be introduced in the UK too.

I was not criticising, simply offering some information. Paris was named after a Celtic tribe, too, and also - by coincidence - is a male character in Greek mythology.

So "opinions good or bad" translates as "only good opinions"?

Not heard it used on a child. Heard other place names but not Calais. I think it's a truly awful name

Well, the actual Calais is bloody grim, and I'm amazed that anyone would choose it as name inspiration (but at least two people have apparently.) But as a name it's not ugly... Just don't ever take her to France on holiday! Imagine a chic French family introducing themselves 'This is Antoine, and Jean-Michelle, and our little daughter Grimsby!'

Agree with PatMullins that the OP did ask for bad opinions as well as good. And anyway, it is surely a matter of fact, rather than opinion, that most people in the UK will associate Calais with the current refugee tragedy. Looking further back, the city has rather a sad and violent history. In particular, it saw terrible fighting and destruction in World War II and a very nasty medieval siege. Those facts would not recommend Calais to me as a name.

Are you in France, Arch?

No, and I don't know anyone called Ben Dover or Cher-Bourg either.

Town in France.
Not a port.
Hehe.
No seriously I don't mind the bad opinions. It's all taken on the chin. Each to their ownI know one other calais spelt callay but pronounced the same

Town in France. Not a port.
Are you for real, op? Can anybody really be that dim?