Anyone met a baby/child called calais?

[Timetogrowup2016]

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

It has a pretty sound to it. Personally I'd start referring to her a 'Callie'. I associate Calais with refugees and the port.
She beautiful. Congrats.

Beautiful baby OP. Enjoy her and I hope you get some rest soon

Aaah she's cute

People call their babies "india" "brooklyn" "paris" etc. Theirs people suffering in India etc. What do people think of that? Just wondering if it's really so different. :S
If that's what you all think off I accept your opinions.

Thank you.
I'm biased but she is beautiful

It has a nice sound to it.

I wpuld have spelt it dufferently to town with all its awful connotations.

No I haven't.

And I think I know the reason but my opinions would come across as rude given you have already named your DD that.

It's rubbish and chavvy.

I think it's unusual but pretty. Brooklyn and Harlem have their fate share of problems but they are accepted as names.

Calais isn't just a town, the region nord pas de Calais is a region which has a beauty to it.

Good luck with your new dd

Hi Timetogrowup,

We've had a few reports about this thread now and we can see you're getting a bit of a hard time here. Just wondered if you'd like us to pull the thread? We'll happily do that.

Beautiful baby, by the way.

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I also live in a country with a list of allowed names, and the more I look at this board, the more I agree with you

Have you ever been to Calais OP? Last time I went it was a grim place and that was 10+ years ago.

You came onto a forum with an odd name asking for opinions, you must have known that people would tell you what they think?!

I also associate Calais with refugees and a dingy place.

Call the next one Chernobylle, I hear that's a lovely place too.

Hi mumsnet thanks but it's ok.
People entitled to their own opinions.
I'm not angry they hate the name just angry at being accused of being a troll.

You could go the whole hog and give the poor mite 'auschwitz' for a middle name.....

No, I move in more sensible circle where people call their DC actual human names.

People entitled to their own opinions. That's big of you, op, given that you've started a thread soliciting those same opinions...

No I haven't solicited them.
I've said fair enough all along to them I'm annoyed at being accused of being a troll. I've said that !!!

Gorgeous baby op.

I didn't realise It was even a name at all TBH so yes very unusual here. Before the current refugee crisis I'd of equated it with other grim towns like Slough or Aldershot but now it's a bit more negative with its connotations.
However I also know a four year old called Isis, after the Egyptian Goddess, and obviously since she was born that's got a bad rep. Her parents take the view that all these terrorist groups won't be remembered in a few years and it's not even how they are universally referred by anyway.

I think if she doesn't like it then she can always give herself a nickname anyway, I did when I was a kid. Its not my favourite thing to name kids after places but then I bet some people think my DC'S names are very boring.

...wondered if anyone had heard it before/opinions (good or bad) on it
Concentrate, op, instead of bollocking people for answering a question you couldn't remember asking. Honestly

Calais sounds pretty.

But anyone with a brain cell would know it's not a place to associate your child with at the moment!
Syria also sounds pretty op- maybe for baby no 2

All these terrorist groups won't be remembered in a few years anyway
Sweet suffering Jesus, I give up...

Calais is an unusual name, but it does make me think of the camp in France...

All I said was my opinion is names like brooklyn and India are accepted

I'm not slating people's opinions

Ffs I got annoyed at people accusing Me of trolling.
I've already said your entitled to your opinions because that's what I asked for.