Wilder as a girls name

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I am due any day now and been pretty set on a name most of my pregnancy but earlier today I heard a parent calling out to their daughter 'Wilder' in the park and I just fell in love with the name.

I couldn't see any threads on here about the name and it seems pretty unusual for a girl. What are your opinions?

Ah you're one of the 'the fact you all hate it makes me love it more' brigade.

Hmm, I don't know. It's very American-sounding but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe as a middle name?

I feel I should hate this name but I really, really like it.

Wasn't Wilder chosen as a surname by women living communally? A way of removing the male aspect from the surname?

I seem to remember that a fair bit of free love was involved too.

I think that was Wilde tilder.

Actually I've just checked and it was Wild.

I'd hear the comparative adjective.

Will she be your middle child by any chance?

Glad to hear it OP, I salute you!

You like the fact that most people don't like it, OP?

Why did you ask then?

Thanks for the feedback all - I like that it has evoked such a response. It has absolutely solidified it as my number 1! Can't wait for my little Wilder to get here!

Poor child.

Her teenage years are going to be shit.

Thank you mitzy. I knew there was something.

And you aren't even prepared to think about the fact that your child will have to explain/repeat/spell her name every single time she gives it to anyone for thenext 80 years?

How extraordinarily self centered of you.

I love "are you getting enough sleep? " very good question.

Wilder has too many syllables.

Probably won't be the next 80 yrs Bertrand she'll be changing it by deed poll as soon as she reaches adulthood

Go the whole hog on try hard front and give her the middle name danger.

Sam Taylor Johnson has a Wylda if that helps.

^^What Bertrand said. FFS. You can be creative/imaginative/unusual in naming a baby without being cruel. Giving her that 'name' (it's not a (first) name, it's a comparative adjective or a surname) would be the pinnacle of self-absorption.

Times lik this I think the 'pick names from an approved list' system some countries aöpparently have has a lot going for it.

No way, it sounds like a porn star name

Good for you!
....Bad for your kid....

Why are you lot so horrible? Is it because you have neither the guts not the inspiration to have named your own offspring anything slightly off the wall? Are you so vicious to the army of women in here who choose hard-to-pronounce-and-spell Irish names?

OP, you've annoyed the mumsnet veterans by your unwillingness to toe the line. Good for you! It's a great name better than saccharine Willow

When is your baby due?

Soupdragon and Suburban seem particularly frothy at the OPs disinclination to climb down. Bizarre.

I think it sounds quite boho and free. I like it.

I also like Willa which is probably a little more popular than Wilder. There's always Wilhemina which is a fab name!