Everyone hates my baby names!

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I'm having a little girl in April and I really want to call her Peaches. But nobody else can stand the name.

I'm quite heartbroken because I love it 😭 her middle name is going to be Pelagie and I think we're going with Polly as her first name but most people don't like that either.

I can't win 🙄 might just call her peaches and everyone else can suck it up.

Polly is fine but imo a shortening. Pelagie is lovely and unusual. Peaches is absolutely awful.

I cannot imagine a grown woman wanting to be called Polly or Peaches her whole life through.

Honey, Peaches....names like this make me think of a wealthy southern American 1950s housewife in a not pleasant way.

Polly Toynbee, Polly Walker.

I know a lot of Pollys, it’s a typically upper middle class name.

We had an old book about a little girl named Lily, who was known as Peaches. Sometimes as Miss Lily Peaches. It was written in the 1900s.
Polly Peaches sounds very similar to me.

Pelagie is lovely plus it's your GP's name, you'll get some people who won't like it but tell them it's a family name and they should shut up. Polly is a perfectly good name, would ignore anyone who says anything negative. Not keen on Peaches as an actual birth certificate name, although it's fine as a nickname.

Polly is cool.
Peaches... no. It's very 90s and not in a good way.

Polly is one of those names that in the era when everyone had maids, they would say, 'oh no, I can't possibly have a maid with a name like Evelyn/Dorothy/Miranda it's above your station, I shall call you Polly/Sally/Molly'. Entirely taken from 20th C literature though, so not relevant today, it still sticks in my mind.
It's also a parrot.
Aside from the awful Geldofs, Peaches is a great Nina Simone song. It's mad, but admirably daring. Go for it. And stop telling people your name choices.

Polly sounds nice, peaches is a bit silly as soon as you are older than 5. - you do have to think about naming for a life time. Just use as a nick name.

I don’t get why some people dislike names like Polly, on the grounds that they are not “strong” enough. I don’t get both why a name has to “strong”, not why a feminine-sounding name immediately sounds weak to some people. Not every girl needs or wants to be an Alex or a Cameron. It sounds a bit as if people think girls need a protective cloak of a traditionally male name.

I know some adult Polly’s. They have adult jobs and responsibilities.

Peaches sounds a bit harsh and 90iesimo... but I like Plum and
Peggy. (Which might not get the mumsnet seal of approval either )

Polly is fine and Pelagie is fabulous :)!

What about Pelagia Peaches?

Plum. You would seriously call your dd bollock?

bertrand

I like the name Plum... More in a guilty pleasure / middle name way but yes, it’s lovely imo.

I like Plum as well. It sounds autumnal and I’d use it.

I really like Pelagie more so than polly and peaches. Peaches would make a great middle name and nickname though.

I like Peaches. If your DH likes it too then ignore the naysayers.

Polly is lovely.

Peaches is horrendous imo.

I like Polly and your middle name. Peaches is really pretty awful. I would hate to be saddled with that and ‘saddled’ is what came to mind. It’s not that I only like very traditional names either but:
-it gives PP as initials
-it could get shortened to Pea
-it’s a plural and that just seems weird like calling a child ‘grapes’
-it is so linked to Peaches Geldof and her sad story

Pelagie is nice- I knew of Pelagia from Capt Correli's Mandolin, along with half the others on this thread, and always thought it a very pretty name. According to some random name website I looked up, possible nicknames are Peggy (I'm sorry but COME ON, how cute is that!) and Gia, which are pretty cool and offer some possible variety which Peaches just...doesn't. Peaches is just Peaches, or "Pea/Pee".

Paloma, Penny, Pia, Petra and Polly are nice, but Polly is more of a nickname to me.

Another sweet name from that book^^ was Lemoni, but I don't want to confuse you with other potential fruit names.

The key thing is not to ask peoples' opinions on your baby's name. Just tell them what you are calling her once you've made your decision. It's your choice!

If people's opinions do honestly sway you then perhaps it's not the right name.

Give your baby the name you love! Everyone hated both my baby names and tried to throw their two pennies in, but it wasn't their baby to have an opinion!

A friend loved Rocco for her DS but her family had massive opinions so they went with something else and she still says she's gutted because he looks like a Rocco. Don't be the Mum thinking you gave the name you felt obliged to give

Peaches = death from heroin

I'd like to be called Peaches.

I dislike Polly, it sounds a bit affected to me. Peaches is OK but the Geldof connection is offputting. Pelagie is lovely though 🙂

I quite like Peaches. I do associate it with Peaches Geldof but I think that if I knew someone called Peaches that association would start to fade for me fairly quickly

Why are people worried about Peaches being plural? James is a very popular name and is plural.