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I’ve named Four Kids, here’s my advice on naming your child

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Yohannette · 12/05/2018 16:55

Hi, I’m Yohannette (everyone calls me Hanna) and I’ve hated my name for a long time. So I found out I was pregnant with my first two children me and my partner wanted to make sure the names for our expectant twin girls have to be perfect. I just want to say now that there are so many websites that can come up with the weirdest names for twins. While searching we found suggestions for things like Daisy and Maisy, Willow and Elm, and my personal faverioute, Blackpool and Liverpool. I have nothing against these names and I actually called my third girl Maisy, but the fact that you would rhyme it is beyond me. It was these terrible suggestions that made me and my wife realise that we wanted our kids to have names that not only sounded nice but meant something. We searched through diary pages to find memorable places that names weren’t insane, we talked to relatives about their or their parents names, sifting through all this history as well as numerous lists of what would be the “next big thing” in baby names. By using all this different sources we somehow managed to find two names that we love every time we hear them, Stella-Marnie (Star from the Sea) Audrey Thomas. This was perfect because we fell in love with the meaning of the first name and I proposed in front of an Audrey Hepburn film. And Georgia London Thomas, Georgia is the name of my wife’s grandmother, and we met in London.

I hope this hope has helped you in the search to find the perfect name for you new born.
Hanna

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LoislovesStewie · 12/05/2018 17:53

Should we have a competition to see how silly the name would be if our kids were named after the place they were conceived? Town/city obviously, not bed/kitchen table etc.

PetulantPolecat · 12/05/2018 17:55

LowRent, where are you getting this from?!
“... you do know that Alfred Hitchcock made up the name Marnie?”

The Hitchcock movie is based on a book.

I’ve named Four Kids, here’s my advice on naming your child
Mummyoflittledragon · 12/05/2018 17:55

I was a seahorse in my past life so I’ve named thousands.

Soubriquet · 12/05/2018 17:58

Oh Lois my two would be a bit interest. Can't really say as one is a small town and my other is another small town.

They both would have had the same name if we hadn't moved. We have now moved back to 1st town...

starsorwater · 12/05/2018 17:58

Thank you so much. I have never known what to call my children.

Stella-Marnie does sound like a ferry company's mother and Georgia, London like the sort of address you are given by a drunk (or a secret Nigerian prince who only needs you to mail him your bank details to make both your fortune), but Thomas is not so bad. Well, odd for a girl, but otherwise not so bad.

BlueTrousers · 12/05/2018 17:58

Lois all of my kids would have the same name - which would probably help immensely as they all get called their siblings names and the dogs before I get to theirs, at least I couldn’t get it wrong then Grin

Emily7708 · 12/05/2018 17:59

I’m so tempted to rename my twins Blackpool and Liverpool now. I knew we shouldn’t have gone with Clacton and Canvey. Angry

LaGattaNera · 12/05/2018 17:59

I love ice cream. I have 5 children.
Haagen
Daz
Ben
Jerry
Mr Whippy

I am expecting twin girls, they will be Carte & D'or Grin

harrietm87 · 12/05/2018 18:00

OP you do realise that Stella Maris means star of the sea? Stella Marnie doesn't mean anything...

LoislovesStewie · 12/05/2018 18:00

Mine would be a Greek island and a small place in Ireland.Could be worse.

FrogPie · 12/05/2018 18:07

@LaGattaNera beautiful names! I went down a similar route, my kids are Captain-Birdseye, Bernard-Matthew and Betty-Crocker! ;) :)

NakedBrainStrollingInManhatten · 12/05/2018 18:08

@LoislovesStewie DH and I joked about naming dd after our home town as his surname is the county. So she would have been called Swindon Wiltshire.

Gazelda · 12/05/2018 18:11

Dover Pyanno Callet.

steppemum · 12/05/2018 18:13

All that effort and you came up with Stella- Marnie, and used London as a middle name for a girl.

Well, interesting choices.
Wouldn't be my choices, but there you go.

00100001 · 12/05/2018 18:13

Tl;dr

😴

DextroDependant · 12/05/2018 18:15

I have only named 3 children. I am yet to reach master namer level.

steppemum · 12/05/2018 18:17

if they were called after where they were conceived, it would be Astana. Which is quite nice actually, but not 3 times over Grin

dontticklethetoad · 12/05/2018 18:18

I have an excellent name for a tortoise but I'm not telling as you'll all steal it Grin

LoislovesStewie · 12/05/2018 18:19

As a fellow Moonraker I can go along with Swindon Wiltshire, not sure that my youngest would be happy with Skibbereen though!

steppemum · 12/05/2018 18:22

Oh Lois - I drive past that everyday!
Moonraker has a certain Bowie- esque quality to it

Pickleshickles · 12/05/2018 18:23

Thank goodness a man has come to mainsplain to us poor woman precisely how to name children.

Mummyoflittledragon · 12/05/2018 18:25

My favourite names include Titi, Fanny, Woody, Uranus, Gina, Tarzan and Dick. And of course, saving the best til last: Cucumber, so much better than Apple eh Gwynneth!

GinnyWreckin · 12/05/2018 18:28

I like
Djinn and Tonik
And
Bjensson and Edges myself for twinnies.

Im so glad to add my farthing’s worth.
Very important us experts stick together OP, like pages from one of those mags!

infertilitybitch · 12/05/2018 18:31

When I fall pregnant with twins I will be so relieved to have this useful information handy, place marking to make sure I follow the vital advice of someone far more experienced than myself. I've only had practice at one so far so not a naming professional

TheChineseChicken · 12/05/2018 18:32

Laughing like a loon on the bus Grin