Help us pick from out top three!

[WeEatTheYearAway]

We've managed to narrow it down to these three but baby's due in a week and we still can't decide for the life of us.

• Sunshine
• Symphony
• Seawillow

I know they're not MN Approved names but hoping some people on here will have similar taste.

We already have a Honeybee and a Starling.

Oh come on WhatToDo child abuse is a bit far!!! I think comparing calling a child a name you don’t like to child abuse is quite insulting actually. Yes they are unusual and and wacky (and not to my taste) but abuse it is not.
I am a teacher and have been for over 10 years and yes, sometimes children tease a bit about names but any name can be picked on if a kid decides to! I had a girl cry because he name was Ruby and a boy kept calling her booby!🙈 I think it would be more beneficial to teach children to be more open minded than shutting down unusual names. Adults are far more narrow minded than children anyway!!

They're all lovely. Good luck with your new cat.

I genuinely like Sunshine, only for a girl though. How about exploring the space theme more? Saturn would be a really cool name for a boy.

What to do, accusing me of child abuse based purely on my children's names isn't an opinion, it's taking the piss

OP/WeEatTheYearAway Just like your name choices then.

Oh come on WhatToDo child abuse is a bit far!!! I think comparing calling a child a name you don’t like to child abuse is quite insulting actually. Yes they are unusual and and wacky (and not to my taste) but abuse it is not.

Blazinghotmonkey Abuse can take many forms, from the obvious to the subtle and the extreme to the not so extreme. Where it is on the scale does not stop it being abuse.

Naming your child is a responsibility, and choosing such names that will negatively affect your child’s life and be a burden to them is an abuse of that responsibility and sets a worrying precedent at the very start of their lives.

Who are you to say it will negatively affect their lives?!
I actually know a girl called Sunshine-she seems perfectly well adjusted.
Symphony is not that different to names like Harmony and Melody-perfectly acceptable names (the naming police must have let them slip through the net!!) 😱
Seawillow is definitely the most unusual out of the lot but can be shortened to Willow or even Will/Cece with very little drama.

I think you’re being unnecessarily personal and need to chill out a bit. A simple ‘I don’t like them’ probably would have got your point across.

Willow is a lovely name. Does it need ‘Sea’ as well? Starling is so cool too. I know a couple of Honeys and they’re really sweet people. Good for you!

FFS MNers....why can’t you just NOT post if you’re going to be arseholes about it. OP has named her children. Get over yourselves.

Please PLEASE do not give your kid a ‘Grace’, ‘Evie’ or ‘Olivia’ name like the REST OF THE WORLD!

I don’t know, if you’re going to post on the baby names board asking people for opinions about your potential baby names, you have to be ready to hear people’s opinions.

If the opinion of 95% of people who reply to your thread is that these names are awful, perhaps you should reconsider your options.

But given that the OP has already given DC1 and 2 silly names, she can hardly go and call DC3 Amelia or Oliver, so perhaps something a bit wacky but less awful than any of these would be the way to go.

Willow if the child is a girl. Maybe River or Phoenix or something like that if it’s a boy.

Children can be cruel. I wouldn't deliberately give my child an unusual name such as Symphony or Seawillow and I say that as someone who was teased (and still hate) my given forenames. I'm sure Moonunit and Dweezil Zappa would be with me on that one.

Willow for a boy possibly as it could be shortened to Will.

@InSpaceNooneCanHearYouScream

Yes.. I KNOW that we're right. Because in our world we clearly don't have to deal with narrow minded adults and as a result.. Children.

If the opinion of 95% of people who reply to your thread is that these names are awful, perhaps you should reconsider your options

You may as well beg.. "Pleeeease be boring and mainstream like the rest of us 😭"

Ugh... Get over yourself.

To the poster who suggested that- as a teacher who does make assumptions based on names- their usually named child will challenge my assumptions about them, I just want to stress that I never make assumptions about the child, only about the parents. And with these kind of names you’re all too often looking at some hippy PITA who thinks that their needs as a parent outweigh those of their kid.

FWIW I’m not some grey person on the grey omnibus with my tie done up to 11, eating grey sludge. Neither of my daughters have top ten names, but they do have actual names that people have heard of and can spell. When they say their names at the doctors or at school or to a new friend no one goes “Sorry, See Willow? Sea Willow?” And looks confused.

Symphony is completely pretentious.

Sunshine shortened to Sunny is ok.

Seawillow is silly, Willow is pretty (I know one, she's a delight).

I didn't realise Jamie Oliver was on MN 😂

OP didn't ask for opinions if you hated the style - she asked for your favourites of the three listed, hoping that some on here had similar taste. She knew most wouldn't.

To the teacher, I could not care less whether you think I am a hippy or not. I find it disheartening that so many judgemental people are teachers, and worry for the children you 'teach'.

Cosmoa, the OP can be as unconventional as she likes. Her life, her choice.

But her children are people in their own right who might grow up resenting their “unconventional” mother who lumped them with stupid names and a lifetime of explanation and judgements, and prefer to lead a more conventional adulthood.

* Yes.. I KNOW that we're right. Because in our world we clearly don't have to deal with narrow minded adults and as a result.. Children.*

What world is that that you live in then cosmoa? LaLa land? No narrow minded adults live in your world? Goody

Whereas in the real world where the rest of us live, children can be very cruel whether we like it or not and could make 'seawillow's life a misery.

Also, this is nothing to do with being narrow-minded, boring, or otherwise. The names are just horrible- ridiculously pretentious.
I'm not that keen on the name 'Connor', for example, but have nothing against other people using it if they so choose.
But these names are so awful that anyone remotely normal hearing them will inwardly recoil in horror.
Not what I'd want for my child.

Haha its actually the same world.. You just need to open your eyes a little.

You're choosing to ignore the fact that people with these sorts of names exist and they're proud to be called that. And proud that their parents gave them a name against the norm.

Such a shame that people think that just because you don't go for a mainstream name.. You're automatically a pretentious hippy in LaLa land. How original.

Ah but now you're just making shit up. I didn't say you were a pretentious hippy. I said the names are pretentious. Which they are.

You might find it a shame, but a lot of people do think that. People who live in the same world that the OP’s children have to live in.

cosmoa I know of plenty of people who have given their kids stupid names. And I also know that the vast majority of the other parents and children are laughing, pointing, and sniggering behind the back of little 'Symphony'.
Sad but true.

Isn’t it terribly sad that we live in a world where parents and children snigger behind children’s back for something as innocent as a name.
Space would you tell your children that it’s unkind to pick on people or would you condone their behaviour towards Symphony because it’s their hippy parents fault for picking such an unconventional name?

You know, some people don't actually care if people are bitching behind their back and being mean about a name.. Because they don't want to associate with people like that anyway.

Of course I wouldn't condone it! I'm just stating that people can be cruel, which is a fact.
I myself said that it is sad but true. It would be nice if we lived in a world where no one judged anyone, but real life isn't like that.