Help us pick from out top three!

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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.

But cosmoa you would give your child a name you know would make them more likely to be picked on? Why? Kids have enough to contend with already.

Imagine living in a world where you don’t have to associate with people whose views are different to yours or who might judge you for having a silly name?

I take it your children are all homeschooled and you will push them towards self employment or careers in the arts.

Good luck to them it they decide that they would rather be an actuary though.

OK. I have unusually-named children. They are deliciously joyful and have loads of friends (that they have made themselves, not just my friends' children). They are confident and cool and charismatic. IF they decide to go by a mainstream name, I will support that - they are not saddled with a name any more than a top-ten named child is - we can all legally change our name, or just request to be called something else day-to-day. It really is not a big deal. But while my husband and I got to choose, we chose the most fantastic names we could for them, names that we love and make us happy. So far, they love them too. Their peers do not bat an eyelid. It is really no problem, and in this day and age people are ever-more accepting. Except on MN, it feels.

tomayto you just described your own children as 'cool' and 'joyful'. Speaks volumes.

Their peers do not bat an eyelid.

Are their peers called Onzobalonzo, Grimalkin, and Shartfast?

There really are some nasty women on this thread. It’s your children I feel sorry for, not those whose parents have chosen names that you as adults would openly mock and sneer at.

Again, there are many names between “Lily” and “Seawillow”.

It’s not a binary choice between “top 10” and “bonkers”.

Again, there are many names between “Lily” and “Seawillow”.

A happy compromise - "Seawilly"!

@ “Seawilly”

I know - I chose my words carefully (always do - like the names I chose too!). How lovely it is to be able to describe my children as such.

common, most have a top 30 name, some are of an ilk like ours. It's all good, and the kids don't even know to care.

Blazing, totally agree.

Maybe I think it's bonkers to call your children something top 30, Tokyo. Maybe I judge you for being a sheep.

You can if you like, but since you don’t know what my children are called (or even whether I have any), that would be rather silly. (But in character, apparently.)

Tokyo I actually feel a bit sorry for you that you have to come on Mumsnet and talk to others the way you do to (I presume) make yourself feel a bit more important. I hope you find more to fill your day

You're the one calling people 'nasty', blazing. tokyo's posts are perfectly reasonable.

They’re definitely more girls’ names than boys’ names OP.

The best is Sunshine with Sunny as a nn.

Seawillow is just silly and will inevitably become Willow by friends and teachers. Willow isn’t out-there to at all.

Sympthony is just weird.

I’m all for different name but if I was called Sympthony or Seawillow, I would change my name. There are much nicer, ‘out-there’ names out there. It’s like you’ve just picked three random words.

I meant to say: Willow isn’t out-there at all*. It’s popular.

Blazing my first

Ahahaha trolltastic! I vote Seawilly as well.

I actually think this is a wind up, since that last post about baby beads.

Let's give our children names we love, and hope that other parents raise their children well enough to not be bullies, yes?

Exactly.

At some point names that are seemingly more common like Willow / Ezra were once out of favour because they were too 'weird' but now the beige folk have decided they're ok. Those liking it to child abuse need to give their head a wobble, but then MN does love to drag other parents.

Just glad I stuck to Petula Dusty.

Thanks, Raven. Your post reminded me I knew of a little girl called Raven, which I think is lovely.

Maybe save "Raven" for a callsign as and when the little girl grows up and decides to join the RAF or SAS?

I think maybe think of another three names put 6 of them back up and see the response? x

At some point names that are seemingly more common like Willow / Ezra were once out of favour because they were too 'weird' but now the beige folk have decided they're ok.

Ezra is a biblical name. It may have fallen in and out of fashion but it's a real name. Seabiscuit, not so much.

Anyone who refers to 'beige people' or 'mundanes' or 'normies' over the age of 14 is even more embarrassing than the op would be if it were genuine.

Wait a minute, Seabiscuit's not a real name?