Leighyum

[YerAuntFanny]

Why? Just. Why?

Saw on the news, a........ Shuntel.

Shuntel... that took me a while.

NCPuffin My son attended school with two sweet girls, one named Summer Curtain and one named Fairybelle Joy. We have lost touch with Summer but Fairybelle is now a practising midwife.

Regardless if it’s spelling, I can’t stand the name Liam/Leeham/Leighum/Lea-M. It’s such a harsh, ugly sound....I associate it with criminals and dirtiness!! 😳

Summer Curtain
What the actual fuck???

Arry

I’ve taught two.

I love the name Liam, but totally put off by Marie-urrrrr on Coronation Street when she had Beybeh Leee-urrrrrm.

I have a Liam, he is neither dirty (well no more so than your average teen boy) or a criminal

I know a couple of Aulays, and have never considered it an odd name. I'm in the north east of Scotland.

Dirty or criminal? Fuck me your judgy pants must be giving you a wedgie!

According to Scotland's people, there have been 211 Aulays since 1855. There were only three Ollies born in Scotland before 1955, two of which were female. So in Scotland Aulay was an unusual but established name, whilst Ollie (rather than Oliver) is more recent.

YerAuntFanny according to an acquaintance of ours we gave ds2 a name “only used for naughty boys...”

DH said “well we named after my dead granddad but thanks for your concern....”

It’s an opinion, don’t be defensive! 😂😂😂😂

Not defensive at all, I don’t actually know anyone called Liam.

It was snide as fuck though.

@Sessy19, saying that it sounds harsh or ugly is an opinion.

Saying it's associated with "criminals and dirtiness" is stereotyping and is indeed snide as fuck!

Don't kids often change their own names though? In my days at school kids often substituted their middle name.

I know of a Leighyah, which is pronounced as "Leah". One of my facebook friends granddaughter.

Her and Leighyam would be good siblings 😂

Leighyum*

Also in my school days there was a brief fad for double-barrelled first names on the French model like Jean-Pierre. A girl I knew called herself Melly-Kate for a while.

I heard someone shouting 'Nivea' at a child the other day. Strange to call a kid after face cream!

I know a Lilley.
And a Padditta. They conceived the day they saw 101 Dalmatians. I understand they meant Perdita.
Oh, and a Toadie, an Oak and a Koaden.
Two sisters Destinee and Ebonee.

I think Cala-Mari sounds pretty.

dhal probably nevaeh

Not the prettiest name

There's a thing for rhyming names round here.
I kid you not, my DD's year group has 2 sets of twins- Hanna and Janna; and Leah and Diya. (Outs self to anyone from the same school!)
A few years ago, I taught sisters, around 5 years apart- Chloe and Zoe.
I don't get what people are thinking when they do this.

In terms of apostrophes, I've taught a L'Wren. I've also taught a Cheval.
I've taught a group of siblings all named after cars- I won't name them because that really, really would be too outing.

Eilidh is not 'Celtic' for Ayley.

It's a Scots Gaelic name.