McKayla

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Thoughts on this name for a baby girl?
I like McKayla Rose

One of the worst I’ve seen on here sorry

There are people making genuine name suggestions such as Icarus, Ptolemy, Rollo and Rufus.

Tbh McKayla is fairly tame.

You seriously cannot call your baby “Mckayla”. It’s made up and sounds like limited edition sandwich from McDonald’s

This. Michaela or at a push, Mikayla are better.

I dislike Michaela it's the same name.

Knew one who was born in 1970 but spelt the traditional way. Think Your spelling looks weird but so does the original!

I like it but f8r your childs sake would at least spell it Mikayla

Stock agreed, but those people are clearly educated middle class so they get a pass on lumbering their child with a daft name.

Frankly I’d go for McKayla any day of the week over Icarus.

Please don’t. It will cause your dd no end of problems. Btw Michaela can also be pronounced Mick-eye-la

McKayla - don’t like it at all.
Michaela - better but not a name I like.
Re McCambridge - reminds me of Actress Mercedes McCambridge - was fascinated by that name when a child !

I'm going to go against the grain and say think you should call your child McKayla. Because naming your child after an American teen mom in a reality show is always a super idea

I personally don't like the name or the spelling , but that's OK because it's not my child being named, and I actually don't think having a person in the world called McKayla will make it a worse place.

Having said that, I suggest you watch some slightly more highbrow TV shows during your pregnancy.

I also instantly thought along the lines of Princessfaffalot.

Mickelor is hilarious; these names just show me that people have poor grasp of standard phonetic rules. I know an Ema spelt like that... but always think of her as Eema.

HeadintheClouds brilliant comment.

Mechaela just sounds like a name that the people at Barbie might give to an engineer doll. I can’t agree that it’s pretty.

Michaela is nice.

You said yourself, it's a name you've heard from a trashy tv programme.

Why would you give your daughter such a trashy name

I don't like the name but that's my opinion. The way you have spelt it also looks like a last name

I wouldn't actually pronounce them the same! Is that just me?

McKayla would be MucKayla (with a very quick 'u'), whereas Michaela would have a very quick 'i'.

Horrible - don’t do it

yes, I agree. Anyone who thinks they're pronounced the same is blind. Since when was Mc at the beginning of a name pronounced 'mick'? Old MickDonald had a farm? It's like saying Luna and Lena are the same name.

The middle bit sounds different in my head as well — I'd have put two 'c' sounds in. For example, McKenna and McEnna don't sound quite the same.

Since when was Mc at the beginning of a name pronounced 'mick'? Old MickDonald had a farm?

Eh?

It's old MacDonald

OK, then, refusing-to-get-the-point poster, is it MickDonald's where you get your kids a Happy Meal? (wait to be told 'I don't ever buy my kids as happy Meal)

I'm not refusing to get to any point fgs. Just pointing out that you were wrong.

Having said that, I suggest you watch some slightly more highbrow TV shows during your pregnancy.
Mind you this can go horribly wrong too. I read a book on American presidents and ended up with a ds called Theodore nn Teddy and you know how much Mumsnet loves that name!

How about Kayla (not RFT though).

Imagine 20 years down the line one of these poor unfortunate McKaylas or McKenzies or McKennas marries someone with a Mc name.

They're awful. All of them. Michaela is a perfectly OK name.

Trashy reality shows are great, just don't name your kids after anyone in them