River

[CloudyVanilla]

Am pregnant with DC 3, found out it’s a boy last week and the only name I really love is River. Thoughts?

Great!! Second name could be Thames, Orinoco, Nile? Poor child.

I’m not fussed about what names people want to choose, but if I was considering River I’d have to check there were no actual rivers matching my surname!
Is your surname Trent, Thames, Avon, Aire, Tyne, or Mersey? (Or any of the other 100s less well known rivers?)

It's a bit wet.
There are many possibilities with the middle name,
Jordan being a good one.

@percheron67 are there any names you actually like or have you just made an account to slate every name thread

Bloody awful.

tigertruly. Hello! Not at all - I do like names but not those which would be embarrassing to a child. If the posters want to be "different" why don't they change their own names? If you have been avidly reading the "name" posts, you will find several in which I have said that the name was a realy good choice.

I love it, think it’s beautiful name.

Canal's older brother?

The chance of your child being teased or bullied may be low but why risk it.
There's no shortage of names.

Thanks guys, River he will be :)

I do have a Felix too so will make sure to never call out “River, Felix!” Lest people think I have named him River Phoenix

I agree that is is not unusual or weird enough to cause bullying, especially these days.

Oh and DP is adopted and has a very obscure last name that I think sounds fantastic with River, and a quick google shows it is not a river anywhere in the world

@percheron67 why don’t you grow up a bit, not everyone finds bog standard names appealing and not everyone is as nasty as yourself to think that names that are ever so slightly non conventional warrant embarrassment or bullying. If your children would snigger at someone’s name at school then it’s clear where they have got the attitude from, and maybe you should teach them that people have different tastes and perspectives instead

Honestly so rude.

I absolutely love the name River! As you've checked your first and surname combo doesn't make the name silly then I don't understand why someone would get bullied for the name.

My suspicion is that when people say a child will get bullied for their name they actually mean that THEY would bully a child for their name. There were a few unusual names in my small primary school and nobody was bullied for it as it was just their name and it was accepted by all the other children.

I don't like it as a name. However it would not make me bat an eyelid it's fairly common imo. So you would get a "oh lovely " from me on announcement of name and that would be it for me.

I don't think August Winter and River would be any level of talking about. All fairly normal names IMO. At least I have heard way more off piste names

Also my DD (7 years old) was obsessed with calling our DS Andrew as she thought it was so unique because she doesn't know anyone with that name.

There's a much wider range of names in use these days so I actually don't think any kids in baby Rivers class will bat an eyelid at an "unusual" name.

Our sweet 9 week old boy is called River. It is a beautiful name

The children who do bully others for their name have heard negativity from their parents. Grow up.

Where I live the names in our school are really unusual, I and my son both have very unusual names also and it's never caused us a problem.

I also think theres a reason I always get an interview ;)

Ps I live River

Like ffs

Cloudyvanilla. This is becoming a trifle boring! You asked for MN opinions on the name River. If you were going to be upset when someone had a different opinion to your own it would have been best not to ask for other people's points of view.

For the record I, or my children would not comment publicly on a given name whatever our individual points of view. However, not every one is as restrained as I have discovered whilst waiting at the school gates. But …… your child - your choice.

@Vikandriv and congratulations :)

Thanks all, there’s nothing I’ve heard to suggest it is a universally cringey name and I do love it. If the sonographer has made a mistake and the baby turns out to be a girl, their name will still be River as I love it for both genders

Personally I think that kids can be really mean, will pick up on anything and a name like that will attract attention and taunts but that's just my opinion based on my experiences of how kids can be.

I love it. However i know one and he is not a nice child, no-one would dare tease him about it though!

Love it! Makes me think of River Song, but I'm a massive doctor who fan so

As “ modern” names go I like it.
For hundreds of years we just recycled the same old names and it’s only in the past 150 to 200 years that each generation has decided it likes different names. When I was young some of the “different” names were really whacky — Gramaphone etc. Only a few such as Lake and Forest and Flame have survived albeit used only occasionally.
Brook was regarded as unusual not so long ago and now is nothing out of the ordinary.
Actually it’s an ancient idea to name children after animals and birds. The common Scandinavian name Bjorn means bear. I guess when the Victorians went all out over flower names some MILs didn’t approve