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We're all so cruel!

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whatausername · 25/04/2020 16:52

This thread from 2008 has given me a giggle:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/620734-what-name-do-you-secretly-love-but-would-never-use?pg=1

Arthur! Felix! Maisie! How could we? Shock

Fun to see how trends have changed.

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Awwlookatmybabyspider · 25/04/2020 17:07

It's mad isn't it. Arthurs and Gabriels are everywhere now.
I didn't know Maisie used to be a "cruel" name, thoughConfused.

pinkpinecone · 25/04/2020 17:37

This is fascinating! It's interesting how sometimes we just need to get used to hearing certain names. They sound weird to start with and then we realise how nice they actually are!

Some of my friends and I have names that were unusual at the time we were growing up, but at now really popular. Our parents were clearly ahead of the curve.

vodkaicepops · 25/04/2020 18:08

Ha Ha brilliant!!

That's fashion for you, we are all swept into it and suckers for it no matter the class or creed.

vodkaicepops · 25/04/2020 18:11

It's a ripple effect....one person uses an Arthur or an Eloise and suddenly they're popping up everywhere.
I do like a unique name but there's something uniting and cool about knowing that in 100 years from now people will be looking at their ancestors of our times and seeing lots of

Felix
Arlo
Alfie
Olivia
Ava etc and thinking Ooooo how vintage!

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SemperIdem · 26/04/2020 01:50

Ezekiel is really rather popular now. Didn’t see that coming, neither did the person on the first page of the thread you linked to!

whatausername · 26/04/2020 13:42

@vodkaicepops you're so right. It's a little amusing when someone complains that they've chosen a rare or 'unique' then discovered that many other children have it. They've obviously heard it mentioned a few times and liked it but the same has happened to so many other parents too. It isn't unique or rare, merely a lack of (self?) awareness. Wink

I think Peter and Elodie will be the next examples of the above. Maybe John as well. All lovely names but not particularly common for the last ten years.

What I like is the idea that in years to come people will look at their ancestors who had super cutesy, almost twee names but when they look at the birth certs they'll discover a trend. "Certificate/full name" + MN1 + MN2 + (often) double-barrelled surname! Grin

"This was your great great auntie Betsy or, according to her registration, Elizabeth Evelina Rose Pinkerton-Smith."

I'm sure 15 or 20 years ago, more than one surname was considered pretentious by many or had class associations.

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Jamiladodger · 26/04/2020 16:38

This is fab 😀 !

whatausername · 26/04/2020 17:18

More than one middle name*

Oops!

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