Rate my baby names - unusual

[laurielo]

We're currently TTC and after years of been together we have the ever growing baby name list saved in the notes section

The girls name change every so often with 1 always being firmly at the top and boys names the same as o find these really hard, give me some more ideas or middle names

GIRLS:

Pollie
Posie
Maebel
Thalia
Iris
Nuala

BOYS:

Jaxson
Lockie
Reid

All your girls’ names, whilst not my taste, are fine when spelled correctly.

I don’t like any of your boys’ names, sorry. Lockie is especially awful.

Gp is grandparents!

Not to OP but...

In what world/accent does

Thalia - Tahhh-lee-uh

rhyme with Failure - Fay-lure?!

@Growingyou

I agree with pp that you should live the full name - Lachlan - then he can be Lockie or Locks or whatever he decides. I have a little 5 year old nephew who has always been Lachie but has decided now he wants everyone to call him Lach. I don't mind Reid but fear this would lead to teasing (when kids hear it as 'read'). Iris and Nuala are lovely.

I've never really heard of Lachlan and the more I see it the more I don't like it, I just feel it's nothing like Lockie so 100% staying away from Lachlan/Lochlan thank you X

Do you really mean Lockie?!

Are you getting confused with Loki?

@FourPlatinumRings

People do tend to be snide about misspelled names- I remember my DM coming across a Jemma and afterwards remarking what a shame it was that her parents couldn't spell, poor girl. (I didn't even realise it was a misspelling at the time.)

Jackson/Jaxon/Jaxson is fairly common tbh. I prefer Jaxon myself- there's one in a book I read (can't remember the title) with a twin sister called Summer and I thought Jaxon was quite nice at the time, though couldn't use it myself.

I'm not a fan of Polly or Pollie personally- Polly to me is a dog's (or parrot's) name (much like Peter to you) and it also makes me think, 'Polly wanna cracker, waaaaaap.' The spelling to me is neither here nor there- they'll still be Polly S or whatever if there's a Polly in the class because they sound the same. We get all sorts in school- parents can, and do, create any random collection of letters and say it's pronounced X way.

I don't understand why your DM would be so offended by 'Jemma?' For you/her it might not be the proper way of spelling but for her it's her name so it's the absolute right way to spell it, there's literally no right and wrong way, you can cal your child Autumn, Wally, Neve, Coco or Nellie/Nelly and there all the right way of spelling as it's that persons name.

Changing the spelling of names will hopefully one day break stigma's of those of your DM, my parents have usual 60's names and they love the fact our chosen names are a little bit different, just choice I suppose

@CallipygousElephant

Fair warning, you may love unusual spellings but I know a grand total of 7 people who have non-standard spellings and all 7 hate constantly correcting/explaining. 6 of the 7 have specifically said they regret their parents choice in not using the more common/normal one.

Although names are about what you like and want for your child, you seem to really be forgetting that this is a name for them not for you.

I had a non-standard spelling. I changed it at 19 during my first formal job.

Saying that, I like Mabel and I don't think Polly is at all weak like some are saying. Of all the non-standard spellings you are considering I find Maebel the least ridiculous. Pollie is guaranteed to need utterly constant correction.

Iris is a nice name, Nuala is nice but given you don't recognise other Irish names or the longer Scottish version of one you are considering - I'd probably not use an Irish or Scottish name.

The thing is you can call your child anything under the sun and could call them the simplest nicest name at the time and they could still say they hate it my friends name growing up was Catherine now she's official changed it to Katie as she hated

@NameChange84

Do you really mean Lockie?!

Are you getting confused with Loki?

No Lockie, Loki reminds me of the character from Vikings

Why did you ask for our opinions op? Call your baby, when you have them, exactly what you want. There are no laws against calling them anything. Well as long as it isn't abusive. No need to ask on here if you are just going to take umbridge and say "my baby my roolz hun". You're right. Your baby, your choice. If you don't care what other people think, then don't ask on here please. Save us all a lot of wasted time. Thanks!

I’m not that keen on Maebel or Pollie as the spelling but that’s purely personally choice. Mae, Mabel and Iris are all very popular where I live. I love Thalia and Posie.

I think Reid is really lovely, almost sounds quite classic without the popularity. The only ones I can really think of would be

Chester
Kit
Otto

@NameChange84

All your girls’ names, whilst not my taste, are fine when spelled correctly.

I don’t like any of your boys’ names, sorry. Lockie is especially awful.

Gp is grandparents!

Not to OP but...

In what world/accent does

Thalia - Tahhh-lee-uh

rhyme with Failure - Fay-lure?!

Tha-li-ah

Tha-li-ah

Still doesn’t rhyme with failure. In the slightest.

Thay-Lee-ya? Rhymes with failure in a non rhotic accent (eg SE England).

@NameChange84

Tha-li-ah

Still doesn’t rhyme with failure. In the slightest.

I said earlier that all the ones I know pn it THAY- lee - uh which I don't like. Thar - lee - uh to rhyme with Talia is much nicer but I've not come across that before.

The only name I like is Talia (I think it's nicer without the h). Sorry!

Ahh, well I have a non rhotic accent (RP) but it never occurred to me that it was the beginning of the name (Tah versus Tay) that was part of the issue. However, the end, even in a non-rhotic accent shouldn’t rhyme. Tah-lee-uh versus Fay-leey-uhr

The end of failure sounds exactly like the word lure to me. Which isn’t pronounced La.

I've known two Thalias who pronounced their names very similar to failure, with the emphasis being on the first syllable Thail-ia.

I would say Tar-lee-a

True @NameChange84. I can definitely hear it in, for example, an Essex or London accent; fail-ee-YA, rather than, as you say, fail-ee-ur.

I know of a Lockie from a traveller family my mum used to work with. He was a horrible boy so I don’t like that suggestion.

I was look at those spellings and assume the parents are either really young or very try hard. Pollie / Daisie / Lillie was done a few years ago, there was a Pollie in DD nursery class in 2014.

Everyday is a school day. Have taught a good few Thalias over the years (maybe 6 or 7 mainly from Greek families, named after the muse) and haven’t come across a Tay-lee-uh yet. I prefer the traditional pronunciation as it stands.

Jaxson screams chav to me

Changing the spelling of names will hopefully one day break stigma's of those of your DM, my parents have usual 60's names and they love the fact our chosen names are a little bit different, just choice I suppose

Obviously you can choose to name them anything with a few limits but I'm not sure altering spellings will really do much to "break stigmas" since most people aren't on board. People mentioned the stereotype of it being young and uneducated people who do it. But personally, I think the biggest issue is that it comes off like you think you're being unique but you're failing at it because you haven't created anything. No one is fooled and can see it's just a common name you've gone for.

Iris is the best of the girls, don't really like the rest.
Don't like any of the boys names.

Of course, my opinion isn't important at all! Name your child whatever you like.

Some names have accepted alternate spellings, personally I’d say Posie/Posy is one of those. Same as Catherine/ Katherine/ Kathryn.
I also thought you meant Loki and would have pronounced it like that. I’d find it irritating to have w name which was constantly pronounced in different ways so that would rule out lockie and Thalia and Maebel (go for Mabel if you don’t want it pronounced may-belle)

@NameChange84

Ahh, well I have a non rhotic accent (RP) but it never occurred to me that it was the beginning of the name (Tah versus Tay) that was part of the issue. However, the end, even in a non-rhotic accent shouldn’t rhyme. Tah-lee-uh versus Fay-leey-uhr

The end of failure sounds exactly like the word lure to me. Which isn’t pronounced La.

Well the first time I came across the idea that Thalia sounded like 'failure' and it's a fairly famous instance in terms of its being at the beginning of a deservedly classic girls' school story series was in Antonia Forest's Autumn Term, when a girl called Thalia introduces herself to two other new girls on a train, and both mishear, and one says 'Why are you called Failure? Is it because you weren't a boy?' and Thalia responds 'patiently', as she's implicitly had people think this before.

The book was written in 1948, and all three girls are upper-middle/minor landed gentry attending a socially-uniform boarding school, hence presumably RP speakers. But I doubt AF would have included the joke, if she didn't think it worked as a rule for RP speakers' pronunciation.

The girl in question is known as Tim, as she loathes her name.

Well the first time I came across the idea that Thalia sounded like 'failure' and it's a fairly famous instance in terms of its being at the beginning of a deservedly classic girls' school story series was in Antonia Forest's Autumn Term, when a girl called Thalia introduces herself to two other new girls on a train, and both mishear, and one says 'Why are you called Failure? Is it because you weren't a boy?' and Thalia responds 'patiently', as she's implicitly had people think this before.

The book was written in 1948, and all three girls are upper-middle/minor landed gentry attending a socially-uniform boarding school, hence presumably RP speakers. But I doubt AF would have included the joke, if she didn't think it worked as a rule for RP speakers' pronunciation.

Interesting! I’ve never come across this author or her books, though having gone to such schools in the 90s/00s I avoided reading books set in schools with the exception of Harry Potter lol. Too close for comfort! There’s also a possibility it was out of print.

This anecdote would suggest a Thay beginning as opposed to Tay to me. Tay-lia or Thay-lia certainly isn’t the most common or accepted pronunciation of Thalia.