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

Reid is spelt READ

@cathyonthebloc Reid is actually a name , it means red haired.

Nuala or Fionnuala as the full version, you can use Finn or Nuala for short.

Jaxson (jax) has become very popular with sons of anarchy. Personally I like Reid of the boys although it’s not something I’d choose.

Ignore comments about spellings, I like traditional spellings but there are lots of people who don’t use traditional spellings.

@AliceMcK

Nuala or Fionnuala as the full version, you can use Finn or Nuala for short.

Jaxson (jax) has become very popular with sons of anarchy. Personally I like Reid of the boys although it’s not something I’d choose.

Ignore comments about spellings, I like traditional spellings but there are lots of people who don’t use traditional spellings.

Yes love Jax for short! Ah yes Sons of Anarchy Thanks Alice

@cathyonthebloc

Reid is spelt READ

It's an actual name?

Read: as in you read a book
Reid: red haired (name)
Reed: a plant

How about Piper for a boy? Though I like your choice of Reid as I'm a Fantastic Four fan.

Iris is beautiful.

I like Mabel spelt properly and Iris. I don't like any of the others.

And while I get some names have different spellings, (my own is one of them) I think whacky misspellings is trying too hard. So Jayne or Katherine is fine. Maebel and Pollie would have me thinking the parents couldn't spell. Sorry.

Misspelling a name does not make it more individual; this is naming a human being not an opportunity to showcase how quirky and convention defying you are.

I showed my husband your list and he with genuine concern said if you are dyslexic could a friend or family member help you check the right spellings.

Phoebe is the name of a Greek titaness and has been used for thousands of years. The idea that you shove an I in to make it Phoebie and that makes it somehow better is just cringeworthy. People (like my husband) will assume that Phoebie’s parents couldn’t spell, or worse that they were poorly educated, and definitely not educated in the classics from which the name is derived.

By all means give your kid a really unique name but please for the love of god give them one that is spelt right!

I don't like any of them.

And yes for the love of God, spell them correctly and don't use 'yoonique' spellings, unless of course you hate your child and want to cause them a lifetime of pain.

@laurielo anytime 😉

P.s Callie is nice, that's a good one

@laurielo Firstly why would a teacher have a stand off with a child? Not very professional imo?

Young children misspell things all the time. This teacher genuinely thought the child was confused about the spelling of her name.

Why don't you give your child a normal name and then misspell their nickname any strange way you like? At least then your child will have the option in the future, and won't be embarrassed handing their CV to a future employer who will think they can't even spell their own name.

Or do what you want. The only person affected by this is your own child.

I bet Jemma loved it, I have never ever ever felt sorry for someone because of there name, that idea just seems wild to me

No idea if she did or not. She was a very shy young lady, ruthlessly bullied to the point of suicide attempts (no idea what they bullied her for though). I doubt she'd have relished being different as she didn't seem the type, but I never asked her.

Outing but this reminds me of an job interview I was in...

“Hi..Su...”

“Sue-Ellen”

“ahhhh Sue- Ellen! That makes sense, there’s a typo. It looks like it says..”

“Sullen? Yep. That’s not a typo. My name is spelled Su-l-en but it’s pronounced Sue Ellen. Basically my parents were dicks and thought it was “fun”. But I’ve spent all my working life going through this conversation about my name. Never mind, I’ll be choosing their nursing home one day!”.

She was a lovely, lovely person. With a terrible, terrible name. She got the job and I learned more about her childhood. Her parents really were a nightmare. Dressed them really weird as kids, gave them funny hairstyles, homeschooled them, very bizarre rules about their upbringing. They only had kids to be their little experiment rather than thinking they’d have to live in the real world and deal with their shitty names and the fact they’d basically been little dolls their whole lives. They were always having more babies as they got bored as kids got older. They really should have stuck to dolls. They could have named them all the yoonique shit names in the world and dressed them however they liked without having to harm actual children who grew up with actual feelings.

[quote applesauce1]**@laurielo* Firstly why would a teacher have a stand off with a child? Not very professional imo?*

Young children misspell things all the time. This teacher genuinely thought the child was confused about the spelling of her name.

Why don't you give your child a normal name and then misspell their nickname any strange way you like? At least then your child will have the option in the future, and won't be embarrassed handing their CV to a future employer who will think they can't even spell their own name.

Or do what you want. The only person affected by this is your own child. [/quote]
I still don't understand why a stand off would need to happen, surely the teacher would see the name on the register and not question the child,
I think what people define as normal/not normal is very flimsy, if I was an employer I wouldn't judge someone on their name but that's me, and how I've been brought up, seeing a Jamal, Carys, Nellie, Misty/Misty would not deter me from looking at the CV, an adult called Edwardo could have previously worked in a fish and chip shop while a Sunnie could have worked as a nurse/solicitor - a name does not determine class, education or attitude. That's just how me and my family/partner feel

There seems to be a lot of Katie Hopkins like people on this thread it's actually very interesting...

@FestiveStuffing

I bet Jemma loved it, I have never ever ever felt sorry for someone because of there name, that idea just seems wild to me

No idea if she did or not. She was a very shy young lady, ruthlessly bullied to the point of suicide attempts (no idea what they bullied her for though). I doubt she'd have relished being different as she didn't seem the type, but I never asked her.

I bet her name was the least of her problems then and so it should have been, lots of other things to feel sorry for her really...

@EleanorOalike

Outing but this reminds me of an job interview I was in...

“Hi..Su...”

“Sue-Ellen”

“ahhhh Sue- Ellen! That makes sense, there’s a typo. It looks like it says..”

“Sullen? Yep. That’s not a typo. My name is spelled Su-l-en but it’s pronounced Sue Ellen. Basically my parents were dicks and thought it was “fun”. But I’ve spent all my working life going through this conversation about my name. Never mind, I’ll be choosing their nursing home one day!”.

She was a lovely, lovely person. With a terrible, terrible name. She got the job and I learned more about her childhood. Her parents really were a nightmare. Dressed them really weird as kids, gave them funny hairstyles, homeschooled them, very bizarre rules about their upbringing. They only had kids to be their little experiment rather than thinking they’d have to live in the real world and deal with their shitty names and the fact they’d basically been little dolls their whole lives. They were always having more babies as they got bored as kids got older. They really should have stuck to dolls. They could have named them all the yoonique shit names in the world and dressed them however they liked without having to harm actual children who grew up with actual feelings.

haha I do agree that name is awful! And her parents sound like idiots - we aren't having children for experiments we will raise them to be whoever they want to be, dress how they like and have their own voice. If they absolutely detested there name, I would happily help them change it.

However, we would only call a child a name we absolutely loved for a reason and will go for a name that we feel suit our baby! Goes to show that people with 'unique' names can still go on to get jobs and not get judged, opposed to some posters on here

I bet her name was the least of her problems then and so it should have been, lots of other things to feel sorry for her really...

Oh yes, but the first time my mum met her she only knew the name, so that was the first thing she pitied her for. The rest came later.

@EleanorOalike

Outing but this reminds me of an job interview I was in...

“Hi..Su...”

“Sue-Ellen”

“ahhhh Sue- Ellen! That makes sense, there’s a typo. It looks like it says..”

“Sullen? Yep. That’s not a typo. My name is spelled Su-l-en but it’s pronounced Sue Ellen. Basically my parents were dicks and thought it was “fun”. But I’ve spent all my working life going through this conversation about my name. Never mind, I’ll be choosing their nursing home one day!”.

She was a lovely, lovely person. With a terrible, terrible name. She got the job and I learned more about her childhood. Her parents really were a nightmare. Dressed them really weird as kids, gave them funny hairstyles, homeschooled them, very bizarre rules about their upbringing. They only had kids to be their little experiment rather than thinking they’d have to live in the real world and deal with their shitty names and the fact they’d basically been little dolls their whole lives. They were always having more babies as they got bored as kids got older. They really should have stuck to dolls. They could have named them all the yoonique shit names in the world and dressed them however they liked without having to harm actual children who grew up with actual feelings.

I wonder why she didn't change her name by deed poll.

None of the girls’ names are unusual, except Thalia - but for heavens sake spell them normally. Miss-spelling a name doesn’t make it interesting or unusual. They are all Ok names, other than Posey is going to be pretty daft when she grows up.

The boys names are grim other than Jackson.

I wonder why she didn't change her name by deed poll.

The way she explained it at the time was to do with money and hassle and the potential to be cut out of a will (a threat from her parents). She did say she’d eventually change it by deed poll but all of her qualifications, passport, driving license etc were in her birth name, she struggled for money so was stuck for ten years with them and her parents had also threatened to disinherit her if she changed it.

haha I do agree that name is awful! And her parents sound like idiots - we aren't having children for experiments we will raise them to be whoever they want to be, dress how they like and have their own voice. If they absolutely detested there name, I would happily help them change it.

However, we would only call a child a name we absolutely loved for a reason and will go for a name that we feel suit our baby! Goes to show that people with 'unique' names can still go on to get jobs and not get judged, opposed to some posters on here

It was a National Minimum Wage, temp job. She was judged in the past on her CV. She felt people thought she couldn’t write her own name so just threw it in the bin. Honestly, I think any “yoonique” made up, illiterate looking spelling is as awful as “Su-L-en” and unfair to the child so I’m afraid you won’t find me agreeing with you in your choices. And I’m as far from Katie Hopkins as they come.

It’s you’re choice honey!

It was a National Minimum Wage, temp job. She was judged in the past on her CV. She felt people thought she couldn’t write her own name so just threw it in the bin.

Honestly have no idea how she or anyone would know if 'managers through a cv in the bin'. No manager in their right kind would 1 tell someone they've judged her from her name and 2 tell her they threw it in the bin

She mostly didn't get jobs from her cvs in the past due to having a general bad cv, experience or personal reference and used her 'awful' name as an excuse.

Sorry just my opinion, if so one tells me they judge people by a name then you do share similar outlooks at Katie Hopkins, and look how SHE came across on tv, opppps

Anyway thanks for that insight I will deffo stay away from mixing 2 names as bad as them

Why the emoji? It is used so much when it doesn't make sense to.