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SmeleanorSmellstrop · 10/03/2021 03:01

I feel like there are a bunch of names that Mumsnet posters unanimously adore. I have never seen Josephine or Rosa get a negative comment, for example. As for boy names, I think Edward seems really well-loved. What do you think?

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Enough4me · 12/03/2021 00:51

I prefer all the so called boring names 100x more than weird unusual names...e.g. Lacey, Macey, Forest.

leggingsandwellies · 12/03/2021 05:25

@douliket someone's in a good mood Grin

IckleBear · 12/03/2021 06:40

Rupert

Murtaghjames · 12/03/2021 06:55

New post up about girls names and yes it's Grace, Alice, Sophia and Margot Hmm

bunniesanddaisies · 12/03/2021 07:00

In fairness, Grace, Alice and Sophia are pretty consistently in the top 30. They are just normal ‘nice girl’ names, I think.

Margot though ...

bunniesanddaisies · 12/03/2021 07:06

But I think my favourite suggestion when I asked about names similar to Isla was ‘Isis.’

Seriously? Grin

RedToothBrush · 12/03/2021 07:51

Persephone. Dreadful name. Don't get the love for it. Its spelt Percy-Phone and I can't get past that. My number 1 alltime worse suggestion on MN name.

Hugo, Arlo and Otto get lots of love and I really don't get it. Sebastian is thought of as unusual but i have no idea why. Theodore is massively popular too but now overused.

George, Henry, William and Edward all seem popular on MN. I've always thought them rather ugly looking and clunky names. And no one ever says "You don't want to name them after a King. Think how hard it is to live up to the name" which kind of amuses me.

I know a Wren (daughter of male Rowan) and 3 Penelopes (all nicknamed Penny and in their teens). They aren't posh and they very much suit them.

danascully96 · 12/03/2021 07:59

Anna - #1 from what I've seen
Eleanor
Alice
Emma
Katherine
Rose
Sophie
Clara - I prefer Cara myself

James
Alexander
Daniel

White, middle class, and familiar with no bad nns. I consider them cozy names with no extreme sounds.

Violetlavenders · 12/03/2021 08:30

Persephone. Dreadful name. Don't get the love for it. Its spelt Percy-Phone

No, it's spelled Persephone Hmm

megletsecond · 12/03/2021 08:35

My DD's name is always popular. I won't tell you what it is though.
DS's name is more marmite.

RedToothBrush · 12/03/2021 08:55

@Violetlavenders

Persephone. Dreadful name. Don't get the love for it. Its spelt Percy-Phone

No, it's spelled Persephone Hmm

Its spelt percy-phone. I can not read it as anything else. Its one of those stupid names thats pronounced in a ridiculous way.
GoryGilmore · 12/03/2021 09:02

How is Persephone actually pronounced? I’ve never met one and therefore have never heard it said aloud.

GoryGilmore · 12/03/2021 09:03

I do also read it in my head as Percy-phone though Grin

CreamRose · 12/03/2021 09:15

Per (rhyming with sir)
Seff (rhyming with deaf)
Oh (rhyming with no)
Knee (rhyming with bee)

Grin
KirstenBlest · 12/03/2021 09:21

Hugo, Arlo and Otto get lots of love and I really don't get it. Sebastian is thought of as unusual but i have no idea why. Theodore is massively popular too but now overused.

Of those I only like Hugo, but suspect that it has become too popular.
Arlo, Otto and Theodore are all horrible, and Sebastian makes me think of Little Britain and Seborrhea.

CaffiSaliMali · 12/03/2021 09:56

@Wondermule - my Mam is a native Welsh speaker and my Dad is English so I'm half English, half Welsh. I would consider me using a Welsh name no different to me using an English one as I'm half and half. No-one ever says to me 'oh, don't use an English name though'.

I consider it rude when someone says 'oh I can't be bothered learning how to say 'Eleri', I'll call you Emily/Ellie/Elle instead'. Or just insists on saying it wrong with no effort made to learn it.

I also consider it rude when someone says 'eurgh, why are you called that?' Or 'your name is ghastly' Or 'your parents obviously don't love you or they wouldn't have called you that' (yes I have had all three of those comments).

A poster recently asked for opinions on four names, two of which were Welsh - Mari and Betsi and she received 'they're spelled Mary and Betsy' comments.

A few years ago a poster asked for opinions on Tomos, Harri and Rhodri and received similar comments. One of the first comments was along the lines of 'please spell them properly'. It's the assumption that the spellings are wrong which is rude, especially with the history of the suppression of the Welsh language and Welsh names. If someone said 'I assume those are cultural spellings but it may be easier to use Thomas and Harry ' that would be different.

There have been other threads of course but those two are ones I remember off the top of my head. You get similar comments on many threads on Irish names too - I recall a particularly unpleasant one where the OP's baby was named Cillian and OP's English family were refusing to pronounce it properly (baby's Dad was Irish) and she got pages and pages of 'it looks like Silly Ann, you should change it' comments.

KirstenBlest · 12/03/2021 10:06

April, May and June.

where May includes Mae and Maeve
and June includes Juno and Juniper.

Evelyn and Evangelina as well as the Eve names Eva, Ava, Aoife, Evie etc

Violetlavenders · 12/03/2021 10:47

Its spelt percy-phone.

No it is spelled Persephone.

EuphieKat · 12/03/2021 10:50

I have a Harri, caffisalimali and it’s pretty popular here in this part of Wales, but some of our English friends and family seem to have a problem spelling it...I mean, it’s only an I, not y 🤦🏼‍♀️
I see Elodie a lot on here. I’ve never met an actual real life Margot yet.

JanetHandjob · 12/03/2021 10:53

OP, you beat me to it, as I was about to have a moan about people mispronouncing Ottilie as Otterly.

LastTrainToTrancentral · 12/03/2021 11:01

So....do you pronounce Ottilie as Oh-tilly? I've never met one.

wizzled · 12/03/2021 11:02

Margot!
Reminds me of maggot

KirstenBlest · 12/03/2021 11:08

@LastTrainToTrancentral, more like Ott-illy. The orginal pronunciation is Ott-EEL-ee-uh

KirstenBlest · 12/03/2021 11:11

OTT-illy, rhymes with Emily. original not orginal.

Violetlavenders · 12/03/2021 11:19

Ottilie is pronounced Oh- TEE- Lee- eh.
4 syllables with the emphasis on the second syllable.

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