Sibling for India and Rafferty

[3babessoon]

Looking for inspiration for a name which goes well with India and Rafferty? Don’t know what we are having. Quite like Bodhi for a boy but nothing really shouting out to us in the way of girls names. Georgia maybe possibly?!

Wouldn't it be boring if we all picked John and Mary which was the trend during part of the 1800s. Thank god different names are available and are generally accepted these days.

Theres a lot of very classic dull names (which is a far more middle class naming trend than unusual names, believe it or not - the higher or lower your class the more likely you are to 'go off piste' if you will). But a good splattering of more interesting names round these parts.

@mathanxiety

You've cherry picked those to suit your own argument

Those examples are the main elements of each vignette.

The majority of the individuals contributing to the article cited the responses of stupid, ignorant, and possibly hard of hearing others as reasons they regret name choices.

What about all the threads where people say which names they really would have liked to use but were too chicken to do so?

@RedToothBrush - I do get your point but had I been lucky enough to have another one I would have chosen John - Now you and many others may think boring but Johnny I think is a lovely name , But only my choice.

I am rather keen on Valentine. But then I thought I was going to call my son Guy until SIL said "Guy the Gorilla" - at which point I realised never ever tell any one your thoughts about your child's name in real life before they are born. After they are born - it is just their name

I actually like John myself! But its not that common for babies these days so is almost a little different to the masses of Olivers, Theos and Harrys!

Yes, I know one young John and one baby Mary and their names stand out as unusual and quaintly old-fashioned.

& Victoria Coren-Mitchell and David Mitchell calling their daughter Barbara - now that is more out there than many names mooted on here I think

RTB - the article I was 'cherry picking' from was linked. It was a Guardian article.

Yes, there are threads where people wish they hadn't chickened out of names they liked because they were discouraged by friends or family members or thought they should stay in their own lane, name-wise, because to do otherwise would cause problems for their children. So I think class insecurity can be added to the list of reasons people have negative reactions to names.

I definitely think thats the case.

The irony is that people with 'boring' names can hate them as much as those with unusual names. You have no way of telling.

Yeh my name is pretty boring and i felt sad about that for years, but now at age 51, im just glad it wasnt the name used to beat middle aged women with.