Miles

[Freddie456]

Thoughts on Miles?

I named my son Miles 😁
My DH loves it too as it was the only name we both agreed upon X

Not fond of it only bc its a very common traveller name here, cue lots of Mileys in the same families & in the same class etc.

@CrackerGal

Not fond of it only bc its a very common traveller name here, cue lots of Mileys in the same families & in the same class etc.

Yes reminds me of Miley too which is awful

Yes Miley seems to be the common nickname for Miles amongst the travellers, so many Mileys in the same classes!

Yes

Nothing to do with distance measurement. For hundreds of years it has been linked with the Latin word that means 'soldier', though that is probably not its origin. There are other possible origins, though none seems certain.

I am almost certain that DS2 will be Miles

Excellent choice @Freddie456 - perfect name! And thanks for the update

Love it

Love it. Definitely spelt Miles not Myles. And not Milo, that's awful.

Love the name Miles, with that spelling particularly.

I love it and if we'd had a boy would probably have used it, but I was abit worried about it becoming popular when you combine miles/myles/milo - we didn't want too trendy a name. I think I had a thread about it at the time

I prefer it spelt 'Myles' . Not a name I like. Something that's put me off it though, is a neighbour's DS is a Miles & I must hear it called loudly a 100+ times a day! Sorry, I'm sick of the name 😄

@AiryFlyingFairy you can't be that sick of it if you are dredging up a thread on it that was last active over 12 months ago...

I prefer Kilometres…

I like it (but not Myles or Milo)

Miles Smith sounds like Miles Myth

I clicked on this to add my thoughts and then realised I already did last year 😂

@AiryFlyingFairy , I sympathise. I have a loud preschooler neighbour whose sister has a long vowelly name. I hear an almost constant repetition of the name, and really hate it now. The name is something like Alaia (sounds similar - don't want to out myself)
I have heard his sister and his mother asking him to stop.

If I am in my garden I hear 'Alaia, Alaia, Alaia' on a loop.

One of my colleagues has a daughter with the same meaning

Years ago, I lived near a preschooler who said 'Dadd-ay, Dadd-ay' all day long, which was also annoying.

I know it's just a phase, and they can't help that their young voices carry but he lives 4 doors away and it's relentless, and the repeated sounds in the repeated name makes it worse

I noticed it was an old thread but I took advantage of having a whinge about my neighbour.

Colleague's daughter has the same name, not same meaning.

ZOMBIE THREAD

Really like it. It was in the top 5 for us when picking boys names.

😄 @Duchess I didn't notice it was an old thread. Might need glasses.
Thought it was funny, it came up on my feed as I'm hearing it on a repeat, loop constantly, daily. . He's quiet, it's the rest of them calling him over & over & over.
He's probably sick of his name too.😄

@AiryFlyingFairy , I don't hear his name much, and it's not a long whiny one, and not vowelly.

He doesn't just say his sister's name. He went through a phase of singing 'This girl is on FIRE! This girl is on FIRE! ' on repeat.
There was the day when it was 'Ready, Steady, GO!', another when it was 'Alisha, I don't like you.' and another when it was 'Delilah! Delilah!' many times over, but all interspersed with 'Alaia, Alaia, Alaia!)

** Names substituted for similar-sounding ones

During the school day, he calls out Mu-um occasionally, but that doesn't bother me.

Next door have a DD. She is younger than she looks by 2 or 3 yrs so I forget she's only about 6. She bosses her father about a bit too much, and she loudly voices her playing with dolls, and the doll gets a long vowelly name (e,g. Ameeeleea).

I know they are young, they're just kids but it's made me dislike long, vowelly, whiny-sounding names, in particularly (the one substituted here by) Alaia.

This is all probably less annoying than a football being kicked into a wooden fence all day long interspersed with 'Can I have my ball back, please?'), but NDN's boys are too old for that now. That stopped when NDN had to replace the fence not long after it went up