Middle name for Stormi?

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Having a hard time choosing. I like Autumn and DH likes Rose. But not keen on either as it sounds like a description rather than a name. Open to any and all suggestions

No. Picking a name such as Stormi definitely says something about the parents. And it's really nothing flattering.

There is something very wrong with you if you pick a pornstar/stripper name for your daughter. End of.

The problem is that while adult women do this on a website out of earshot of a child, any child called Stormi will be subject to a lifetime of witticisms (sic)

Also as you can see above, autocorrect will be a bitch with Stormi to Stormy forever, not to mention the baby will have to be saying ‘Stormi with an I’ for their entire life.

There is a huge amount of snobbery in this post. I wouldn’t call my child Stormi but I also wouldn’t call one Lancelot or Petunia. Please don’t call out names you associated with families who are ‘thick’. It’s just nasty and unnecessary. Surely it would be better to be smug in your own choices and keep quiet if you don’t like others. This is an adult posting not a child and she wasn’t asking for advice on the Stormi part.
I think of the suggestions so far Stormy Rae, Stormy Mae, Stormy Grace are good options. Also maybe Beth, or Bette, Maeve, Pearl, Wren, Fleur, Hope

I agree.

Don't use Stormi, I say that not because I think it sounds chavy or anything like that but because it sounds like an adjective (I know it's not because it's not a real word) - one with negative connotations when applied to people. Do you really want your child to be labelled difficult/angry/temperamental/argumentative from birth?

And it's ripe for bullying because of that.

The only person I've known called that (though Stormy) had a middle name of an object as it were.. think car, or ship. It worked surprisingly well. (But they were a very handsome adult man)

The thing is OP, you will be doing your baby no favours by giving her a misspelt noun as a first name.

She will still experience people making negative assumptions about her, because names carry associations with them. Many people won’t even be aware they are doing it. It’s just how the world is.

In the end you are naming a person, not a baby, and everyone deserves a name that will support them throughout life.

I can see the appeal of Storm, so I would just think of another way to spin it, so Stormi just becomes a nn.

That could be something like something like (for example) Sienna Storm. It can also work as Storm Sienna but she might like this less as it sounds a bit like a description of a hurricane, in the same way that Stormy Sienna sounds like a rainy day or a stroppy child. Autumn storm works less well as it’s such a description - but it’s OK.

Good, I'm glad they're being polite. People should be polite. And if they want to slag her off behind her back, then that is their business and speaks volumes about them. Because I wouldn't dream of ever judging a child or a parent for what they call their child. It's just got nothing to do with me. Do you often go around slagging off people's names behind their back? It's a ludicrously judgemental and small minded thing to do. And as for teachers, I would expect them to be professional and to teach my child as an equal with her peers. Which they do. And as for employees, the same. I am in a very high powered profession and before I became a SAHM, I managed a team of over 70, and I never refused someone's application to join my team based on their name - because that's a ridiculous thing to do, deeply unprofessional, and snobby. I read their qualifications and previous employment. And yes, I once gave a senior role to someone called Dolly (the most 'non traditional' name I can use as an example, and one which has actually come up on this thread as apparently also a silly name), and she was one of the best in the team. Is her name ridiculous? Because all I saw was an incredibly well qualified and experienced woman who I snapped up.

Outside of the baby name thread, people really don't act like this. And if you come back with the old 'the world is just like this' nonsense - it doesn't have to be. We all make up the world and therefore how we all individually behave matters.

Having such strong opinion against a name says more about you than the OP. You spend too much time on gossip on the net and follow too much the Kardashians.

In case anyone else's brain works like mine and gets easily stuck on mindworms, the names you're trying to remember are:

• SanDeE* from LA Story
• Shady Tree from Diamonds are Forever.

Coincidence and unrelated.

The Mercedes, however, was named after the manufacturer's daughter (or design engineer's - I forget which)

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Nah, the Kardashians have already done Stormi... let's try something else...

Blusteri?
Windi?
Drizzli?
Thundri?
Foggi?
Cloudi with a hinti of sunni lateri?

/fucks sakes man

There is no such word as 'stormi'.

FGS don't saddle your child with a word that doesn't exist and will have all her teachers thinking 🤔

If you want to call her 'stormy' at least spell it correctly.

But why would you want to call a child 'storm' anyway?

Why stop there?
Haily?
Snowy?
Windy?
Chilly?

Even if it raises eyebrows at first, Stormi will probably grow on people around her in time.

Just don't ever tell her she's living up to her name if she's angry or upset. I can just hear my mother saying, "Well, we chose your name well," sarcastically.

Pauline is a guinea pig's name.

Reminds me of Stormy Daniels, unfortunately.

Do you mean her middle name?
So she might be called Rose Stormi Brown?

Bonkers.

Sorry.

I don't agree. A public forum is a great (brave!) way to get a measure of what people really think about your choice of names. One of my DC has a name that people on here think is trendy and awful and will date. It's a family name and I thought it a classic. But I might have had second thoughts if I'd known how many people hate it. I know people who avoid saying my DC's name. It clearly makes them cringe.

Britain is a snobbish country. People do make judgements. And you want to avoid saddling your child with a name that makes people prejudge them.

Sorry op but I can’t believe you’ve decided to name a baby stormi but missed the Kardashian and porn star reference. It’s not otherwise a name.

of course it’s your choice but it’s your choice for your daughter so I would think about that.

my youngest daughter has an unusual name (from our ethnicity so not unusual in certain places but where we live). It’s a hassle to get others to spell etc and I would rethink if i had to do it again.

I am from a council estate but now live in a naice area. The difference in children names between dds class mates and kids from where I used to live is stark. Of course it’s not ok to judge on the basis of names but people do so why do that to a child.

Stormi doesn't match with those choices IMO.

I like Autumn, beautiful name.

I’m sorry but have to agree with the ladies advising you to rethink the name choice altogether, OP. As a teacher, I can absolutely assure you this name is one all of the school staff will roll their eyes at and have a bit of a ‘what the hell were they thinking?’ conversation with in the staff room about. Not forgetting all of the very creative ways children can be unkind about names…

Try to remember that this child is going to grow up and will hopefully be sending out job applications for professional settings. Unfortunately, there are stereotypes when you name child something like ‘Stormi’ and I think that’s going to be a life sentence for them.

@yentirb i totally agree - Autumn is such a pretty name! As is Rose. Stormi, not so much

OP. I think that you should think about your child and how she will feel about this name. What are you going to do if she loathes it and is embarrassed by it?

I gave my DD a well known classic name, think along the lines of Charlotte. She hates it and constantly berates me over it.

It's even more likely that your DD will hate her name.