Is it really that 'wierd'?

[kayzr]

Dh and I are thinking of ttc #2 this year. When dh told mil that we were thinking of Imogen if we have a girl she said "cant you think of any names that aren't wierd"
Ds is called Freddie and 10 months on she still says couldn't you have called him something normal.
Are Imogen and Freddie that wierd?

dhs' dds' middle name is imogen. (after imogen bailey. It's much nicer than her first name) I think it's lovely, AND normal

Most people knew Freddie would be Freddie and everyone loved it except MIL. We'll probably not call her Imogen or we'll have another ds

Imogen is a really pretty name.

In-laws can be quite rude - it feels as though they don't trust their own dc to do something sensible. Mine didn't like our choice of name and thought we should call our son Keith !

There are four Imogens in DS2's class,
its not weird here!

I think you have chosen lovely names, not werid at all....

I never tell anyone what name we have chosen for ours until they have been born. Despite this we still get 'you can't call her that!' methinks they are very brave to say that to an incredibly hormonal woman who has just been through a long labour

iagree, wouldnt say anytign until it ws a fait acomplie.
however on answering my dd3's name, my uncle did make a rude comment, but he was forgiven...

Imogen, is in the What Katy Did books. It always threw me as name.
I always thought it was pronouced (obv no h but sort of like this) (h)IM OOOO GUN

and i like imogen as well

Imogen is a lovely name.

And we were xH and I were going to call DS (now 15) Freddie because we found out I was pg on the day Freddie Mercury died.. but my boss at the time was Fred.. so we didn't.. for obvious reasons..

Tell your MIL that you don't think they are weird names at all and that you are sorry she doesn't like them but that the two of you do. (So ner..)

My dd is Imogen and I really love it. She is the only one I know of in our village but lots of friends who have had babies since wanted to use it but were put off by me getting there first.

Imogen was on my list for dd2 (but not on dh's list!). But when dd was born she was so not an Imogen (Imogen conjures up serenity and calmness to me, which dd is not.) that we went for something else instead. Still think it's a lovely name, though.

nope quite normal.