i PROMISED myself i wouldnt post about names but........

[iliketosleep]

me and dp were talking about it last night and hes determined that this baby, if its a girl, will be called...........paris

I dont like it

i like pretty names like harriet, megan, abigail etc

paris isnt very pretty to me, its blonde ugly and slags about

can anyone suggest any names that are inbetween??

save my poor child lol

[micegg]

You think that's bad. My DH wants our child to have Oliphant as the middle name no matter what sex it is. I think he beleives it will be funny when DC needs to give their middle name.

I've told him over my dead body.

[maisiemog]

Iliketosleep is there any particular reason that your DP likes Paris? Is it because of Paris Hilton, or is it because it is the name of a French city?
Either way, I think is a great name for a boy or girl, regardless of Paris Hilton. By the time your DD is ten, Paris Hilton will (hopefully) be long forgotten.
However, if you really don't like it, don't see that working out!
William Williamson, is certainly a very memorable name and would make a lot of people's day. Bill on it's own, not sure. I asked my little boy if there were any Bills at nursery and he said 'Flubadoo' (flowerpot men).
Other french towns/cities/regions that might be nice as names could be Toulouse, Nimes, Cholet, Nancy, Cluny.

[CoteDAzur]

Oops...

[CoteDAzur]

Kiara is a lovely name. (Italian 'Chiara', right? Or is there another origin?)

The previous discussion was on actually naming the child "Kiki" on her birth certificate.

[CoteDAzur]

Kiara is a lovely name. (Italian 'Chiara', right? Or is there another origin?)

The previous discussion was on actually naming the child "Kiki" on her birth certificate.

[iliketosleep]

cant believe all the fisty cuffs in here

and just to have my little say, i dont think a name is going to affect a person getting a job. If it does then i reckon princess tiaamii andre and the likes are screwed

there have been some lovely name suggestions on here but none that have wowed me

thanks for your help all anyway xxxx

[aiti72]

Hi ladies, I have to comment on this thread. First, we have a Kiki at home (Kiara on birth certificate) and her name has now been tested in our three Western European home countries. When we were choosing her name (and what a gruelling process it was), we had to think not only that she will be raised trilingual, but also that we have no idea in which culture she will end up looking for her first job. And this is not only our family, this is 21st century! You'd think my name is unusual and I had 5 namesakes in my class at school. Enlarging EU if not the whole World is increasingly borderless and in 20 year's time when children named today are looking for jobs the first names on CVs are bound to look rather different to the ones today. Furthermore, fashion changes in first names, what is unique today might be the furtherest thing from unique in a couple of decades time. When there are no common, apparently ?safe? names anymore, hopefully recruiters will have to do a little bit more work and actually read the content of an applicant's CV.

[Limara]

What about Romy or Esme?

[MumtoCharlotteMay]

I went to school with a girl called Kitty, she was incredibly bright and lovely. She was never once picked on because of her name. Kitty is a classic name, it comes from Catherine doesn't it?

In all fairness, I could understand if an employer was to wonder if their business partners could ever take the new associate named 'Pepsi' or 'Moonlight' seriously, but at the end of the day you employ the best person to do the job.

[CoteDAzur]

There is a French name of Brittany origin called "Nolwenn" which I think is quite pretty.

[Greensleeves]

Kizzib you have been thoroughly obnoxious on this thread and you owe hatrick an apology.

[CoteDAzur]

hatrick - re "One wonders where people have been hiding so they haven't come across the name Kitty."

Rather, one wonders why people are so obsessed with their DDs' names that they see it everywhere. I said I never met a KIKI. Not Kitty.

As for where I have been hiding, look at my name and take a wild guess.

"My problem wasn't with you really Cote more that you just kept on buzzing away annoyingly in my ear"

My fault for thinking this was a public thread.

[CoteDAzur]

"teenage popstar" names

[CoteDAzur]

fishie - As I said before, it is not DH who eliminates candidates with "teenage popstar" but the Human Resources managers he presents them to. That recruitment professionals discriminate against unusual first names was also the conclusion of the study I posted.

Some parents would take this into account when naming their children. Others wouldn't. It is a personal choice.

[nappyaddict]

belle?

[nappyaddict]

elewyn, lowella?

[nappyaddict]

keziah (kizzy), eliza (pron e-lie-za) and elisa (e-lee-za), chiara (italian version of clara), mila (short for amelia/emilia), clair (english version), claire (french version), dot/dotty, marianne/marian, aminta, elspeth, pauline/paula.

[fingerwoman]

i'd have had it on my shortlist (it was for ds1) but someone we knew already had a kitty
(that's the emoticon of the thread right?)

[PaulaYatesbiggestFan]

a case of protesting too much hatrick dont you think?

[Beauregard]

hatrick-I love the name Kitty ,actually it was on the shortlist for dd2.

[fingerwoman]

bet she ends up with a Kitty lol