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elliehoneysnow · 2023-07-13T18:11:57+00:00

What do you think of the name India-Mae? Any similar names you can think of?

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

JeandeServiette · 13/07/2023 23:38

Windercar · 13/07/2023 23:36

Hyphenated Mae will massively date. Sounds like an influencer baby

It will. A whole tranche of young women will be stigmatised by it in the thirties and forties, in the same way that Sharons and Traceys were in the eighties and nineties.

fairycupcakes · 13/07/2023 23:41

No to the hyphen India May Surname is nice though.

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

midsomermurderess · 13/07/2023 22:49

You no more have to have a connection with India to call your daughter that than with France to call her Louise.

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

midsomermurderess · 13/07/2023 23:48

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

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This site is full of pompous bores.

Yellowdays · 13/07/2023 23:52

I'm not personally keen on place names for children. .

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 00:09

villamariavintrapp · 13/07/2023 23:32

I don't like India. Especially if you're white British?

But the name India is most commonly used by British people? It’s not used as a name in India. My (Indian) husband’s sister has a totally different name which means India but isn’t the word ‘India’ in English. Her name is fairly popular but the name India isn’t. I’ve never met an Indian called India and we live in India for half of every year!

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 00:12

JanesBlond · 13/07/2023 23:43

Aside from the fact that Louise isn’t literally the name of another country, you do know French (Norman) was spoken natively in the U.K. for centuries? French names are part of our cultural heritage. Whereas the only way you could say that for India with a white British person is a colonialist link, which is obviously not a great idea.

@Growuppeople lol ok. I think my own grandmother’s name is ugly too fwiw.

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Oh here we are! The really offensive, patronising comment that always comes up on Mumsnet when someone asks about this name, saying nobody British can use the name India because of colonialism. As if there NOTHING more to India than being a British colony 🙄 It’s a lovely name, OP, but I’d lose the ‘Mae/May’ and definitely lose the hyphen. Both overdone.

villamariavintrapp · 14/07/2023 00:15

Yes I think it's most commonly used by white British, but I don't like it-especially in that context. It has colonial connotations.

StopStartStop · 14/07/2023 06:38

Indira. It's not a typo, it's an actual name.

babysharkdoodoodedoodedoo · 14/07/2023 06:47

villamariavintrapp · 14/07/2023 00:15

Yes I think it's most commonly used by white British, but I don't like it-especially in that context. It has colonial connotations.

I really disagree with this and think it’s quite offensive to reduce a huge and interesting and beautiful country with such a long and vibrant history, to colonialism. It’s almost like saying there’s not much else to India but the short period in its vast history that it was a British colony.

PurpleChrayne · 14/07/2023 06:59

Dreadful.

DuchessOfSausage · 14/07/2023 08:18

India - no
Mae - no
May - no
hyphen - no

India-Mae win at cricket?

PossiblyNotOne · 14/07/2023 08:47

Mae is so overused. Every girl is an Evie-Mae/Lilly-Mae/Ellie-Mae/Ava-Mae/Isla-Mae.

I like India.

youwerentthere · 14/07/2023 09:03

Windercar · 13/07/2023 23:36

Hyphenated Mae will massively date. Sounds like an influencer baby

Hyphenated Mae is beautiful!

AxolotlOnions · 14/07/2023 09:10

Early 2000s stripper name.

DuchessOfSausage · 14/07/2023 09:29

I was thinking more 2010 trans name

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 14/07/2023 09:33

I don't think the OP is coming back.

cptartapp · 14/07/2023 09:41

PurpleChrayne · 14/07/2023 06:59

Dreadful.

This

Qilin · 14/07/2023 09:50

I like the name India. I don't mind Mae either.
I wouldn't bother with the hyphen though.

MilkShakerTaker · 14/07/2023 09:51

India is lovely but echoing lots of PP's, mae is done to death
Does it need to be hyphenated?

India Ivy is lovely, or

India Faye
India Hope
India Fern
India Jay
India Ellis

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elliehoneysnow · 14/07/2023 10:26

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 14/07/2023 09:33

I don't think the OP is coming back.

I'm here I'm just not responding to all your rude messages. I didn't realise this website was full of nasty trolls

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TallulahBetty · 14/07/2023 10:27

India May (as a middle name, and spelled correctly) is fine.

WilkinsonM · 14/07/2023 10:42

elliehoneysnow · 14/07/2023 10:26

I'm here I'm just not responding to all your rude messages. I didn't realise this website was full of nasty trolls

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Bit sensitive 😆
thing is, people say on here what they only think in real life: so make of that what you will!

JeandeServiette · 14/07/2023 10:59

I'm here I'm just not responding to all your rude messages. I didn't realise this website was full of nasty trolls

This really isn't the place to ask if you just want everyone to politely lie.

DuchessOfSausage · 14/07/2023 11:09

You asked for opinions, @elliehoneysnow . You got them. We're not nasty trolls, we just don't like names like India-Mae.