personality of names?

[Eleta]

Do you think the name you give you child has any influence over their personality? I hve a Charlotte who is very strong willed and come across others who are the same. I also have a Molly (which I think is a softer name) and she is alot more laid back. I am now 15 wks with number three and hoping for a calm one!

The only girls names DH and I agree on are Lucy and Matilda which are quite differant types of name.

What do you think? Which goes best with surname Newby and with my other daughter's names?

I love Matilda but worry alot of people will hate it so honest opinions please

I don't think a name has any effect on personality at all

Unless you are writing a sotry in which case it is very very important.

I think Lucy is a softer name, but doesn't go so well with your surname. Personally not keen onMatilda, and also think it is quite a strong, fiery name. Someone suggested Alice - how about that? Lovely name, and would go well with the surname, and i think goes well with Charlotte and Molly.

pointy...I think names can have some effect....especially if you have one you hate and everyone at school takes the piss out of.....

my name was 'changed' by school freaks mates into a-flea-theopia........effected me for so ong that I told everyone that my name was Lea for a long time and hated my real name with a passion now just reserved for 'dawn'....

I now however LOVE my name, altho it does give me some notiority (sp?) as people rarely forget me.....and believe me, sometimes I WANT to be forgotten!!!!

I think that's a bit dofferent. That's the effect of other children's behaviour towards you because of your unusual name. I think that's different to being affected by being called Lucy or Stephanie.

hmm......you may be right there.

I guess that I would have been affected (ok, pedant moment....effect, affect), by the bullying anyhow (there was a LOT of it) regardless of name.

nice normal names go unoticed in that sense, so yes, not overly important to personality.....BUT

how is it that children start to 'look like their names' IYGWIM. I could never imagine DD3 (for eg) being a chloe anymore (this was the name I wanted....DH chose natasha), she IS a natasha!!! it suits her, and her personality somehow IS natasha rather than 'chloe'........(I hope I am making myself clear rather than babbling which I am prone to do)

Pyschomumof5

just looked up your real name in my baby name book as have never seen it before

what a lovely unusual name with a very nice meaning

my name certainly influenced how I was treated which is why none of mine with have double barrelled names

for liking my name......not many people say that. tis normally "oh, that's different", with a turned up nose (or maybe that is just how I think I see it/hear it??)

x-posts then with dizzy.....

I LOVE my name now, and also the meaning.

thankyou for looking it up....not many would!

in fact, on a thread the other day sorky commented on me saying that I do "lovely honest posts"....now she only 'knows' me thro my posts on MN, (and unless she is reading this probably doesn;t know my RL name), but it did make me smile lots reading what she wrote.

lol. mine means bitter gift from god, if you take it literally. not so literally and in a slang way it means hash!!

always wondered if my parents were trying to tell me something

LOL! That's hilarious

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...or maybe looking at it from a message maybe from you parents

cyteen behave yourself lol

at least NOW you can understand why I take it soooooooo seriously trying to find decent names for my offspring

I never thought my name could be changed, then Skoda Cars came out, and Skona Beer, and that bloody song Mt sharona, all near enough for my name to be changed too!

I think both names are lovely.

Lucy is beautiful, timeless and classic. Mathilda is more 'trendy' imo - a name that would have been unheard of almost not too long ago and yet i know lots and lots now. Theres nothing wrong with that btw ...its just an observation.

I think that Lucy goes better with your other girls names and actually quite like it with your surname. I'm also slightly biased as i have a Lucy as far as personalities go she is a sensitive child, very responsible and kind hearted and very very beautiful

My great grandmother's middle name was Matilda and she was born in the 19th century; the poem by Hilaire Belloc "Matilda" was published in 1907, so Matilda is not a modern name!! That was one of the reasons why we chose it for our daughter!

Matilda was one of our favourites too. I think everyone already knows an our age Lucy, so although it's pretty, peoples opinion of the name will be tainted by people they've known.

Tilda Swinton! She is pretty feisty and prob doesn't worry about rice associations.

We know a number, they are tilly or tilda, it's always shortened.

Sorry mimitherabbit - i wasn't implying that matilda was a modern name, sorry if thats how it came across. What i meant was that names tend to come back around and that its Matilda's (and names like this, martha, evelyn etc) turn to come round iykwim.

Didn't mean to offend, sorry

I love the name Matilda and the shortening Tilly.

I used to teach and certain names certainly seem to fit certain types of children -

Grace - All of the Grace's I've taught have been lovely, lovely girls.

Lucy - as above. It means 'light' and that seemed really apt for the Lucys that I knew.

Jessica - more of the above. Sparky, fun and thoughtful.

Hannah - very gentle.

William - Mischevious but very likable

Thomas - a bit dippy but very loving!

Theo - lovable tearaway!!

I could go on but don't want to offend anyone...

Saying that, I lobbied hard for Grace or Lucy but DH didn't like either

Matilda is totally beautiful in my opinion and was (still is) my fave for my imminent dd2.

to my mind Matilda is noble, independent thinking, strong willed and beautiful in a non-conventional way.

sadly when combined with our surname (german surname with a strong t) it does sound like an old mustachioed spinster so we are not going for it...

RE original question... i am not sure there is a link as such- i think we tend to interpret these things a posteriori. we have a Clara and everyone agrees she is "such a Clara", but tbh i have no idea what that means!

I think it might. I?ve heard time and time again that when people have met women with the other way to spell my name, they never liked them. Matilda is lovely.