Ok. So Duckie is a no. What about Spike?

[magicstar2020]

Title says it all really. Duckie is out.
Second favourite is Spike.
I also really like Dot and Dusty.

Possibly biased there as I know a man Dustin, with a Dustyn, also Dusty daughter and she totally rocks it

hang on @Snugglemonkey you knew a man called Dustin who had a son called Dustyn and a daughter called Dusty? What the what?

Looks I love the land before time as much as the next millennial, but turn the vhs off and walk away…

Grundfuttock or Woogahumphtamuff?

Give your child a sensible name, then move to the Midlands. She'll get called "Duckie" and "Me duck" anyway.

Oh what theme are we on now?
Pigs? Birds?
Pebbles? As in Flintstone?
How about Flint ( or Stone)?

Omg yes

I knew a guy who called everyone 'mucka' - as in, 'how's it going me old mucka?''.🐖

You know you are talking about the dinosaur names in Land Before Time right?

Yeah, I really wouldn't ask MN about baby name advice. The baby name section is mostly just populated by the same traditional type who play out their own classism and racism through criticising anything that's outside the top 10 popular names.

And to the posters thinking it's hilarious to reply to me comparing my child to a bin, or saying she is dirty, does that make you feel big and clever? Because actually you're just being mean under the guise of "I'm being honest". They're the class room bullies (which is ironic as they're the type of posters who always say nonsense like 'they'll get bullied at school with a name like that". Well yes, by people like you and your perfectly named offspring). Whereas my Dusty already has more respect and grace as a 4 year old than most of the grown adults on this thread.

Rise above it OP and name your child what you want. The posters on here would freak the fuck out if they found out the name of Dusty's sibling!!!

It's the connotation of the Dusty bin in 321 not that she is dirty

Dusty Springfield was really Mary O'Brien.

The dirty comment was to @SunsetSkylane who apparently can't read as they thought me lovingly referring to my daughter as 'my Dusty girl' in my original post (which I always call her) was actually me calling her my 'dirty girl'. I was expecting the inevitable Dusty bin comment from anyone of a certain age, but calling her dirty is a new mumsnet low

I know two Spike’s on in junior school and one in secondary. It really suits them. If you love it go for it.

I was literally pointing out that 'dusty' and 'dirty' are basically the same thing, so calling her my Dusty girl actually sounds pretty odd.

But hey, I'd probably shit myself if I knew what their sibling was called, because I'm not as cool and not like the other mums as you.

Maybe he'll grow up and join a boy band.

@dustyandproud

Dirty comments were unnecessary

Yes showing my age about 321, something I watched with dgps.

I'm not cool. Not in the slightest. I'm a slightly overweight, peri-menopausal, sweaty, tired, clueless 43 year old woman well past her prime trying to raise her 2 preschoolers as best as I can.

What I am is not mean. My daughter is not dirty. Her name is not dirty.

There was a family at my son's school - Jeriah, Nature, Nurture, Dillinger and Bumble. And one of our neighbours had a kid called Buzz.
Spike seems pretty tame 😁

Not in the top 10 names for baby.
Spike's ok. Dusty too.

Duckie is what you might call an endearing NN, like Chuck and Luv.
Django? ( "Jango" silent D.)
Axel? Gunnar? Dalston? Lenin? Duke? Lash? Almanzo? Montana? Dakota? Cheyenne? Wolf? Foxx? ...... Emrhys? LOL!

Good lord, nobody said your daughter is dirty, love. It must be obvious to you though, that you named her a word which is a synonym for dirty.

Sorry if that being pointed out to you is irritating, I'd have thought it would have crossed your mind in the last 5 years though 🤷‍♀️

No matter what you name your child, because YOU love the name, the DC will either grow up liking it, or else absolutely hate it, sometimes because of the reaction or treatment it gets from people who think their name is weird. Many people have hated the name their parents saddled them with and will change it or go by a NN they like.

Nobody is calling your daughter dirty. The thread isn’t about your daughter at all. People are responding to OP’s suggestions for her baby, one of which is Dusty. For my mum’s generation they’d think of Dusty Springfield. For mine, it’s Dusty Bin. For a child born now, her contemporaries won’t think of either of those.

People aren’t always positive about names on here and FWIW I didn’t post my kids’ names on here at all (they’re both outside the top 100) because I’ve no interest in what a load of randoms think, but if you post a name you’ll get comments, which presumably is what OP wanted or else why post?

No, Dustin, also known as Dusty was the daughter.

I think the pp was pointing out that dirty is a synonym for dusty, hence it has a very similar meaning. As are words like grubby, unwashed and soiled according the the OED.

therefore, saying ‘my dusty girl’ sounds like saying ‘my grubby girl’ to someone who didn’t know her name was Dusty.

you may love the name, fair play, but it doesn’t change what the word Dusty means

Sharky. Or George. If you go with George, nobody will know you named your child after a crime buster of the sea.

@MyOwnToes I responded to the OP with a rather innocuous comment about the fact I had a DD called Dusty, intended to help the OP given she was considering it as an option for her child. The PPs who responded to me personally on that fact were unnecessarily rude. The reference to being dirty especially so. For clarity, I wrote the following sentence describing her:

She's beautiful, smart and strong and she's the most wonderful Dusty girl the world has ever seen!!!

And a PP chose to suggest it sounded like I was calling her dirty in that sentence. Yes of course Dusty also means "to be dusty/grubby/dirty", but obviously not in the context of the sentence I wrote, and it just did not warrant that response. It was a mean response, so I'm just calling it for what it was