I went to a college open day with my daughter today, and i was really glad she wasn't called....

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poppy or daisy type names

but a lovely traditional name.

she wants to do Law - and i would have felt silly saying "poppy wants to do law"

i really think people should think beyond the immediate future.

not putting on hard hat cos am hard !

god,i don't care what others think of my dc names. I agree there are some really awful names out there atm which set kids up terribly but they are in a minority - other names - so what? some people don't like them - that's their issue. I don't believe names hold a child back unless they are really, truly awful - I don't think names like poppy, daisy etc fall into that category

what a dumbass thread.feeling bored looking for an obvious topic.aye names,works every time

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not bothered about anyone one else name frankly but am wondering if the poppy/daisy mummy's noticed the competitive mum in the corner muttering "shes going to do law,y'all"

Lockets, No to 'Honey'.

Lap dancer fake name. anybody who calls their dd Honey is really stupid. It's so sexualised and insubstantial.

I think Rose, Daisy, Poppy and Lily are too mainstream now to make anybody really think anything at all. And they certainly will be too mainstream by the time that bunch start going to uni!

This is precisely the reason I named my boys after 55 year old accountants.

i take it you mean when you dont say 'poppy wants to do law' to your friends/other mums...not to her teachers, a la helicopter parent?

(i can work out another way of saying that...it makes sense to me)

(oh jeez that is supposed to say CANT work out)

No it's more than just my opinion Lockets. HOney has sexual connotations. It is exactly the kind of name a woman in the sex industry would take on as a pseudonom.

Women in the sex industry don't pretend to be Rachels or Marthas. They pretend to be Honey, Scarlett, Lola, Sugar, Candy, Mitsy etc...

If you want to USE your daughter to push back the boundaries, and challenge our preconceived ideas, then nobody can stop you, but it wouldn't be the best thing for your daughter.

DD1 has a rather unusual name but she wants to be a tap dancer so she'll be alright.

Yeah, because universities so often base their admissions policy on what someone is called .

Don't be so ridiculous.

I have to agree my boys have strong traditional names, that are not old fashioned, but have stood the test of time and also can grow with them.

I would hate for them to be stuck with a name that was too "of its time". I also didnt want them to be come the Tracey or Sharon of their generation

LOL because a boy called sharon/tracy would be bitty weird

You all say this, but how do you know what people will think of your 'classic' names in years to come? Sharon and Tracy might be revived in the way that Elsie and Stanley and Arcgie have been recently. William and Alexander and Charlotte might become cringey old names that nobody would dream of calling their kids. Don't be too smug!

It is all such a myth that these names will make children do worse at school. What about Dr. Pixie McKenna on Embarassing illnesses. And she is in her 30's at least, so the anme would have been even more unusual then.

I don't like traditional names but I don't jump on people for being boring, ordinary and unoriginal if that is what they choose to have.

"I'm always wary of 'cute' names- adorable on a toddler but they don't particularly inspire confidence in an adult"

i have to agree TBH!

Don't get personal fgs, not necessary, I'm not patronising or preachy, I just have an opinion, same as you seem to.

That is allowed.

Tracy was originally a boy's name.

I do have a minor problem with someone calling a child Jaydon D'Mackenzie Kyle Adidas Thruxted Twonk.

but that is just my personal line to cross iyswim.

Ds1 is in nursery with a girl called Porche and also an Angel that is anything but

Teachers treat children differently if they don't like their names. Children with 'traditional' names do better at school precisely because they are expected to do better.

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Oh whatever. Those teachers are complete dickheads then.

We are powerless to prevent them being dickheads. We do have the power to choose our own children's names though.

I guess my dd is going to be an actress then since if you google her first name, it brings up reams of stuff about two actresses .