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 !

alternatively say the name out loud and imagine solicitor or accused

I went to school with a Daisy and she is now a lawyer and a Jade who is now a chartered accountant. I am 35 (very old).

indeed red cardigan i mentioned the very same thing earlier in the thread

i know a late 30ish poppy(family friend) and a 70 year old poppy(dh auntie).

Apparently Daisy was a popular name in the late 19th early 20th century, and was used as a nickname for Margaret.

i think that helps what lilibet said regarding trends

Agree with lillibet re the difference between old-fashioned and traditional names. I have a traditional name myself.

One of Enid Blyton's Five Find-outers was called Daisy and I think that might have been a pet form of Margaret.

Yep I am right - I have just found it on Wiki.

I know you can find people with these names in every generation but they are the exception rather than the rule - I know a 30 year old Jean!!

Nothing wrong with trendy names, one of my sons has a moderatly trendy one, but they will go out of fashion again and therefore will 'date' the child.

My real name gives my age away to within 5 years and I hate it.

Adn some names are taken more seriously than others, Princess Tiaanamiii (sp??) is going to have to fight harder battles to be taken seriously in the world of (for example) banking than a Phillipa or a Kate.

My name definitely does not give away my age. Although I guess the shortened forms come and go in favour.

god yes i agree. i wonder what my mother ( an otherwize v. sensible lady) was doing when she called me by a v. popular 70's name.

At least you weren't an early sixties baby custy!!

There were five with my name in my class.

I still think you have to do the test........

'This your captain, Kaden Maynard, speaking.............'

'This is your captain, Christopher Maynard, speaking.......'

or

'All rise for Judge Shayla-Mae Hewitt
........'

'All rise for Judge Emma Drayton........'

Im with custy.

i think every girl in school had same name as me.im very common late 70's.

I went to university with a Princess and there is both a Prince and a King where I work. A few Comforts too.

I don't work in a bank though. In fact a temp last week kept making derogatory comments about the range of names in my workplace being very extraordinary and they should be called sensible names likes John or Jane .

Teachers are not the only people who discriminate against 'unusual' names.

Title: The ?name game?: affective and hiring reactions to first names

Author(s): John L. Cotton, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Andrea Griffin
Journal: Journal of Managerial Psychology
ISSN: 0268-3946
Year: 2008 Volume: 23 Issue: 1 Page: 18 - 39
DOI: 10.1108/02683940810849648
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Purpose ? The paper seeks to examine how the uniqueness and ethnicity of first names influence affective reactions to those names and their potential for hire.

Findings ? Results indicated that Common names were seen as least unique, best liked, and most likely to be hired. Unusual names were seen as most unique, least liked, and least likely to be hired. Russian and African-American names were intermediate in terms of uniqueness, likeability and being hired, significantly different from Common and Unique names, but not significantly different from each other.

Research limitations/implications ? The name an individual carries has a significant impact on how he or she is viewed, and conceivably, whether or not the individual is hired for a job.

Practical implications ? Human resource professionals need to be aware that there seems to be a clear bias in how people perceive names. When resumés are screened for hiring, names should be left off. Our findings also suggest that when selecting, parents may want to reconsider choosing something distinctive.

Full research available here if you care to pay for it.

"in the future these names will be so common that we will not raise an eyebrow even at, say, Professor Buster Sutherland, or Dr Princess Ti'aami Savvas"

It will probably be common only in certain circles, just like it is now.

lol. The only Daisy I knew at school 15 years ago is now a specialist registrar in obstetrics.

though I do suppose that is the girliest, cutest branch of medicine.

this is why i called all my children Jim- even the girls. they will glide seamlessly into law and medicine.

James.

Cote, there are very many middle class, extremely high-achieving families who have called their children unusual names. Far more unusual than Poppy or Daisy.

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god, yes, sorry- james of course... i was forgetting myself.

i am middle class, honest.