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 !

fimbo, I was also named after an actress in the sixties that my dad liked.

Ooh Poshtottie I wonder if it it the same one?

I even had the same initials as the actress N.W.

is anyone else trying to think of 60's actresses now??
Natalie Wood is the only one i can think of with those initials..

My sister got her name as my Mum read it in article about Joanne Woodward.

i'm a joanne too- so many of us around when i was groing up, but i never meet them now (unless they have either changed their names, or answer ONLY to Jo, like me!).{grin]

unless, Sally, you mean your sister is called Woodward!!

Kim Novak?

No my sister likes to be known as Jo as well .

Cupcake is way better than La'Vette.

And you'd have top be quite gustsy to carry it off

I am Joanna and prefer Jo as lots of people call me Joanne which I do not like.

At school there were lots of

Sharon
Tracey
Nicola
Deborah
Joanne
Jackie
Jill
Mandy
Kate
Louise
Jeanette

Oh purleese.
I have a lovely, super-bright, feisty, adventurous Daisy. Who knows what she will be when she is older? Will her name have any bearing on it? No.

Barack Obama, anyone?

Thank you.
Goodnight.

Fimbo, not the same but liffey got it right.

Unfortunately got Tracey as a middle name.

My niece asked her mum the other day "won't it be really odd being Millie when I'm grown up? Isn't that a little girls name?" Bless her. She's already thinking how it'll come across in the boardroom and she's only 6.

Which is why I have an Amelia (AKA Milly), HeadFiary.

The Daisy, Poppy, Lola and Lily's etc. born in the 2000's will be the equivalent of the Emma, Sarah and Claire's born in the 1970's, ie. just an normal name.

No-one will think there's anything unusual about these names in 20 years.

its bolleaux

my ds has got a ridiculously cutsie name

when he was 'under' a paediatrition when first born i was quite shy of his giddy name

she informed me that her mentor was a super high flying paediatrition in germany

no one jusged him on his name

nor should they

sorry her mentor had ds's name!

I think that Daisy and Poppy are nice names but I would class them as "soft names" and find it difficult to see them one day as business people (or lawyers as OP suggested). I will be proved very wrong.

how silly

its a NAME

how do you class Barack?

'hard' enough for a president ?

This is a really interesting thread. I work with babies and can often predict what people will call their newborn! That upsets me more than the 'quality' of the name. Does one really want their DC to be one of five or more in the class with the same name?!

Actually disagree about the name Daisy - it is old, and very pretty but I know of high flying business women and lawyers called Daisy. BUT Poppy/Daisy etc (although names I do actually like...) are really common these days (like Sharon/Tracey etc used to be) and I think it's a shame when everyone goes for the same names when there's a whole world of options.

Having said all that I really struggle with made up names like Princess Tiaamii and Gooey! There's a middle ground people!

Sorry to bang on about it (diss my kid's name, FEEL my wrath) BUT Daisy isn't actually all that popular. My DD is the only one in her whole school and the only one of her friends outside school too.

Now, I think I said goodnight...

It's true that I have never heard of a lawyer called Sharon or Tracey, I don;t think that's popularity, i think that's sadly a class issue - ie those names were popular among people who hadn't such good chances as others. And thus the people looking to employ or educate perhaps did not accept their applications as readily as tose from people named Tara or Elizabeth.

The kids at school who were labelled are the kids with names you don't see in those professions.

it's really sad and perhaps shpws that we as a society ought not to pander to the prejudice but to make sure we do NOT judge a person - let alone a small child - by its name.

I'm a lawyer with a very unusual name (also named after a 60's actress!) but I also know lawyers called Sharon and Tracey as well as lots of Sarah's, K(C)atherine's, Joanne', Dominique etc. I really don't think prospective employers/clients give a stuff what you are called, as long as you can do your job! Good luck with your daughters career choice custy

I'm a lawyer with a very unusual name (also named after a 60's actress!) but I also know lawyers called Sharon and Tracey as well as lots of Sarah's, K(C)atherine's, Joanne', Dominique etc. I really don't think prospective employers/clients give a stuff what you are called, as long as you can do your job! Good luck with your daughters career choice custy