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My kids say they have horrid names!

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 20:46

I have 6 kids... 4 dd's and 2 ds's... both my son's and one of my daughter's hate their names and middle names.

I feel like such a failure!

Linnie A
River D
Russell-Jay A
Nemea L
Coral V
and
Acacius J

I think they are lovely, does anyone like them?

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MmmMum · 16/12/2008 22:14

No Nemea is the correct spelling and thank you.

subtlemouse, we live in Cyprus but we are English. I don't know how that could of happened.

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VersdeSociete · 16/12/2008 22:14

Sigh, drawn in again by transparent trollery. I just wanted that family to exist for some reason...

Salleroo · 16/12/2008 22:46

Seriously unusual, I must say. Dont like River, quite like Russel-Jay. Maybe you should have gone easy on the second names so they had a fallback.

We were going to call our ds Dexter, which got serious bad press from prettymuch everyone we told. We ended up with a dd much to my mother's relief. She has made me promise if we have a boy we wont call him Dexter . He would have had a great name/surname combo though.

This time, we still dont know what we are having but are sharing our names with no-one, its going to be a done deal when we see our little munchkin and decide what name suits best.

Fillyjonk · 17/12/2008 06:50

"tbh i'm hurt that they would want to change their names.

it's the names they have grown up with and have always been called."

ah now that is harder. I think as parents we do have to accept that the name we give our kids is just a guess and that they might not like them. After all, they have to live with them, not us.

I'd be more than happy for my kids to change their names, tbh. I'd much rather that than have then cringe each time they inroduced themselves!

(I say this because THEY are saying that they don't like the names, not because I think they are awful or anything. People are funny about names)

sorkycake · 17/12/2008 08:11

I like them.
One of my kids' names is in that list

DoesntChristmasDragOn · 17/12/2008 08:16

Ah, right. Troll.

southeastastra · 17/12/2008 08:28

weird, people must be really bored

migolapland · 17/12/2008 14:21

I HATED my name when I was younger, then I moved to a different country when i was older and people commented on how pretty and unusual my name was, so I've grown to like it now.

FIMBOingaroundtheChristmasTree · 17/12/2008 14:28

Loads of teens in town today, I guess the holidays have started early.

Love the failed name change post and swift follow up - pmsl

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 16:36

Just because she didn't want to link her normal screen name to her children's names doesn't mean her family doesn't exist.

If I were going to reveal both my chidren's names in one post I would dfinitely name change, as other wise, somebody would recognise me and then NONE of my other posts on any other subject would be anonymous to them.

The old name-changing to agree with oneself chesnut! Ah I think I did that myself on my early days on MN

BabyBaby123 · 17/12/2008 16:42

you must be really bored to start a thread like this for fun op - it's not even an intersting subject - what are people meant to say if they think the names are crap? You have got to be a troll

CoteDAzur · 17/12/2008 16:55

What I want to know is which 3 of these 6 children actually like their names.

Kristingle · 17/12/2008 16:58

welcome to mumsnet OP

if you start a thread asking for opinions i don't think you can expect people to confine themselves to yes or now. you don't get to tell everyone else what and how to post just because you started it. that's not how Mumsnet works

CoteDAzur · 17/12/2008 17:00

By MmmMum on Tue 16-Dec-08 21:55:31
i actually really really like your children's names.

I'm sorry but that is would be hilarious if it weren't so sad.

Why on earth would you want to namechange and post as if you are someone else who agrees with you?

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 17:03

Maybe she chose an already used name and the name change failed. That'd be my guess.

Anyway, all harmless enough! I can put up with ten tonnes of nonsense before I feel the urge to start shouting 'troll'. I hate the name troll!! We are all human beings with keyboards. Troll is so 'de-humanising' [silly face]

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 17:04

I'm mmmmmMum!

belcantwait · 17/12/2008 17:04

well i love the midddle name Jasper- its my ds's name and it really suits him.
actually i rather like your names. who wants to be boringly average andt he same as everyone else? i think your kids will thank you as they get older tho i do think that perhaps unusal quirky names can be hard to 'live up to ' iykwim.
i think its v rude people saying they doint like them, but you did ask, and its a bit late now anyway is it not??

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 17:05

Only kidding! My 'five children' would be called Sylvester, Julius, Ismene, Phaedra and Badger.

Anna8888 · 17/12/2008 17:06

I don't like your children's names at all.

SnowballsintheSky · 17/12/2008 17:07

Point them to this thread and they'll soon see how gorgeous their names are.

For what it's worth I really like some of the names, the others are just unusual, not horrid.

CoteDAzur · 17/12/2008 17:11

It's obvious that namechange failed. What is surprising is why she was namechanging - to make it look like someone was supporting her choice of names.

Very bizarre.

SnowballsintheSky · 17/12/2008 17:16

Oh blimey, I never spot trolls

mysterymoniker · 17/12/2008 17:21

I've got a Coral! We've never met another one, she's 16 now and her friends call her CoCo which is cute.

LiffeyCanSpellGeansaiNollaig · 17/12/2008 17:36

Coco is nice.

ScummyMummy · 17/12/2008 17:46

Trollery aside, I really liked winkywinkola's post lower down.

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