If you're tempted to call your poor daughter Honey, please can you put Honor on the birth cert and nn her Honey 'til you go off the name Honey

[MsMargotBeauregarde]

Thank you. That is all

Takver, no, that would be really boring,. But there is a huge middle ground between an unusual name and a sexualised and inappropriate name. that's what I find so appalling about Honey, not just its cutesy nature, that in itself isn't so awful. there are so many Lilys etc, that cutesy is just what's in fashion right now. It's the lapdancer about it that makes me want to go up to parents who've called a dd Honey and shine a torch in to one ear to see if there's anything in there.

Do you not have to think "Will this name harm my child if she chooses to practise law/go into politics/head up amnesty intl?" In Honey's case the answer, surely, has to be yes. Women have a hard enough time being taken seriously, a name like that can't help. Call 'em what you like but maybe give them a solid middle name so that the poor things can use that instead.
Am loving the welsh snowdrop name though

I agree with soup and themildmannered-why on earth would you give a child a name that will ALWAYS cause them embarrasment??????

And for those "liberal minded people" read the bloody thread if you don't think that people will take the piss out of a name like Honey.
btw you might like the name but seriously will your child.

"Seeker, every sympathy to the children, but there are plenty of school refusing Toms and Rachaels too. And plenty of popular, happy children with unusual names. It is not down to name alone."

Of course there are. But why risk it? I don't see why anyone would deliberately choose a name for their child that is likely to make life difficult for them. There are enough factors that we can't have any influence over that might cause them problems - this is one that we have COMPLETE control over!

Honor is hideous. So American and just pukey. No better than Honey.

But it is at least a name with a tradition of being a name and isn't a term of endearment. I call my ds Bunny as a pet-name but people would justifiably think me bonkers if I put it on his birth certificate (or used it outside our own 4 walls for that matter!)

honor is lovely, not american or pukey or hideous

why not just call her honey?

Those people who couldn't entertain the idea of a politician or lawyer called Honey (or other non-classic name), I wondered what do you do when you encounter a professional with a name from a different culture? For example I was recently treated by a doctor with an Arabic name - it never occurred to me to get out the big book of Arabic names to check that this was a good sound doctorly name!

Yet if a doctor introduced herself as Dr Honey Smith it seems you'd expect me to run a mile. Why?????

Honey is a dreadful name for a child

as is Snowdrop

and Poopy

Honor is a lovely name

Honor. Is it even a word? I don't get it.

Honey sounds like a porn star.

Exactly Seeker, Honor wouldn't be my taste, but that's the worst I could say about it. It's not too silly or too sexual or anything. I just suggested it as being a solution really.

In Frasier, there is a Dr Honey Snow who is a blonde, stacked, airhead 'lets all hug each other' shrink.

Anyone thinking of calling a potential adult Honey should watch it and see the responses before going for it. (And even more so if the poor child turns out plain...)

But silly is so subjective.

If you think Honey is a silly name then don't call your daughter Honey, but why then make assumptions about a person based on their name?

I just find it so depressing that so many people judge a person based on the fact that they don't like their name. And that's really all it is, you don't like it.

I bought my house from a woman called Dhalia. Would you have had to request a different agent, preferably called Jennifer? Or would you have met the nice, smartly dressed young woman and managed to put your prejudices aside and "take her seriously" despite her being called Dhalia which isn;t "a proper name"?

I should probably parp on this thread. I really find it sad that so many people are so horrid about people's names. I genuinely didn't know that people were like this when I gave my daughter an unusual name.

No, but you can help how you react.

The implication here is that it's fine to not take someone seriously because you don't like their name.

tigerdriver You are totally wrong. The appropriate middle name for "Poopy" is of course "Pants".

Obviously!

Jajas why giving a name you LOVE to your child selfish? Surely you wouldn't give your child a name you HATE?

Perhaps silly is subjective, but why choose any name that such a large significant proportion of people (30%?) found inappropriately sexual? It shows such a head in the sand attitude to some of the harsher realities of life.. I agree with Jajas, I didn't wrack my brain looking for insults about the name Honey. It was an involuntary thought process....

If I went to my doctor and she were called Honey Bee, I'd just think, poor woman going through life with that shite name, but I wouldn't assume she was less professional or qualified.

I know a child called 'snow'.

Quite like 'Honey' but I would worry that people would think it was a term of endearment and wonder what her real name was.

{Haven't seen other thread by the way}