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

Duffy, you're missing the point.

I wouldn't judge a grown up Honey when she'd grown up and proved herself, but I'd be astounded her parents were so naive as to be unaware of the name's sexual connotations, amazed by their denial; thinking that only their opinion on the name matters, and their arrogance for wanting to control other people's not unsurprising reaction and dislike of such a sexual name.

I don't think Honey is a particularly porn-star name. And if I met someone who would (for instance) avoid a doctor or solicitor because they thought that the person had an 'inappropriate' or 'common' name then I would think that the avoiding person was an ignorant, ill-mannered twat with not enough going on in his/her life.

Also please bear in mind that whatever you call your child, there will be a stage in that child's life when s/he moans at you for choosing that name and insists on being called something else.

what a strange and inappropriate thread title

Honor is a bloody awful name.

You know, Mrs MargotB, an obsession with how awful sex is and how no one should make any reference to it ever, is a bit of a sign of sexual dysfunction. People who can be bothered to 'dislike such a sexual name' really really need to get a fucking life.

Solid, Honey is a name that reminds me of the sex trade, not sex per se. The two are entirely different and I make no apology for thinking that. To confuse the two, now that's dysfunctional.

Also, I'm not the only one who makes the link. If a parent wants to disregard the fact that a fair proportion of society will automatically make that link, then nobody can stop them, but it's hardly a leg UP is it.

When my daughter goes for interviews in yrs to come I don't want the smutty middle-aged wanker interviewing her to be thinking, phwoar, can just see her round a pole. It just doesn't help does it?

All things being equal, give your daughter advantages rather than disadvantages.

wouldn't occur to me to view Honey as "a sexual name", especially in relation to a little child

it makes me think of Winnie the Pooh and other cutesy sweetnesses - not my cup of tea but not dreadful either and a perfectly valid choice.

Honor on the other hand - I do TRY not to be rude about names on here, but......

Lockets, somebody is thinking of calling their child Honey.. If that child has Honey on her birth cert I'll have done her a massive favour.

At least a Will can introduce himself as WIlliam or he can use Bill or Liam. He's not backed into a corner like a Honey.

"backe into a corner"

I do think you might be losing perspective a teeny bit

Honey is quite a popular name choice these days - it's not even unusual!

and if you're really worried that your daughter might attract a lascivious thought from a middle-aged man when being interviewed for work, I suggest you start digging yourselves a nice big bunker and filling it with food....

Where do you live that Honey is a popular name?

Is there? I didn't know that. I only came in on that thread quite near the end.

But there's always going to be a parent of every name mentioned (and slagged off) on this board not too far away.

I've read my children's names slagged off, many times, but I can suck it up.

I suppose because I know that what those posts boil down to is 'not my taste'. There is an extra consideration with Honey.

But if posters and parents-to-be want to fly in the face of the 30% of people who think Honey is a sex industry name, then I think they'll be disappointed when it later turns out that they couldn't change people's minds and make them see the name the way they see it.

That's why people get angry. They're afriad that they took a gamble and 'the risk' is still there.

Iknow a 30 something woman called Crystal Freedom (Freedom being her surname)... she has ishoos....

Now you're reiterating the 30% figure like it's an actual statistic rather than a number you made up...

"That's why people get angry. They're afriad that they took a gamble and 'the risk' is still there"

No, I think people get angry because total strangers like you seem to be on a personal mission to force them to change their minds about their child's name! It is a bit strange

Duffy, Jajas, Seeker, Edam, lunamoon2, tippy, Me, seemed like at least roughly a third of people on one thread thought it was a bad idea.. more maybe. I'm going to say 40%

Naming your child "Honey" is very judgeable

It's like naming your girl Bunny, Love, or Baby. These are terms of endearment, not names. You can still call your DD Honey (and most mums do), but you don't have to legally name her that.

Oh rofl, you mean 30% of this thread

OK then, I'm convinced