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

My friend has just called her daughter Honey. I like it each to there own i say

The thing is, if someone comes on here and asks what various people on the internet think of a name, presumably they want to know. If you ask people's opinions, I suppose you must be prepared to hear them, even if they are very negative.

Obviously we all like different names otherwise everyone in the world would have the same name. I'm sure many of us have idiosyncratic reasons for liking or disliking names. I've seen DS2's name described as 'yeuch' or something similar on here, and DS1's name is often slated by people.

I think Honey is a daft name. I think it's a bit like calling your child "Sweetie" or "Darling". I don't much like it as an endearment either.

As it happens I don't much like Honor either. But I don't think it's daft.

it must be said actually that it was the purpose of the thread by the OP to put people off the name Honey and in all fairness to her.....it has totally achieved that aim for me....i truly had no idea that Honey was such a contentious name BUT i do still think it is very pretty and an adorable nickname but i certainly will not be using it for my daughter [who will probably now be a boy anyway me ha ha].....

Hmmmm, I amliking it

Honey Peach

Whaddya think?

yeah, Peachy, you do have to stay away from food-related names!

Don't under any circumstances call your baby Honey if it turns out to be a boy!

Prefer Honey to Honor, I must say.

Honor is classic, beautiful and cultured. Honey is quirky, girly and cute. How do you want to see your daughter in the future? Your child, your choice.

I disagree, numal. I think both names are awful but Honor infinitely more so.

I don't like Honor either, but nobody is ever going to say "What did you say?" or suppress a giggle when they meet an adult Honor.

I guess not, seeker. I hate all the virtue names we give to girls though. Why do boys never get saddled with guff like Faith Hope Charity Honor Chastity Patience Constance etc? Mind you they don't get sickly sweet Honey type names either, I suppose. I think that's why girls' names are so difficult- they are all sweet or worthy- yuk!

I think virtue names are a burden too - but bizarrely I have a Grace.(she's 13 - it was very unusual then!) and I didn't think of it as a virtue name [thick emoticon]. I discovered much later that some very devout Christians in our circle of friends thought that she was called Grace because, as we were what is euphemistically called "older parents", they assumed that we had been trying to conceive her for ages and were giving thanks with her name! They were obviously unaware of a) our faith-status and b) the fact that we said one evening "Oh, it might be nice to have a baby" and 9 months late there she was!

Ah- Grace is the exception that proves the rule, I think! Really nice name. Have v good friend with daughter Grace and know a lovely adult Grace too.

I just want to say that the name poopy is a disgrace and would suggest that those thinking of this name at least have the decency to put "faeces" on the birth certificate...

Lockets - did I mention that I am,in fact, an elephant?

Not sure about Faeces - sounds a bit old fashioned.What about Stool - Jobbie to his friends?

Stool, stool, just another of those cutsie girly names that are all over. I mean what if she wants to be High Court judge?

Whoever it was that said that our children wil be growing up in classrooms filed with Honeys and Snowdrops - utter crap! Have a gander at the most commonly used baby name lists over the last 10 years - it's all Thomas, Matthew, Oliver, James, Jack, Lucy, Emily, Hannah, Emma, Isabel etc etc. Honeys and Snowdrops may be more prevalent than they once were, but they're still in a tiny minority.

Oh bugger, spelling mistakes galore in the post. My apologies.

Soupdragon - Sarah-Jane McClain or something like that??

I like Joy too because I think that it doesn't carry any baggage with it. Well, everybody wants to be happy don't they?? I suppose a few people do struggle with it!!

"generallycontent" isn't so pretty.

Poopy is the best typo!!!

And it rocks as a name