I was watching Ricki Lake and heard a girls name I really like...

[mumsiebumsie]

... it's "Kenya", actually pronounced "Keen-ya" but I think I prefer the more obvious pronounciation.

Okay I know the inspiration is slightly trashy but putting that aside, opinions on name please!

Not sure, sounds a bit odd to me. Sorry

If in America, fine, will fit in just dandy. In Uk, not so much.

Have you considered Taiquasha?

Very American to me so not a name I would go for myself.

I think Ikea would be better.

Some people pronounce the country as K-ee-nya as well as K-e-nya.

There is a little girl, who is African, at the school Iwork at with this name. I think her promunctiation in K-e-nya though.

It is ok, although I do prefer the name India (along same lines) but I don't think I would use it personally.

Hulababy didn't realise that - thanks.

Okay - get impression general consensus is steer clear! I'm not really into unusual names but this one struck me as rather nice - quite girly but with a bit of weight behind it. Oh well

Quinoa?

I'm sure there are other countries or places in Africa that sound nicer as names. Erm..

Mali
Praia
Zambia
Asmara
Victoria
and er... Chad?

rofl @ cyteen

I had to look after the title 'I was watching Ricky Lake....'

Priceless!

Madame embarrassing but true . Had come back from a midwife appointment where she spent what felt like 30 minutes taking my blood and it hurt like hell and I was on the sofa feeling sorry for myself at about 14:00 debating whether I should go back into work. Chose to watch Ricki Lake instead. I thought I made the right chose when I heard THE name but maybe not .

You heard it on Ricky Lake!

Do you need any further explanantion?

Have a rest and flick through an Atlas!

I AM American. DH's cousin does have a DD named Kenya. She could be on a Rikki Lake show entitled "I dropped out of school to have 3 children with a man who already had 5 children by 3 different women and then went on to leave me and have more children by at least 2 different women that I know of, and now I have to have my elderly parents raise my children most of the time, because I have had to work a whole lot since I never got any support from said baby maker, and now they are teenagers, I am constantly getting calls from the school as they are totally out of control and in trouble a lot of the time." If it helps, her other DD's are named Bayleigh and Kelseigh.

dooneygirl-ROFL

Please don't name you're child after someone off Ricky Lake.

One of my gran's friends named their son after a character from 80s soap Falcon Crest. It really isn't cool

doh - your not you're, obv

It reminds me of this which I'll now have stuck in my head for the rest of the week.

I don't really like it as a name.

It's just lovely. You go girl and if anybody disses yo choice then talk to the hand honey.

Surely it's the 1950s 'posh white settler' pronunciation of the country Kenya - as rejected by its actual people.

What about Jordan?

Wow didn't realise people were still posting on this thread.

Lockets thank you for the positive feedback but am pretty sure I won't be using the name based on general consensus - I still like it though , but really couldn't put DD through the trauma.

Thanks.

It sounds like a Ricki Lake guest, that's the problem. She never has guests called 'Anne', does she? Always Misti, Missy, LaQueisha, LeShantay and...urm... Kenya pronounced Keeeenya.

Hm. Maybe not. May I suggest Guinea-Bissau? Or, this is a good one, Central African Republic. Has a certain ring to it.

I would put this down to pregnancy hormones.