are you happy wite the names you have chosen after ? years

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my dd are called emily and annabel. not the most unusual names i know. they are 2 and 7 months. i still like both the names but have to admit that i still smile when i say annabel as i like it so much. let my oh choose both name sso i am lucky i liked them. not sure what i will think of emily though when she goes to schoola nd she is one of 7 in her class

how do you feel about your childrens names now you have lived with them for a bit.

sorry WW- got your name wrong

Raah - one of my former colleagues actually emailed me shortly after Mills was born, that I shouldn't call her "Mills" as that isn't nice, but "Millie" would be nicer.
It just annoyed me. I don't have anything against "Millie" as such, but to me, it's simply not my daughter's name (unless she chooses to be called that later).

I've just bought her a T-shirt saying "I've got Millicent Tendencies" from the Fawcett society. I just could not not buy it.

I love the sound of the t-shirt!

We also have a fondness for 'Millicent Bystander' in Flushed Away. It is probably because her name doesn't crop up that often in films and things,it has really stuck with her. i wonder if i can get a t-shirt of that??

Ah, OK NDP, thought you were someone else for a moment

Fascinated by the idea that you can't be a "chav" and a "nice boy". Some of my ds's best friends are chavs!

Really? I thought chav was universally acknowledged to be a term of abuse.

Doesn't "chav' just mean "working class and with bad dress sense'? What used to be 'common"?

Well yes, that is what I take it to mean. Actually, I tend to think "uncultured" but that is just my own brand of snobbery.

But it is a term of abuse isn't it? You wouldn't call someone a chav and mean they were nice.

I think chav means spending your money on non-sensible things that non-chav people disapprove of. I'm not posh, but I'm miserably tight with money. spend money on your finger nails ??

we all think it means something different. something which is the opposite of something that we are!!!

I still love both ds's name (quite rare, only used 13 times last year ) and dd's name (unfortunately becoming a little more popular now...).

chav means child...it has been corrupted and now means as abovedepending on where you live and what you read..

I love both DDs names DD1-Kaya I chose..although I was skeptical about DD2-Bethany my DH picked it but she really owns the name..and they sound good together

I like ds2's name, but it is quite a popular name. At school boys with this name are almost always the naughty ones - seriously! So I do wish we'd chosen differently for him.

Would agree that chavness is about spending money on show-offy things, why a nouveau riche person and a traveller can both be classed as chav. Is purely sour grapes on behalf of middle class people with mortgage and tax moans.

I'm not sure, I sometime here other names and think "I wish I'd called her that". I sometimes wish I'd been more adventurous.

I do love DD's name (she's an Áine) but the English part of the family say ON-ya which jars a little. DS1 suits his name perfectly, I wanted Dara for him but it was vetoed on the grounds that it sounds like a girls name , but I am glad he has his name now. DS2 has a tree name, and it makes me smile every time I say it, I love it so much.

Ds1 name I love still - Reilly

Ds2- he is called Jamie and I wish his first name was Levi, which is his middle name

dd1 - I like her name, Millie (mimi) but again wish her name was Jessamy - it's now her middle name

dd2 - LOVE her first name, Lacey. But am meh about her middle name. I hormonally wanted her middle name to be Lilac but mum said no lol. Her middle name is Nicole

OK bigweehag how do you like it pronounced (in case I ever meet one)?

DD is called Evie. Like a few other posters, I still love this name, but it has become hugely popular. It does suit her though - she's a very sunny, confident girl.

DS is William which I still love and it really suits him. I wanted a name that would suit a child and an adult but that he could shorten if he wanted to...so he is either William or Will. He is most definitely not a Billy-doesn't sound right for him for some reason! I really wanted to call him his middle name which is George after my Grandad but when you say it together with our surname it sounds like someone out of Shooting Stars (if anyone remembers that!) and even though in 10 years nobody will remember it I just couldn't saddle the poor child with that...especially as DH bears more than a passing rememblance to Matt Lucas lol!

Am not even pregnant again yet but have got names already picked out:

Charlie Edward or Thomas Edward for a boy and either Emily Grace or Evie Grace for a girl...my mum is called Evelyn so thought it would be nice to have that for a girl.

Considering how DS's name is fairly "common" he is the only one in his year at school!

DS' names I still love, although his 1st name often gets blank looks. His middle name, chosen by DP, is just as great, and could be used as a fall-back name if, in future years, the 1st name gets too much hassle.
I don't think it will, in an increasingly diverse society, but you never know.
DD's 1st name was chosen by DP, and I'm OK with it. What I'm most disappointed in is her middle name - it's just meh - and doesn't fit her. I chose it, though, so tough.

i've got 3 children and i only really Love ds2's name - Theodore. dd is Alexandra, i wish I'd called her a flower name. Ds2 is Gus. I was beyond desperate to call him Gabriel, but I couldn't budge dh and god I tried. Gus [Angus} was a real compromise. He's 6 months now and I still think of him as Gabriel, I asked dh the other day if we could change his name and got the withering glare.

I never thought my children would have the names they do.