Daisy-Mae

[suesgirls]

Hi, i'm due another little lady soon who i am planning to name Daisy-Mae or Daisy-May. I already have a 2 year old called Lexie-Rose so I definately want the hyphen in there.

Do you like Daisy-Mae or Daisy-May?

Yes Padraig. Most of my age group are called Steve, Chris, Andrew, Dave, Keith (that much maligned name!) Neil, you can't throw a stone without hitting a Neil. Mark is another one. If you shout out 'Mark!' in a loud voice 50% of the men my age will turn round.

Neil and Mark were the Finn and the Max of the early 70s I guess

It's so weird, I remember there being a minor character in a TV program I watched years ago called Finn and thinking it was such an unusual name and that it would be a great name if I ever had a boy.

And then I registered on mumsnet and realised it wasn't quite as undiscovered as I had thought

I bet you wish you had never asked ? I am new on here and had no idea people would be soooooo rude !! I have a daughter called Libby and her middle name is Mae, we started off calling her Libby Mae but it just got dropped to Libby in the end.
I know lots of lovely Daisys - even in their twenties and it is definitely not chavvy where we live, it is quite posh.
I also love the name Lexie and would have had that next - I am obviously a very intelligent chav !

I like Daisy Mae. I also like Lily-May.

Why is it annoying for people to assume that you might have some Irish ancestry if you have an Irish name padraig?

I would defintely assume that someone called Priya (beautiful name) had some kind of Indian connection.

So if you are Irish, and you have an Irish name, people shouldn't assume you are Irish...? What is there to get annoyed about?

I don't sound Irish though!

It just strikes me as odd to tell someone called Patrick or Rory or Darren that they must be Irish based solely on their first name.

I'm not being dismissive of my ancestry at all, I've just always thought it was really peculiar! I mean it would happen on a daily basis when I was working part-time in a department store, people would see my name tag and make a comment on my ancestry

I think it depends on the name - totally agree that if it's Sean, Patrick, Declan etc then it's a bit to jump to conclusions. If someone has a name badge with Ruaridh, Coinneach or Mhairi etc then it's probably right to assume a Scottish heritage or Aengus, Diarmuid or Finnuala to assume Irish.

a boy called Cassidy??

Well I think those names just don't appeal much to the average briton. so maybe I might assume that if the name Declan appealed to a mum-to-be she was not 100% English on both sides going right back to the..... I don't know British history!! I was going to say the Battle of the Boyne. 1066. There you go.

The thing is Magaly, there are many many more names in popular use today than there were in the 70s. You cannot compare a name like Max or Finn to Mark. There were probably 20,0000 Marks registered each year in the 70s, whereas only 2,000 Maxes per year in the 00s.

It was different back then you see.

My nephew is Finn and I still haven't met another (have met a Finlay but never another Finn) so it can't be that popular.

Most of my male friends (I'm a 70s baby) are Andy, Mark, Paul, James and Alex. I don't know ANY Neils!

I tend to dislike twee girly names ending in an ee sound, and I agree that hyphenating is a bit white-trash, but I think Daisy is pretty, and I do not think that Daisy on its own is a particularly downmarket or chavvy name. It's not unusual anymore, but across the board, over the last 20 years I'd say it's as likely to have been chosen by middle or upper middle class parents as any other type. Not that class should be a reason to pick it or reject it either way, but I find many of the observations on here just wrong, in that respect.

Just because you have hyphenated your first child's name doesn't mean you need to or should hyphenate your soon-to-be-born DD's name.

That makes it sound twee, IMO like they need to 'match', which they don't at all. They are two individual children. Also you should watch repeating the same 'ee' sound in both names.

Yes that's true sassy. People were scared to pick an unusual name. They seemed to think that they had to pick a name out of the top ten back in the 70s. A baby was born and its parents must have said, "ok Jennifer, Claire, Suzanne or Nicola or Karen??? Which of those do you like? It's got to be one of those five obviously."

I suppose it depended on where you lived, Magaly - up here you would have been much more likely to have Morag, Catriona, Cameron etc. That said, I don't recall many people in my year at school sharing names, so although I agree that Jennifer etc were popular in the 70s, they were just the Chloes, Jacks, Maxs etc of their day - plenty of other names circulated. Perhaps not the Axels, Aleeshas and you-neeq spellings that we have nowadays, but that's probably not a bad thing. In fact, it would probably be more unusual to call your child Brian now that it would be to call them Daisy-Mae or whatever.

I think Daisy-Mae sounds quite pretty.

I do think it's more of a baby name than an adult name, however. Maybe Daisy on its own, without the hyphen, I mean. You can still call her Daisy Mae as a NN.

I don't think it's chavvy. It's the child who makes a name, not the name that makes the child.

Daisy is nice

Daisy May is nice, if a bit blah

Mae is done to death and completely unoriginal

Hyphenated names are naff as fuck but if you must, Daisy-May or Daisy-Jo, do not use Mae.

daisy is ok and i like may and mae but not with daisy and not with a hypen.

My dd is Daisy-Mae and it really suits her. We still love the name 3 years on! Go fot ittt!

Lol, just googled my son's name too and that also gets slagged off on here!

dmae
this thread is almost a year old. I expect the baby has a name by now.

That really made me laugh! I was beginning to despair the fall of man - or mum in this case. It's an old thread so it's not really worth mentioning but Mae is the welsh spelling of May. I think if you ditch your manners on the Internet like you kick off your shoes after work it shows a lack of integrity, which is in my view a quality displayed more commonly by the true working class.