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?

Oops Lorelai was a spelling mistake!

Cassidy would be for a boy, and I mostly like it because I like the nm Cass (but not Caspar/Casper). Also I'm a whore for Irish/Gaelic names (thankfully I'm Irish enough to be able to dodge accusations of plastic paddy-ness).

As for Priya, at first I thought it was a bit odd but it grew on me.

Anywho this is but a small selection from my not-so-small shortlist, I'd go on but not-so-small is an understatement!

And I don't set out to try and hurt people. I just dislike beating around the bush, which I guess makes me blunt. Neither do I hide behind my moniker As I have said before, if I had a friend who was planning on calling her child Daisy then I would be as frank with her in real life as I have been on here.

I'm also very argumentative. That probably explains the rest (either that or I'm simply just an unpleasant person, either way).

I have no problem with people real or otherwise not liking my kids names ,and just for the record I don't have a Daisy but I hate the term its a bit council ..tis a terrible expression

Priya - sounds too much like Prius

Cassidy - American, surname, meh

Lorelei - much better names out there, but if you like it...

Finbar - Finbarr Saunders and his Double Entendres

Daisy's a nice name. Have you thought about that?

Cassidy = Irish fyi, and your reasoning for Finbarr only makes me like it more

It would be exceedingly amusing if I actually do end up with a DD called Daisy. Barring a lobotomy/severe brain damage however I think it's unlikely

I like all your names bar Cassidy. Almost as bad as Daisy!

I have a Daisy, said I had a Daisy on this thread (ooops) and have absolutely no issue with anyone slating it! I have to admit that (with no bitterness at all re views on Daisy, really ), I'm quite amused and surprised by your name choices Padraig, as to my ear, they are much girlier and sillier than Daisy. (although I must admit I can't really remember what it was about Daisy that ignited your passions so!)

Like Daisy
Don't like Daisy-Mae sounds a bit hillbilly

Hate hyphens as I have a hyphenated name, people just don't hear it right, it's too long for forms and computers don't recognise it half the time, people think the second part is my surname, drives me mad

Cassandra?

LJBrownie

There's a difference between feminine and girly IMO, Daisy is girly (and rather silly) while Priya and Lorelei are feminine. Of course I know that a lot of people won't like them, but at least they're not twee.

Anyway I think we're starting to needlessly prolong the thread, OP clearly has her mind made up.

Personally, I think both are horrid and extremely twee but if you must then I suppose Daisy-May is marginally more tolerabe.

Interesting point, in a way Priya and Lorelei are hard to imagine for a baby but easier for an older person and so the opposite of Daisy! Too flowery for my taste but that's because I'm in a minority of one who somehow doesn't see Daisy as particularly flowery - I know it's weird! I also think that Daisy will be a very ordinary kind of name to have in the future whereas those names will be more unusual and therefore more likely to invite comment, be it positive or negative...

agree that none of this changes anything for the original poster though

It probably doesn't help matters that I had a stuffed cow called Daisy as a baby...

As for the names I like, the vast majority are from TV. Priya was mentioned in passing in a TV show called Dollhouse and Lorelai is from my secret shame Gilmore Girls...

I find you quite approachable for a supposedly 'rude' poster. I'm not going to fan the flame by naming her, but there was a poster loitering about being rude the other evening - LIke a nail bomb on commission for insults she was.

YOU Podge just have a wee touch of tourette syndrome.

Only one R on the end of Finbar. I think....

I suppose I do have the odd outburst

I like the name Daisy. How can people say it's not a proper name? It's a pretty flower, and a perfectly good name, like Rose, or Poppy, or Bluebell er, Lily.

Lol at posters suggesting the OP calls her DD Margaret.

OP, I agree with whoever said that having May as the second name makes you think May what?

You could just go with a longer name to balance Lexie-Rose. Like Arabella or something.

I like the name Margaret!

It can be Maggie, Margot, Greta, Daisy.....

Finbarr Suanders - 2 rs, deffo. Normally 1 r though...

What an odd road this thread has taken!

Yeah, Irish names normally have a lot of different spellings, it doesn't make much sense to nitpick tbh.

I knew a Poppy at school. I judged her parents, especially considering they had named her older brother Matthew (i.e. a nice name).

And pffft whatever, I think Lorelei is an infinitely better name than Daisy so there :p

I hate the way that any Irish name which becomes slightly mainstream in the UK is then considered chav by people with no Irish connection on mumsnet anyway. I don't think this is so bad in real life. It's so xenophobic.

What name/s do you have in mind?

Did the OP ever come back?

Daisy is perfectly fine. Not convinced by May/Mae, but the May spelling is preferable.

Eugh what's more annoying is that people when they hear my name always say "oh so you're Irish then!"

I mean I am, but my name isn't particularly (hint: my name isn't actually padraig). I know more English people with my name than Irish people even!

I mean I would never assume someone called Sean or Rory is Irish just because their name is an Irish name. My brief time spent living in Ireland makes me think an Irish man is more likely to be called Dave anyway!