Minnie

[mrsSmurf]

Im expecting dc 1 and we don't know the gender. We have a shortlist for a boy; Sonnie, Freddie, Cassius.

We can't agree on a girls name though, I like flowery names like Daisy, Flora etc but dh came across the name Minnie and I think I like it apart from the minnie mouse thing.

Opinions please

I agree with seeker. I'm in Ireland and I've definitely heard people use minnie for their fanny! So obviously its scope is pretty wide.

its usage rather. not scope. the scope of a minnie. what a mind boggling concept.

Wha I can't understand is why someone, on being told that their choice for a name for their baby is a commonly used slang term for a vagina wouldn't just say "Oh, thanks everyone, I didn't know that - I'll have another think"!

seeker I posted for opinions which I have recieved. Sorry if my actions do not suit you. As I stated earlier it is something I will now have to think about. If your looking for an argument sorry but I am not going to indulge you.

Not looking for an argument - just genuinely baffled. I am the step aunt of children whose names are so hideously "unique" and "unusual" that one became a school refuser - and only went back to school after his name was officially changed. I'm sure their father, who named them, was advised not to use the names, but he carried on.

Ok but it's not as if I have said I am definatley going to use the name. Im not looking for a uniue or unusual name, I don't like the trend of 'made up' names but neither do I want a name where there are 4 others in the class.

Is it that commonly used, though? I have never heard it used - save on here. Maybe the OP isn't really bothered (people are still called Willie, etc, or Peter, which my DP tells me is another word for dick). Personally I think the "her life will be a misery at school" thing is a bit overstated - kids get all sorts of nicknames for all sorts of reasons. It is most certainly not merely because of Christian names - it can be appearance, surname, or any number of random reasons.

LadyThompson - why would you take the risk? Why add give a child a name that potentially might cause her problems? There are thousands of lovely names!

And how many Willies do you actually know?

But seeker any name may give her problems. As I said I had never heard of it being a nn until I came on here and as you pointed out she could move and then be teased. But the same could happen if I gave her a welsh name. Also as I pointd out above she could always use her middle name.

If you don't want another in the class, call her Mary and if it's a he, call him John.

You can never tell with classmates though. In the class above DS, there are 4 little girls called Eve and there are only 11 girls in the class. He also has 2 Edwards in his class. He is James and you'd think there would be lots but he is the only one.

I don't like Mary or John though. Maybe I will hear a name that I fall in love with if not she may indeed still be Minnie .

Seeker - I only know one Willie!

As for Minnie, well - Minnie Driver seems to do ok.

Ok - can everyone on this thread who has a primary school age child ask him or her how they would react to hearing that a new classmate was named Minnie. I just asked mine - and he said "I would try very hard not to laugh" Long pause "Dick's a really funny name too"

Seeker children teasing is unlikely to be a problem because it is not used in this area, so what your ds would do is irrelevant.

Seeker, I totally agree. If that doesn't put somebody off a name, then their name-choosing criteria are ahem

Magaly why should it put me off when it is not used where I live?

Well, there is no village now. Internet, planes, cars, radio, tv.

The World is the World. Especially the english speaking World. There are no parametres. Children will get to hear what minnie means. I know! and I'm hundreds of miles from other people who understand it to mean the same thing. It's not some obscure piece of cornish dialect. It's fairly widespread through different parts of the UK and Ireland. But if all of that doesn't put you off, then and

It's used in The Vagina Monologues!

[Throws hands up in the air]

Surely that shoots the idea down?? I suspect not!

I don't live in a village and I have worked with children throughout Wales and never heard it used as a nn for that.

If you have not heard it, that is a straw poll of ONE person.

No if you read through the thread you will see a few others have not either, also it is not as if i don't know any children and therefore would be unaware of the usage.

Ok, better call your child Minnie then. What do I care!?

My sister's mil's dog is called Minnie. It's an unfortunate name for a dog, and even more unfortunate name for a woman (which your dd will be one day).