Cameron for a boy- has it been ruined by new PM?!

[redbird79]

Hi all, what do you think- will we get castigated by our left-leaning friends for calling our baby Cameron following the election of the new PM? We liked the name previously (Scottish roots and all that) but now wondering whether to ditch it from the shortlist....

its a very nice name but will be forever now associated with a particular person. i dont think you will be castigated, but as a "left" leaning person i would inwardly cringe a little...

what herhonesty said

Ruined!

really? I am scottish and living in scotland and wouldnt make any connection between the two but there are heaps of camerons up here.

It was ruined years before that by this

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGMnnQUZ9R8&feature=related

I think it's a nice name, and wouldn't assume any sort of offering up of the first born to the great white leader if I heard of a baby with it. And I'm left-leaning.

It's what I'll be naming my son (due next month). I did wonder about this - and ran it past my "extremely socialist" partner, but he's happy with it and we love the name, so what? What are you supposed to do? Avoid the name of every political party member?

Will we be suggesting people avoid the name David, "just in case"?

oohhh look ladies we've made discussion of the day (?!?1) must be a slow day on mumsnet...

I think it was already tainted by the wholesome virgin Cameron Stout who won Big Brother 4.

Have you thought about Clegg?

No problem with the name just don't spell it Kameron - that makes my teeth itch

Thanks all, much appreciated. As my DH said- at least old Gordon only ruined one name . Will definitely spell it properly by the way, can't stand these alternative spellings!

Cuppa - I'm very much hoping my little lad grows up an wholesome virgin on a Scottish Island!

Call him Lloyd George instead.

No grandchildren for you then, skihorse!!!!

Do you know the meaning? It's crooked nose!

MummylovesSadie

As a Gaelic speaker it actually means 'the crooked hill'

Have you ever considered Keir - my number one for cool red names. Also, am I the only one who thought that Cameron was a surname..

It's an obvious connection in text but when hearing it, I think more of Cameron Mackintosh and Diaz. Not terrible.

I couldn't! Irrevocably tainted.

I know of a David Cameron taking GCSEs this year - he reckons he should've been allowed to use a pseudonym on his exam papers...

Crooked nose? Yep, knew that - seems quite apt really given that his mother spent her formative years falling off horses...

As far as my Cameron's full name will go - when I google it I get a Laird... and a man who owns a fetish club in Bournemouth. Still, you can't have everything!

it's a lovely name and no not tained by David Cameron at all IMO.
QueenOlive lots of Scottish names can be used as first name or surname eg Lewis, Cameron, Gordon, Bruce, Grant, Innes, Campbell, Malcolm, Donald etc.

Great name, but I agree, I think it's been tainted, (as has Blair for a girl - not that I liked that much anyway).

I do like the alternative of Campbell tho, or will that make you think of Alastair? Opps.

I didn't like it before TBH.

I think there is a tradition in parts of Scotland that boy babies are given their Mum's maiden name.

I'm not Scottish but our family have very Scottish names, and my brother has my Mum's very Scottish maiden name as his first name.

So perhaps there is a little more inter-changeability than usual btw Scottish first and surnames.