Please come and be judgey at my name list. Thank you please.

[NBheebieGeebies]

Austin - I like but, you know, theres something there iyswim.

Rohan - dh and I keep saying it as Rowan but I prefer Rohan iyswim, so if we call him Rohan will we be thought of as numptys who have changed the spelling of name?

Jansen - but I would have to pronounce it Yansen or I'd feel daft, then I'd feel daft saying Yansen when we're clearly not sweedish/finnish.

Jenson - does it sound sad and does it make you think that we've just called him after a racing driver?

Lewin - Cant make my mind up on it.

Honesty please!

Tell you what's weird. I spend my life telling e.o. how exhausted I am what with 2 small kids and working and all.
And yet here I am, not asleep, but looking up baby names for someone I've never met on the world wide interweb.
Comments?

austin or rowan.

austin princess? no no no.

like lloyd and owen too.

said Ro-han? would be a lotrd of the rings reference - people would thing your a lotr numpty

yansen is wanna be different
jenson - aracing driver

austin - mike meyers

lewin - sounds welsh.

'sounds welsh' lol. Mother, is that you?

deffo jansen

handsome jansen

Someone said somewhere on theis thread that they didn't like "normal" names - they would be the same as the thirds of their class mates. Not at our school he wouldn't. The name that makes people say "Oh that's unusual! "in my ds's class is John! And my ds is called Patrick - and I've had several people say "Haven't heard that for a long time!" Everyone else in the class seems to be called either Callum or Connor or Taylor/Tayler or a string of unrelated letters that's pronounced something like Kaylee,Kylie or Karley. And I can nevery remember which pronounciation goes with which 6 year old.

I have been corrected on my (correct) pronunciation of Welsh names by English kids that I teach. It makes me a trifle miffed!

If you are going to use an name, at least make sure you can say it properly.

We now have a trend of parent who are naming their children Initials. SeeJay or PJ etc.

This drive to be different seems faintly desperate. I'm currently teaching a Domino (female and pathalogically quiet)

From my registers I can confirm that there is a real bias in the occurance of names in different sets. 'Top' sets are mostly full of Davids and Emmas and Hannahs.

Oh Martianbishop - I've been restraining myself - but we can be flamed together. My dd started at grammar school in September - there is not a single "unusual"name in her form. Not one. Unless you count Cherry and that's short for something German. Miranda, Julietta, Sophie Serena, Abigail, Eleanor, Katie,Clarissa, Katharine, Grace, Alice, Emma.....and another 12 similar.

NO!! is it too late to name-change at 6? How could I have been so foolish?

Ok

I think Rohan/Rowan/Roan is the favourite now.

Would Roan look stupid?

If it was Rohan I would have to say it Ro-han.

Rowan I can cope with. I'm sure all Rowan Atkinson thoughts will disappear when I look at the baby.
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Oh, I don't know One - I think Domino Batmother sounds really nice!

Roan is the name of a colour of horse - and it's pronounced rone. Go for Rowan - it's nice, easy to spell and no one will say "sorry, what was that?" when he has to give his name.

or Abishag Batmother

Dont' forget the triplets, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednigo Batmother

That apostrpphe was a typo, not an entirely new level of illitaracy!

I give up - I'm going to make the beds - language is obviously beyond me!

and the batmothers dog, 'Hitherto'

You know, from the bit in the New Testament, 'And Hitherto the dog, licked the sores of Lazerus'

Oh how we laughed in Sunday school over that one.

ActuallyLazerus, there is a name. bet he'd be good at getting up in the morning.

Not forgetting Gladly Batmother, the ocularly challenged teddy bear!

PSML, it look me a little while to get there but that was so worth it!

I like Austin
It was on our shortlist too - the only thing that put me off was that rugby player Austin Healy who was on all those 'before and after' balding bloke adverts (advertising some cream that stops hair loss)

Oh Roan is Rone ey.

Hmmmmmm

Rowan.

Euclid and Hibernia if you must know.

gladly?