Names I wished i hda had the guts to use

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Being Welsh, I have a Welsh name. Not particularly difficult to pronounce and not that unusual but even so I get sick of having it mis-pronounced and mis-spelt (I've lived in England most of my life). Because of this, I vowed that my children would not have Welsh names (although so many of them are lovely). My two have short, easy to pronounce and spell, names. If it were not for the fact that my dad chose my name and would be hurt, I would change it. Think carefully before saddling your children with an difficult name.

My niece's middle name is Twinkle which is kind of cute, but can you imagine her standing in church getting married, with the vicar saying " do you ... Twinkle.... take" - it would be a bit like that episode of "Only Fools and Horses" when odney got married and everyone found out his strange middle name!!

Dh and I careful ploughed through the name books when I was pregnant (as you do!) We came up with a boys name that we thought was really unusual and when Ds was born (he's now 20 months), we were really quite proud to think we'd come up with this name. However, the staff at the hospital must have thought, gosh not another one! And my friend kindly told me her DD had 3 in her class!! I'm glad we called him that though as I think it suits him.

It's funny how names (like fashions) go round in circles, I wonder whether Kevin, Trevor, Sharon or Tracy will come back?

When I was pregnant with dd, all my names were pooh poohed, by everyone I told them to. I actually found this quite upsetting. We finally decided on a girls name that we both liked, dh suggested it, that was fairly unusual at the time and her way of spelling it is straight forward but different from others with the same name. She is the only girl in her school with her name and although we know of a few other girls with the same name it's not very common just yet, although no doubt in a few years it will be.
The one name that I wanted to name her was Calliope, callie for short but everyone looked at me as if I was mad, I thought and still do think that it's a beautiful name. I have since discovered that at the time I was pronouncing it wrongly and it sounds much better pronounced the correct way.
we're going to be trying for baby#2 in a few months time and we have already agreed on names for a boy and a girl, pretty amazing I think since I'm not even pregnant yet. But we're not going to tell any friends or family what names we're planning on until after the baby is born and named, I couldn't go through all those months of people saying are you sure that's what you want to call your child?
by the way my mum wanted to call me scarlett but my dad talked her out of it and I'm so glad as my maiden name was Whyte! I dont' think it goes at all. She also tried snow, as she thought it would make a great talking point for me when I went to parties when I was older! I think it was the hormones as she was usually a very sane person, lol

Dh and I loved Felix, but did not call ds it because of the cat issue! We also loved Sebastian, but thought that he would get beaten up at school, so went for another name which we thought was quite original. We then found out that there are loads of them around in the shortened form.

Linnet, how do you pronounce Calliope?

MrsS, I like Felix, it's a very Jilly Cooper hero type of name to me and yes, CIA James Bond-ish edgarcat. Alibubbles, Clamydia! NO!! Poor, poor child.

Is it Cally O Pee?

Ryan Giggs' daughter is Rhiannon! I'm famous!

Calliope is a greek name. She was one of the daughters of Apollo and sister to Orpheus.Here it is pronounced Cal-i-op-ee.Usually it is shortened to Poppy and occasionally to Pitsa(!) Honestly !!! I think its a lovely name and needs no shortening at all.

Should add that the stress is on the O

DS3 goes to school with a Felix, Milo, Harvey, Douglas, Gareth, Mimi. It must be the area, they don't seem to have the huge influx of Daniels & Aarons that seem more common elsewhere (Y6). I wanted to call him Warwick, but DH had a fit & wouldn't even consider it. He wanted to call him Roger.. (& got the same reaction from me!!)
DS2 has a name I've only ever seen elsewhere in US film credits, & then rarely. Most people on hearing it for the first time query it & pull a face, but once you're used to it, it's just him. (Unfortunately because he also has auburn hair & ADHD he stands out like a sore thumb.. perhaps I should have gone for something anonymous!)
The other 2 have old names that are relatively uncommon, tho putting DD into independent school she found that a huge number of her new friends had a brother with the same name (& a sister called Chloe!).

Isn't it hard to explain without giving too big a clue!

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I love the name Rhiannon which is used here on mumsnet and also by Ryan Giggs. I always thought I would go with that until I found Darcy. Maybe Darcy Rhiannon.

Edgarcat - I wasn't pissed off at all. Email is so hard to convey what you mean. I love my name because it is different and suits me so well. I'm not a feminine girl at all so a girls name probably wouldn't have worked on me.

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Meanmum> I've got a boys name too, and it's spelt the boy way. I hated in when I was little as I was always on the boys side of the register and boys side of the pegs. But I grew to really like it, and I was a bit of a tomboy too.

I called my little boy Harvey. I loved it because of the film with Jimmy Stewart and liking Harvey Keitel. I was gutted when Jordan announced she was going to call her little boy Harvey too, but now I feel its a good name for her son.

I loved looking here for names.

I like the name Kushla for a girl. Is that antipodean?

I don't believe Kushla is antipodean. Unfortunately I'm not pregnant at the moment but trying like crazy this month. Hope that's not too much info for you all.

I'll let you know in two weeks whether I am and then we can have a free for all on names.

Bobbins - that Kabalarian site is amazing, it has been remarkably accurate (and I'm not a horoscopy type of person), got my ailments down to a tee. I have to say I stopped looking at it when looking for names for my soon-to-be baby as it's not all positive. Don't want to lumber a baby with a name that means it's going to have a nervous disposition etc!

I find it very it strange how people seem to fit their names. Do we grow into them in some way?

Yes people do seem to fit them - doesn't that make it a huge responsibility choosing

I must admit I had my ds's name picked out from before he was even conceived (I'm talking years before) and even though we didn't find out the sex during the pregnancy I was positive it was going to be a boy. Rather than refer to him by his name though we called him Bambino as we found out we were pregnant when we were holidaying in Italy.

It was so hard to call him by his name and not Bambino for the first few months though. I think though when we see them for the first time that sometimes the name you have picked changes purely because it doesn't feel right. Does that mean we grow into them or they are what they are because of a gut feeling by the mother? I'm not sure but I know I have suited my name from the moment I was born. I must ask my mum if she had any others picked out for me or if that was it.

Having grown up with a rhyming name and all the teasing that went with it, I was very careful about picking names that weren't likely to be ridiculed at school.

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Although I'm not pregnant, I'm trying, and if we had a girl I'd love the name Matilda, but dp isn't impressed! Don't know why 'cos I think it sounds all strong and feisty!

Our ds has a very common first name, but his middle name is Noah, which I love, and sometimes wished we'd gone for that for his first name..!

Dot1, the problem with Matilda for me is that it always reminds me of a Hilaire Belloc (sp?) poem we had to learn for school that starts off "Matilda told such dreadful lies ...". Funny poem, but not much fun for a potential dd!

chinhcilla- our ds's could have the same name. When he was born (99) it was a really unusal name- now I'm coming across more and more of them.I love the name Noah dot- but dh wouldn't hear of it. Our ds2 has a very common name but I like it anyway (we don't shorten it but most people do)