Baby names

[Earl Aelfheah]

Don't want anyone's blood boiling. Have edited original post so as to avoid offence.

[vesti]

Thanks.

Blood settling.

Best of luck with the baby.

Jane

[Saffron]

vesti Wrote:

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> Thought I'd just have a little look at a nice

> sounding thread and now blood is boiling.

> Be nice if people worrying about names to call

> their kids would also worry about not offending

> others with terms like "pikey".

> Pikey is pejorative. Can we just not use it.

gimme a break wud'ja?!

choose any name you like:)

[Earl Aelfheah]

Belle Wrote:

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> Yes agree it's a bit unfair on the child with the

> middle name which is purely for a joke, though

> guess better than having a silly first name. I

> think I read somewhere that 'Delete' is a first

> name now. Why/how?!

There was a kid at my school called James Bond.

[Sanne Panne]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> There was a kid at my school called James Bond.

I had one in my class called Rembrandt van Rijn. Now "Van Rijn" is quite common in Holland (where I grew up) but "Rembrandt" certainly isn't. He never had any problems with it though.

[littleEDfamily]

How did I miss this thread til now!!!? My heart was pitter-pattering at the posts discussing my second daughter's name (mostly nice comments thank goodness, but find myself wanting to scream 'DON'T STEAL MY NAME - it's mine -alllllll miiiinnnnneee!)

Back to the OP - my husband desperately wanted Bailey for both our daughters. It's his mother's maiden name.

I was not having it:

1. It is a dog's name (labrador in my opinion)

2. It reminds me of Party of 5 (that TV show about these kids raising themselves)

3. Um... it's too American (despite the fact my kids have quite 'American names')

Names I never got to use that I still like:

Anouk

Anais

Georgia

Austin

Alice

Celeste

Hope

Faith

My cousin called her little one Boudica. We call her Boo. It's cute.

[sillywoman]

Oooh, LEDF that is cute. Wish I'd had more girls - I found/find it much easier to chose girls names than boys.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Baby finally arrived in the wee hours of this morning. We have decided to call her Bonnie. Thanks for sharing your ideas / opinions.

[sophiechristophy]

Bonnie is such an adorable name! Congratulations!

[sillywoman]

Love Bonnie, Congratulations rahrahrah, well done.

[Belle]

I like bonnie too, lovely - more importantly, well done rahrahrah & many congratulations!

[littleEDfamily]

Love it!!

[dollydaydream]

Congratulations to rahrahrah on the birth of Bonnie, what a lovely name.

[Helen GV]

Congratulations!

[sillywoman]

Word of warning though: always check the first name goes with the last name. Heard this week of a childhood friend whose parents called him 'Ewan', would have been fine except his last name was 'Kerr'.

A 9 year old boy would take about 6 seconds to work out the potential of that one!

[Zo?]

And my friend teaches a little boy named Dwayne, surname Pipe.

Congratulations rahrahrah - and a really lovely name.

[srisky]

Sillywoman/Zoe - tell me you are both joking!

[mockney piers]

yournotme comes to the rescue, in this country (over the age of 18) are:

ewan kerr: 13

wayne kerr: 10

dwayne pipe: 0 that little boy'll be the first!!!

Michael Hunt: 515 wow, that's a lot of stupid parents!!

Christopher Peacock: 178 ditto

Bonnie's a lovely name. Great work. Tell me your surname isn't N'Clyde or anything is it?

[Otta]

Congrats! Good name too. Come on everyone, Turn around bright eyes...

[Otta]

Mrs TP Wrote:

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> We know a 7yr old girl called Scout on the whole

> To Kill a Mockingbird theme - really gives the age

> away of the parents who studied it for o' level.

> I love it and Atticus too, although thought we

> were doing girl's names here?

>

> Whatever you choose you will encounter another

> with the same name along the line. I was in Just

> Williams last summer with my 9yr old daughter and

> called over to her. A dad next to me in the queue

> said oh my daughter is called that and pointed to

> a toddler in a pram nearby. I smiled and said

> that we had encountered a few with the same name

> over the years and we all nodded politely. Until

> his snooty missus joined the queue and he told her

> 'this lady has a daughter also called xxx' and the

> stroopy mare announced 'oh I hate it when someone

> else uses our name' - should have been more

> original love and get over yourself ...

Back when this thread was going on, we had already decided on Scout for our new daughter, and I was thinking Hugh, don't give anyone any ideas.

Anyway, our Scout was born this morning :))

[Belle]

Ah lovely news Keef! Congratulations, and what a lovely name. Very cool. Hope all well.

[mockney piers]

Marvellous. How did it go, how were you for that matter?

Come on details man, weight?

[Otta]

I was a little bit delicate after you forced me at knife point to have that last pint.

All went nice and smooth though.

Baby was 8lbs7oz, and she looks like her big sister.

[karter]

An edf congrats too. Great name. (tu)

[jollybaby]

Another congrats from here . . May the mayhem commence!