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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:)

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.

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.

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.

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!

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?

  • 2 months later...

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 :))

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