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I think most people who work with children feel the same about certain names because of the reason you said.
Girl - Xanthe
Boy - Harley, Adam
:thumb:
i think lucy, emily and faye are lovely names
i you!!!!
Other than Imogen, girls wise it'd probably be Paige, Jade or Rebecca
Boys, probably Paul, Aaron, or Luke. I used to say Ben as well, but since we named our dog that I can never hear it without thinking of something barking.
how do you pronounce them, i'm lame! ;(
Woohoo! :razz:
Aww I like Paige too.
Caden or Harry for a boy
Evan and Josh for boys.
:yes:
Girls: Ceinwen, Angharad, Carys, Eilidh (sp?)
Boys: Iestyn, Gethin, Ellis or Elliot
lily (or lilian, if you must)
megan
hayley
Guys
felix
josh
more to come :-P
Shudder
Reminds Me of Erin Boag and Erin Brockovich, two horrible names all-round. :yuck:
And Demi Moores character in Striptease
Raphael
I hadn't even thought of that!
What, all of them?
Ingrid - In-grid
Alva - AL-vah
Cecilia - Sess-seel-yah (I really like this but I hate the meaning )
Meredith - Mer-a-dith
Penelope - Pen-el-opie
Méabh - Mave
Caroline - I guess you know that'un :razz:
Iona - I-o-na
Áine - Awn-yuh
Nenagh - Neena
Lorelei - Lor-a-lie
Astrid - As-trid
Vivienne - too easy!
Marit - Ma-rit
Agnes - Ag-ness
Well i must say you have a very "different" taste in names.
Can only be a good thing in my opinion.
At least... anything's better than having little Molly, Chloe, Isabella and Olivia running around the schoolyard with a million others indentically or similarly named :yuck:
Haha Thanks yeah it is a good thing that it's different, just not if they get bullied for it. Children can be very nasty.
I've thought about bullying potential but names weren't a big target for bullies anyway in my experience. Kids tend to pick on anything so it seems a bit pointless to let some snot-nosed schoolyard brats prevent a kid from having a beautiful, unusual name. They'd only pick on something else, anyway, and it'd be madness to bow to so and so's playground name-calling :thumb:
Kids find loads of other stuff to bully others about these days, names is not important anymore
I think Briggi's choice of names are quite unusual. In my opinion a tad old fashioned, but calling a child a boring name like Sarah or Amy, or god forbid Chelsea is a far worse baby naming offence (apologies to anyone called those names ). I think it's quite cool actually.
Yeah it is but it wasn't common at the time i was born and i did go a whole 5 years being the only person at school with that name.
Yeah i think it's usually the last names that are made fun of. But you never know. Anyway if your kid turns out "cool" his/her name won't matter at all.
Definitely my favourite, young Bridget. :thumb:
Heh, thanks I think I prefer "traditional" to "old fashioned"
Booby - I think Lorelei is my favourite, too, or close. Stephen is batting for Agnes and Ingrid for girly names though, since they're traditional to his family. I might have to use the power of veto...
Which one? If you don't mind saying!
My niece's name is Isabella, and I think it is a gorgeous name standing apart from all the other Isabellas that have popped up recently. It's just a shame that she's going to go to school with seven others in her class, I would like to avoid that if possible! Names are pretty important to identity, at least I've found that
Indeed. At one of the nurseries I did my work placement at, I swear nearly every boy there was either called Jack or Joshua or had some really odd name or didn't spell their name properly... Thankfully, at the one I'm at now, they seem to have normalish names like Adam, Harry & Alexander.
Good names !
Evan is one of my middle names and my sons, it's a great name lol. It means Young Warrior - rarr!!
:yes: I know what you mean. I love the name Theo and Riley but there are two little shites at nursery with them names, horror kids so that puts me of them names!
And I also love Niamh but prefer it spelt Neve and rose is very pretty with it too.
I also have many many other girls names I adore, I was saying to my mum the other day I don't think my daughter would get a name until she was like 5months old or something, I just wouldn't be able to choose, and then she assured me that "the name just fits when you look at the wee little lass in your arms". All I can say is it better do!
Boys, do like Riley if i can get over the horror at nursery ever otherwise Connor, Ben, Luke, Andrew and many many others. Similiar situation to girls names.