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Baby names (again): Did your name influence your child's?
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stolen from another site but thought this was a good topic.
did your own name have an influence on the name you chose for your child(ren)?
for example, I have a very boring 70s name and have never been the only person with my name in a class at school or even at work. in my current job i was so happy to be the only one with my name, then a year after i started so did another! grr. So people at school used my surname ( my parents didnt even give me a middle name, whcih i always wanted, which would have been better than using my surname. So for dd i chose a name that wasnt very popular.
did people who have unusual names for their age group choose a popular name for their children?
if you dont know how popular your baby's name is, the link is here. it's the 2008 name lists.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282
did your own name have an influence on the name you chose for your child(ren)?
for example, I have a very boring 70s name and have never been the only person with my name in a class at school or even at work. in my current job i was so happy to be the only one with my name, then a year after i started so did another! grr. So people at school used my surname ( my parents didnt even give me a middle name, whcih i always wanted, which would have been better than using my surname. So for dd i chose a name that wasnt very popular.
did people who have unusual names for their age group choose a popular name for their children?
if you dont know how popular your baby's name is, the link is here. it's the 2008 name lists.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282
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we chose Lizzie Mae and not Elizabeth as we don't like Elizabeth but hubby is Andrew and is Andrew to family not Andy whereas my family call me Gemmyclaire instead of Gemma so I suppose in a way that did make me happy calling her by a shortern version of a name as Ive always been happy with what im called and hubby doesnt care what he gets called.
dd1 however- her name is Katelyn. now I call her kates always have always will but hubby always calls her Katelyn. he likes to call the children by their proper names- i think this probably helped him chose Lizzie as he wants to call her Lizzie and not Elizabeth.
hope this makes some sense to somebody!!
We have Gabriel Andrew so he has a *slightly* (but not particularly - it was number 78) unusual name with a common middle name.
Next time I want to go more unusual - I love ds's name and he is the only one I know but really hope he doesn't end up in a class with lots. Guess if he's number 78 there could potentially be another one in the year group, like there was with my name.
If he'd been a girl I liked the name Jennifer. Jenny or Jen for short. Used to be a common name but not so much now xxx
My dd is called Emily which is very popular in England but in the area i live in Scotland it isn't even in the top 10. I don't know any wee girls called it either. I wanted a name that was timeless, pretty and could be shortened if she wants
However, our son's name was over number 1500 on the boys 2008 list (took me forever to find it!) We didn't plan for his name to be so uncommon (maybe, subconsciously?) I doubt very much he'll be at school with anyone with the same name, never mind five others, and I'm glad.
I hated been know as 'Claire2' (being the second oldest) at school. Baby 2 will also have an uncommon name, but more to 'tie in' with ds.
Interesting.... )
we couldnt think of a name for our DD - i liked Orlan and Isla when i was pregnant (both of which seem to be becoming more popular now) but she didnt suit those when born,....i wanted a more unusual name for her after me having Laura but im not keen personally on names which can be shortened (unless you call them that e.g Abbie which we did consider) the problem is my married name is horrible so i then didnt want to lumber her with a 1st name she is likely to hate as well...
in the end i said to hubby 'what about Megan?' rather randomly as we couldnt agree on anything else...its not necessarily a name i liked alot and had never considered it before but i do like the name and when i said it i thought she 'looked' like a Megan and everyone agrees it suits her...
i also dont think its as popular as it was about 5 years back...on that table it number 15 and in the Scottish table for 2009 number 22 but i dont know any other Megans and have only met one other one briefly and she is 8 now so i dont see it as 'common'and dont think she will have as many in her class as i was with Lauras but i guess only time will tell...
Lx
I have a friend with an Alfie and I quite liked it, but it seemed to grow on me the more I said it, much to parents (and grandparents) disapproval! Ryan was named by a bloke in the pub hubby works in, sort of! Both hubby and this bloke are Man U supporters and at about 35 weeks pg I walked in the pub and he asked whether we had a name for the 2nd one yet, and were we going to name him Ryan after Ryan Giggs! While I was opposed to naming him after Ryan Giggs, I did really like Ryan. Didnt look at names lists/books etc. Just thought a name would come to me!
We did have girls names sorted and they will be the same.
im intrigued as to what your lo's name is i live in wales and the only boys names that have become more popular recently are Gethin and Deian (which i love ) ... I have a Jack and Sophia ...Jack is one of 3 in his class :roll: but the only other sophia i know is one a couple of years younger than me atm xxx
Jayne xx
But yes, this did make me consider my babies names a bit more and also especially the girls give them names that could be altered, Madison and Isabella. Fortunatelyy so far in their classes ther isnt anyone else with their names.
The boys though are George and Henry and I have heard a lot of Georges since having George. And for henry i loved the name harry, but ther is already 2 along my street so that was no-go so went for henry but i wont call him harry in the future.
Saying that it seems strange as well but all their names become popular in the year or 2 after so are still quite common but just not around the times they wer born.
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My hubby has a very very common first name and I think because of this, it had impacted on us choosin names for our 36wk bump.
For a girl, we have a name picked out which I think its a lush name, not too out there and not common (or old fashioned IMO LOL).....and for boys, we're struggling slightly altho there are a few we like. We defo didn't want a common boys name or for him to be 1 of 4 in a class from the popular names that are around today so we're after something a bit different without being completely randomly weird!
4 more weeks and i'll know what flavour i'm carrying - I can't wait )
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OH name i would also class an uncommon as i have never met anyone by his name.
I did know i wanted a name for DS that wasnt popular, but i cant say that our names influenced that decision. So far so good though x
Helen xx
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We chose Sophie for our dd, purely because we liked it (and could not agree on anything else!). It's in the top 10 so there'll probably be a few in her year when she goes to school. I hope she won't mind!
On a separate note, both hubby and I have two middle names (we're not posh, just had indecisive parents!) and I've always been a bit embarrassed by it as it set me apart from others when at school (you'd always get the question "what's your middle name?" "I've got two" "oh, you must be posh" etc) so we've only given our dd one middle name, again which has turned out to be really popular.