#341

I think when bairn one was born his name was chosen that year in Scotland by 8 other people. Yet his pal at nursery was born the same year and same name so he calls his nursery pal other (insert my bairn’s name here). Small amusing world, innit?

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#342

The Child’s first name (or close variants) are the 80th ish most popular but I’m OK with that.

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#343

I think 75-150 is the sweet spot between too popular and trying too hard.

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#344

Yeah, my family all have Seans and Elizabeths after my grandparents. Of the 6 sets of cousins, 3 have Sean and Elizabeth sibling pairs, and the other 3 each have at least Sean or Elizabeth middle names. It’s never been a thing at all. Don’t get preciousness over names tbh.

@Scout a girl I went to uni with but haven’t spoken to at least 10 years has a Juniper and that name was in contention for us :grimacing: Id still do it! Maybe I just won’t admit to stealing it from her??

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#345

:exploding_head: so many rules!

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#346

i think you can get away with it if you’ve not spoken in ages and obviously don’t say oh yeah we stole the name :grinning:

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#347

That’s fine imo.

Also, that’s the nickname me and my friends used to call each other when we were 20 and pretending we were old biddies :laughing::smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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#348

In my personal experience… names given by parents should only be considered as placeholders until the child is old enough to choose their own name.

Neither of my kids go by the name we chose for them at birth, the eldest because it doesn’t match how they’ve come to know themselves and their gender identity and the youngest cos even though we thought it wasn’t that common there were four other kids with variants of their name in their form at secondary school.

So yeah, I wouldn’t sweat it too much, I’d just go for something not too heavily freighted with connotations and let them choose their own when they hit that age if they feel like that’s what they want to do. Ultimately it’s their name not yours.

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#349

Oh it’s a name. It’s the name for a 50 year old school teacher full of hate.
There’s no good in than name.

#350

This is a really great attitude - top parenting :+1:

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#351

I know some great Fionnualas, it’s not just an older person’s name!

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#352

I think id be terrible at naming children, when I named our fish it was things like “upside down fish” cause it used to like hanging upside down or “cat fish” because it was a catfish, “baby fish” because it was born in the tank and so on. The only good name was the crab, citizen snips, and only because there’s a crab of the same name in futurama. Would have named my white paws cat something like mittens but thankfully it was not up to me. Giving a kid a difficult to pronounce name is good I think, its character building, definitely feel tougher having grown up with a difficult name

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#353

I have a (Welsh) name people struggle with (no Welsh connection, don’t ask me how I ended up with it) so obviously decided to give both children “difficult” Irish names. There were 13 other kids in the UK with youngest’s name the year she was born (though another 150 with the shortened version she goes by) and 66 with our eldest’s name. Neither are particularly out-there names though.

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#355

I hoped you’d pick up on that sooner!

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#356

there’s only room in my heart for one theo

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#357

Then when he turns 18 he can evolve into Golem

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#358

The chipmunks are cute aren’t they? :heart_eyes:

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#359

Genuinely couldn’t resist that.

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#360

Oh yeah @1101010 my cousin gave her baby your first name and its middle name is the same as the first half of your surname (surname is not same as second half of your surname though)

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