Grandchild name

Our eldest daughter is Susannah. She was Susie until she became a grown up

Mostly we call her Suse.

Oh dear. My DD1 is Susan and we've always called her Susie.
I think it's a lovely name and she lives up to it

susie I am Susan which I absolutely hate! I was called Susie as a child and now known as Su (without the 'e'). I would have much preferred to have been called Susannah or Suzanne. I did fare better than my sister though, she has had to live with Mavis all her life.

Sometimes you can consider a lot and still get it wrong. Someone I know called her son Harry, just before the first Potter movie came out. And he is the spitting image of HP as well.
I would have called DS1 Flora if he had been a girl. A couple of years later the margarine of that name was released upon an unsuspecting world.

I used to run a nursery, and had Woden, Thor, Champagne, Ocean.....

My son changed his name from Kevin to Eddie

I hated being a Sue, as everyone my age is called Sue

My DH cousin is called Holiday, as she was born on a bank holiday, as was our DD, so we called her Holly - his cousins nickname, and we had found out we were expecting her on Christmas Eve

Its up to you what you call your child, but I do think some thought should be given to the consequences of the child concerned

The really sweet part about the naming of my DG, is that her parents were looking through an old photo album and saw a picture of my Grandma + two of her daughters {my aunts] one of which was named Florence .

There and then that was their choice of name . I did not find that out till later !!

I was very pleased !!

I had a great aunt Florence who was called Florrie or Flossie but never Flo. I think it's a lovely name and worked hard to get one of our DGDs called Florence - to no avail. My grandmother (Florrie's sister) was Edith, I worked on that one too, also to no avail. They also had sisters called Ada and Bertha - didn't work on those!

Maud is very popular lately, I think. There was a very rude, in the lavatorial sense, version of 'Come into the Garden, Maud' when I was at school. Luckily, I can't remember it.

OOPs me again , she does on occasion get called Florrie , which I think is pretty !

ps I meant to say do not abbreviate it to FLO.

Soop one of my DCD is called Florence , I think it really fabulous name , they also call her that at home and school .

Lovely !! x

Mr soop's late mother was Amelia. Millie to the family. It's becoming popular.

I like my Nana's name - Florence. Not Flo', though.

"Come into the garden, Maud, for the black bat, night, hath flown..."

I love a lot of Tennyson's poems, but this one don't 'alf drag on.

absent when son number three was born, I really liked the name, Sacha. I then changed it to Alexander and used it as his middle name.

My good friend's son, has named his new daughter - Maud. That's a name I haven't heard mentioned in many years.

Ana A distinct possibility. Or maybe Sacha which in the UK has been taken over by girl babies but was originally short for Alexander.

It doesn't seem likely that Ermintrude is ever going to come back to tell us! My bet's on Gene...

That which we call a rose… I assume he isn't called Rose.

No worries Eloethan I love that song and it just goes to prove what a difference a name makes.

Deedaa No connection with "The Importance of being Ernest" I trust.

It seems that you have other problems with your son, i.e. he owes you money and does not 'consult you ', there is more to this problem than just choosing a name you do not like.

My last baby was named after the two midwives who delivered her - they both had the same name! And it was top of our shortlist anyway so it seemed fated.

I recently found out where I was conceived when I found my mother's diary for 1945. She had been demobbed but my father was still in the RAF. He had a few days leave in October and they went to Worthing. A few weeks later there was a note in the diary saying that she was expecting a baby and I arrived the following June. Just as well the fashion for using the place as a name hadn't started then - wouldn't have fancied being Worthing or perhaps Cavendish aafter the hotel

It has only just occurred to me that two of my DDs have names that can be male or female. One is Beverly and the other Lindsay. I am told they are both spelt the male way, can't say it has ever bothered the girls and they get cross when people spell them wrongly.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that Soo is a perfectly acceptable male Chinese name, or Thai nickname.

Lindsay is also from a surname (sire name) therefore using it for males is fine. What weird preconceptions we have in our ignorance of history!