Grandchild name

DD looked exactly like me when she was born so we called her by my name, as soon as she could talk she shortened it and has been called by that name for 42 years. My father, obsessed by all things Norwegian, wanted her to be called Solveig or something. Father never called me by my name anyway he always used a nickname.

I like names to have meanings.
DS is Edward, the guardian of prosperity.
DD1 is Susan, the white lily.
DD2 is Elizabeth, the grace of God.

The name my mum wanted for me, Wendy plus a middle name would have made my initial WET. My dad refused to have a daughter who may have been called Wet & windy Wendy! They dropped the Wendy!

Yes - I'm Plain Jane and I think it suits me

I know of a child called Cwm. My DD had a colleague originally Moonbeam with siblings with equally aesthetic names. They all changed them. Does anyone like the name their parents gave them?

Come on Ermintrude - where are you? What is he called????

I have Jenifer with one n and ann without an e. I say I was born in rationing!

We had a lovely eccentric Lady of the Manor in Cornwall (can't remember her official title) When her father went to register her she was supposed to be called Janet but he got it wrong and she was registered as Jonet. She always introduced herself as Joney the spelling mistake!

I have always understood that Shirley was originally a male name and that Charlotte Bronte was the first person to use it as a girl's name.

Merlot

When DH's father went to register him he bumped into a relative who asked what the baby was going to be called. On being told Robert the relative pointed out that it was an unlucky name because a distant cousin called Robert had fallen off a cliff/been hit by a bus or something similar. FIL thought he'd better go for the second choice but couldn't remember what it was. He knew it began with a K so that is why DH is called Keith.

The second choice of name was actually Kenneth!!

Francis/Frances, Valentine, Jody/Jodie, Samantha???

Sky/Skye, Sonny/Sunny, Louie, Bobby/Bobbie

Ermintrude I think you are having us on and winding us up!

My mother wrinkled her nose at the traditional and unfashionable name I chose for absentdaughter on the grounds that it was "an old woman's name". I pointed out that old women had been babies once. My mama soon got used to it. Absentdaughter, however, hated it and has since legally changed it. The name has since become a particularly popular one.

In other words, the name is not really that important.

My mother sent my father off to the registry of births marriages and deaths with the instruction that I was to be named Roberta.
Dad took no notice

Sssshhhh! Hilda

Nice to see a leg puller on a different subject....makes a change from Aerobics classes.
P.S. is a certain person on holiday?

I boggle over anyone falling out with their child over the choice of a grandchild's name. You may not like it, you can perhaps suggest the problems that may come. My middle name was changed because someone pointed out to my mother that my initials would form a word that could lead to a lot of teasing but fall out with a child over the name of a grandchild seems OTT.

However Ermintrude I note you say you lent your son money towards buying his house and then objected when he extended it. I get a feeling that perhaps you are still trying to control your son the way you could when he was a child and that everything would improve all round if you could accept that he is now an adult, married with a child of his own and will make his decisions for himself.

Speak to any grandparents who have a continuously good and happy relationship with their children and grandchildren and you will find grandparents who stepped back once their children grew up and had a family of their own and let them make their own decisions, for good or ill. Many have helped their children with money and assistance but none have used this to wield power or influence.

NellieM I've put the hulk on the picture thread!

I knew someone who wanted to call her new baby girl Melanie. She sent her DH to register the birth but he didn't know how to spell it so the poor child ended up labelled Melony.

Another person I worked with had a DD whose married name was Plonka (Polish I think) and she had a baby girl and called her Polly. Still makes me smile!

Just think of England Galen!

Until we know what dreadful name this poor baby has been saddled with, it is hard to make any meaningful comment. Other than that to say that is it not really down to the parents? (That said, I read recently that 3 children were simply registered as " C " ) Now if their granny were to ask AIBU I think our answer might be more sympathetic!!

Er, well, I have to own up to a recently mentioned male/female moniker . I only answer to it in the Dr's surgery and on official forms, passport etc. otherwise, I am known by a totally different name and have been since I was about 3 weeks old. Completely ridiculous I know!

Someone at work was considering calling their baby, Koala. Fortunately they decided on something less unusual.

NellieM I wish! Probably forgotten what to do by now but he was super in his swimming trunks!.

As a male name Marion derives from the Latin male name Marianus.

Amazinf what you can find out if you look about you.

Babe Ruth was a bloke.

Shirley is from a surname, i.e. a 'sire' name. Hillary also. And Leslie.