Grandchild name

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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

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.

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.

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

Mostly we call her Suse.

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

Am now wondering is soop best friends with Prince Micheal of Kent?

We have a Florence in the family and she is known as Flossie. I wanted to name DD1 Flora but, as Jess says, the margarine Flora had just appeared on the market and everyone said 'you can't possibly name a baby after margarine' so she became Hannah instead

I do not like the name Florence as it was my MiL's name. nuff said.

I suffered tortures at school because I was the only Caroline. It was very outlandish at the time. My mother told me that if I had been my younger sister (keep up at the back!) She would have called me Charlotte. At the time I thought I had had a lucky escape - now I think it would have been rather nice.

My mother was always instant that no one should shorten my name and call me Carol. So how come, once I was grown up, she started calling me Caro?