Name my daughter

[machew]

Congratulations, I also voted Evelyn......So much choice, 'Cecilia' is a nice name, (patron saint of music)

Problem with Cecilia, is everyone will sing that Simon & Garfunkel song to her and think that they are being funny

 

[rich p]

My daughter refused my suggestion that she call her latest kid, Nancy.
Evelyn is a good name though.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Isn't Evelyn a boy's name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh

 

[Profpointy]

Isn't Evelyn a boy's name?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Waugh

well the world's best drummer seems happy with it

 

[Drago]

I wanted to call my daughter Brucella after Bruce Dickinson. Suffice to say I now have a different wife.

 

[growingvegetables]

I'm surprised it wasn't Enola

You owe me a screen and keyboard!

 

[theclaud]

Some folk have been known to name their offspring on what they were drinking and in what car they used as a love nest.. Just saying!

I remember 3BM enthusing about this tradition. His eldest, Old Hooky Mondeo McGinty, didn't seem persuaded, for some reason or other.

Congrats, Andy!

 

[fimm]

Fiona is quite a nice name, Gaelic name meaning fair.
Not so popular in the UK recently though.

... unlike in the 1970s, when every other girl seems to have been named Fiona...
... I do like it as a name (thankfully)...

 

[guitarpete247]

Hmmm - there are names which "generate a wary response" from teachers, born out of long experience?

I know - it is rough on the really pleasant, personable people called Dwayne, Dean, Chelsea, Jade, and a few others. And I apologise profusely to any on the board who bear those names, or who have given their children those names ...........

Plus the kids who have names with idiosyncratic spelling . There are several I could mention but it would be very wrong of me to ridicule some kids parents on here in case anyone on here knows those kids.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Jadzia??

B'ellana?

 

[guitarpete247]

^^^^ But only if she resembles an alien life form.

 

[User482]

Congratulations @AndyRM !

Hopefully you don't support Borussia Monchengladbach, but otherwise, we followed two rules: 1) Can you imagine yourself yelling the name across a playground and b) is there an acceptable short version, because that's what her friends will call her?

 

[AndyRM]

Thank you all for your kind wishes and suggestions. Our Working Titles selection has been expanded!

And as some have said, we are hanging fire until we meet her properly, Bambamber is the bumps current title.

To answer a few queries:

Fiona, which I think is a lovely name is also the name of my dads sister, so it would be a bit weird.

Using both Evelyn and Amber with our (self inflicted) double barrelled surname would guarantee daily kickings. We live in Wallsend...

If I could get away with a football related name it would be Paul, after Paul Wright who is a Killie legend. Unfortunately that's Sophs dads name. The other choice for a Killie cup winner is Dieter.

And music tribute wise my only other real offering is Tarja, which I've not suggested yet but I will this evening along with other ideas from this thread.

Finally, my mileage for 2015 was pathetic and I'm resigned to it being even worse over the next few years.

But honestly? I don't particularly care.

 

[guitarpete247]

And what will initials be ( I knew an Anthony Nicholas Thompson ANT). Or what does her name sound like (a friend was at a schools cross-country event and there was a competitor called Cara Vanne).

 

[User482]

Finally, my mileage for 2015 was pathetic and I'm resigned to it being even worse over the next few years.

Sure, but think of all the adventures you'll have when she's older: I took my eldest cycle camping last year (just after she turned 4) and we had a family weekend away, cycling from Bristol to Devizes. You don't need to cycle far to get a workout if you're towing kids. I think we did our first trips out with the trailer when our eldest was about 6 months. Head over to the family cycling thread...