Hi Stacy,
Thank you so much for your comments re Hannah & Harriet's names. Harriet is quite an old fashioned name and not popular at all but Wayne and I loved it. We resist the temptation to shorten it! Hannah did not seem a common name when we chose it (in 1995), but everyone else obviously liked it too as it suddenly became popular.
Ruth
Darrel would have been a Hannah Louise in 1988, but being a boy he wouldn't have taken kindly to it. Joshua's middle name is Kai. It's a Persian word meaning king. Nice and different.
Kerry
Steph
My daughter is only 8, but when I enrolled her at playgroup, nursery then school I told all her teachers that she was known as Stevie (as I had to bring her birth certificate along which had her 'Stephanie' name).
It's funny but whenever we are in company and I sometimes call her Stephanie, people always turn and say 'I didn't know that was her real name'.
I know a few people round my area who have called their daughter's Stevie only (ie not shortened it from anything else).
I find it both easy and difficult buying things with my daughters names. My eldest is called Hayley-Jane (nearly 13 and don't we know it!!!) as you can imagine it is impossible!!! And I go completely potty whenever I get the chance to have something especially made for her!! The youngest (nearly 9 - "its 10 days to my birthday Mummy!") is Charlotte and as you can imagine I have absolutely no problems there!!!
Before they were born had they of been boys they would have been called Luke!!! Goodness knows what we would have called the second one if we had had two boys!!!! I am sure we would have come up with something!
Debs
Our daughter Freya always introduces herself as PARTY!!!! and more recently PARTY WIT-WOO, this does not bode well for the future[:I]
Sarah
PS Orlandobabe - I think Tilly is short for Matilda which is now quite popular.
PPS John's sister has 3 daughters,one is Tabitha (Tabby) and the youngest Katja (Katty or Kat) So yes she has Tabby Kat!
Reading about the Steve reminded me of a time hubby and I were introduced to friends of our friends. We were introduced as Viv and Jack and it was 18 months before anybody told this couple that they had the wrong names for the wrong person
Jacqui
PS My hubby's introduction to our children's friends is:
"Hello, my name is Viv and I'm a lesbian." It took me ages to work out how he had arrived at this statement. Simple really, says he - I've got a girl's name and I sleep with a woman therefore I'm a lesbian.
It could have been worse, I suppose. At least he refered to me as a woman and not a dog
www.orlandovillas.com/Villas/73.aspx
Is Vivian a common name for men in the UK? How did his parents come up with that? I have a friend Susie, whose husband is Vicky. Really. They all call him Vic, now. But people assume it is for Victor.
I can't bring up the first page of this, but getting the Gist of it...
For our baby - before it was born, we chose Robert Lee for Boy and Charlotte Louise for a girl...........
the uncanny thing is - Robert LEIGH was my Mum's dad [ ie my grandad]'s name and Charlotte was her Mums name. I had never known this, or anything about them - they died 20 years before I was born, and were never mentioned by their names at all. How uncanny is that ?
Anyway, Robert likes his name unshortened, and lives in fear of BOB, but likes Rob if anything, and we have no problems getting anything with names on anywhere !!
Oh dear... we've got grandchildren - a Rachel (relatively easy to get stuff for) and a Zara (well nigh impossible!). My husband spent hours on the phone half asleep at 6 am when the twins were born and we were told their names saying 'Sara?' 'Lara?' 'Tara?' eventually asking how it was spelt as he had never heard of the name before and then saying to me in exasperation 'why on earth didn't they call her something easy to understand like Jane?'
Needless to say, Rachel is known as Rach and Zara is known as, well... Zara actually!
blott
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