Girl name final contenders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liam is a shortened form of the Irish version of William. Not sure why the PP keeps disputing its connection to William.

Just some know it all, arrogant nitwit. Every name origin website agrees with you.

https://www.behindthename.com/name/liam

[Anonymous]

I like

Pepper
Pixie
Pansy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're not using a longer name. We're fine with what you consider a nickname (or a dog's name) being the full name. We considered Phoebe for a while also but ultimately took it off the list.

For the sake of her adult life, resumes, etc, please don’t give her a nn as a proper name.

That’s not really relevant anymore. Have you heard some of the names people have? Polly won’t be an issue on a resume compared to Northwest and Blue Ivy and moon unit…let me think of some names of ppl I’ve actually met: Claytoria, Whisper, unique. I don’t see Polly raising any eyebrows.

Sadly I have heard some of these names. I worked at a big investment bank, and we got so many resumes that one of the initial screens was to toss out anything that wouldn’t look professional for clients. Believe it or not, the trashier or curtesy didn’t even get a read.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:In my experience people who name their daughters Lulu or Lola or Poppy name their sons Theodore or Alexander or Henry. Which complicates the “anti-misogyny” argument because fun is not something they value for sons.

None of them are namjng their boys “Danny” as a full name. Or Timmy or Bobby or Dave.

So you don’t know any boys named Eli or Max or Jack?

My grandpa's first name was Jack. Not Jacob. Jack. And his brother's name was Clifford Max LastName but his mother couldn't say Clifford (I don't know why that name was picked) so he went by Mac his entire life. My grandpa had a PhD and Uncle Mac had a Master's in electrical engineering or CS or something. And my aunt Bobbi legally changed her name from Barbara to Bobbi as she got married. My aunt Cindy is not short for Cynthia. Both aunts got masters degrees and worked professionally.

Jack is typically a nn for John, not Jacob (that would be Jake). Sometimes it’s a stand-alone name.

Not in the Jewish community. Jewish people aren't named John.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like

Pepper
Pixie
Pansy

But those are boys names

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like

Pepper
Pixie
Pansy

But those are boys names

Pansy is a boy's name? Pixie? Pepper? Trolls are getting serious

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like

Pepper
Pixie
Pansy

But those are boys names

Pansy is a boy's name? Pixie? Pepper? Trolls are getting serious

I guess you don’t watch Modern Family.

Pepper is Nathan Lane’s character.

(They are boy names/nicknames in the gay and drag community.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I like

Pepper
Pixie
Pansy

But those are boys names

Pansy is a boy's name? Pixie? Pepper? Trolls are getting serious

I guess you don’t watch Modern Family.

Pepper is Nathan Lane’s character.

(They are boy names/nicknames in the gay and drag community.)

You are right. Are we naming drag queens?

[Anonymous]

The good thing is that she can change her name when she turns 18.

My parents gave my sister a stupid nickname as a name and she has hated every since she was a child. She started using another name (that is typically the real name for that nickname) by the time she was a tween. Professionally she uses the long version even though it isn't her name. She is in her 40s and still asks my parents why they thought that was a good idea. You have your name for life and it is used often and is part of your identity. If you like some cutesy name use it on a pet.

[Anonymous]

These are all cute nicknames for a little girl, but I personally wouldn’t want to be an adult woman named Polly or Posey or Poppy. Every Poppy I know is a dog.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The good thing is that she can change her name when she turns 18.

My parents gave my sister a stupid nickname as a name and she has hated ever since she was a child. She started using another name (that is typically the real name for that nickname) by the time she was a tween. Professionally she uses the long version even though it isn't her name. She is in her 40s and still asks my parents why they thought that was a good idea. You have your name for life and it is used often and is part of your identity. If you like some cutesy name use it on a pet.

+1

I know an adult whose legal name is a cutesy nickname, and she simply introduces herself/goes by the formal name that is typically associated with the nickname.

Parents: don’t saddle your kid with an unusual name…especially if your own name is something vanilla. You have no clue what it feels like to go through life with a name you don’t like.

[Anonymous]

Pippa and Polly are more British names. Pippa is a nickname for Philippa. Pippa Middleton is named Philippa as well. Polly is a nickname for Mary and so was common until the 1960s/70s when Mary also started to lose popularity.

Are you British?

[Anonymous]

Poppy is really sweet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Liam is a shortened form of the Irish version of William. Not sure why the PP keeps disputing its connection to William.

It's not unconnected to William, they're the same name in different languages. It's origin is not as a nickname for William, that is simply false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The good thing is that she can change her name when she turns 18.

My parents gave my sister a stupid nickname as a name and she has hated every since she was a child. She started using another name (that is typically the real name for that nickname) by the time she was a tween. Professionally she uses the long version even though it isn't her name. She is in her 40s and still asks my parents why they thought that was a good idea. You have your name for life and it is used often and is part of your identity. If you like some cutesy name use it on a pet.

The trouble with this argument is that I know people with all different kinds of names who wound up hating their names. Like many of the longer names that people are suggesting to use, with one of OP's name as a nickname, are exactly the kinds of names some kids hate. Like Phillipa may sound sophisticated and beautiful to you, but I know people who have/had names like that and hated how formal they were (or disliked that it was just Phillip with an a at the end). People also wind up disliking their names for being too common (a very common complaint among Gen X and Millenial women, pun intended).

Of the people I know who changed their names as adults, their given names were: Margaret, Charles, Marygrace, Susan, and Darlene. They changed their names because these names never felt right to them. I also suspect in some cases they changed their names because they had unhappy childhoods with dysfunctional families, and getting a new name was a way of having a fresh start. So sometimes name dissatisfaction might just be a reflection of a broader unhappiness and not really about the name.

I could absolutely see someone with a name like Poppy or Polly hating it and wishing their parents had named them something longer and more formal, with a nickname, instead. But I can also see someone hating the longer more formal name, and wishing they had something shorter and friendlier. It really does not just go one way. The best you can do is give your kid a name YOU really like, use it with love, and hope it turns out okay. Giving your child a name you don't like as much in order to try and prevent them disliking it later is a weird game of trying to anticipate the preferences of a person who doesn't even exist yet, years in advance. It's impossible. Just give your kid the name that feels best to you and see how it shakes out later.