Palmer for a boy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honest reaction (but I do not know how representative that reaction would be):

- 5% possibility it's an old money family who doesn't care
- 10% likelihood of some weird low-class thing I don't know about
- 85% (fairly certain) it's a class-anxious family that wants the kid to appear well-heeled but has trouble making the club fees

Agree completely with this. And I actually think it's *worse* for a girl than a boy, but it's awful for either.

[Anonymous]

What about Parker instead

[Anonymous]

I dislike ALL of the occupational-surname-as-first-name names when they're given for how they sound rather than what they mean.

Palmer, Baker, Cooper, Chandler, Tanner, Wheeler, etc.: unless it's a family name or honoring one's trade or life calling I think they sound silly.

[Anonymous]

My uncle’s name was Palmer. It’s not my favorite name, but it isn’t even remotely as horrible as other posters are saying. Cameron Eubanks from Southern Charm has a baby girl named Palmer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dislike ALL of the occupational-surname-as-first-name names when they're given for how they sound rather than what they mean.

Palmer, Baker, Cooper, Chandler, Tanner, Wheeler, etc.: unless it's a family name or honoring one's trade or life calling I think they sound silly.

Ditto. There was a thread on this some years back. Somebody suggested Executioner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Literally an 80s soap opera name, and not in a good way.

Palmer is guaranteed to be a DB. Just sayin'.

Yes! Palmer Woodward was Amanda’s father on Melrose Place. And there was a Palmer on All My Children.

[Anonymous]

Palmer and Saul both suck. Please find better names.

[Anonymous]

There was a book from the library that I loved as a child named "Palmer Patch" about a skunk who had been stolen from the wild and deskunked to become a pet.

Sooo...Palmer makes me think of a skunk. I honestly had no idea it was a "real" name, I thought it was like Fido, made up for animals. Oops.

[Anonymous]

A friend’s mom was named Rosie. My friends thought it was hilarious to call her Rosie Palmer. Palmer wasn’t even her last name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Palmer and Saul both suck. Please find better names.

+1. I think it’s her too.

[Anonymous]

I actually like the name for both sexes. My teenaged kid likes to watch some Adam Sandler movie that has a woman named Palmer in it.

[Anonymous]

Palmer is a dog's name. Either bloodhound or a foxhound

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dislike ALL of the occupational-surname-as-first-name names when they're given for how they sound rather than what they mean.

Palmer, Baker, Cooper, Chandler, Tanner, Wheeler, etc.: unless it's a family name or honoring one's trade or life calling I think they sound silly.

I think it's even more ridiculous if it "honors" a family trade. MY FAMILY MAKES TIRES! SO IM WHEELER!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My uncle’s name was Palmer. It’s not my favorite name, but it isn’t even remotely as horrible as other posters are saying. Cameron Eubanks from Southern Charm has a baby girl named Palmer.

Well, there you go. That rather proves the point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My uncle’s name was Palmer. It’s not my favorite name, but it isn’t even remotely as horrible as other posters are saying. Cameron Eubanks from Southern Charm has a baby girl named Palmer.

Well, there you go. That rather proves the point.

+1