what is your opinion on names that relate to the time a baby is born?
April
May
June
Summer
Autumn
Ruby (july baby)
Holly (at Christmas)
Sunday (gotta get celebs in here somewhere!)
one of my cousins, a few years ago, had a little girl and named her Autumn - and because she was born in Autumn, there was HEAPS of comments. i'm not close to the cousin (family estrangement) so i don't know what was said to her directly, but down here, there were a lot of comments about lack of originality etc. it's something i have been thinking about. Amy's Maybell thread just triggered the thought again!
I really love the names (i.e. Autumn, Winter, Summer, May etc). But I don't think I would deliberatly choose one according to the season/month my baby was born. It's more that I actually like the names! My cousin named her baby Summer she she was born in July!
i love the names too, i just can't get past the association of month/time of birth and the name being related. as i just mentioned in another thread, my birth month is May, so it is possible we'd use a May related name - but i couldn't do it if bubs was born in May. DH's birthday is in July - so Ruby is something we've contemplated - but again, if we had a girl in July, i wouldn't be able to use it!
i guess birth flowers are different cos you don't associate with them so much - but the month/birthstone thing (or season really) just weirds me out a bit!
Using the example of "Ruby May" - it's gorgeous and would be so so so sweet on a baby girl - but I wouldn't use it if my baby was born in May as everyone would think it was an association with that month. If she was born in June then it would be a different story. So I agree with you on that one.
At one stage I LOVED the name Winter Rose but threw it in the bin for two reasons...
1) It's too literal
2) If we had a winter baby the name would be out anyway!
I think Winter would be a difficult one - if you had an Autumn bub, it would be said you conceived in Winter, Winter bub - well obvious, Summer bub - you'd cop comments about doing the exact opposite of when bub was born
sometimes you can't win!
there's not a name on that first post that i don't like - it's just so restrictive when you have to take into account the opinions of the name being associated to baby's DOB when really it's related to something else completely!
curiousity is getting the better of me
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