Names with stigmas, would you use them?

[Erin_25]

Yeah I think it would depend on the name itself & how it is remembered. Or is it just how you remember it IYKWIM. And how you approach it also, ie: if someone brings up the other ?? & you don't like it you let them know.

Not a stigma as such but I had Sadee on the top of our list if #2 had been a girl....lucky for DH we are having another boy. He just would not come to the party & my Mum just laughed. Why because someone famous had a song....so what, it's still a name!

I also get a little annoyed when some great TV show I love starts using a name I like, then all of a sudden you get "oh that's from....."

I also love the name Banjo & am getting mixed responses on that too.

But in regards to a "stigma" depends how bad & how often it's rememberd I guess. Like your example with Adolf, it's not a common Australian name so it does carry a lot of stigma with it.

But if you love the name & it works for you.....pffffftttt to what anyone else says, unless you think it's going to be a real prob for your child.

Now after that essay....what's the name

[feeb]

I know a Sadie and I know a Myf who are both little girls around 15 months old

[Arimeh]

I dunno - if it were unusual enough I just might

Jokes aside - I wouldn't name them the same name as a psycho killer or whatever... but I would name them after a rockstar who overdosed

[Lulu]

Ohh, I love the name Bartholemew or Bart. But dps last name sounds very much like Simpson....

and we were worried he would feel like he would have to 'fit the name'. As it turns out Bart would have been the PERFECT name for ds....

But if you want to go with Azaria, I reckon enough time has passed

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

Who's Myf Warhurst? Is that the chick from Spicks'n'Specks? I didn't know that her name had been shortened!

LOL Lulu

I was also thinking that, maybe there'd be a BIT of shock when you first come out with the name, but kids have a way of making the name their own, KWIM? And pretty soon no-one would connect the name with the famous one, only with the boy/girl, if that makes sense

Now I wanna know what it is!

[Persephone1]

I really like the name Farrah, but every time I tell someone that it's a possible name for our possible future daughter, they say "oh, you mean like Farrah Fawcett?"

It's not a negative thing to be named after Farrah Fawcett, but that wouldn't be why I would choose it - I don't like naming my child 'after' someone. I just like the name Farrah. But I'm afraid my future daughter would have to suffer those sorts of comments, so I probably won't use it.

Is it Gough?

[willow5]

I agree with some of the other posters about Adolf having big stigma here in Aus as it's not a common name here.

I think if you like the name then go for it, I honestly can't think of a name of a well known Aussie that would be negative... apart from maybe Chopper, as Jazzahmum said. That said I do have terrible baby brain atm thinking isn't my biggest attribute lately

[christy]

I dunno... it depends on the stigma. Everyone assumes they know where we got Matilda's name from... but its not from the obvious ones. Also Jovie, everyone assumes it has to do with Bon Jovi... but it doesn't it never even entered our minds.

I don't think I'd name a girl Brittany, but I'd name one Pixie, Paris or Ruby.

[AngelPunks]

My kids will have unusual "different" names. I want to name my son after my father, which is also the name of a well-known motorsport star - it isn't an english name.

If the name suits the child, then who really cares what other people say!

[CrazyLady]

Jokes aside - I wouldn't name them the same name as a psycho killer or whatever... but I would name them after a rockstar who overdosed

LOL!

I think if it's a less obvious connection and it's not "modelled" off a murderer or mass rapist then go for it.

Then again, imagine how many murderers there are out there? can you really guarantee you won't get a murderer's name for your child?

Sorry, 4 hours sleep so logic out the window. but hope i helped. Now to pump more caffiene into me!