curiousity is getting the better of me

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!

so what is your opinion?

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 quite like some of the names you mentioned but I wouldn't use them because of the direct connection...as in May - May baby, Holly born at Christmas.

It wouldn't bother me that others did...just not for me!!!

amysarah....must've posted at the same time with the same idea!!!

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!

Makes perfect sense!!!

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!

I agree and it sucks! I guess it comes with any name that has a literal meaning. My cousin wants to name her second baby, if she has a girl (due in March) Indigo Violet. They are both colours from the rainbow! But they hadn't even thought of the colours - they just love the names.

I guess it comes down to personal choice and being able to deal with negative comments. I don't think anyone can win when it comes to naming a baby - there will always be someone out there with something nasty to say!

I have always thought that a christmas baby girl called Holly/Hollie/Hollye would be sweet!!

i would look at Indigo as a color, Violet as a flower - so same name different interpretation! but i guess that comes from being a bit of a gardener that likes flower names! i wouldn't use them together, but that's personal choice. you may find that your cousin is thinking of violet as a flower more than a color...

I hope she doesn't use Violet because I want to use it when it's my turn!!!

I like the name Indigo... she will nickname her "Indie" which is so so so cute!

But I get what you mean - I think of one as a colour and one as a flower too.

would depend on how close you are to your cousin as to whether she'd take offence (or put you off using it!) - we havent eliminated any names based on my family - but all names that we can directly like to DH's family have been cut off any list we have!

BG I am so dying to hear what names you have picked - but I'll be good and be patient :D

only another ooh 30 weeks or so Amy! two BB-ites know boys name, and one knows girl. and that's only cos we're really good friends and it was a case of sharing so that names didn't get "stolen" inadvertantly!

30 weeks?? Why does it take so long???? *whinges* hehe

I'm forever thinking of baby names - I'll change my mind a million times before I actually fall pg!

we've had two girl and two boy names (with middle names) picked for at least two years

nothing has made us change our minds - we both love them, both have very similar tastes... so it's just a case now of waiting for the Gremlin to arrive so that we can name it.

and then you will have one set in stone Amy and change it to another when you see the baby for the first time...lol

Interesting thoughts here - if Miss M was a boy - we were tossing up the middle name of August - because it was my grandfather's middle name. So because she was born in August, if she had been a boy - it might have turned me off using it IYKWIM??

Lucky bubs was a girl ;)

Arimeh - i think that's the exact thought process i have - even though the REASON you want it isn't related to their birth, it messes with you because you just have that feeling that people will draw the wrong conclusions!

naming kidlets is sooo hard - they're stuck with the name - and any repercussions, for a bloody long time!

That's right I remember that Mel!

I think people would have automatically thought you had chosen it for the month your baby was born - and wouldn't have given the meaning a second thought. I guess that's the problem with some of these names - people are so quick to judge!!!

I wouldn't. But only because I'm just not into Month or Season names much.
We got heaps of jokes about what our first kid's name would be, being due so close to Christmas. Some suggestions were Holly, Noel, Carol, Chris etc. People were just poking fun though.
As it turns out, Natalie means Christ's Birth so we kind of did go with the season LOL! DH and I had always liked Natalie though.

Hi BG

Summer was our chosen girls name had DS been a little girl and I it was just coincidence that the baby was due in December. We chose the name because we loved it, not because of when it was due. We are also thinking of keeping it as a back up for this baby too in case it is a girl and this baby is due on 15th March (which isnt Summer but it could come a couple of weeks early).

My cousin is also called April and she is born in November and I dont think much is ever said to her about it .....

My Mum's name is June. She has often been asked if she was named that because she was born in June and the usual response is 'No, named June, born in July'. As has been said, people are quick to assume.

BG if you still like the boy's name you told me then my class prefect is called that and he is so lovely so I really like it!!

I always thought being named after your month (April, May, June) was boring & unimaginative, but when the names are a bit different I like it.
I like August, Autumn, Summer, January, Sunday. Those sort of names.

Our DD Gabriella was due on and born the 23/12. Knowing what her due date was and not knowing the sex we decided we wanted to incoporate a "christmasy" feel about her name.

For boys we looked at Nicholas, Christopher, Joshua (interestingly enough a derivative or Jesus) and Gabriel. Girls names were Natalie/Natalya, Natasha (my sisters name), Holly (which we just didnt really like) and Gabriella.

In the end she came out black hair, black eyed, olive skinned, and as we are European Gabriella was the right fit for her. So she was named after the archangel Gabriel who announced the birth of Jesus.:D

So yes she was named after a particular time of year. Upon saying that I dont think I would necessarily name a child June, May, Summer, Autumn etc as for me they are too literal.

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I guess it comes down to personal choice and being able to deal with negative comments. I don't think anyone can win when it comes to naming a baby - there will always be someone out there with something nasty to say!

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This is exactly what I was going to say! I would advise you name your gorgeous bub WHATEVER you like regardless of what other people think. People will always have opinions no matter what. AS long as you are happy, thats all that matters :)

I love the name Holly (spelt Hollie though) as a middle name, so if we fell pregnant again and it was a girl born in December, she'd probably be Aislinn Hollie.

I had a bit of a giggle at my MIL though. When she found out we were expecting just before Christmas (and it was even funnier considering Maddy was 10 days late and born on Christmas Eve), she suggested jokingly that if it was a girl we should name the child after her nickname - Chrissy. *L*

We seriously considered Poppy if DS had been a girl and born on his due date of Rememberence day.

I also like birthstone names... May birthstone is Emerald...

Id def have had a month/season name for any DD's had i not went with flower names!!!

I think its so cute :)

See if I had a bub due on Australia Day or ANZAC day I would probably want to give them a real "Aussie" name for that reason. Weird.. I wouldn't do it for any other month/holiday.

my middle name is June & you guessed it - I was born in June

I like names that relate to a month, but I would not like to call my child after the month they were born in.

BTW - Ruby May is lovely..or Ruby Mae

We were considering the name April for Loren, but every time we said it someone in the family asked if we were going to call her April May.

I was really liking April but as our baby is due in April it will most likely be out.

My two year old is a May baby ... we never thought for a moment of having MAY amongst her middle names ... but then that's cause we already had too many middles to choose to put in there ;)

I like the fact that she is a Saturday baby ... I always think of Saturday as a Party day/night fun person :D

I'm a January baby ... and one of my middle names starts with the J A N :rolleyes:

As you guys know, my name is Holly - was born in April, and my name had nothing at all to do with Christmas.

My parents flew to Tasmania for a holiday on a helicopter and my mum was pregnant with me - there was a little girl who was lost before they got on the helicopter, and my parents sat with her while the poice found her parents.. her name was Holly, and my parents loved it when they heard it.
Thats why I'm a Holly.

I can tell you, though - don't let it be an issue when you name your baby - I cop the Christmas jokes ALL the time - it seems they can never get old, even after 31 years :rolleyes:

People sing 'The Holly & The Ivy', and say 'Ooh, I bet you were born in December?'... eerr no, actually, Christmas had nothing to do with it :doh:

I think people will always think that way regardless.. so if you like May & she's born in May... then call her May I say ;)

Seasonal related names are usually so beautiful. Use them at will - don't stick to strick guidelines about when they are born - use them. hehehehe

Yasin's middle name is Ramadan. He was born on the 10th of Ramadan :P
We had Isha on the middle name list which means night. We scrapped it but if we hadn't I would have used it regardless of when he was born same as I would have used Ramadan if he had been a week early not a week late.
If I love a name then I will use it regardless of what other people might think.

you got me thinking
i know a holly born in december
An April born in April
A Christopher born on Christmas day

and my mums middle name is June- born in july
my nans middle name is May- born in August

i never even associated their names with the time of year they were born- doh!
Also my cousin's baby was due on St Patricks day and if it was a boy they were going to call him Patrick! They had a girl instead