Izzys middle is Caitlin..Kate Lin

Not sure how any one could get that worng!

They can lisa ! The true Irish pronounciatoin is catch-lin, its the irish/gaelic pronounciation/spelling of kathleen, from the name kathrine. I dont even know if that makes sense but i no what I mean lol

The name is Kate-lyn but an Irish speaker wouldnt read it like that. I think most people these days would say it properly but a few remote areas in Ireland would still say catchlin.

I'd proper lol if someone said it like that!

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Lisa wrote:

I'd proper lol if someone said it like that!

Apologies - its Cat-leen! I was close...

http://www.suite101.com/content/kaitlyn-katelyn-caitlyn-caitlin-or-katelynn-a94870

thats makes more sense...I was wondering where the 'tch' came from!

Damned you banda ladies... I am supposed to be asleep but made the mistake of reading this 100 post thread!!

I would tell her the truth about rocky... Poor little sod!! X

hahaha whatever Laura...you just nosey!

I just knew it was something silly. I remember my aunty warning me that I was actually naming her kathleen and that Irish speakers would pronounce it different again. Yeah, it does make more sense!

Further down that article it says about Caitlin being popular but possibly being an old lady name of the future... then lists other names destined to be old lady names... including lisa pmsl!

I cant talk, nicola is def going to be an old farts name in 40 years!

how can they bunch Lisa with with old lady names like Doris, Phyllis & Hazel ...they are real old person names!

i like the name johna but rocky im afraid does sound like a pets name, i would just be honest and say are you being serious etc?!

i know a few kids with more unusual names -

atlanta peach
april cherry
tallulah bliss
aspen blue

i always thought their parents were cruel but the 3 girls love their names (atlanta is 18 now, april is 13 and tallulah is 7) and aspen is only 1 so dont think he understands his 'unusual' name lol!!
x

Almost could like aspen. Aprils not really unusual though pairing it with cherry is odd.

Lol Snoops i was replying to emma i didnt mean c was caelyn emma, gotta punctuate. She is caelyn sandi. I like caitlin btw its just not caelyns name, though it is what it gets mistaken for most of all

Whoops

I remember now you saying her middle name was sandi. Its a mix of names isnt it. I should pay more attention too, instead of trying to catch up on shameless and here at same time!

Lol yes her two nannas are sandra and dianne so neil chose it.

im so glad someone said the names ,, was thinking i was going to read 8 pages and have to plead for a PM

i dont like either of the names jonah reminds me of some teen prog/band and rocky well ,,, lol

thank you to whoever asked about caelyn ,, that i have always wondered like Jens maky i even asked jen if it was said in a certain way ,, wasnt until i watched one of her vids i found out correct way of saying it think i asked if it was said , mak in lee whereas i was saying it makin-lee ( does that make sense ? )

Yeesh, good job I'm not the sensitive type

I reckon pronunciation is a tricky beggar - things can look / sound so different to how they're intended. I also have a thing about niknames / shortened names - have to like them too as a factor in name-choosing. See now, for example 'Lita' is a lovely version of 'Carmelita' - did you choose to be called it (over Carmel?) or was it put upon you - so to speak?!

My name gets lengthened - eh?! (E.G. I once told a colleague I was not Gracie and not to call me it (after 10 times at least) she then went out of her way to do so, and I heard her tell another colleague "oh yeah, I call her Gracie 'cos I know she doesn't like it - haha" trying to make out it was funny?! wtf?!)

On a deeper level, names have a whole psychological side - first they take off you in prison (so I'm told) and someone on a power trip / being ignorant will often use an incorrect name or none at all to undermine and wrong-foot people. Useless side-info there

P.S. michelle - will see to it that he's going to be a very clean-living teenager (in my rose-tinted world ) - and his daddy will see to it that his music taste is nowhere near dodgy

My cousins little girl Lucia was going to be jonah if she was a boy. I like the name, but my aunty wasnt keen as apparently it means bad luck (coming from him being thrown overboard in the bible to calm the storm).

Meanings are silly though. Caitlin means pure (taken from katherine). Im in no doubt that Caitlin will not remain pure due to her name. By the way she is behaving at 18mths I dread to think what she will be up to at 18 She is whipping her trousers off as I type and wiggling her bum to mighty mights! Pure my ass!

I looked rocky up to and it comes from the Italian saint rocco who cured plague victims. Maybe we all being a bit harsh on this kind man haha!

GraceBean&Pip wrote:

P.S. michelle - will see to it that he's going to be a very clean-living teenager (in my rose-tinted world ) - and his daddy will see to it that his music taste is nowhere near dodgy

my daughters daddy best not get his music taste lmao ! ,,,, have seen him singing away to glenn maderias hahah

how do i put this without it sounding awful ,,,,,,loads of people ( maybe just me lol ) when choosing a name wont even consider certain names as they remind you of someone etc ,,, like jordan , if i were to name a child jordan i would always thing of katie price
my daughters name is probably chavvy to some ,, maybe someone knows a danielle in heir hometown and she is a cowbag
like my OH refused like chelsea and courtney as they are chavtastic to him

just found this ,,,,
Cindy (always a pain in the a**e) Courtney, Cortnee, Cortnie (trouble), Danielle (a nightmare), Jade, Jodie, Jordan (pretty bad for a girl), Kayleigh (a pain), Keeley, Keira (live in fear), Kimberley, Kylie, Leanne, Leigh, Lou-Lou,

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-363230/Chav-names-feared-teachers.html#ixzz1BNrnFeUg

my bubba is apparently a nightmare ! ,,,, our other choice of names were kayleigh and keeley !

We can all cast judgements when we hear certain names due to who we know/films/books. On that list above I admit to agreeing that dwayne and wayne may be terrors (which is obviously rubbish, a name doesnt make you who you are.)

Also names like amelia, poppy, kate make me think of plesant, well mannered children. I think its the more traditional names that make me think of 'nice' children and 'invented' 'faddy' names make me think of terrors! The total opposite may be true in many cases.

pmsl snoopy @ pure & the ass-wiggling

I think the whole meaning thing depends on what the individual is like - someone who dutifully reads horoscopes, follows signs rather then sense, takes great influence from what others / strangers say would probably be put off a name they love by something on wiki or similar!

For us, Jonah's the perfect name for a perfect bean - but back to OP - Rocky is random as anything paired with it - unless the parents are covering all bases of nice&wacky, for the child to choose when older?!

GraceBean&Pip wrote:

Yeesh, good job I'm not the sensitive type

I reckon pronunciation is a tricky beggar - things can look / sound so different to how they're intended. I also have a thing about niknames / shortened names - have to like them too as a factor in name-choosing. See now, for example 'Lita' is a lovely version of 'Carmelita' - did you choose to be called it (over Carmel?) or was it put upon you - so to speak?!

It's always been shortened to Lita but some people - mainly people I used to work with used to shorten it even more to Leet......grrrrrrrr!

Makes me laugh though cos MIL is always announcing how she never shortens anyones name - I HAD to (was a great apportunity ) point out that she has never called me Carmelita

^ funny did she think you were just 'Lita' then?
Sounds exotic to me

I'm not sure but she has never called me Carmelita even after finding out
It's spanish apparently but it is in baby names books and means God's garden or God's vineyard depending on which book you read lol

christ is this the longest thread on banda so far???? i still don't know what the name is!

Hee hee Mari it is Jonah Rocky

To be honest I think Jonah is ok but it is the combination with Rocky!

It is funny though how you would not pick certain names like snoopy said. The term Jonah is used where i live (mainly by old people ) to mean someone who is bad luck One of my friends is a teacher and all the way through her pregnancy was going to call her son Callum but then a new kid in her class was called Callum and was an unholy terror so it put her off!

Lucia was one of my favourite names as one of my favourite books is Lucia, Lucia by Adriana Trigiani, she makes it clear that it is pronounced Loo-chea but i guessed that most people would think it was Lucy-a so it would be annoying!