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[anapology.livejournal.com]

What accounts for good taste when it comes to baby names?
What are your idea of tasteful names?

UK glamour model and celebrity Jordan (Katie Price) & husband Peter André named their newborn daughter Princess Tiáamii... spelling because "The accent over the first A makes it look more exotic, and the double i's make it different and stand out".

I just don't understand how this could be attractive to anyone, it's so tacky!
Their other children are sons Harvey & Junior, so pretty normal names if a little trendy.

Class have anything to do with name tasteful/trendy/tackiness?

Comments

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Princess Tiáamii is plain hideous. There is nothing else to say about it lol.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Harvey's not Peter Andre's son - not that that makes much difference, but the name was all her choice. He's Harvey Daniel after her grandfather (H) and brother (D). That's normal enough to make me suspect Andre had a strong input into the other two names. ;-)

Junior is not that normal in the UK - it's reasonably common to name a child after its father but then call it Junior, but actually naming someone Junior is very rare (fewer than 900 adults in the UK with the name, out of a 60m population).

There are no words for the daughter's name. Even how they arrived at it makes me sad - their mothers were/are Thea and Amy, both decent names.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

I know, but he's adopted him and refers to him as his son.
Junior is a rarity yes but it's not weird. I wouldn't flinch if I met someone called Junior...

[krosp.livejournal.com]

I would.. it is just so..... diminutive, that I can't believe anyone has that as their full legal name.

I'm from Australia where I think it's even rarer yet again. I've never heard of any Australian "Junior" before.

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Tasteful is a name which:

Has some history to it
Isn't from a culture completely foreign to the parents
Is spelled properly and pronounced properly
Is clearly male or female
Is male or female according to the name's history
Isn't a nickname

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

That about sums it up.

[jejuneraccoon.livejournal.com]

I don't quite agree with all that is on this list but wanted to say "hello" fellow Tau!

:)

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Tau love! I don't know that I've ever run across a sister on LJ before!

[geeki.livejournal.com]

Ok I agree with all of the above....

Except growing up as a Talia in Southern Ca, no one could *EVER* pronounce it right...

[lneef.livejournal.com]

Talia's a lovely name. I especially like it as short for Natalia.

[geeki.livejournal.com]

I've seen it used that way, 90% of the time I got "Natalie", but my dad chose 'Talia' from a Batman Comicbook in the 1970's :)

[eleanorgrace.livejournal.com]

I agree with this, but I feel mildly bad saying so. Dunno why, ha.

And I do think that some unisex/less clearly gendered names can be tasteful, but they necessarily sound more trendy to me.
For instance, my mother's maiden name is a common unisex first name that I would consider using on a child.
I do agree that traditionally male or female names sound more sophisticated or "classy."

[todaydream.livejournal.com]

the double i's make it different and stand out

Like Tiáami isn't different and doesn't stand out. :P

[adamant-turtle.livejournal.com]

I was just going to ask that myself...I saw the mention of Harvey as trendy, and just did a double take. In my mind, Harvey is extremely old-fashioned. I haven't heard of ANYONE naming their kid that recently, let alone it becoming a trend...

[caramelskies.livejournal.com]

maybe Thea and Amy
had something to do with

Tiaamii???

like Thea = Tia
Amy= Amii??

idk but its a retarded name.