inlaws

[opalfirefly.livejournal.com]

I have definately decided that I am NOT sharing my names with my future mother in law...until after the name is "written in stone"

I asked her about the name Sabrina the other day and she replied with "its a frivolous name and probably wouldnt get a good job b/c of it"
Needless to say I was SHOCKED!!!

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[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Everyone BUT my mom loves the name we have picked out for a boy, which is Owen Scott. My mom has thrown such lovely things out there like Owen sounds like a farmer's name or Owen is a last name, not a first name. Everytime we mention it, even in front of other people, she has to make a comment. My in-laws, other family and friends all love it. I flat out told her: accept it now, because if it's a boy, that's what he will be, so get use to it.

[opalfirefly.livejournal.com]

I love Owen :)
Yeah i pretty much told her that Nick and I are going to name our kids what we like... I have already compromised enough with naming my first daughter to be... Samantha Rose, b/c of a family thing for them...

[ailbhe]

David is a last name too. Owen predates the use of surnames.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

Exactly. I just don't get why it matters anyways. *sigh*

[knightanika.livejournal.com]

Owen is the name of Luke's uncle on Star Wars and he was a farmer... so when your mom said "Owen sounds like a farmer's name" I instantly thought of Star Wars.

[jenniferdunn.livejournal.com]

lol that must be where she got it from.. I've never seen star wars.

[newreflections.livejournal.com]

my best friend's name is Sabrina. =]

[composure.livejournal.com]

That's a little bit harsh! I think Sabrina's lovely, but regardless, I don't think anyone would ever be refused of a job because of his or her name...

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

I always thought that was just a myth as well. I mean, sure, if you name your kid Kandy Kane or some other stripper-ish sounding name, she probably won't make it far in the stock market..but that's extreme.

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

Actually, studies have been done that showed that people with ethnic sounding or uncommon/strange names were less likely to be brought in for an interview than people with "regular" names.

[opalfirefly.livejournal.com]

i agree... i know they have been done...
but the funny thing is, is that i actually got called in for an interview a couple of times b/c of my name... and its definately different :)

[composure.livejournal.com]

Does Sabrina sound foreign to you?

[muliebrity.livejournal.com]

No, but you said "I don't think anyone would ever be refused of a job because of his or her name..."

[composure.livejournal.com]

Okay, fair enough!

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

WTF, I know several women named Sabrina and they all have jobs, acquired with seemingly no difficult. Can't see what the problem is.

I will probably get stick from my family about name choices. My parents are quite conservative and Dad often whinges about 'forgein' names. Doesn't bother me because hey I don't think their taste in names* is too hot either.
Oh and my brother is expert at finding teasing nicknames, told him I love the name River and his response was 'is his middle name going to be Nile?'.

That and they don't really care much, so it's really too much like hard work getting more than 'it's OK'.
So shall leave it a nice suprise :)

*Well the boys names aren't too bad, very handsome classic names; which I love as mns but would personally pair them with unusual fns. As for girls names; trendy/dated fns + oddly spelt mns = ugh

[alocin.livejournal.com]

My dad said to me yesterday..

"You're not serious on Eva are you?"

Then I accidently slipped the middlename *slaps forehead*

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

Well that's pretty silly. I'd completely ignore her as she doesn't seem to know what she's talking about.

Keeping seriously-considered names from the family and close friends is always a good idea imo.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

OOOOH thats mean....Your mother in law sounds like quite a snob, i must say!
Though in a recent survey i read in a magazine (not sure how reliable this is because... (dont believe everything you read in a magazine!) it said the most popular names adopted by strippers are Amber & Sabrina.
If you wait until the baby is named unti you tell everyone then they HAVE to be nice about it...
My name wasnt decided on until after i was born & my grandmother has always said if she had known i was to be called Sophy she would have tried to change their minds, but knowing me now she loves it.

[thunderofsins.livejournal.com]

aren't inlaws fun?! I'd tell her to shove it. My mom's best friend's sister is named Sabrina and she's an attorney.