What Do You Think Of This Name For A Daughter.

Many years ago while listening to the radio
in my car while travelling to Perth, there was
a programme from Glasgow that announced
congratulations for birthdays etc.

The announcer started to tell about a marriage
that would happen later that same day, "Emma
Smith will marry Andrew Royds", after a short
time, he came back, "she should get a big clock
for that".

Names sometimes do matter.

Mike.
 

I think Lucy is one of the new trendy names for babies now. I have two grand nieces on different sides of the family who sport the name Lucy {or maybe Luci}. One is 2 and the other is 3 years old. I think it's an old fashioned name, but at least it's pronounceable and easy to spell. Some of the boy names are weird~ Thatch, Wick, Taft, Tristen, and Trey.
 
This reminds me of this poem I wrote some time ago of the many folks I have met and worked with during my 89 years on this earth.
Personally I do not think Lucy is all that bad in fact I prefer it to my own which is Maisie.


NAME THIS CHILD
During all my years on earth I have heard many a peculiar name
Did parents think that this would help bring their offspring fame?
I have lived next door to a Dickie Bird and a Dusty Miller too
And I used to know an Ida Downe believe me this is true

There was an Ivor Lott a Will Power and a Robin Hood
Also Rusty Locke and Blackie Smith and a girl named Bebe Goode
I have worked with Eva Stone and Lydia Potts and an Eileen Back
All of them have had to live with such a great amount of flak.

There was another girl I worked with whose name was May Trump
You can well imagine how she felt and why she often had the hump.
One name imprinted on my mind from many years gone by
Was of a girl starting work and I swear that this is no lie,

Of all the names that I had heard this was the unkindest of all
When the boss asked her for her name she answered Ophelia Ball.
The look of horror on his face was a picture to behold
It left a vivid memory in my mind that I have often told.

So Mums and Dads pick a name to do your children proud
And when asked what it is they will shout it clear and loud.

​
Copyright © - Maisie Walker 2000 - All rights reserved
 
I like Lucy, Lucille, even B.B. King named his guitar Lucille.
But you know.. If Claudia Schiffer had ever married Tim Raines. She would have been Claudia Schiffer Raines.. :rolleyes:
 
My granddaughter's name is Lucy. Paige has always loved the name and I think she was 10 or so when I started hearing her talk about naming some future daughter Lucy. When she got pregnant the first time, the immediate announcement was that if it was a girl she was going to name her Lucy. Didn't happen though, not till child #2.

Personally I love the name, though as with all my grands (and all my kids as well come to think of it) I have evolved the name to a more personalized version for me. I call her Lulu, sometimes LuluBelle, and she's told her mother more than once "I love when Bee calls me Lulu!" :love:
 
Unfortunately, what you name your daughter may go fine with YOUR last name but might be funny with her husband's last name, IF she takes his name, of course.

Ali Smith would be fine until she married John Yoop. Holly Jones needs to avoid Bob Jolly like the plague. In the 1980s I lived across the street from Ken and Barbie Dollar. I'll bet her parents never guessed she'd marry a Dollar when they named her Barbara.
 
fmdog44 said:
A former football quarterback named Andrew Luck's wife just gave birth to a daughter. They named her "Lucy". To me that is not a good name because it sounds like a comic book character (Lucy Luck) that should be a member of the "Archie-Jughead crew.
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Beats the hell out of something like Shaqueesha or La'Queenie.
 
Some people don't let their names effect them negatively. The former Governor of Texas, Jim Hogg, named his daughter Ima. I am sitting on the enclosed, second floor porch of her mansion, in my pic. She lived a great life of philanthropy.
 
I had heard a while back that some celebrity had named their daughter Apple. I thought that that was a strange name. I’m kind of a traditionalist I like names like Jane or James or David, I guess I’m boring.
 
Pepper said:
It's this way:
The name game: LUCY!
Lucy lucy bo bucy banana fanna fo fucy
Me mi mo mucy
Lucy.
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No. Wrong. It's this way:

Lucy!
Lucy, Lucy, bo Bucy,
Bonana, fanna, fo, Fucy,
Fee, fi, mo, Mucy,
Lucy!

In my first band, I was called "The Music Encyclopedia." No matter what the audience requested, from 1955-1965, I was on it.
 
In my time, I've come across ...
Wilbur Zirk
Ryan Eyre
Harley Davison

I also heard the story of a football fan who named his daughter Lanesra. His wife was pleased until she realised it was ARSENAL backwards! (UK readers will understand).

My younger daughter is Emily. When we told MiL, she replied, "Where on earth did you get a name like that?" She must have led a sheltered life.
 
Guess we're all stuck with what name we get. Parents pick names for many reasons but occasionally there is a miscarriage of
justice so to speak. A girl's name Lucy I like but as she grows she might rather go by Lucille or pick a nickname far a field from
that given her. Who knows, she might like the name. I do think sometimes a child's name is chosen rather carelessly, but foot,
come to think of it, what do I know?
 
rkunsaw said:
Lucy Luck sounds good to me.
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Lucky Lucy sounds better.
I'd go to the Casino with her!

iu
 
Apparently one of the most commonly asked questions at citizens advice, is how to change your name. I've known people who changed their names when they were adults. I've thought about it myself although I never got round to it.
 
Capt Lightning said:
Apparently one of the most commonly asked questions at citizens advice, is how to change your name. I've known people who changed their names when they were adults. I've thought about it myself although I never got round to it.
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My dad used to tell me the following story, about Judge Peter Schmuck:
"Legend has it that Judge Schmuck once dismissed a request for a legal name change and reputedly told the appellant that "if I can live with my name, you can live with yours." "
Judge Peter Schmuck presided in the New York Supreme Court.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports...probably-didnt-know-about-20120307-story.html
 
There's nothing wrong with it. It's getting more popular in the US and UK. I think it's more commonly associated with Lucy Liu than a cartoon character these days.
 

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