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Baby Names

What do you all think about the Paisley for a girl? Please be honest. I love the name, but I don't want her to hate it.

What can I do next?

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I love it!!! IT's great - I love different names! But - the most important thing is that YOU love it! :)

Go to a playground and yell out the name. See what the kids' responses are. I've heard of people doing this to see if the name would get made fun of or not. One of my friends was doing to name thier daughter Venus, until they yelled it out at a playground. The got "Venus has a (fill in the blank with a male body part). :) Hope this works for you.

Well the first thing that popped into my head was the country singer Brad Paisley..lol..but I think it's cute, I tried to give each of my kids different names that you don't hear too often. I say just go with what you like :)

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Personaly I like it because it is different.

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Sounds very country to me.

Personally, I don't like it. I think it's too similar to parsly and you know little kids are fgoing to make that connection too. Also in my opinion paisley print is rather unattractive. I wouldn't want to name my child afer a type of fabric print even if it wasn't an unattractive one.

Honestly, not trying to be rude, just my first impressions about the name.

I must be the oddball... I think it's a very weird name for a child. I also think it's sort of cruel to give a child an odd name that is just begging to be made fun of. Yes, kids will be kids and pick on most names, but why make your child an easy target? My sister had one and was made fun of her entire childhood and she HATED her name. She was begging my parents to change her name by the time she was in 1st grade but of course they refused. She legally changed it to something a bit more normal as soon as she hit 18. I'm just really glad my parents came to their senses before picking my name. My name wasn't common but it certainly wasn't totally 'out there', either. I never got picked on because of my name, anyways.

I think it is a beautiful name. Just remember that you are the one who will be saying this name daily for the rest of your life, and you don't want to wish you had gone with what you loved every time you say her name! If Paisley feels right, then Paisley she is!

It's a risk. The fact that you're not sure should tell you.........

I love it!!! IT's great - I love different names! But - the most important thing is that YOU love it! :)

Go to a playground and yell out the name. See what the kids' responses are. I've heard of people doing this to see if the name would get made fun of or not. One of my friends was doing to name thier daughter Venus, until they yelled it out at a playground. The got "Venus has a (fill in the blank with a male body part). :) Hope this works for you.

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