# Help me rename my daughter **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018 "2005-09-23T05:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/41 "2005-09-23T15:15:36Z")
Gee, I’m overwhelmed. Taking the piss out of the Americans? Why would I do that? I’ll show the list to Natalie tomorrow and she can choose a middle name for herself. Personally, I like Jack a lot, being a bit of a CS Lewis fan and all. I’ll try to sell it to her by saying it’s the name the author of _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ was called. I’m also thinking seriously about the sponsorship angle. Keep them coming, please. Horatio for my camera is okay, but I was thinking something a bit more Cecil Beaton. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/42 "2005-09-23T15:20:42Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Taking the piss out of the Americans? Why would I do that? Because it’s so easy to do? ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/43 "2005-09-23T15:23:17Z")
> [@Salem](#): > > Now onto the camera. Horatio, obviously. Not so fast **Salem** …We’re going to need to know a few things about this camera? What’s the brand? How about the megapixel capacity? What’s your zoom range? Does it fit in your pants pocket, or your shirt pocket, or no pocket? What color is it? Does it have red-eye reduction & low light modes? If it helps, I had a Cannon that I named Agassi. I have 2 Nikons named Mega-mambo-boy & Fred. My Point & shoot digital is Bydig. I named the _dog_ Indiana. I think you should name your camera AndyPolley! Why not? Everytime you take a picture, you’ll be forced to think about that crazy yank who hates potential employees who wear jeans. Don’t I deserve a tribute? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/44 "2005-09-23T15:24:07Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I think Natalie Elizabeth sounds nice. With Elizabeth as a middle name, she’d have tons of nicknames to choose from. that’s what _I_ was going to say! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/45 "2005-09-23T15:26:32Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Absolutely. I thought of providing you with the surname before, but demured on security grounds. I do feel safe in saying that it’s a double barrelled name. Initials T-D. > > PS I love all the names you suggest. Very Laura Ashley. Beulah is the standout so far. Wasn’t there a film about her day off? Yes, and she was covered in iron ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/46 "2005-09-23T15:27:11Z")
**roger** , please tell us the final decision, when it arrives. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/47 "2005-09-23T15:28:13Z")
Oh, BTW–sorry about the Japanese name suggestion-- I didn’t notice your Hong Kong locale. ---
**Author:** ![grayhairedmomma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/47e85d/32.png) [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/48 "2005-09-23T15:29:16Z")
I’m partial to Penelope myself. (pronounce either way) When my daughter turned five I told her that she had to have a new name. I told her that everybody has one name for the first five years of life and then when they start kindergarten, “real school”, they have to get a new name. Then I told her I had chosen Penelope The Fruit (the fruit added because “penelope” rhymes with “cantelope”). Had her going for quite awhile until she started crying. Poor kid. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/49 "2005-09-23T15:40:56Z")
Make her middle name that of a city or state. Examples include: Natalie London Natalie Las Vegas Natalie Bristol Natalie North Dakota Natalie Tennessee Or, with a new first name, they can get even cooler: Charlie Baltimore Jack London (Jack’s a guy’s name? Since when? And Jack can always be short for Jackie.) Syndey Las Vagas (has the advantage of being two different cities in one name!) Or you could just make Danger her middle name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/50 "2005-09-23T15:50:29Z")
Personally, I like Jessica. It’s my name, and I’ve never met a Jess I didn’t like. And I am the master of not liking girls 🙂 I also like Colleen as a name. It’s kind of ethnic but I had a good friend growing up named Colleen and I always found it to be a soothing name. And I don’t think she was even Irish. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/51 "2005-09-23T16:00:08Z")
> [@roger thornhill](#): > > Gee, I’m overwhelmed. Taking the piss out of the Americans? Why would I do that? I’ll show the list to Natalie tomorrow and she can choose a middle name for herself. Personally, I like Jack a lot, being a bit of a CS Lewis fan and all. I’ll try to sell it to her by saying it’s the name the author of _The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe_ was called. I’m also thinking seriously about the sponsorship angle. > > Keep them coming, please. Horatio for my camera is okay, but I was thinking something a bit more Cecil Beaton. camera name: Luke Overthere Saich Eeze Haywood Ulukithat ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/52 "2005-09-23T16:05:06Z")
Natalie is a lovely name - I was almost named Natalie (for my grandfather Nathan) but they (my loving parents) gave me a tease-worthy name instead - Naomi Now mind you -I love my name now - in Hebrew it means My Delight - but in grade school. I was “naomi-baloney” (not too much rhymes with Naomi) and way too many people pronounce it “ **Nigh** -oh-me” In college, there was gal in my dorm whose name _was_ Niomie (and her last name had one letter more than mine) - We got each other’s mail all the time and never met, until junior year when we ended up in the same cartooning class Natalie Elizabeth is one of my alter egos (i used to write short stories - my middle initial is E) Norma Elaine was another one ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/53 "2005-09-23T16:10:03Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Oh, BTW–sorry about the Japanese name suggestion-- I didn’t notice your Hong Kong locale. Natalie loves sushi, so shouldn’t be a problem. Andy, it’s a Canon PowerShot A70. 3.2M pixel CCD and 3x optical zoom lens. The colour is “metallic grey”. And no, calling it AndyPolley is out. I’m sorry, but it sounds too much like [Andy Pandy](http://www.abc.net.au/abckids/shows/prog271.htm), which was the tweeest of twee children’s TV programmes when I was growing up. Shocking, right? ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/54 "2005-09-23T17:11:10Z")
I’m rethinking my baby names book idea - i think she should be having a fun middle name. Natalie Dagnabbit Thornhill. Think of all the times she can say “I swear that’s the truth or my name’s not Dagnabbit” Or howabout Natalie Hyperactive/Trouble/Cute Thornhill. “That kids middle name is hyperactive/trouble/cute…” Yeah - persuade her to go for something descriptive 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/55 "2005-09-23T17:15:39Z")
What about Natalee for the middle name? It would be unique 😉 Seriously why not just shorten Natalie to Lee that would go along with the fashion of short boys names for girls. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/56 "2005-09-23T17:30:32Z")
May I offer up: **Josephine** \*\*Ursala Beatrix Imogene Cordelia \*\* ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/57 "2005-09-23T18:56:49Z")
People name their cameras? Why? 😕 How about Presidential names for young Natalie? Natalie Woodrow/Natalie Theodore/Natalie Grover. What about Natalie Swansea? or how about name her after the town where Natalie in _Love Actually_ is from (the dodgt end) can’t remember the town’s name… ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/58 "2005-09-23T19:00:16Z")
let’s see - Cameron Diaz played Natalie in the Charlie’s Angels movies so Natatlie Cameron ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/59 "2005-09-23T19:03:59Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > May I offer up: > \*\*Ursala > > Beatrix\*\* The kid’s nine, not ninety! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cranky\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cranky\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cranky_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018/60 "2005-09-23T19:17:17Z")
How about Danu Marie? Danu is an ancient Irish goddess-actually the queen of Fae goddesses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-rename-my-daughter/323018.md?page=4)