My partner wants to call our new born daughter Ogabar after my best friend (who saved my partner's life in 1979) but I think this is a very old fashioned name and want to call her Borisa after the famous Hollywood star Boris Karloff whose films I really like (I considered Willamena because Boris Karloff was born William Henry Pratt but I decided I did not like Willamena very much).
So should I give in and name the child Ogabar or cal her Borisa instead?
2006-12-30 12:54:06 · 32 answers · asked by monkeymanelvis 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
You're not serious, right?
2006-12-31 03:25:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry, I know names are a very personal thing. But people who hear the name don't know or care WHY you chose it, they just say WHAT???? OgaWHAT??? Is that a new kind of granola bar or something?
Honestly, I don't want to insult you or anything, but personally I think those names are all so unusual that people would make fun of her.
Here's what I would do --
Get a hamster, and name it Ogabar. Get a gerbil and name it Borisa. Then have a baby and name it something just a tad more humanoid.
Good luck!!
Sherry
2006-12-30 13:58:40 · answer #2 · answered by who me? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh my word, neither! They just sound really masculine, I can just imagine a big butch hairy woman called Ogabar and her sisters Willamena and Borisa doing the shot put and weight lifting at the olympics. I don't want to offend you if you are of a different race than me, but I would never call a child that! Maybe a boy from the 1900's.
2006-12-30 12:59:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
What is wrong with Fanny, or Chloe, or Megan, Megane even or Eve, in fact there are thousands of better names than Borisa or Ogabar, Christina, or Christiana ight not go down to well in Muslim lands though.
2006-12-30 13:12:05 · answer #4 · answered by "Call me Dave" 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sorry to say this, but neither. Well actually I like Borisa better but maybe spell it like this: BORISSA. For some reason I like it with two esses.
Congratulations and good luck:)
2006-12-30 13:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am calling child protective services right now! No seriously don't do that to your daughter. Naming your daughter after a hero is wonderful but why not settle for a pretty name that starts with an O? Like Olivia?
2006-12-30 13:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Charlotte G 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you want a candy bar or a villain for a child?
Give the poor girl a first name she can live with and give her both names as middle names, that way she may choose when she is older and wiser
2006-12-30 13:02:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No! No! No! You daughter will get made fun of with those names. She will hate her name and inevitably want to change it upon her 18th birthday. If you must name her one of those names, chose Ogabar as a middle name, and choose something a little more conventional for a first name.
2006-12-30 14:05:05 · answer #8 · answered by Lilly Jones-Fair 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Find a unique name for this child, give her a name that actually means something and not after other people who are famous.
2006-12-30 14:07:28 · answer #9 · answered by judy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The bummer about my last name since I got married is that I have to spell it for the rest of my life. Don't do that to your child. You don't have to make it a common name if you don't want to, but don't run the risk of her and you having to spell the name for the rest of your lives!
2006-12-30 13:28:09 · answer #10 · answered by Kim A 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the child will get made fun of either way. You don't want something really normal but u dont want something that people have never heard or can't pronounce
2006-12-30 12:57:29 · answer #11 · answered by harvem2000 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋