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Help[Opinions] I don't like it
in reply to a message by Eilís Eibhlín
I'm sincerely happy for your neighbours and their baby, but I'm afraid I really don't like the baby's name.
Although it might seem more suitable for a child who actually has a "miraculous" birth story attached to him/her (... why isn't Miracle used for boys, come to think of it?), parents who bestow a name such as Miracle to such a child strike me as--I don't know quite how to phrase this--the types who won't be able to quite get over their kid's dramatic entry into the world, and will forever hold that over the kid. Like, maybe, "OMG, you were going to DIE!!! So we named you Miracle! Because you were going to DIE, but you survived, OMG!!!" Never mind that it's 30 years later and the kid's perfectly fine, grown up, married and has two kids of her own. I'm not saying your friends are that kind of parents, that's just the stereotype I would think of when presented with such a name given in such a circumstance like theirs.
Also, not to be morbid or anything, but I have read from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurses on other baby name boards that they've anecdotally observed babies named Miracle, Nevaeh, Heaven, and other such names seem to do poorer than children with non-tryndee names like Emma or Sophia. Obviously, there's been no study or anything to either confirm or even explain this possible correlation, but I still wouldn't want to tempt fate!
And ignoring the special circumstances of the birth, which I still admit gives the name some legitimacy I ordinarily wouldn't give it in this circumstance, Miracle just seems very, very babyish and insubstantial as a name for a grown-up, respectable woman.
All in all, if I were a parent hellbent on commemorating my kid's survival, I would pick the infinitely subtler Milagros ("miracles"). And lest I'm still being too negative, I think Mira is a very pretty, feminine name/nickname that can grow with the child into adulthood quite nicely. So she'll have that, at least.
I won't comment on Briley at all, because nothing I can say about is good.
But, again, I'm really happy your neighbour's baby pulled through. :-)
Although it might seem more suitable for a child who actually has a "miraculous" birth story attached to him/her (... why isn't Miracle used for boys, come to think of it?), parents who bestow a name such as Miracle to such a child strike me as--I don't know quite how to phrase this--the types who won't be able to quite get over their kid's dramatic entry into the world, and will forever hold that over the kid. Like, maybe, "OMG, you were going to DIE!!! So we named you Miracle! Because you were going to DIE, but you survived, OMG!!!" Never mind that it's 30 years later and the kid's perfectly fine, grown up, married and has two kids of her own. I'm not saying your friends are that kind of parents, that's just the stereotype I would think of when presented with such a name given in such a circumstance like theirs.
Also, not to be morbid or anything, but I have read from Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurses on other baby name boards that they've anecdotally observed babies named Miracle, Nevaeh, Heaven, and other such names seem to do poorer than children with non-tryndee names like Emma or Sophia. Obviously, there's been no study or anything to either confirm or even explain this possible correlation, but I still wouldn't want to tempt fate!
And ignoring the special circumstances of the birth, which I still admit gives the name some legitimacy I ordinarily wouldn't give it in this circumstance, Miracle just seems very, very babyish and insubstantial as a name for a grown-up, respectable woman.
All in all, if I were a parent hellbent on commemorating my kid's survival, I would pick the infinitely subtler Milagros ("miracles"). And lest I'm still being too negative, I think Mira is a very pretty, feminine name/nickname that can grow with the child into adulthood quite nicely. So she'll have that, at least.
I won't comment on Briley at all, because nothing I can say about is good.
But, again, I'm really happy your neighbour's baby pulled through. :-)
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