Its definitely grown on me, Kai is a nice name and I think middle names should be a family name to acknowledge someone important to the child or parents. Can I also point out that Wayne was a very popular name in the 70's and 80's like Oscar, Josh and Finley are today. Lets hope people are'nt as judgy about our name choices in 20 years time.

The thing is, nobody disliked Wayne Rooney's name so vocally because he seems a likeable chap and he's a very talented footballer (not so hot at picking his team though). I think a person's character can make their name special to others.
Really couldn't have lived with my kids names though... their birth mum sounds a little like the one in your story!

shockers DS's name is actually quite nice and old. Unfortunately every other child who is mentioned on Jeremy Kyle has the same name. It has a chavvy rep and no mistake.

I have added names but didnt feel I could justify changing any. I understand there are some situations that make it impossible to keep birth names. I know two children who were given names that were utterly and totally bizarre by their psychotic birth mother. The children asked to have them changed as they caused so much stress. They were not real names or even unique or unusual. They were a collection of random letters.

DS's birth mother knows where he lives so it wouldve been pointless changing his name anyway. I am relieved I can live with it. When I went to pick him up from court I didnt know what he was called (in family placement) I had vision of him being called Jay Z or Coolio.

chegirl I must admit that I was relieved when SS suggested I change DD's name because it was so different and double-barrelled that they felt she would be traceable by her birth parents very easily who still live in our area. I was relieved because I hated it. We ended up giving her a name that rhymed with a nickname her foster dad had given her so it would sound familiar.
Now she's older, we've told her what her name was but she says she likes her name better.
Having said that, we fostered a child with a name that I wouldn't normally like... she is the reason I love that name now.

shockers I have an adopted child whose name is regularly derided and despised on MNs. I refuse to change part of his history because some people think a name makes someone a chav.

BTW I know loads of Kais. It seems to be a name that transends class. A fair few are sons of social workers, doctors and other professionals. There are quite a few at my DS's school which is predominately white, working class (or chav, whatever way you choose to look at it).

I dont know what the fuss is about.

I am not keen on Wayne but its his dad's and granddad's name and its traditional in lots of families to use a family name. Even posh people do it so it must be ok

i have a 9 and a half month old son who is called Kai Wayne and i think that it goes really well together my husband is called Wayne and he is a fantastic bloke. Not many people like the name but at the end of the day she has given the baby its daddy's name like most people do i would not change his name for anything as it matches his personality cheeky and hansom

I wouldnt get upset, lots of names are criticised.

You would have to admit that Wayne is not a nice name, its with the Keiths, Steves and Neils of this world. I say that having close friends of all of those names, and my dad!

Its also much better suited to a grown man than to a child.

laughalot been cringing myself as I recommended MN to a friend who has recently adopted a child called Wayne.
TBH, I think it's the combination of the names that just doesn't roll off the tongue in the way that 'chavs' are said to give their kids rediculously ostentatious or 'different' names that are spelled and spoken in ways that just don't make sense to anyone who doesn't get the whole bling thing.
'They' also seem to have a penchant for the double-barrelled name and this use of both names by the press echoes this.

Disclaimer... chav is not a word I would usually use.

Laughalot...do you really laughalot?

Eve4Walle
Do not be angry any more. Kirstie Allsop is not spending your tax money. She had both her babies in the private and very expensive, St John's and St Elizabeth's.