I always thought that ‘Insertnamehere’ (pronounced INS-URT-NAM-EHERE) is a lovely name for a girl. 🙄

Seriously though; it’s not the kid’s fault that the parents are wazzocks. I can testify that weird names aren’t easy to live with, be they Chav or be they Posh.

Seriously though; it’s not the kid’s fault that the parents are wazzocks. I can testify that weird names aren’t easy to live with, be they Chav or be they Posh.

Is your real name Joaquin? Go on, you can confide in us

Overheard in Pilsworth ASDA about 15 years ago…

“CANTONAAAAR! GET ‘ERE!”

Yeah… you’re right…. Far too judgey for my own good…

Just checked out Mumsnet…

Apparently some daft bint wants to call her son “Penis Beaker.”

What you think?

Smells a bit fishy to me.

My eldest is Ethan… some people call him E-fan or even Eeef. It makes my skin crawl. Real grown up adults mind you. When he started school some of the other kids called him E-fan, but they were only 4… by 5 or 6 they’d mastered it.

I’ve a nephew with a badly spelt name (in my grumpy mind anyway) but he’s a star of a lad so I let it slide 😉

Meet Kaos.

Just found out an old colleague has had a new baby boy and called him Isambard

Meet Kaos.

Oooh I hope he makes it to captain!

I have an odd name sufficiently odd to have only met one person who shares it in my life and am aware of a single fictional character who has it. Despite my mum’s strenuous denials I am sure she named me after the fictional character as she was a big fan of the radio show.

I have never really felt burdened by it and it meant I never had a nick name at school as oddbod said “why give you a nick name when your given one stands out?”

I have given my son a pensioners name but we call him Harry on a day to day basis and Harold only at the Drs and when telling him off.

Since when the Spanish pronounce J as a Juh sound?

They pronounce ‘c’ as ‘juh’, hence

(obvs)

It’s Mace.

I have an odd name sufficiently odd to have only met one person who shares it in my life and am aware of a single fictional character who has it. Despite my mum’s strenuous denials I am sure she named me after the fictional character as she was a big fan of the radio show.

Bluebottle or Eccles?

Wait for the day you meet someone called Siobhan but pronounced Sigh-o-ban or a Sian pronounced Cyan!!

Used to work with brothers named kenson and Kayson……. never really thought that much about it untill nearly 2 years later we found out that their parents were called Ken and Kay!!!

Vinnyeh – Slartibartfast, is that you?

“Zaphod…?”

of a single fictional character who has it

Sherlock?

Jabba?

Groucho?

I never had a nick name at school

The thing is – back in the day kids had to have a nickname as there were probably at least 3 or 4 kids in the same class and a fair few more in the school who all had the same name as them.

I did a bit of work in schools a few years back and out of a year group of 40 no two kids shared the same first name (and nobody had weird or weirdly spelled names either). Just the other week I worked with nearly 100 kids from 4 schools and there were hardly any duplicates then too. When I was that age you were lucky if you could manage to get 4 people round a table without some of them having the same name. In my geography class we had a table where everyone was called Andrew.

Amongst the kids I was working with it didn’t seem like anyone had a nickname – not just because of there being no repetition of names but because they all had names that were short and easy to say in conversation to begin with – there wasn’t even the need to shorten them.

Take your pick.

Makes me a bit sad that my child naming days are behind me..

Harold only .. when telling him off.

“‘AROLD!” surely?

took me ages to work out how to pronounce Niamh

Graham, can you please keep political photos out of this thread? Thanks.

I missed the goon show bullet by a hairs breadth they went for the Archers.
Defiantly the correct generation GrahamS , named after his granddad.

I know a couple who called their daughter Maybe, I queried the spelling expecting it to be May Bee (no better) but nope, it’s Maybe.

I know someone who has just had another child and one of their two middle names is “Danger”.

Geek baby name:

Time to re-post …
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🙂

From a family I saw at work once – if your family name is Sogi, don’t call your child Kuntal.

No one ever believed me until I was at a party and bumped into a teacher from their school who could back me up.

but few of us would care to put it on our cards. It takes a Turk to do that.

cheekymonkey888
took me ages to work out how to pronounce Niamh

Why? It’s like the batteries innit…

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My brother in law wanted to call my nephew Axl as he’s a huge G’N’R’s fan 🙄

My sister managed to get him to accept it as a middle name, he’s going to get bullied at school enough as he’s got bright orange hair*!

Nothing against redheads, I like them but he’s bright blood y orange, hopefully it’ll calm down..

My dad saved me – mom wanted to name me Tarquin Hermes Trismegistus.

I prefer the good old fashioned Victorian names*.

Minty Badger, Scary Looker, Toilet and Susan Semolina Thrower are a few of my favourites!!

*According to horrible histories.

Since when the Spanish pronounce J as a Juh sound?

My point was, the kids were saying it more correctly than the teacher (if the child’s name was Spanish, rather than being named after a movie star).

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Joaquín

I don’t get why anyone would want to name the kid after Otis the Aardvark – it just reminds me of the Otis & Marvin Reeves & Mortimer sketches.

My eldest is called Edward. The registrar asked us “how are you spelling that”? I couldn’t think of a different way, but he said you’d be amazed at the crap people try. He could make suggestions, but unless it was offensive he had to go with it!

The book Freakanomics has a section about a scientist (it’s always the scientists) who called his sons Loser and Winner. Winner became a criminal and Loser a police chief. This adds nothing to the thread, but meh

Just found out an old colleague has had a new baby boy and called him Isambard

I quite like that!