three fellas at my school:
Paul McCord, Jerry John Petty the 3rd and Richard Cliff (after the singer)
everyone knows a Wayne King
Oh yeah, forgot the best one. My auntie was a teacher (retired now) near Blairgowrie and she taught twins called Dolce & Gabbana (sp?) McLeod.
Pauly, when my sister-in-law was doing her teaching practice she had twins called Dolce and Gabbana too. I must ask where it was but she was living in Glasgow at the time.
The French have some quite sensible (IMO) laws which mean you can't call your child stupid names. There was a case a few years ago where a couple wanted to call their kid Zébulon (Zebedee from the Magic Roundabout) and the government didn't let them. (so in the end they registered the kid's name as something else and called him Zébulon anyway!)
a quick scan of the National stats for 2008 boys and girls names throws up a few interesting ones- these names were all registered 3 times in 2008, names used once or twice are protected by dpa.
for the girls
Kortney
Oceanna
Sydnee
Shardonnay
Salem
Tamiya
Temperence (sic)
Wictoria (sic)
Truly
and for the boys
Achille (sic) and Adonis
Aslan
Christ
Courage
Crimea
Jewel
Messiah
Motty
Rooney
Ostin
Seven,
Tin,
Tor,
Treasure
Temperence? I like that. How do you give one with that name a nickname?!!
Imagine that child goes on to become a raging alcoholic?
Everyone on here needs to read Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner. There is a whole chapter on names (americans) and their life outcomes, enlightening and a bit funny. Don't call your kid DeShawn.
There was also a girl called Honey Knights. I considered it cruel to give a child a Porn Star-esque name.
When a friend's young daughter was telling me about her schoolfriends Mimi and Scarlett I couldn't help s****ing and asking if they were strippers. Luckily she didn't know what I was talking about.
hora - MemberTemperence? I like that. How do you give one with that name a nickname?!!
Imagine that child goes on to become a raging alcoholic?
Names like that are traditional in some African cultures.
Precious, Temperance, Hope, Treasure, Wisdom, - that sort of thing
I also like Hope. Sod Karen, Samantha or Rebecca.
My son is called Mackenzie, and this is why......
[i]mack(e)-nzie\, is pronounced ma-KEN-zee. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and its meaning is [b]"son of the wise ruler".[/b][/i]
He's generally called Mack. So thinks he was named after Mack from cars. the sportswear brand you refer to is also spelt differently. So you can all kiss my Burberry clad ass
i have more faith in people who name their kids after sportswear brands and celebrities than those who insist on names written in a book some entrepreneurial fella called Jesus made up 2000 (sic) years ago
call your kids whatever the **** you want, how far would society progress if we never ever changed the way we spoketh or spealteth
it's like TXT SPK, the written word is always by it's very nature a function of it's media, if the media changes then the written language adapts to fit, it's part of the glorious nature of our culture
My name is the same as my username which is fine,
until you consider that my middlename is Stephen and look at my initials.
Also the wife is called Jackie.
mrmichaelwright +1
Call em whatever you want, I think a lot of ridicule is about fear of change or something different its the same thing that drives racism.
In the funny names category again tho is Peter Nurse, and his wife Anne.
Names like that are traditional in some African cultures.Precious, Temperance, Hope, Treasure, Wisdom, - that sort of thing
and in Spain... Immaculate, Hope, Christmas, Divine Light...and they're just in my office
Did have a boy at our school who second name was Urin.
He was rock hard mind, so nobody really called him the obvious...
Near me there is a girl called Pocahontas and a Coolio 🙂
[i]I also like Hope.[/i]
My dog will be pleased 🙂
There's the very fast DH cycling family (Cann) with: Calamity-Janye, Bo-Jangles, Haybe-Blu and a Jack
and our children's old english teacher called his boys, Orlando, Rollo, Alonso and I think Lysander.
I've worked with a Paul Newman and a Benny Hill...
Porl.
smeggin PORL!
I once knew a young lady named 'Conception'.
Also a 'Cadance', which is quite nice, but i always think "about 90rpm seems to work best"...
And one of my best customers is 'George Washington', but he's in his 70's, and has quite a dramatic signiture.
Madga and Magdalena are nice.
I once went out with a Candance (Candy).
A friend used to go out with a Candida, which I believe is something your Lady Garden can suffer from.
I wonder if anyone has called their kids Shimano (maybe in Japan), Campag, or SRAM?
I'm Calvin
Middle name Winston
and my dad wanted to call me giovanni dispite him coming from greater manchester
Girlfriends intials: JCB
Unusual names are great 🙂
An old colleague of mine had a child born during quite a severe storm on new year, so named his daughter 'Storm'. Overlooking the more subtle Gayle perhaps
Our little lad is called Kitt. With two t's - "Like the car off Knight Rider"... we just liked it written down.
When we went to register his birth at the registry office, we did ask the registrar what the previous family in had called their child... "Armani Beau Jackson".
Old friends kids - Misty Sula Warhol & Sebastian Winston Berlin must be in their mid twenties by now & I went to school with a guy named Everton Rock.
Mercedes
Is allowed as the car make is named after the daughter who's name was Mercedes
As a Jeremy I got away lightly perhaps - My parents are birdwatchers and my sister is Robin - I might have been Peregrine or Merlin
There are some quite unusual families I'm Norfolk, as you might imagine. A couple of my favourites from when I was growing up were the King brothers: Joe, Lee and Wayne, and a couple of sisters: Kate and Sydney Pie. A mate of mine used to work with Wayne and always said he was a bit disturbed.
Sis in law teaches a girl called Bunny love 😆 Sheer class!!! My nipper is called Ethan, it's a name we tend not to hear much.
Have come across many names in the schools I teach but the one that stands out is a young lad called Jet Rock!
I went to school with a boy called Tracey; as you can imagine, he was dead hard and no one took the mickey.
I wanted to call our youngest Oscar, but was outvoted (mothers' votes count for two...)
Have taught Noah and Naphtali. Brother of Benjamin and Zephinia who Luckiy I didn't teach.
A girl friend taught a Crystal Delia. Never dared ask if her middle name was Shannon. (shortend)
How about Darius? God I dislike that child!
Off to a normal ish school tomorrow so not too many there.
An old school friend called his daughter Amber, as a big Celtic fan he had wanted to call her after the green semi precious stone....
My doctor when I lived in Headingley was called Phillip Iles, girlfriend used to have contact with a lady in the far east who had chose Fanny as her anglicised name for ease of communication. Her surname? Pad.
I've heard this one so often i thought it was an urban myth but doctor friend says she was present at the birth, twins in Lanarkshire called Armani and Versace McClatchy
I knew there was one I'd forgotten. I have a cousin on Manchester who has two friends - a twin brother and sister called, I shit you not, Oscar and Oscarina.
I knew a Norwegian family in London who changed their name from Conquicavist (?sp) to Conquest and they had a son called Norman.
I taught a nasty piece of work called Zubair and a few right monsters called Beauty. I marked exam papers for a Deepa Mistry, Anil Mistry and a girl called Manmeet. I laughed like a drain.
Heard a proud earth mother type calling her male offspring last week, heo had the rather unusual name of Thurston (not too sure of the spelling)
Thats a point. The term 'hero' has been over-used soo much...how long before its applied to a child as a name?
Ex wife's mum used to teach a pair of twins:
Syndney & Pearl Harbour
I remember hearing a (church) minister on Radio Scotland one evening being asked if he'd ever tried to discourage parents from giving their children unusual names. He mentioned that he'd only ever felt the need to do it once, when the parents wanted to call their daughter - "vagina".
hora - MemberThats a point. The term 'hero' has been over-used soo much...how long before its applied to a child as a name?
I kniw a child called Hero. It's a cool name.
My mam had a "Beckham" in her class a few years back.
My missus and I have already thought of plenty of "interesting" names for our kids including Finsbury, Ludo, Rusty, Dusty and Teddy - better than Richard which is my boring name.
I also know a Cosmo - apprently it's a Scottish name
Know a couple who named their daughter Katherine Yasmine Jelly - KY Jelly - poor kid!
My uncle is a minister so provided me with this list of no go names when we were coming up with TBjuniors name
Twins - Tia and Maria
Twins - Jinn and Tonica
Younger sister of Chardonay - Cabernet
Girl Called Wiskey
Boy called Baileys (I could understand Bailey)
The odd thing is he's a Methodist Minister and they're not supposed to drink?
One of the women that was pregenant at the same time as me, named her little boy Kai, the day before the Rooney's announced their little boys name!
Don't know your shakespear that well then Hora?
