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Maurice? Twit twoo
My cats called Morris, hes cool
Maurice cut my hair when I was a kid.
My great uncle Morris "Mossie" was an interesting character, got "emigrated" back from Chicago to Ireland at end of 1920s.
Maurice Oldfield, the man on whom George Smiley was based.
Maurice Bowra
Maurice White in earth wind and Fire...
And then Chevalier.... Strange how they don't play "thank heavens for little girls" anymore...
Wouldn't be my first choice but one of my sons has Lorenzo as a middle name...
Maurice is OK but how about Snake (as in Plissken) 😀
[quote=maccruiskeen ]You'd struggle to find a popular name to avoid. In my class at school we had about four or five Stephens, Marks, Andrews and Martins amongst the boys and more Julie, Joannes and Nicholas amongst the girls.
I worked on a project with a class of 40 primary children last year. Non of them had an unsusal name but no two of them had the shared the same name. The trend is to avoid popular names which means theres no name thats especially popular.
Good anecdote! A few names which are shared by more than one child in both my kids' classes. There certainly are more popular names even if people do try to avoid them - if you want a name which is currently uncommon then you could do worse than to pick from your list of names of schoolmates (the name of one of my sons is on that list - I'm yet to come across another child with that name, nor that of my other son which was also a popular name amongst my schoolmates).
Though I'm curious about a couple of things - if there were 4 or 5 of each of those boys' names in your class, were there no boys with any other names, or how big was your class? Nicholas also seems quite a strange name for a girl.
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My old boss, as Welsh as they cone was called Maurice Prenderghast
I have a nephew called Austin.
OP - sorry, I think Maurice is not a great name.
Morris is better, but it breaches the little rule I have about never substituting a Christian name for a surname (Mason, Tucker, Riley etc).
I heard of a newborn boy who had been named Cromarty after the shipping forecast sea area; I rather like it.
We had Mallory and Sterling on our boy's name list, amongst others.
I like the name OP. My advice, having had (still have) 2 children, is keep the names to yourself until it's too late. The only opinions that matter are the parents'. I guess the childs' too but by the time they're old enough to have an voice theirs it's too late.
We avoided any names in the top 50-100 ish as we didn't want either of them to be amongst 10 other 'Alfie' or 'Jack' in the class.
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Makes me think of the EM Forster novel
Makes me think of Maurice Moss.
Makes me think of the EM Forster novel
Yessss. Pronounced Morris, IIRC.
A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.
Makes me think of Maurice Moss.
Yup. Or a mild mannered civil servant who has a secret double life as an Austin Maestro enthusiast (he has five, and a Montego).
It would be ok as long as the surname is not "Day"
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Pronounced Morris, an excellent choice. The other way can't be said without a hint of 70's hairdresser campness, which is also excellent if that's what you're aiming for.
Maurice... and I thought I had it rough with my gf dead set on calling our boy Jackson (which sounds far too American to me)!
you did ask for opinion, my opinion is it's not very good, in fact it's awful. What about Rowan?
It's up there with Malcolm or Trevor....... Don't do it!
Would Albert fit both your requirements...?
My Dad is Sidney Maurice ,as was his father he always hated it and the lack of originality hence we all have unusual names as he didn`t want to follow the herd
Austin?
I know of someone whos full name is "Austin Steele" - cool as ****.
I wanted to call our lad Arnold. I was over ruled.
Sadly too many Jacks, Luke, etc. Maurice is cool. Morrie would be his nickname?
Everyone is trying so damn hard to be middle class and unique that it all just ends up being diluted chavvery.
I've a friend who has given their child the surname of a 19th century poet as a first name. Poor wee guy!
Not read all this, but I went to school in the eighties with the name Arthur and it made my life hell! Moving to a new school and having people laugh in your face when they heard your name was not the best start. Kids are cruel, why put a target around your child's neck? I changed to my middle name the moment I left school and it was a weight off of my shoulders.
Funny how all the names come and go and people on this very thread are discussing the name Arthur. If you live in the south they will be known as arfur! Given their time again my parents would not have cursed me with that name, any abuse I got over it(lots) was passed on to them.
Maurice?! Just call the poor bugger Sue and be done with it!
A Hora, I see you are up there again giving your point of view on something you haven't experienced. Your name is Mark, how the hell would you know?
Maurice?! Just call the poor bugger Sue and be done with it!
I used to work with a lad called Tracey, no one took the rip and he was a sound lad.
You used to work with a a man named Tracey, you didn't go to school with a thirteen year old of that name. You can eventually grow into a name, but the process can be a painful one.
[i]Sadly too many Jacks, Luke, etc.[/i]
Is Luke a popular name now?
I'm 50 and can probably count the number of Lukes I've met in my life on both hands and one foot.
Given the name was also one of the apostles I never understood why Matthew, Mark and John were ubiquitous yet my name appeared to be ignored by parents.
Being called Maxwell growing up in the 70's in the Black Country wasn't my moms best idea, like the boy named Sue though it taught me how to stand up for myself.
My moms justification was that I would sound posh when going for a job interview and was originally going to call me Simon but didn't want people calling me simple..... got to love em !!
My eldest son is Luke, the only one in his class, 44th most popular boys name.
[i]44th most popular boys name. [/i]
It was 398th in the year of my birth.
Which rather explains the dearth of contemporary Lukes.
There was a bit of a popularity surge after Star Wars came out in '77 🙂
My oldest lad 18 is Luke and he was only lad in his year but there is a few in the school apparently.
Youngest lad is Finley and we thought it wasn't very popular and I'd liked it since Luke but was over ruled first time, anyway he plays football and virtually every team has one so must have been a popular one 12 years ago.
Maurice Blocker had a good fight with Lloyd Honeyghan a few years back
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All of my kids have names that reflect their cultural inheritance. That means that some of their names are less common in these parts. It never dawned on us when picking names that what others thought would even matter.
In an age when people can pick and choose their identity, what right would anyone have to make fun of a kid for his/her name?!?
If my kids got made fun of and didn't tell the one(s) doing it to 'f' off, then I would. And tell them to get an education in the world's differences.
Kids aren't nice, they can all be a bit nasty and I'm sure mine will be no different. My son is only five and someone called him '****' at school last term, must be a word their parents use. We spoke to his teachers, but you can't be going to the school every time someone calls them a name.
One of the sports [i]teachers[/i](!) upset my son by changing his name to a similar girl's name. The kids then obviously copied it. Was going to go and slap him, but my lad wasn't that bothered.
Still, someone somewhere will find something to take the piss out of, so names? Call em something decent or something amusing to toughen em up. 🙂
Nice idea Dez, but what if it doesn't toughen them up? You don't know what your baby will be like as they grow. How will they look? Will they be naturally strong, confident, attractive? Maybe an amusing name will toughen them up and they will thrive or sadly it could be the final nail in their coffin.
I wasn't a pushover at school, can't say I was bullied, but if girls are laughing at you over something as simple as your name, especially at times like puberty it can knock your confidence and you can hardly give them a slap.
My moms justification was that I would sound posh when going for a job interview and was originally going to call me Simon but didn't want people calling me simple..... got to love em !!
Kids will probably find , and take advantage of any weakness, be it a name, a physical look, a style of dress (remember uniforms were just that- to make us uniform), in fact anything different or that stood out.
Apparently my given name was cause for taking the rip, my surname definitely was and I was left confused when I moved schools as to how the kids in the new school knew my nickname from the previous school.
Kids will do it and even when you try to redress the balance and return the favour, they don't understand the harm they are doing to others, just how much they don't like it being done to them. They need to be mature enough to understand that cheap shots are not big or clever. recipients need to understand that there are ways of dealing with it, be it fighting, ignoring, rising above or simply capitulating (Ok, so the last one isn't a dealing mechanism). 😀
EDIT: I'm also Welsh and this pisstaking seems to amuse some adults too. 🙄
All my kids have common names, youngest having a v common one, for his cadre, as in two others in his class at one point (not Tracey). We've got birthday cards from him when he was little, signed with his name and initial. (Told him he didn't need to add the latter as we knew which one he was...) Anyway, he has complained about this, being g a bit of a character who could easily rock Jango or some such moniker (tho not Monica). But in the words of Tony Soprano, waddya gonna do?
[i]Nice idea Dez, but what if it doesn't toughen them up?[/i]
I did put a smiley... My son's name is fairly easy to take the piss out of, but he likes it because it's a cool name and no-one else is called it. He's not the toughest kid ever 😆