Outside the school gates with child number 2 this morning when I heard a mum shout to a younger child "Saracen, get back here now!"
That's the oddest one I've heard in ages. Any others?
Just watch that prison proggy on ITV (was on last night). All the loons have crazy names.
😆
Probably a Gladiators fan in her youth and he has siblings called Wolf, Hunter (actually quite popular now) and Lightning.
my brother was in the passport office in glasgow.
there was a neddy type whose kids were called Maison and Antwanettey (think it was actually spelt like that, and was pronounced with a 'netty'at the end)
apparently Maison is in some kids' names books
'bonjour, je m'appelle House...'
I ride past Lightning's house most days.
My sister is the practice manager for a dental surgery in the New Forest, and some of the christian names of the kids she has coming in these days are almost unbelievable.
My 2 personal favourites of late have been Blade and Thor... 😀
[url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7522952.stm ]An oldie but a goodie[/url]
Here are some of the gems from my son's year 1 class.
Bam
Zayon
Seven (girl)
Draven
Vinny, NZ has a bit of a craze going on for silly names these days - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/06/new-zealand-justice-baby-names
When did it become acceptable to give your kid a dogs name?
Bam
Sam Hill's son is called Bam Hill.
🙂
I'm going to call my son Woody
My mother in law recently taught a kid called Jedi Starbuck.
A friend of ours mother in law changed her christian name to Armani Versace.
Bigyinn I also know of a girl called seven.
Really, how bizarre, some sort Trekkie thing perhaps?
Bullys just get it handed to them on a plate these days....
Thats what i was thinking too. I dont think it is that bad as stupid names go. Bad enough not to use it mind you.
I'm in Hong kong. A Chinese colleague asked me help him choose an English name, and phonetically from his Chinese name, Simon was a good choice. He came back from registration with his new identity card bearing the name Nomis.
edit.
A friend decided to settle the argument of what to call their son by putting it out to internet poll of all their friends. We all voted for Megatron.
He is not called Megatron 🙁
Overheard in shop in rough part of Dundee..."Orlando-Storm! eh'll boot yir 'erse!
I'm in Hong kong. A Chinese colleague asked me help him choose an English name, and phonetically from his Chinese name, Simon was a good choice. He came back from registration with his new identity card bearing the name Nomis.
Having grown up in Hong Kong, this reminds me of Rednaxela Road, which IIRC is in the Mid-Levels
scruff - Member
I ride past Lightning's house most days.
Whenever I think of the Gladiators I have an image n my head of the men sitting at home like Ben Stiller at the end of Dodge Ball. Dunno why.
headfirst - MemberI'm in Hong kong. A Chinese colleague asked me help him choose an English name, and phonetically from his Chinese name, Simon was a good choice. He came back from registration with his new identity card bearing the name Nomis.
Having grown up in Hong Kong, this reminds me of Rednaxela Road, which IIRC is in the Mid-Levels
Is that because they read from R to L or something?
I live in a small rural town in Devon in which there are not one but two young chaps called Merlin. Make of that what you will...
Anyone read Freakonomics? There is an interesting chapter in that about baby's names and the links with social mobility.
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/2005/04/trading_up.html
uselesshippy - MemberWhen did it become acceptable to give your kid a dogs name?
When people started giving their kids diminutive names instead of the full version:
Ben, Sam, Charlie, Alex, Stacey, Millie, Ellie etc.
All perfectly good names for a Budgie or a Yorkshire Terrier, but not for a human.
Give them the full name, for Christ's sake - at least they'll have a choice when they're adults.
Heard a woman calling her son Kenzo in Tesco last week.
It's a perfume apparantly.
I've done a bit of research on popular baby names for work in recent years.
Amazingly there are something like five spellings of "Kayden" or "Jayden" above "Paul".
I know someone called Santa and someone called Rudolf, both of whom come from eastern Europe, which kind of explains it, but still makes me 😆
[i]Amazingly there are something like five spellings of "Kayden" or "Jayden"[/i]
Yeah, I was chuckling with the coach about my son's football team - son is called Lydon, plus Lyle, Hayden, Kaeden, Kyle and er, Joe. 🙂
A friend had a Shakira in her class... 🙄
son is called Lydon, plus Lyle, Hayden, Kaeden, Kyle and er, Joe
Any nobody just called Den any more! I suggested Dennis for our forthcoming nipper but wife wasn't keen.
When did it become acceptable to give your kid a dogs name?
I was named after the neighbour's dog. So it's not a new thing 😉
Friends of mine had a dog called Chloe which was knocked down and killed. Several years later they had a daughter which they also christened Chloe, which I've always thought very odd.
Are they Buddhist?
Nope.
I live in a small rural town in Devon in which there are not one but two young chaps called Merlin. Make of that what you will...
You live in or near Totnes?
We named our 2yo Luca.
I wanted to give him 'Skywalker' for a middle name but HRH didn't see the funny side.
None of our 6yo's school friends have unusual names, although for some reason my wife gave our 6yo two middle names - 'August' (no idea why), and 'Cameron' (from BBC news report on David Cameron) 😕
I wanted to name our daughter Minnie.
I was overruled.
Rusty Spanner - MemberWhen people started giving their kids diminutive names instead of the full version:
Ben, Sam, Charlie, Alex, Stacey, Millie, Ellie etc.
Why give your child a name that will never be their true name. How many children these days will be called Charles, Samuel or Alexander? I see no need to burden my son with a name that is from the past. I do take exception to made up or bastardised names that are chosen just to make their child's name sound unique (and often stupid).
Although there should be more children called Dave. When was the last time you heard a parent shout for Dave or David?
bigyinn - Member
Why give your child a name that will never be their true name. How many children these days will be called Charles, Samuel or Alexander?
Because you give them the choice.
Using the diminutive as the given name is just selfish and infantilising.
(In my opinion, of course 😀 )
Call the kid by the diminutive if you like, but give them the choice of an adults name as well as a childish one.
I see no need to burden my son with a name that is from the past.
But all the diminutive forms of the names I quoted are just as old as the full versions.
So you're still using a 'name that is from the past'.
I do take exception to made up or bastardised names that are chosen just to make their child's name sound unique (and often stupid).
Well, all names are made up at some point, aren't they?
Although there should be more children called Dave. When was the last time you heard a parent shout for Dave or David?
I'm with you on that one though. 🙂
Apperntly there is a kid in Dundee called Pochahontas McGinty. always makes me chuckle thinking of that.
Overheard a mother complaining at swiming lessons the other day that her kids name was wrong on his new swimming certificate. Correct spelling should be Kondyie (pronounced Condie)IS IT ANY BLOODY WONDER? The kid will be correcting spelling for the rest of his life.
An ex's daughter was called Xsara. Yep, after the Citroen. Her dad 'liked the look of it.'
A mate (who's on here, but doesnt post much) teaches, and one of his pupils was Oceanstorm. His parents requested that it wasn't ever shortened to Ocean or Storm too. Presumably because that was ridiculous......
awesome you managed to get 3 of my family in there and almost a fourth.When people started giving their kids diminutive names instead of the full version:
Ben, Sam, Charlie, Alex, Stacey, Millie, Ellie etc.
All perfectly good names for a Budgie or a Yorkshire Terrier, but not for a human.
What's Stacey short for btw?
Rusty, I see your point, but to me Samuel, and Charles are up there with Isambard etc as "old names".
People who try and spell the name differently with y substituting for i are just idiots. Just because you've spelt their name differently doesn't mean they won't still turn out to be a checkout operator and not a brain surgeon.
My sister is the practice manager for a dental surgery in the New Forest, and some of the christian names of the kids she has coming in these days are almost unbelievable.
My 2 personal favourites of late have been Blade and Thor...
I know someone called Thor who is from Sailsbury, so going to assume its the same guy as that name is rather rare!
He's actually a super nice dude, despite what the name would suggest.
Anastasia 😀
Lovely name.
Had a great aunt called Anastasia Duplex.
You just don't get [i]proper[/i] names like that anymore 🙂
It's all just personal opinion.
I'm Christened Peter, but prefer Pete.
Nice to still have the option - you never know when that extra 'r' might come in useful. 🙂
bigyinn - MemberRusty, I see your point, but to me Samuel, and Charles are up there with Isambard etc as "old names".
Isambard is awesome.
I'll suggest it to the daughter.
I'm hoping she'll call her first, due later this year, Arthur.
She's not keen, funnily enough.
an ex girlfriends mum was an exam marker, her youngest son was maybe 10 and was helping his mum by counting the ticks on exam papers to make sure she'd added them up right. Suddenly he pipes up "mum, why do all the lowest marks go to kids with stupid names?". (For the record, he was called Richard.)
I met a couple who's daughter was called labia. I got them to spell it and yep, Labia. I think they were Iranian, so I'm sure the anatomical links were missed from their native language, but still, the child was born in the UK, did no one question that?
I know of a Xavi. He's going to get a thrashing at school for that one.
Lots of double-barreled names coming through
Billy-James (boy)
Billi-Jo (girl)
at school
Strangest name I have come across is a girl called "Neon" that I taught
Ah right fair enoughAnastasia
My Grandad was christened Bert, used to get a bit arsey if anyone suggested it was an abbreviation of something, "no it's just Bert".
I'm Thomas according to my birth certificate though if anyone, other than The Mother, uses it instead of Tom, there's hell to pay....
When we were looking at boys names I insisted that we would only consider names that would have once been used by steam train drivers such as Albert, Arthur, Stanley, Alfred etc, These are strong names that stand the test of time. ended up with James which is a bit more regal but again, a name which is not associated with a trend.
My firstborn will be called Algernon, especially if it's a girl...
My Grandad was christened Bert, used to get a bit arsey if anyone suggested it was an abbreviation of something, "no it's just Bert".
See?!?
Imagine how much easier his life would have been if he'd been called Albert in the first place?
My dad was a Bernard.
I remember someone calling him Bernie once.
Just the once though.
Boddington's a nice middle name for a lad. Got a certain something, don't you think? 🙂
The best one I heard was in one of Glasgows finest A&E's waiting rooms...
The Doc appeared and called for a 'Pocahontase McGinty'....the whole place nearly died laughing!
I cant watch the Disney movie now without wetting myself laughing.
Similar to the OP, a few weeks ago a father was shouting to his son in my village - the name? Saxon.
I pissed myself laughing 
Got quite a dirty look from the father, who I'd like to think was a stalwart of NWOBHM, but probly wasn't cos he was wearing a superb pair of ****ing red trousers 🙂
My grandma-in-law was registered and baptised Betty in about 1910. Not Elizabeth, just Betty and no middle name either.
I know two sisters (8 and 5) called Trinity and Raven. 😀
Have a neice called Breeze, everytime I hear that name I just think of washing detergent.
Also live in Hong Kong and am now starting to not even question some of the christian name names the locals adopt, I work with 3 Phoenix's and an Anakin in my office alone, however, dont get me started on those crazy Filipino names!
Heard a story's about a child who was 'ignoring the teacher' when spoken too.
Now, I'm going to try and write the parents pronunciation of her name phoenetically (sp?)
All one word:
Why vette ee
That's what the child thought she was called.
It was spelled
Yvette.
😯
We had a fairly staid looking family in our shop a couple of years back.
The 2 daughters were called Saigon and Kampuchea.
My friend managed to Christian his son Jack Richard Egan. Which gives you Jack R. Egan ,which gives you Jack Regan. " get your trousers on,you're nicked"
Similar to the OP, a few weeks ago a father was shouting to his son in my village - the name? Saxon.
That was, truthfully, our dogs name......
Anastasia
Lovely name.Had a great aunt called Anastasia Duplex.
You just don't get proper names like that anymore
My grandad (RIP) was called Oswald.
Such a superb and very English name I think, and it shortens nicely to Oz.
I think you'd have to have guts to call a kid Oswald these days, but somebody needs to. 🙂
he Doc appeared and called for a 'Pocahontase McGinty'....the whole place nearly died laughing!
I was told Phocahontas McGinty lived in Dundee. You saw her in Glasgow.
This is starting to sound like an urban myth. I'm very disappointed.
I know of two Malena, which to me is the medical term for a black poo with old blood in it!
Why vette eeThat's what the child thought she was called.
It was spelledYvette.
Let me guess - Geordies?
"Why vette ee,
Are yez in the nettie?"
My friend managed to Christian his son Jack Richard Egan. Which gives you Jack R. Egan
Excellent work.
Not enough children called Ichabod these days.
We had this naming fun recently, as Miss Mini Guru will be a week old in a few hours time. Thought we had the name sorted after a couple of days of going through a massive spreadsheet of all the registered names in England and Wales in 2011 (interesting reading!) and then when I was pondering using her initials for naming new products for my business I realised that would make her 'Excess Guru*' (*surname changed to protect the innocent!)
Took a couple more days to settle on a middle name that didn't start with an S, L or T and felt right. Since then the reactions to the new name have been mostly very positive apart from a few people looking puzzled because they'd never heard her first name before, which is a little worrying... Maybe I don't want to know the answer but is Xanthe that strange a name?
[i] ended up with James which is a bit more regal but again, a name which is not associated with a trend.[/i]
Blimey, that's a bit unusual! You wild n crazy guy!
CaptainFlashheart - MemberNot enough children called Ichabod these days.
True.
Is that what you called the new Flashette? 🙂
And as Nigel Blackwell said:
' Not long now before Lollipop men are called Darren'.
My Grandad had the best middle name ever:
Officer.
Never heard of another one of those.
My mate nearly died of laughing in Primark in Glasgow. Mother started shouting for her daughter accross the shop.
"Tamezne, TAMEZNE, you get here right now"
We had this naming fun recently, as Miss Mini Guru will be a week old in a few hours time. Thought we had the name sorted after a couple of days of going through a massive spreadsheet of all the registered names in England and Wales in 2011 (interesting reading!) and then when I was pondering using her initials for naming new products for my business I realised that would make her 'Excess Guru*' (*surname changed to protect the innocent!)Took a couple more days to settle on a middle name that didn't start with an S, L or T and felt right. Since then the reactions to the new name have been mostly very positive apart from a few people looking puzzled because they'd never heard her first name before, which is a little worrying...
Congrats on your baby joy, but I'm guesing you haven't been sleeping much from that ramble?
Carrying on the Hong Kong theme, I remember countless 'Rainbow's, but one of the best was a Mr Tin (common Chinese surname), who was a local politician/government official often in the paper, who had picked himself the first name of Marmalade...
Another one that sticks in the mind, 30 years after the fact, was when I was being served by a particularly surly fellow at McDonald's. His name badge simply said 'Devil'.
Funnily enough i was just saying to our Claud Butler & Elswick Hopper this am,how you don't hear of many people called old cycling related names anymore..
Funnily enough i was just saying to our Claud Butler & Elswick Hopper this am,how you don't hear of many people called old cycling related names anymore..
Sturmey Archer has a nice ring about it.
Blimey, that's a bit unusual! You wild n crazy guy!
I know. I had to sit down with a warm Ovaltine after all of the excitment.
We don't really call him James or Jamie though, he is usually referred to as Little Sod.
A friend of a friend's favourite film is Top Gun. Consequently, his sons middle name is Maverick. I kid you not.
Funnily enough i was just saying to our Claud Butler & Elswick Hopper this am,how you don't hear of many people called old cycling related names anymore..
Not sure, in this thread alone we have already had Merlin and Santa. On the snobbery scale that is fine, would be gutted to be called Apollo.
Sturmey Archer has a nice ring about it.
"Lord Accrington, how are the Archers today?
Sturmey My Lord, exceedingly Sturmey........."
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