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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 - Member

Rusty, I see your point, but to me Samuel, and Charles are up there with Isambard etc as "old names".

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

Anastasia

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 ee

That's what the child thought she was called.
It was spelled

Yvette.

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 - Member

Not 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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it's a shame but pocahontas mcginty is a myth

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My wife worked with a rather thick girl with the surname "Prentice". When she fell pregnant she continued to drink Barcadi Breezers and other Alcopops because they contained fruit juice and would be okay for the baby! Unfortunately the baby was eventually born a little damaged and despite the warning from my wife was called "Alice".

Probably be lucky if she is an A.Prentice

it's a shame but pocahontas mcginty is a myth

yeth, I've heard thith too. T'ith a shame she'th never married*

*Tip of the hat to the original Muppet Movie*

Also, why is no one called Methuselah any more, eh? Or Adolf.

A friend called in a panic asking for help in convincing his sister that Isaac was not an appropriate name for her newborn son.

Her surname was Cox.

It took a while, but she eventually twigged.

South Africans don't seem to be shy of the occasional Adolf or indeed Bismark. Tough names for tough guys.

Maybe I don't want to know the answer but is Xanthe that strange a name?

A bit unusual maybe (though you're the one who's been perusing the baby name books so probably know better than me), but not strange. I suspect it's one that people might have problems spelling or pronouncing, but I think it's a lovely name if that helps at all.

When she fell pregnant she continued to drink Barcadi Breezers and other Alcopops because they contained fruit juice and would be okay for the baby!

South Africans don't seem to be shy of the occasional Adolf or indeed Bismark. Tough names for tough guys

I forget the actual names but there was a story about a lovely family in America, where else, who had named their kids after pretty much the entire Nazi war cabinet. They may have been white supremicists...

The kids had been taken into care IIRC.

Back in the days of uni in Birmingham I can remember one of my friends telling me about one of their mates who was a massive Villa supporter giving his daughter the name Notsa. Then many years later I employed someone here from Birmingham who told me Notsa was one of his best friends! Another friend of mine's uncle is/was a car mechanic and called his daughter Caprina.

Over here in Germany you are not allowed to call your kids what you like. The names can only come from a registered book of names. If it doesn't you have a whole world of bureaucracy waiting for you which we found out with our first child.