And I mean ODD kids names!  I was in the pet shop today, as you do, and a young mum shouts on her toddler who has run off round the shop "Lennon!"   Another time a girl was talking about her baby "Levi" and I was like "Oh from the Bible" and she says "No, the jeans."  What is with that?  Is it a generational thing?  Are there any nice yet unusual names?  Maybe I am old before my time?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha,
Sorry reminds me of an acquatence of mine. Both her children were named by other people. One as a bet.
Rogue and Harley!!!!!!!!
Rogue is a girl and Harley a boy!!!
Lea :) :)

little girl i know  rainbow
girl athena
boy tarquin
boy jester
carolann

my new nephew is called Lincoln - don't like it much (to my mothers disgust) but his middle name is james so he will be LJ to me lol

I know a little girl called Angel. She might of been very angelic when born but she certainly isnt now.

When thinking of names for my two I imagined them at 40 and being shouted at the Drs surgery.

my boyfriends mum had a girl at her nursery called pocahontas! and my dad overheard a young, somewhat neddy girl shouting at her child at a train station. imagine "SHAKIRA!! SHAKIRA! COME BACK!" in a rough glaswegian accent!

I find that the most odd name i've heard was Apple which is the daughter for Gwyenth Paltrow and her hubby(whats his name)... That is absurd. Funny for a young child, but as an adult??

But think about THEIR grandkids or nieces/nephews lol!  Granny Apple, Aunty Pocahontas.  Yes I've heard of a Pocahontas too lol, you brought the memory back.  My folks thought long and hard about names for us and how they would affect us in the future (bullying etc).  I also find it really odd that people deliberately spell names wrong to make them different.  I went to school with a girl called Elaine, only it was spelt Aileen.  And if you ever called her Aileen you got it between the eyes.

Aaaah.  The Glaswegian accent.  It's just meant to be heard being shrieked from across a room.  The only way anyone at work knows I'm from Glasgow is because of my mug :-)  The Maryhill accent is long gone.

I've been thinking what I'd call my kids recently which has got me to thinking about this topic.

There is a little girl called Gypsie Bean at my daughter's school.

my neice is called Paradigm
and my daughter is Chiara

Maryhill??? - wae an accent connie unnerstaun thon fur a noshun

Park region, posh end - an oasis of calm, serenity and perfect elocution

seems lots of 'bizzarre' names are being used these days!
here are a few i have come across:
Ocean a girl aged 14 years
Blaze a boy aged 5 years
Storm a girl aged 8 years
lenny and levi both boys aged 6 years
romeo boy aged 6 years
Martha girl aged 8 years (not so strange but a tad old fashioned i think?)

And the last one, my sons friend who one day we met at the park and my son was calling him ozzy, so I asked my son what his name was for real and he said Broscar! how very strange!

I always thought mine was weird, Kory for a girl.  My sister got a normal name, Michelle. 

I know one person, who is going to name her baby after her cat, Shanessa

This thread kinda reminds me of a project we had to do in Parenting class in Grade 11.  We had to have "babies" and take care of them.  They were actually eggs.  Mine were named Scrable and Sunny Side.  I wasnt too creative!  My teacher also didnt think it was funny when I went to an after school program at the Childrens Aid Society and left them there in the fridge by accident, I told her that "The Aid Took them away". 

My daughter goes to school with a Wilma (15)

My friends little girls is called Pickle, and her sister is Lily!!! lol

that funny about the name pickle my new puppy kc name is in a pickle but he living at my friends house i said to name him mr pickle but no they dont like it.so gimble his is name ?

I thought long and hard and went old fashioned Benjamin - Ben to his mates.
Samuel - Sam to his mates.
Katie has - Aniesha, Ambur & new baby boy Ruben - all part Indian
Terry's daughter is Paige
Craig's daughter is Masie-May - Love that one.
The best one when I was young was Norman Conquerer - I kid you not.
We tend to go towards old names. My cousin Wendy has 4 girls, Sarah, Charlotte, Sophie & Georgina.

My cousin Ed has Harley - boy and Fenella - girl, and we have a female Toni but apart from that my Vivienne Anne is the worst and I blame that on my cousin Lesley Vivienne Stacey-Lockington, I ask you a mouthful that one.
Nan and Grandad had 8 boys and 6 girls who all married and I have about 52 cousin's, second cousin's ect... so we have to use our imagination a bit.

Aye real Taggart country ;-)

What fascinating names!  I do have a soft spot for old fashioned/traditional.  However some of the more imaginative ones are looking pretty cool.  Although maybe not Pocahontas or Broscar or Normal Conqueror :-)

I'm just a boring Margaret :-(

> Wilma (15)

Does she have a brother called Fred? & a dog names Dino???? Ridiculous!

I wouldn't like to be called Wilma no matter what age I was :-(

WILMA! I'M HOOOOOME!!!! ;-)

Flintstones, meet the flintstones, they're a modern stone age family.....

Ashlee Simpson has just named her newborn son Bronx Mowgli. ???What can you say to that???

This is getting silly now, isn't the boy in Jungle Book called Mowgli? Has she taken a lead from the Beckhams was the baby conceived in the Bronx???

LOL!  She wanted him to have the "bear necessities of life" obviously.

My eldest son went to primary school with two sisters, one named Artamis and the other Auriel. They were sweet girls.

I've come across Branston for a boy and Audrey for a girl.

And let's not forget the weird and wonderful Frank Zappa who named his son Dweezel and his daughter Moon Unit!!  Jason Lee named his son Pilot Inspektor.

I think there's a fine line between unusual and respecting your child enough not to make them a laughing stock.  I think for a lot of these hollywood folk it's just about any tactic they can use to grap that extra five minutes of fame, even if it is at the expense of their child.

Absolutely Lunamoona.  My OH's dad is Dale and I thought it might be nice for a girl too.  I feel realy sorry for celebrity's children.

>Audrey for a girl.

What's wrong with Audrey? A little dated in the UK, certainly (but in the top 100 girls names in France and Belgium), but old-fashioned is fashionable now!

I heard someone the other day calling their little boy and he was called 'Casper'.  I thought this was a really nice name (though saying that my mum's GSD is called Casper!)

I'm always intrigued by the name Merlin...absolutely love it but only a few people agree with me on this one lol!  I've heard of a couple little girls called 'Willow' which i think is a really nice name.

Someone at one of my cousins schools was named Jezebelle (sp).

If I have kids in the future I would like them to have slightly different names but nothing too crazy!

> What's wrong with Audrey?

I agree that old fashioned names are coming back again and there is nothing wrong with the name itself.  Just for me, whenever I hear that name all I can think of is the loud character from Coronation St lol!!  And I know this little girl is named after Audrey Hepburn who was lovely but I just can't get that other image out of my mind  :( and I don't even watch it!!

mine are
Chiara Phillippa Rochelle
Tiffany Alexandra Louise
Ben Jordon Kerr
Stephen Peter Phillip
although Ben gets called benjamin which is infuriating as i called him Ben so no one could shorten his name! and now they lengthen it.....

I went the other way Benjamin to be able to choose if he was a Ben or a Benjamin. His mates call Samuel Sam I always call him Samuel so does my brother.

My Dad is Brian Victor, my eldest brother was Martin Victor my younger Kevin Brian.
I have partially carried the names forward with Benjamin Bryan and Samuel Martyn but changed the spelling. Kev's eldest is Terrance Brian.
My Mum was Sheila May, so Craigs daughter who is 1 on 1st dec is Masie-May.

In my family tree all first born males were David back to 1660's

My kids are just in school so we've got a variety of faddish names.  The best family for naming their kids must be the parents who have called their daughter Betty & their son Frank (I tell no lie!)  Haven't actually asked them if they called their son Frank after the aggro they no doubt got for calling their daughter Betty but it's the sort of thing I would have done to annoy my mother (she thought Emily was awful ;-))

My first born was 10lb 9oz, I had him christened at 3 moths my Mum said "he'd look silly in a christening gown!"  Up to that point I was thinking of a smocked outfit at that point he wore a christening gown so did Samuel I would do anything not to be told what to do with my own kids....

I work in a school so have got used to the odd names :-)  Infact, now, we take more note of the "usual" names like Holly, Sophie, james, jack etc!!

I know of a reasonably well know Scottish "celeb"  who has a little girl called Dixie-Dott.

Have also heard the rough scottish "Brrriiiiittnnneeeeyy!"

wierdest name I've heard lately is Kee-yan  think 'Nessa' from Gavin and Stacey shouting it LOL

I have Finn - because of our Irish surnames and OH's german mother (and a large family of boys, so most good names already gone :( )but imagine being in a large crowded Aquatics shop and OH shouting 'Finn' angrily as little horror tries to run amok!   I could hardly breathe for laughing and told the shop assistant "It's ok he's got Tourettes "  :wicked grin:

Anyone remember Zowie Bowie???

I chose fairly standard names for my children although I hadnt heard anyone else being called by their names at the time.  But some people did question them (MIL mainly) saying they were too different (from someone who called her twin sons Harold and Fredrick - now 37!!).  I've got Sophia Charlotte, Eloise Marie, Alisha Tegan and Archie Alan James - standard names I think and now they actually seem quite popular at the moment.  My auntie on the other hand has some quite strange names, her first two were Alexander and Grace so ok there but then there was August (boy), James-Sholto, Emmanuel (boy) and Mahetibel (a girl pronounced ma-heat-a-bel who is now 11).

> Anyone remember Zowie Bowie???

Lol oh yes, didn't he change it to something like something-Jones?

My parents tried to give us sensible names - my sister is Rebecca, my brother Greg.  But I was Delia.  No, I never once got called Delia Smith... or Delilah... or had Delilah sung to me... Or had 'DeDelia' sung at me to the suggs tune... *rolls eyes*

These days I go by Nikita, not the most normal of names but everyone calls me Niki.  So I get a name that I love, and no-one gives my everyday nickname a second thought :-)

When kids arrive on the scene they will also have sensible names - I've heard some stupid ones (Apple being the worst IMO too), I prefer the sensible, slightly old-fashioned types myself.  Like Daniel or Nathan for a boy, or Rose, Paige or Phoebe for a girl.  OH likes Jack for a boy or Emily Rose for a girl (although that makes me think of the horror film...).

My sister's boy is called Vincent - and with a finnish father his full name is Vincent Vexi Susiaho.  Good grief!

> but imagine being in a large crowded Aquatics shop and OH shouting 'Finn' angrily as little horror tries to run amok!   I could hardly breathe for laughing and told the shop assistant "It's ok he's got Tourettes "  :wicked grin:

(((:-D)))
I am facing an extremely miffed Husky.. who has just had an entire mouthful of coffee sprayed over him1 (upon laughing at that post Dill!!!)

I like Martha and Audrey :)
I do prefer classical names but am eternally thankful I was born female..My parents met when both starred in Shakespear's Twelth Night so I was named Olivia (had I have been male I would have been Orsino! )

I find the 'made up' names the funniest.
Does anyone else find, though, that the person often makes the name? There are lovely names out there but I find I dont like them because I have once known someone with the name and that person was anything but lovely ;)
Vicariously I have a friend who is Icelandic and her name is Sigurlaug.. which to me sounds very harsh and not very femminine..but she is extremely beautiful (inside and out) almost ethereal and so now I find the name lovely.

I have a jasmine andie (jas)  , izaak callum (zak) , lincoln louis(linc) & a faith anais (fifi), intersetingly, people either love the name lincoln ...... or they hate it lol

On another branch of the family we have a Imogen, Mia, Naomi, Poppy Xenia (some sort of warrior princess?)
Honor & Holly, my favorite was our neighbours when mine were small with Rosie & Jack loved that.
I find the ones that do not carry well are the Waynes, Kylie, Jason ect from tv shows, I cant say Wayne with out thinking of Harry Enfield, and I know two lovely Waynes. How about Emeka Jones!!! that was one this week.

Funny thing to day we were having our company breakfast and this tiny boy was fascinated by my OH who has pure white hair, beard and glasses and he kept coming back for a look (he was about 2 to 3 year old) his Mum apologised he had thought Colin was Santa!!!! Bless, Ive been giggling ever since.

Taha boy of 15, Autumn is also a friend of my daughters, and I've got a Betty!  Well not technically she's Beth (granddaughter) but I call her my little Bet Bailey and she loves it! She's 4, maybe she won't love it when she's 8!

> I find the 'made up' names the funniest.

Malandra Burrows played Kathy/Cathy in Emmerdale, anyone remember her?? Her name was made up of both her parents christian names, dad called Malcom mum Sandra hence Malandra!

I love the name Olivia HG and if we had ever had another daughter ( we did for a brief while a few years ago think about having another baby) this would of been somewhere in her name, along with the names Scarlett and Devon.
Our girls are:
Chelsea Amber Lauren and Raven Marina Paige, we wanted something different but not to wacky and off the wall :-)
My brothers daughters Jade and Paris. I no a Ruby and a Scarlett and twin boys called Marcus and Maxwell. My nephews sister in law's children are called India (girl) Tristan (boy Irish name)
Boys names I like Gabriel (Gabe for short) Oliver and Todd.

Speaking of celeb's kids names after someone mentioning Apple, Sundae Rose??? (Nicole Kidman) I think Bob Geldofs kids win hands down though lol :-)

My daughter is called Carrera.

Jane

>Raven Marina Paige

Excellent choice ... ;-)

M.

My friend's little girl's middle name is Tamicka - I think that's made up but I could be wrong - I haven't heard it before though !! I really like unusual names. I like the name Chelsea even though it reminds me of the football team! Ruby seems to be quite a popular choice for girls at the moment round here, was discussing the name with a pregnant friend today actually. I love the name Olivia too as the mum of the puppy we're getting is called Olivia.

I like Daisy for a girl (my OH's reaction - it's a child not a cow!) and Charlie or William for a boy.

My son has a tradional name, Stephen but my middle daughter is Shana Beatrice, wanted something abit different with a tradional middle name. My youngest is Cassie, actually Cassandra Louise Mary!! Bit of a mouthful for a 3 yr old, not sure how she'll feel about it when she's older.
Good mix of tradional and unusual at pre-school, Archie, Alfie, George. Also Mi-Mi, Sienna and Aisla. Aimee and Maisie quite popular too.

> Excellent choice ... ;-)

>

> M.

Not at all bias lmao, :-) I adore the name and even though its not her first name its very pretty and it just makes her name, (if you get my meaning) Raven Paige wouldn't of worked at all but Marina was all ways her second name, even when we was thinking about not calling her Raven but naming her Carly. (long story) lol