Some of the people that know me from other places will relate to this more but also be careful when naming a child as my daughter is called Hannah and my surnmae is unusal, when you transpose the first letter of her surname with the the initial from her given name! Well it's rude and the boys love it!

im trying to figure this one out but i cant! :)

Unless you know my surname you won't but tis worth considering all angles when naming a child.

Unless you know my surname you won't but tis worth considering all angles when naming a child.

A very good point made! This is another reason I hate the name Lincoln for my nephew ! LOL

ShaynLola - love the list of names you came up with from your days as a Housing Officer :-)

I used to work in lettings and once met a family who had a baby girl called Chardonnay. 'Footballers' Wives' was very popular at the time! :-D

> Some of the people that know me from other places will relate to this more but also be careful when naming a child as my daughter is called Hannah and my surnmae is unusal, when you transpose the first letter of her surname with the the initial from her given name! Well it's rude and the boys love it!

Yep it can raise a giggle or two cant it Lesley??!!! :-)

Anyone remember Zowie Bowie???

Yes, he changed it to Joe Jones, but then his father was David Jones originally from memory! 

I did hear of a father who wanted his daughter to be named after the football team he supports - not the common Chelsea (which is a reasonably suitable girls name) but Arsenal. His wife let him have it but it was spelt backwards, so the little girl was Lanesra. I think thats quite a pretty name

>Ktee, that was rather tactless.. but only to be expected I suppose.... your signature speaks for you

No one will ever accuse me of being PC,thank goodness.

I don't know anyone on here with kids names who were on my list. I can't help but to post honest replies and most of the time i post what i think.I don't have any loved ones or nearest and dearest who i have to tip toe around on here. Kids names these days just happen to be a pet peeve of mine.
I'm sure there are plenty of people who cant stand the names i chose for my kids,but hey ho,that's life.

There's only a couple of members who routinely jump on my posts and try and highlight them to the rest of the population,but ironically their  opinions are the ones  i care least about.

I would also like to add that i read many cringe worthy posts on here,but i don't make it my business to but in and have a pop about their PCness or tactfulness or whatever.

This post would probably doesn't belong on this thread,but the opportunity to bring this up came along,so here it is.

Also apologies if i offended anyone,was certainly not my intent.

its nothing to do with being Pc as you put it ...
and i had already written about my daughters name towards the begginning of the topic......
as my mother said "if you dont have anything nice to say then dont say anything at all"

inthemistuk i obviously didn't properly read your post.You obviously love your child's name,so what i or anyone else thinks hopefully doesn't factor in to anything.

>"if you dont have anything nice to say then dont say anything at all"

Nice,but unrealistic I'm afraid.The world AND forums would be a very quiet,if not a little boring place if everyone took this approach???

I'm not sure if this is the right thread to be discussing the underlying issues on.P'haps a new thread which could be titled a myriad of different things would be more appropriate??

lol i totally agree its unrealistic and after writing it i re read what i wrote and was about to erase my comments!
but got side tracked
i am not offended and i must admit i dislike a few names but would never say
maybe thats my problem and i should learn to speak out more!
end of distracting comments lets get back onto the original subject....

>and i should learn to speak out more!

I thoroughly recommend it.It's too hard to keep everyone happy,and takes a lot of energy to read and evaluate every word that comes out of your mouth.
For me,being popular and saying what i think other people want to hear just sits wrong with me,i just can't do it.
I always make sure to put on my thick skin before logging on to any forums,and i refuse to let words on a computer screen get the better of me.

inthemistuk,I'm sorry for putting your kids name on "my list".

>end of distracting comments lets get back onto the original subject....

Done :)

But I think we can all put Pocahontas on the top of our "lists" for "what not to call your child" ;-)

Thanks for your PM Ktee.. but I am quite happy to keep my thoughts public..

There are many things in this world I dont particularly like.. but its not our place to tell other people what the can, and cannot choose.. and to be honest,, whether anyone else like the names of their children.. is nobody's business

Personally.. I absolutely detest the name Katherine.. but.. I am allowed to ;-)

There are some really weird and wonderful names going around these days - there were when I was younger too just less of them :)  I think some parents forget that although they think something sounds lovely or new age, it is their child who has to grow up with the name and if too off the wall or difficult to pronounce etc it may be a burden or embarassment to their child at school or even later in life.

It's all very personal of course - what's lovely to me may be be boring or comical or stupid to someone else and vice versa.  I think some surnames call for more discreet first names though, remember the Big Yin's sketch of Yahoudi McGinty et al :-D 

Ktee - were you born nasty or did you have to work at it?

Normally, you are no 1 on my ignore list - but sometimes, when one reads other peoples' comments, one just has to find the one that has caused so much furore!

Guess which name is on my "non-preferred" list

The most unusual names I know are my niece 'Jasmine-Summer', I think thats so pretty, it's often shortened to 'Jazz'. My friends girls are called 'Shanelle' and 'Serentiy' but my friend will not tollerate thier names being shortened.

My boys have boring names, 'Jack' and 'Daniel', which is always shortened to 'Dan' (unless he's been naughty!)

> Guess which name is on my "non-preferred" list

Ummm
Frodo?
Rose?
Ozzy? especially with a numeral attached :-)
Tzulover?

It's really just associations isn't it that makes it so hard to like a name.  I wasn't going to contribute to this thread and hope I haven't insulted anyone :-o  it's so easy to do with something so personal as a name. 

I think kids will make fun of folk no matter what their parents call them.  My OH has a dutch surname, so when it does come to crunch time I will be limited in what first name sounds good with it.  If it comes to it I may even have to double-barrel the surnames ;-)  That would drive the out-laws up the wall mwahahaha.  When I started the thread I never thought it would grow so many arms and legs!  A name is incredibly personal, but I can't help thinking that some kids have had their names inflicted on them.  I was looking up Dutch firstnames and found Skylar for a girl.  It is pretty odd, because I've never heard of it before, but it is an old traditional Dutch name apparently.  I looked up what it meant, means scholar or something similar, and I am quite tempted to add it to my list of "possibles".  I think the problems arise when "celebrities" take it upon themselves to make up their childs names (Ashlee Simpson being the latest) because "they can" which then a lot of society try to emulate.  I believe there was a case in NZ whereby a court legally changed a baby's name against the parent's wishes.

Isobel, you are right it is association mainly for me (I just can't help but notice the number of more unusual names around these days!).  There are certain "normal" names I would never give any child (or dog) of mine due to the people I know who were vile and horrible to me at school.

> When I started the thread I never thought it would grow so many arms and legs!

Ah, but it's CD :-D  What good a topic that can't be wandered off :-P

I have a double barrelled French name which I don't use -  nobody ever pronounced it correctly whether friends, teachers, GP etc, so it seemed a waste of time sticking with it and wasn't really 'cool for school' anyway (Why didn't Mum and Dad realised THAT I wonder LOL)

When I was at school everyone shortened names, Eliabeth would be Liz or Beth, Catherine Kate or Cathy, James to Jim, Robert to Rab etc whereas these days it's more common for the full name to be used and I must admit it sounds so much nicer IMO to hear the full name rather than a shorted version or nick-name etc :)  It's surprising how often James, Benjamen, Richard, Michael etc is kept in tact - classy IMO but then again not to everyone's taste and why should it be!

I expect quite a few of the generations born in the mid to late 90's onwards will be adopting a new name by which they are known - whether officially or not.  It's hard for me to imagine taking an accountant, solicitor, bank manager etc seriously if they had some pop star/sports star inspired christian name on their business card .....

Imaginative, weird, wonderful or simply ridiculous dog names - now THOSE I like   Can't be doing with Shep, Tess or Max (I wonder if there's a deed poll register for pooches :-p )

ETA! no offence intended for owners of Sheps, Tesses or Max
there'll be a clanger in there somewhere!

Oooh!  Now that is a topic for another thread! :-)  I knew of a poodle called Mr McSporran, no joke.  Imagine shouting that across the park!

Ach that's nowt - my dogs names are always erm, less than common, shall we say.  Add to that they each have several even longer and stranger nicknames plus songs to go with them (I know, I know, crazy lady :-D ) and nobody would bat an eyelid on our walks to hear Mr McSporran :-P

LOL! The mind boggles.

Pocahontas!!!

shh dont let my daughter hear that name as she has always wanted her first to be called that!!!! i
she has not mentioned it for a year now so shhhhhhhh!!

> I have a double barrelled French name which I don't use

ooh I'm curious now ;)

> Imaginative, weird, wonderful or simply ridiculous dog names - now THOSE I like

me too :) One of my puppy people called their boy 'Humphrey' at first I thought OMG - but I actually think its quite nice now ha ha

Working at a school I've come across some weird and wonderful childrens' names :) Though I do wonder aout 'Angel' sometimes, because that she definately isn't!

I think I'm not sure, but isn't Skylar one of the characters in Heroes, or am I just getting confused.
Jane

Close Jane - Silar :)

the big baddy brain sucker

I knew a lady who tried hard to find names for her sons that couldn't/wouldn't be shortened or be worthy of teasing.
The son who was in my class at school was nicknamed though....burger....now so many many years on he is still known as that, that is what comes from being brought up in such a small community. (The surname.....MacDonald what else.)

Karen

Hi Lori, yes it was close, must be my age, slipping up with my memory.
Jane

> The son who was in my class at school was nicknamed though....burger....now so many many years on he is still known as that

LOl, sorry to go off track a bit but it reminded me of my dad, he was nicknamed 'blob' at school because he was so short. His friends still call him 'Blob' or 'Blobbo' - he's 6ft 2" now !!

> I knew of a poodle called Mr McSporran, no joke.

Oooooooohhhhhhhh that was my form teachers name when I was at school!     We always thought it was a strange name seeing he wasn't Scottish & I lived in Chingford, East London.  Never heard of another McSporran even though I live in Scotland now.

One of the more unusual names I have come across was a little girl called Moth Peggotty - she changed her name by deed poll later on in life.

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Now, I really like that but then I like Moth as a name as it's from a Midsummers Nights Dream.

I suppose a lot depends on who you are and what you say?

For instance, maybe some of the 'trolls' we have coming on occassionally, using different alias's, pretending to be something they're not...really, if they can't be honest and upfront about who and what they are, aren't really worth listening to are they?

I would find it very difficult to be pleasant to someone who isn't, on the face of it, honest! How on earth could you take what they say seriously? If they give advice on something, say perhaps, raw feeding, grooming, or health care...how can we be sure if they have any worthwhile experience to offer? Honesty is paramount in my world!

I know some people who are quite ermm 'abrupt' say, in their manner, but because I respect their experience and position, I respond to their genuine advice! I don't think 'being popular' is on most peoples wish list? I have very few close, personal and exceptional friends...they know me warts and all(sorry I'm a witch in another life!) but I know we would go to hell and back for each other. My friends love me DESPITE my very poor qualities and character attributes at times!

Any way, back to names...I know someone at Church who named their girl Angel, but she's more like Jezabel! ;-)

ahh and how about BOTTOM from MND too Christine?? Shakespeare knew a thing or two about people's attributes!! :-)

> Never heard of another McSporran even though I live in Scotland now

There is a McSporran family 4 doors away from me here in England :-)  I thought it was a joke when they told us as we had moved here from Scotland and I had never heard of it there.

> One of the more unusual names I have come across was a little girl called Moth Peggotty

I think that is lovely.  Sort of Dickensian :-)

> Oooh!  Now that is a topic for another thread! :-)  I knew of a poodle called Mr McSporran, no joke.  Imagine shouting that across the park!

when I was growing up and Kylie Minogue was still in neighbours, we knew someone with a westie called kylie ma'doag

Cheeky, I can forgive ya laffin' at oweer Kylie! But I could never forgive that Fashion Faux Pas with the doggy (un)dress sense!!! :-)

When I was a young impressionable girl :-) I fancied a gorgeous hunky bloke...so cool and unobtainable - long hair, leather jacket. I spent many a lovely daydream thinking about this wonderful Adonis....but that was the problem he was called..................
wait for it........................Angus Farquarson...true. ( hope he's not reading).

That kinda chucked a bucket of cold water on my passion.

How shallow is that? :-) Well I was about 15

lol, are you laughing at my poochie? ;)

MOI?! Would I?? How very dare you! ;-)

> kylie ma'doag

:-D ROFL! :-D

(Don't tell Newfie...but my eyesight is shocking..I thought her Yorkie was wearing a pink bikini! and wondered why she was ribbing you for the Festive attire!!)

Oh we've got to do a pet version of this thread!!

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Liv! step away from the monitor and put the port down! ROFL

I hisss ssstammpin' ma feeet! ;-)

Oh my goodness!  I haven't laughed like that all day!  A pink bikini on a yorkie, whatever next!

You lot! ;-)

Take no notice of them, they're just jealous of me gorgeous puppy's golden highlights! Poor HG is used to seeing the ermmm 'lovely' Cairn cross Yorkies, the wooly black and tan coated doggies...;-)

I think naming a child is a very personal thing indeed & i would presume everyone takes time & lots of thought before giving thier child a name, IF everyone liked the same things in life then i would presume it would be a pretty boring place to be ! I also think that it is a very emotive topic ....... simular analogy i suppose would be why one person loves a certain breed of dog & another person does not but i do find HATE i very stronge feeling & word, personally i prefer to go through life not hating things, whats the point ? All those angry feelings all pent up ?

Personally i really, really like unusual & unique names ......