My parents didn't register me until the last day, 6 weeks after I was born.  I was called Fritz until then.

lol nope youre all wrong :p

mind you an old aquaintance of mine from way back always called me "delphia darling"

I just presumed it would be Phillipa!
But now Im thinking.... Philomena!!!  (I had an old aunt called Philomena, she was as mad as a bag of frogs..but wonderfull! verrry excentric. and her sister was Jobina {pronounced Joe-Bye-Nah} dont think Ive spelt that right?? But both were No mess Broad scottish battleaxes!! Jobina insisted we call her 'Aunty Beanie' but as Billy Connolly was huge when we were kids we thought she ought to have been Aunty Jobby!! :-D Aunty Philomena was the stricter of the two, so we would call them Aunty Beanie and Aunty Meanie!!)

Eeeeeeeeeeeee.. Im sitting here wiping tears of laughter away, sorry its probably not in least funny to anyone else..but ah..thinking of 'The Big Yin' the word 'Jobby' still transforms me into Olivia aged 5 and 3 quarters!! :-D *snigger*

> Simple Claire - just crate train it

Dog training, baby training not much difference from my experience....LOL

youre right in thinking its Philippa for my first name HG....... but i get called Philly and its the Philly bit added to my surname that I think it ridiculous and im embarrased by.

but i wont divulge untill theres something in if for me lmao ;)

Funnily enough My late friend knowing how much I hated my name once told someone who was badgering me about it that I was called Philomena Berkendoodle to shut them up cos i was getting annoyed...funnily enough he still is none the wiser to this day and is utterly convinced that is my name.......what an idiot lol......

ill start you off though my surname starts with an F

ps HG...its there for all to see on my FB profile lol...... You had to sign in with your ful name hence the only reason its there

> her sister was Jobina {pronounced Joe-Bye-Nah}

Is that just a Scottish thing?  There are loads of people in the older generation (quite a bit older than me ;) ) who have names that are their fathers names with -ina on the end which is either pronounced eye-na or ee-na depending on the family.  There are loads of georgina, alexina, bertina, jamesina etc etc  Now these would have been the tallulahs and savannah's of their day.

Blast just looked, and you are not my FB list so I cant see.
I am soooooooooooooooo intrigued LMAO
Lea :) :)

>Is that just a Scottish thing?

Nope...it's common among the older generation where I come from too.  I recall Thomasina, Hughmina, Johnina etc from the village I grew up in.  Although, thinking about it, that particular part of NI is very closely affiliated to Scotland (particularly the west coast, linked via the fishing industry) and our dialects aren't dissimilar :-)

>ill start you off though my surname starts with an F

I know ;-)

((((Christpher Columbus!!!))))))))))
*Sprays screen with mouthful of coffee!!*
Philly!!!
Im hoping its just my (filthy??) Mind?? But I really would never have thought of *that* had it not been suggested!
(are we swapping the e for an a ... or am I just beyond redemption???)

Oh that is bloomin brilliant! (thats made my night!)
But I have to say you will always be Philomena Berkendoodle to me :-D Thats truly brilliant!

(Oh my cheeks hurt from laughing tonight..thank dog Newfies not here!!)

> But I have to say you will always be Philomena Berkendoodle to me :-D Thats truly brilliant!
>

lmao  I thought it was a stoke of genius on my friends part and it did make me laugh and diffuse a situation that was getting heated.......thing is if that  actually was my real name id be more gutted with that than the one im lumbered with 

God bless John for that one


*passes HG a wet wipe for her  screen*

Wet wipe??
Im more need of a Tena Lady right now!!!!!!!
               
                :-D

Aha Philly :D Now I know :) :) :)
(Just looked at HG FB!!!)
(although thought you were on mine but I twas mistaken LOL)
And I wouldnt have thought anything of it if you hadnt said anything :o :o :o
Lea :) :)

>Ktee, that was rather tactless

If you read the thread through, she's not the only one to be honest.

There are plenty of traditional names that are out of fashion and lots of new ones that are unusual but at the end of the day what does it matter so long as the name hasn't got negative connotations?

One of my jobs means I work with mostly ethnic groups and I have to ask how to pronounce many names. I guess as time goes on more and more of these names will become more common and some of the unusual spellings we see are variants of names from other cultures anyway.