General Chat

I hate daft names, Sue. So unfair on the kids who will get teased in school.

Our son was named after my father and I was named after my aunt. No regrets on either count.

Me too. That is one of the considerations most parents allow for.

Sadly not all. I have to laugh when I hear of names that have been 'tampered' with to make them sound individual. Altering the spelling to make them different.

As for naming your baby after some celebrity or TV character....words fail me.

My mother in law was called Betty.
Her aunt, and numerous cousins all had versions like, Beth, Bet, Bettie or Bethie.
Some younger family members even call themselves Elizabeth

Every single one of them were actually named: Bethia

five Betty's in my family

in the births column in our local paper there was a baby boy called Deckland - presumably his parents thought that's how Declan was spelt

lololol Deckland :-D

My Lightfoots seemed to only know the names Richard and Elizabeth, really helpful.

My Aunt Peg was really Beatrice.

The local history research I undertake can be so frustrating because a lot of Welsh people used totally unrelated pet names and they appeared on census records as their given names.

When I do baptism prep at church, I am always interested to see what the names are.
We have a mixture of traditional, zany and those which are obviously spelled phonetically.

The one I always remember is Nevaeh. Heaven - backwards. sigh.

ho raed lolol

Heaven spelled backward. It has become popular as a girls' name since 2001. Well-known Neveahs: Rocker Sonny Sandoval's daughter.

Well I never knew that.

It would be interesting to have my son's name spelled backwards, not a hope of pronouncing it. even having been blessed with the rolling R and LL genes lolol

family members dident like the name i gave to one of my girls

its not a commen name and not an unseal one

more of and old name

lucky for me she loves her name and she use to like being the only one
with that name in school.

but she did come in once and ask why i gave her a grannys name lol
an old lady was calling her friend from the other side of the road and daughter thought she was calling her.
when my daughter ask the lady if she now her the lady said no im calling my friend over there

aaaw choosing 'old fashioned' names seem to be cyclical and become popular again every 10 years or so. Soon they will not be considered old fashioned at all because the generation that were given those names will have passed on.

You have to be careful when linking a christian name with a surname.

Wayne with Scales..
Hyacinth with Tubbe
Aran with Niland

Three I know personally over the years....

Well that's true but at least we'll never forget the England rugby union play.......

Austin Healey :-D :-D

Name Fanny Damp
Gender Female
Christening Date 20 Feb 1825
Christening Place Shalfleet, Hampshire, England
Father's Name Henry Damp
Mother's Name Maria

I hate the name my parents gave me Linda it does not to bad when your younger but when your in your late 60s it sounds very silly I prefer to be call Lynn my middle name is Ann which I like and is a family name

I have always liked my name, my middle name is Jennifer when I was little and asked my name I would say them quickly and run them together and therefore sometimes got called Angelica. :-D

Daughter has 2 names and hates the second which is Marie. So. Has three names and hates his second name which is Paul.

Grandchildren all have nice ordinary names Christopher, Jeremy, Gregory (all sortened to Chris, Jay or Jezz and Greg) james and Sophie. Great Grandchildren two with ordinary names Luke (not from the Bible but Star Wars) and Adam. Then the latest as most of you know is Inara (from mythology and also strangely Islamic).

All nice and 'normal' lolol

I have just been checking some of the names parents landed their offspring with during 2015.

All I can say is "poor kids" :-(

My two have fairly 'normal' names. Elder is Leila (my dad was Islam, so fairly average), younger is Nina

Going back to Jamie Oliver, my daughter was going to call her eldest Poppy - then he did.
My suggestion - cover all options with 'Blossom', hit a note, that is her name - and she plays rugby!!.
Then (and I had to check he couldn't be traced) her elder son has been given a name used in her fathers family for generations - but usually as a second name - Gaius.
Younger boys name reflects our Cornish heritage - Jago.

As my younger daughter and her husband both studied geology, it seems 'normal' for them to name their child Amber :-D

My niece had a little girl this time last year they named her Harriet Elizabeth little did my sister know that our g.g.g aunt had that name but the are both family names so is my nieces son he is named Samuel David Sam because they liked the name but it was our g g grandfathers name and David after SAMs granddad but it was also our g g grandfather

There are a lot of Elizabeth Janes in my family so when oh and I were discussing children's names I said if we have a daughter and he has no objections I'd like to give her those names as middle names.

I love the names Caoimhe pronounced Keeva, Aoife pronounced Eefa and Niamh pronounced Neeve but I don't know if I could ever give them to a child as almost nobody else would be able to spell or pronounce them