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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: c w on Saturday 20 November 04 22:54 GMT (UK)
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I just wondered what will be made of the names we give our children today, in the years to come. I have always had the desire to give my children relatively unusual names. However, soap operas and the like,
came along and undermined my plan! I gave my daughters the names Alexis, Bianca, Cherish and Seren Haf.
I have recently discovered this passion for being a little different did not begin with myself.I have ancestors with names - Lucretia; Margarita Castella: Rather exotic for Welsh families don't you think?
c w
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I am somewhat alarmed by the popular trend of giving kids
weird names. I mean 'Apple'?? It's enough to give the child a complex. :o
I work with children and I have to ask how to spell even the common names because there is now a variation on the theme -
Bilynda, Erikka, Kortney etc - and that's just the girls!
A really cute name is fine for a little baby but I always imagine them later in life in the doctor's waiting room. The nurse calls out "Peaches Boo Buttercup Jones - and a little old lady staggers to her feet.........
Darcy ;)
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I think it's good to have an unusual name - pity my parents didn't.....
I gave my daughter an unusual name (at the time) of Eloise Jayne ...... so she could use 'Jane' if she wanted a plain name ! ...she get's Ellie mostly...and today that seems really common with little tots !
I thought a girl should have an unusual name and a boy a good solid name......... so I called my son Mark Richard
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Personally I think the 'unusual' names are often ridiculous and I can only sympathise with the poor mites who have to grow up with these names. They will go through life answering the question "how do you spell that?", their schoolmates will abbreviate and bastardise it beyond recognition and they will probably bear a lifelong grudge against their parents for giving it to them.
Jill
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I can assure you my daughter is not a poor mite....or is her name ridiculous....or does she have any problem with it thank you....it's better than being boring ! AND people remember her name !!!!
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Names.
I always think about my Mum who is Audrey, Grandmothers who were Norah & Edith and Aunts Eileen, Brenda, Barbara & Jean. On the male side I have Robert, Donald, Geoffrey, Edward & David.
I don't need to look far for the birth dates for Edith or Norah as they had to be about 1910 and Audrey had to be in the Thirties and my other aunts had to be Thirties & Forties but the male's names are not datable.
We still have Robert, Edward, David etc in school today but no Audrey, Edith, Norah etc.
Just look at your own families and see how "datable" your names are for the last few generations.
Teddybear
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My Ggran named her daughters Daisy, Rose, May, and Lily.
Her sons were Arthur and Charles.
You might find a Rose these days, but the others are much less common.
Anna
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Darcy may have a point, "Peaches Boo Buttercup" may be a little much, even for me. However, why chose a name which may be shared with many of your child's classmates when there are so many wonderful names available.
I have had both an unusual maiden and married name and have been asked "how do you spell that ?" countless times, but it has done me any harm. Well, not that I have noticed!
c w
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I can assure you my daughter is not a poor mite....or is her name ridiculous....or does she have any problem with it thank you....it's better than being boring ! AND people remember her name !!!!
Kathy
You seem to have taken my comments personally, which is far from what I intended. They are purely my own thoughts on the subect
of the thread - and we are all entitled to voice our opinions. Please do not assume that I was responding to your posting alone. For the record I actually think the name you gave your daughter is very nice!
Jill
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Every one is entitled to there own opinion on names ,but the two names Kathy chose seem OK but wot i think Jill was trying too say was there are some Crazy names nowadays out there !! ???
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Spot on Graceland!
Jill
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that's okay then.........sorry ! ....just having a 'maternal moment'
my Mum was names Doris .......can't say that there are many today ....
in the family tree we have lots of Alice's ....I now have a niece called Alice - which I think is lovely
My gran was called Elsie - again I think it is a lovely name - she hated it - but it is not one that had been revived is it ? My 'Eloise' is the nearest I was 'allowed' to get !
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My daughter's name is Ariel, after the little mermaid. (Pronounced how Sebastian the crab pronounces it.) However, it does get butchered quite often, but she seems to adapted fine. ( Anything from being called Oreo to the same pronucitation as a TV antenna.)
I wanted her to be unique, but, Ariel became a quite popular name. The scarey thing was, however, when we moved into this area...I discovered that there was not only another Ariel, but this girl had the same middle and last name as my daughter. Doctor's offices for the longest time had to identify them with birth dates only. :'(
My son, however, is Austin. Quite common, but Daddy's choice. LOL!!!! ;D
Minime
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;D I sse ariel s are being phased out in favor of sattalite dishes and cable tv ;D
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LOL Graceland. I'm sure my daughter will be thrilled to hear that one. ;D
Minime
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My two are Saul & Georgina. We wanted names that were a little bit unusual without being outrageous. As yet neither of them has come across another child with the same name ....I'm sure they will but it's unlikely there will be two or three in the same class at school!! We did try to think how they would feel as adults with their names and settled on two "older" but less used names :)
tabitha
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A really cute name is fine for a little baby but I always imagine them later in life in the doctor's waiting room. The nurse calls out "Peaches Boo Buttercup Jones - and a little old lady staggers to her feet.........
Darcy ;)
ha ha ha can just picture it
I dont think it matters whether the names are old or modern, some are nice some are just bad choices. Apple i agree is really bad. But i wouldn't choose Gladys either. I'd feel i'd have to dye her hair white and put rollers in.
Sorry to Gladys's.
Another thing is, when you think of a name you always think of someone you know by that name. Going through lists of names "nah cant have that, lass at school with b/o was called that" and so on lol
Choosing an unusual name in a way makes them unique. Unless there's a kid in the same class by the same name with b/o then you'd wish you called her Gladys lol
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as i have said before on roots chat, my youngest son, and his son, are both named heathcliffe, and both like their names, and have found them an advantage, but what i think is a bit odd , is old names like nelly, are laughed at , but alter one letter, to kelly, and thats ok, regards {old name} nora T ::)
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My parents chose Keith & Roy - as neither could be shortened at school.
Fine I like mine - even now I have been informed of its Scottish origins ;D
Only trouble with schooldays - boys had to have nic names - so if they couldn't shorten yours they came up with even worse ones :-[
Keith
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Nora,
Heathcliffe is wonderful ....
So is ..... Nora
My daughter's name(s) Julie Ann, were pulled out of a hat by my 7 year old niece. I was originally going to call her Davina. Thank goodness I didn't, it wouldn't have suited her one little bit.
Su
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Don't you think it's amazing how children grow into the sort of stereotypes and expectations a name creates?
Like girls with strong/boyish names seem to become tomboyish, or with flowery girly names become "proper" little girls......do you think it's because parents treat them differently or one of lifes unexplainables ....... ::)
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thank you su, i love the name heathcliffe,but not nora!, and also i agree with tabitha, that children do grow to be like their names, if you were making a film of wuthering heights, my son would look like the perfect heathcliffe. by the way in the book there is no e at the end, that is my little addition. regards nora T
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One of my Daughters was christened Lindsay but she changed it to Linzi ( i prefer that as well, just wish i'd have thought of it lol ) She was actually named after Lindsay Wagner the Bionic Woman lol.........it all came true! ;D
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I have a friend who named her daughters Rosie, Daisy, Lily and Poppy...........I think she's partial to the odd flower! ;D
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What I have found a little odd was the trend of naming a child after the place where he or she were conceived! I suppose it is fine if your child has the name Paris, Brooklyn, India or even China. However, in my case it would not work so well. To inflict my children with names such as Porthcawl or Wales would have been rather cruel, don't you think?
c w
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My cousin's wife started her labour in Tescos and went on to call the baby Tessa because of that !!!! Poor mite :o
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our grandkids are called
Ellie leigh
Layla Lennon
Isla Lily
Now try saying it when youve had a few........
Joe
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hello jax,
Be thankful she was not shopping at Somerfield, Safeway, Iceland or worse still Kwik Save .
What would she have called the poor child then?
Perhaps others would suggest a few names. I have already learnt most on this board have quite the sense of humour.
c w
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Hi c w,
With the dafter names about now, Apple springs to mind, it can only be a matter of time before we hear of a Kwik.
I used to love the old flower names until I was told that when girls with Welsh names went into service abroad (England) in the Victorian era, their employers could not pronounce the likes of Rhiannon, Eirian, Ffion or Gwenllian so renamed them with popular flower names like Lily and Rose. Went off them a bit then. :(
Kazza.
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hi kazza
where I am Ffion is now very popular and my own daughter is called Seren Haf. I however must admit she was born in December, but the Haf seemed to fit so well, also the midwife was called Haf.
Could I also ask you a question? I am ashamedly not a Welsh speaker; Is there an accent over the "A" in Haf, asI have heard various oppinions? !
thanks
c w
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c w,
I am also not a Welsh speaker sorry, I am no help. ::)
Trystan and D ap D would know, Amy K probably would too.
Haf is a lovely name, ;D My daughter chose Ffion for her chistening name herself so I love it.
And if I have another daughter I want to call her Seren, it such a beautiful name. 8)
Kazza.
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sorry kazza
thought out of my own shame that you might be a Welsh speaker, but hope I did not offend you.
My Seren has the right name as she is quite the little "Star", if you know what I mean.
I gave her that name as just before she was due, my husband and myself travelled up to Scarborough for a short break. Whilst we were there I thought I may be going into labour. Not wanting my child to be born in England (my apologises to the English here!) I wanted to return home.
Luckily it was a false alarm! However, when she was born I had a great urge to give her a Welsh name.
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c w,
No offence taken, I would love to be a Welsh speaker, but being born and brought up in Cardiff I had no chance. ::)
Seren has been a favourite name of mine since meeting a beautiful little girl of the name, I am a star you know, she announced. I replied that I could see she was, No, in a special way she said, I am a real Welsh star - Seren, she said. It was even cuter as she had no front teeth. ;D
K. ;)
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Hi c w,
I was going to take offense at your comments about not wanting your child born in England - being English only - but having learned this week about my Scottish, Isle of Man and maybe even a bit of Welsh in me- I won't bother ;D ;D ;D
Cheers
Keith
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Keith,
I am sure c w was only concerned that the child's eligibility to play for Wales not be effected. ;D
K. ;)
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Yep
They need all the choices they can get ;D ;D ;D
Keith
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hi Keith,
Glad you did not take offence, and congratulations on having a little Welsh in your genes. I must confess though, on my father's side I only have to go back one generation and it's
all English!
c w
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hi kazza
Sorry to stray from "the lighter side" but I noticed that a few of your surname interests I have noticed whilst looking for my family in West Somerset. Is this the area of Somerset Your people originate?
c w