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Raydon - boy or girl?

43 replies

Vine · 17/08/2010 22:02

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303828/Couples-shock-baby-girl-named-Raydon-registered-BOY-birth-certificate.html

Oh dear, a baby girl had been registered as a boy due to an unusual name. I do think it sounds masculine.

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DitaVonCheese · 18/08/2010 09:32

I don't think it was because of the name was it, just a typo from the sound of it. For once I am chortling rather than getting enraged by DM comments - particularly loving "You really are trying to turn the English language into stupidity aren't you?" Grin

SecretNutellaFix · 17/08/2010 23:33

it's a hideous name. If they had wanted to give her a name to honour the grandfather then Raye is quite pretty. It sounds like they wnated to honour 2 grandfathers Raymond and DOnald and combined the 2 together.

gaelicsheep · 17/08/2010 23:31

...and she's a delicate wee thing - not a big bruiser.

gaelicsheep · 17/08/2010 23:29

I can't say I'm surprised about the pink thing though. I've taken DD out in a very pinkish red top with a frill, trousers with flower detail and pink socks and been told how lovely he is. Hmm

mathanxiety · 17/08/2010 23:28

They think the only mistake is that the registrar got the gender wrong?

gaelicsheep · 17/08/2010 23:27

Not Rae? I quite like Rae. But Raydon? Dear God!

Did they not check when asked? My little girl has a name that many (of the older generation) consider to be a boy's name, although it can quite correctly be either. I checked very carefully. They don't sound very bright...

chipmonkey · 17/08/2010 23:24

Hmm,
UK Raydon = boy
US Raydon = girl

usualsuspect · 17/08/2010 23:21

I used to know a girl called Raye back in the day ..I always thought it was kind of a cool name ..

EightiesChick · 17/08/2010 23:14

That is, I'm sorry to say, the ugliest-sounding name they could have come up with, whether for a boy or a girl. Let's hope they chose a middle name. Any middle name.

UnrequitedSkink · 17/08/2010 23:13

Radon is a cancer-causing gas. Poor kid.

Newmummanda · 17/08/2010 23:11

I cant believe that it took them a week to spot the mistake!! There isnt that much info on a birth certificate- idiots!

mathanxiety · 17/08/2010 23:05

This is yet another example of the Jayden effect.

seaturtle · 17/08/2010 22:39

It's not a nice name for a girl!

ArseHolio · 17/08/2010 22:11

Naa incapabel of finking.. I, errrr fink!

Raydon is the ugliest name I have ever heard. It sounds like a treatment for warts.

scottishmummy · 17/08/2010 22:08

dont think they were finking.at all

mamadoc · 17/08/2010 22:05

Or synthetic fabric
or dangerous radioactive gas..

hellymelly · 17/08/2010 22:05

it also sounds like a poisonous gas (radon)what were they thinking?

FallingWithStyle · 17/08/2010 22:05

I think it sounds like washing powder.