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Which names are would you consider 'too posh/try-hard/odd' to be used?

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AKMD · 25/07/2011 13:40

Having seen a few names pop up which, when read out to my office colleagues, have caused great hilarity, I was wondering which names poeple on MN generally consider too posh/try hard/odd to be passed off in RL. I absolutely love Arabella but have been told that DH and I aren't posh enough to use it :( Ditto Lucinda.

I have to admit I did laugh at Mungo. Sorry to any Mungos/parents of Mungos out there!

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lockets · 26/07/2011 23:21

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GoldenHaze · 26/07/2011 23:20

Horatio
Algernon

Mimi
Tallulah

Rex Confused That's not a normal name; it's incredibly pretentious. Good name for a staffordshire bull terrier though, I suppose.

Rhubarbgarden · 26/07/2011 23:20

I just actually wet myself laughing at North Elvis.

I looked up who lived in our house in the 1901 census, and the family had a live-in housemaid called Boadicea. Might sound posh or try-hard now, but it clearly wasn't back then. Times change.

blue2711 · 26/07/2011 23:17

I can't believe how rude people are being about the perfectly nice and normal name, Rex. If you read the whole thread you will see that the same ridiculous comments are being made over and over again. Please stop it. And for what it's worth, I have been a teacher at an all boys' school for over 10 years and teasing and bullying are rarely focused on names.

And it's the boys named Tom and Jack who get fed up of only being known by the surnames.

Rex is a great name.

lockets · 26/07/2011 23:13

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Rainydaze · 26/07/2011 23:12

OK, I negatively criticised the name Rex earlier in the thread before realising it's what Lockets has named her DS. Of course people have opinions about the name and this is a thread asking for preferences and thoughts on names, but could we please stop going on about it now? It's not fair.

lockets · 26/07/2011 23:12

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TankFlyBossWalk · 26/07/2011 23:07

At the risk of sounding overly-harsh, if you call your DS Rex you should expect a bit of stick for it. Unfortunately I think he might have to. The Rex we know is laughed at for his name. Of course this is terrible and cruel, but the playground can be. I'd not like to set a child up for ridicule.

lockets · 26/07/2011 23:02

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StealthPolarBear · 26/07/2011 23:00
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vividgingerchilli · 26/07/2011 22:57

Araminta...the mother dinosaur in a book that DS has. Hmm

TankFlyBossWalk · 26/07/2011 22:56

DS1 has a Rex in his class at school and I feel sorry for the poor fellow.

Yep, your child your choice of name, but it's not fair to plump for something that will probably cause them problems.

PipFEH · 26/07/2011 22:31

My middle name would have been Rex had I been a boy. My mum still loves it and keeps suggesting it to me for my little boy in utero. I don't think of it as a dog's name tbh. My childhood dogs were called Jack, Angus and Lucinda - all 3 names mentioned on this thread not in reference to dogs! I don't think of these names as dog's names either, they just happened to be my dogs' names! Fwiw, I plan to call my future dog Harry - favourite boy's name I was unable to use because it sounds awful with our surname - I'm sure plenty of people name their dogs things that they couldn't use for their children for whatever reason.

lockets · 26/07/2011 22:23

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rainbowtoenails · 26/07/2011 22:23

I have a vv boring name and wish my parents had been braver so im all for 'different' names.

Ones not already mentioned i can think of:

Aphrodite
Bronte
Austen
Petula
Perpetua
Violetta
Seraphina
Calista
Deandra
Euphemia
Philamina
Henrietta
Isadora
Laurel
Ophelia
Winnie

Bryce
Giles
Forbes
Byron
Cecil
Cedric
Dougal
Earnest
Horace
Indigo
Leander
Mason
Morris
Marcel
Nelson
Orion
Orson
Orwell
Orville
Phillipe
Simeon
Royston
Timothy
Tobias
Tioram
Gabriel
Finnegan
Verne
Heathcliff
Winston
Wallace
Xavier
Yves
Zeus

Bandwithering · 26/07/2011 22:17

yeah Lockets, don't bother. I see my children's names trashed here from time to time but I say nothing. I laughed once, somebody started a thread about my son's name, and another poster cut and pasted about four lines of no no no no no no. I chuckled at that.

Bandwithering · 26/07/2011 22:15

Why do names HAVE to go one way or the other though!? I loved the name Bruno for my son, and Sadie for my dd. (not the end choices but still).

MOST names could be cats names or dogs names. Unless you say something like Peter or Jane.

lockets · 26/07/2011 22:14

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candleshoe · 26/07/2011 22:14

Sorry

EllenJaneisnotmyname · 26/07/2011 22:13

Leave poor old lockets DS alone!

candleshoe · 26/07/2011 22:13

Ruff ruff - did someone call me - ruff ruff!

IWouldNotCouldNotWithAGoat · 26/07/2011 22:12

I find it funny people could see Rex as anything other than a dog's name!

Bandwithering · 26/07/2011 22:11

breeding!? oh stop it Hyacinth!

What do you think of the name Hyacinth. I was helping in a nursing home and a man (who had been a gardener when he was younger) had called his daughter Hyacinth... because it was the sweetest smelling flower in the garden! He seemed so proud of such an excellent name choice for his daughter. It made me like the name more. (because I am trying not to think boookay boookay)

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