Baby names - can't decide!

Aloha

Not on drugs but probably full of beer.

He did have a very odd sense of humor.

I particularly like Mulligatawny. Was your father on drugs, Simon?

Queenie, I think Simon has a few suggestions in his post

I'm expecting a boy in September and DH and myself cannot come to a decision. I like old traditional names and he likes more modern names so I can't see a compromise at the moment. We had agreed on a girl's name but the scan revealed we are having a boy which is great (we have 1 girl already and would have been happy with another or a boy). DD came up with best suggestion so far as to what to call the new baby - she said "Boy" - quite catchy I suppose.

Oh for such normal names.

My father was luckily talked out of calling me Orvile Sebastian Beauregard Plunkett Mulligatawny Howard (no joke) by my mother.

And DW has a liking for SciFi which mean my DD has a middlename she will probably never tell anyone, Na'Toth.

It's funny what is thought of as a 'cruel' name. When I was born (early 60s) my mum wanted to call me Chloe but was greeted with a chorus of utter horror, because everyone thought it was too cruel to call a child by such a horrible, old-fashioned, ugly name!!! They insisted I'd be teased because there was same ancient comic song about a character called Chloe. How times change eh? I doubt anyone will use the term minger when Mingus is grown up (named after Charlie Mingus, the jazz musician, presumably). Mind you, I've never used it either.

Hasn't Will Smith got a Jaden? R

I called my newest arrival Jaden, i wanted a slightly unusual name but not. to strange, i came across his name in a baby mag ,id never heard it before, and i get alot of comments on how unusual it is.Apparently its from America and quite popular there

Bryn and Eleri are solid Welsh names! One of my sisters is Eleri (pronounced Eh-lair-ee to rhyme with scary). DS1 has a little girl called Tamika in his nursery group, her mum said it means "born on Monday" in Hausa (African language) but that the little girl was born on a Thursday and they just liked the name.
It makes me laugh how fashions for names change, a guy at work has a toddler called Keith and it seems really inappropriate for a liitle boy. Have worked with a 5 year old NOrman Braithwaite in the past which seemed even odder-the name sounds like it could only belong to an 80 y.o. (Apologies to the parents of any Normans or Keiths out there!)

Have come across lots of unusual names lately (I love reading birth notices!) and have kept a list to share, hope you find it as interesting as I do!

Accacia, Blayn, Brodin, Bryn, Caden, Callan, Cerecia, Challis, Cleon, Dallas, Dallin, Deakin, Dior, Eleri, Elisha, Godwin, Ibraham, Isla-Louise, Jag, Jaice, Jalique, Jhai, Jye, Kaija, Kaelan, Kiri, Kye, Levi, Mali, Matrix (I kid you not!), Mecaela, Monte, Montanna, Odine, Roark, Savannah, Saxon, Seryce, Tammina, Sheye, Teela, Tira, Tiarna, Tyra, Tyrrell, Zahli, Zedd.

We had no problems with a boy's name - dh suggested Matthew out of the blue and that was it. Nice and simple, we knew no-one of that name and it was a Saint's name, so it would keep dh's mum happy (not that that was a real consideration!). We didn't mind Matt as a short version and it "went" with dh's surname. We could even imagine Bill McLaren shouting his name as he scored the winning try against England!

We couldn't come up with a girl's name that we both agreed on - we had a sort of short list but had decided if it was a girl then we'd decide what she "looked like".

Fortunately we had a boy!

We did think of giving him my surname (which I've kept and is wierd old German) as a middle name, but decided instead to keep it simple with Alexander.

I had a customer by the name of Stanka Arsov once - I tell you no lie!

Yeah, I've also written these on here before but they still make me laugh now. My friend used to teach a Scarlett Balls! A Jenna Taylor! A Lacey Nicholls and her sister Christy!

I'm sure I've mention Carey Hunt before, she's abotu 33 now and hopefully married. R

Tusky - LOL I misread Cursty as Crusty, images from The Simpsons came to mind.

My dh spent many a month working on an obstetric ward, and came across some very bizarre names,
Lanesra-because M+D were huge Arsenal football supporters(sorry if thats not quite the right sp, but basically Arsenal backwards)
Melaena-very smelly, black with blood, poo! in medical terms but someone thought it was nice for a girl! Obviously didn't know what it meant!
Likewise, I can never understand why anyone would want to call their daughter after a very itchy, unpleasant fungal infection-Candida!
and Zippee for a boy, maybe parents were Rainbow fans, poor kid!
There were plenty of others, too many to mention, but we are talking Camberwell here, so hardly surprising. Sorry to any Camberwellian Mums out there, but you know what I mean!! (nb I was a Camberwellian mum too before I left the old smoke for the country, BTW!)

my husband's cousin has a girl named Cursty - eeuw ! guess what she'll get called ! They're up in Nottinghamshire,so maybe it's an East Midlands style of spelling Kirsty ?

There was a girl at my school called Flavia Crum. I thought perhaps I'd dreamed it but she has showed up on Friends Reunited! (She had a brother called Marmaduke.)
And my neighbour, who grew up in Australia, know a girl called Psyche - pronounced "Pish".

I genuinely know of an Agamemnon Elvis. I think the surname is Crump. I hesitated to write this as it sounds like a wind-up, but I swear it's true. Also Tiger Mae!! (Possibly celebrity influenced maybe?)

Our son is called Ciaran and people can't pronounce it or spell it. It gets a bit tiresome but then we decided on that name so we'll just have to put up with it. As long as you're prepared for the mispronounciation and shortening go with it.

Mingus can always do what Zowie Bowie did before him and change his name to Alex or Pete when he gets older, I suppose...
Bloss, I love Tobias, but if you are relying on it being pronounced a specific way, you might be letting yourselves in for some frustrating times ahead. Let us know what you decide in the end.

EEKK! Mingus is the worst name I have ever heard.
Mingus the minging minger.

Mingus! So close to Minger. Let's hope that word is out of current useage by the time he's older...

When I was at primary school there was a Juan prononced Joo-an there too!

I chose Charlie as a boy's name because some neighbours years ago had a little boy. I saw him when he was first born and Charlie sounded such a brilliant name for a baby. A friend who's familiar with the slang names for drugs said that anyone called Charlie should have a brother or sister called Billy/Billie too!!