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Do you think that you can get used to almost any name?

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Sparring · 17/07/2021 14:51

No matter how strange it may appear at first?

Just thinking of people I've known with unusual names. It didn't take more than a day or two to get used to them.

Examples being a man called Fudge. Another called Elton. (I thought of Elton John for a day or two then it was just his name.) A girl called Sunday. One called London.

Does it take you long to get used to unusual names?

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RainyDay2020 · 29/07/2021 07:01

My nephews (DH brothers kid) has a name which means “wasp” in my second language.
I still can’t think of him without thinking of an annoying wasp buzzing about.

tintodeverano2 · 29/07/2021 06:49

@BajanB

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name Oswalda-Mosley? Adolfa-Hitler?

Nope. It was a racial slur, and I don't see how the parents didn't know it as it's one that's used worldwide.

Dancingsmile · 24/07/2021 16:57

I know a Missy, Sonny , Shelby, Chardonnay, Diamanté I just hate the names, like the children but inside just think 'no' everytime I hear it.

MaMelon · 24/07/2021 16:48

It would have been somewhere between around 2005 and 2011

I think the Tuesday I knew would have been younger - but it’s possible. I wonder?!

BlueLobelia · 24/07/2021 16:37

I knew a Wednesday. But she had changed it by deed poll and it went brilliantly with her surname. I was well impressed and loved it.

PleasurePrinciple · 24/07/2021 12:33

@MaMelon

I wish I could remember her surname - it was a v long time ago. I don’t think it would be the Tuesday I knew as she was home schooled (at the time I knew her).

This was at a university, @MaMelon — and I didn’t know her in person because it was in large lectures, not small group teaching, but I remember uploading her marks because her whole name was so unusual. It would have been somewhere between around 2005 and 2011.

MaMelon · 24/07/2021 09:32

I wish I could remember her surname - it was a v long time ago. I don’t think it would be the Tuesday I knew as she was home schooled (at the time I knew her).

PleasurePrinciple · 24/07/2021 09:13

@MaMelon and @Katefoster, I used to teach a Tuesday years ago. If it’s the same person, she also has unusual middle name/s and surname.

MaMelon · 24/07/2021 09:10

I knew a Tuesday too! Could this be another ‘small world’ moment? When I knew her mum she had a horse, Tuesday was home schooled. She’d be in her mid-late twenties now.

Katefoster · 23/07/2021 23:47

A girl I was friends with was called Tuesday. It actually really suited her

Kanaloa · 23/07/2021 23:05

I would guess Aryan. I have actually met a child named this so it isn’t as out there as you’d think. I realise it is actually a real name but why would you, with the connotations it carries?

BajanB · 23/07/2021 22:49

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name
Oswalda-Mosley?
Adolfa-Hitler?

GreyhoundG1rl · 23/07/2021 13:00

@LaMadrilena

I had a colleague called Paqui, a common diminutive in Spanish for Francisca, pronounced like the racist term. Took me a while to be able to say it without feeling bad. Has absolutely no offensive connotations here.

Packy is a common shortening for Patrick in Ireland.

LaMadrilena · 23/07/2021 12:53

EmmaGrundyForPM · 23/07/2021 12:09

A "normal" name might not be normal in years to come and vice versa. As I said above, my name was very common in the early 70s but isn't uses at all now.

22 years ago when pregnant with ds2 I thought about naming him Noah. My mother, a primary school head teacher, said it would be cruel as he would be teased horribly. Several other people told me it was a ridiculous name, so we called him something else. Within a few years it suddenly became a popular name and now no one bats an eyelid when coming across a child named Noah.

Lotty456 · 23/07/2021 08:14

No you never get used to it because they are ridiculous. Some people take more thought naming their pets than their children

WimpoleHat · 23/07/2021 07:54

I think any one person will get used to someone’s name when they’ve known them for a while; the name just becomes “them”. The reason I think it’s dreadful to give a child a bizarre (“you what?”) sort of name is that they will have to go through that process with every single person they meet. All their lives. Must be awful. “hi, I’m Feral.” “What, Beryl?”. “No, Feral. F..E..R..A..L”…as the person in front of you titters….

Obviously names from different cultures are entirely different, but it’s also usually pretty obvious that that’s what it is, so I think people see that differently (as in “that’s a Dutch name and I need to learn to pronounce it correctly” rather than “how odd…”)

lloceypu · 22/07/2021 22:14

Mostly, but sometimes it so awful that you just cringe when saying it. I know a few people with names like that and they are so proud of their creative naming.

BackforGood · 22/07/2021 20:21

As has already been said, you might get used to it, but the poor sod that has to carry that name for 90 odd years has to put up with people's reactions EVERY SINGLE TIME someone hears their name for the first time.

drpet49 · 22/07/2021 19:45

* Nope to me if a names ridiculous it always will be*

^This

MaMelon · 22/07/2021 19:44

Oh my goodness! It’s a small world

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 22/07/2021 19:12

@MaMelon

The fruit begins with c

It does indeed

DoAsYouWouldBeMumBy · 22/07/2021 19:12

@MaMelon

Yes! The sibling's name is a little fruity

Yes!!!!! We know the same family

Mpsister · 22/07/2021 18:57

I know a woman called Bubbles. I’ll never get used to it

MaMelon · 22/07/2021 18:51

The fruit begins with c

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