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

112 replies

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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Soubriquet · 22/07/2021 12:26

@MaMelon

I know a Spike too! Lives in Glasgow, Dad’s surname begins with C?

Although on second thoughts it’s likely there’s more than one Spike in the world.

No. This is an English Spike Grin
Mrsjayy · 22/07/2021 12:25

Although I went to school with a Joy and she was/ is the least joyous person I've met in my life Grin

Mrsjayy · 22/07/2021 12:23

You can just get used to them I worked with preschoolers on and off for decades and once the name sinks in its just their name, I've heard a few corkers Shock but you just crack on with it and they just blend in with all the other names,

Kanaloa · 22/07/2021 12:20

I meant your name, not you’re of course.

Kanaloa · 22/07/2021 12:19

Something like that @HalfTermHalfTerm. Luckily she was the type of child who in the future I think will pull it off. Sort of naturally popular, fun, easygoing. I just couldn’t imagine being some of the names on here (Spike, Treasure, Spirit etc) as me, as I’m more plain, quite shy when I was at school. Parents don’t think of that sometimes I think - if you’re name is Spirit you sort of need to live up to it.

notthemum · 22/07/2021 12:00

I used to work with a much olderady called Treasure.

MaMelon · 22/07/2021 12:00

I know a Spike too! Lives in Glasgow, Dad’s surname begins with C?

Although on second thoughts it’s likely there’s more than one Spike in the world.

Soubriquet · 22/07/2021 11:46

I know a Spike which I thought was really odd but now he’s just Spike.

I also saw on a register once Spirit. I don’t know this person but I did think “what?” I’m sure I would get used to it though if I knew them

FogHornInTheAttic · 22/07/2021 11:44

My mum taught a child called Rainbow.The most recent name is Corbyn.Not sure if the parents vote Labour or not.

GreyhoundG1rl · 22/07/2021 11:42

[quote Mrstreehouse]@GreyhoundG1rl I know! She thought it meant wild ( in a good way) the child was in one of my forest school groups…[/quote]
Poor thing! But my real sympathy is with the child Grin

FogHornInTheAttic · 22/07/2021 11:41

There is girl called Jersey at ds school and I can't get used to it

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 22/07/2021 11:32

Having said that, I did encounter years back someone whose children were called Bibi-Dee and Betsy-Mae (and two other cutesy girl names), which I thought should get some kind of twee prize.

Do you know Austin Healey? Or is there more than one little Bibi-Dee out there?

I think you do get used names quickly, so many of my friends are known by nicknames and shortenings, and I'd be more confused if somebody used their real name!

Mrstreehouse · 22/07/2021 11:23

@GreyhoundG1rl I know! She thought it meant wild ( in a good way) the child was in one of my forest school groups…

GreyhoundG1rl · 22/07/2021 11:18

Feral! Confused

Mrstreehouse · 22/07/2021 11:17

Oh, and a Sparkle!

Mrstreehouse · 22/07/2021 11:16

I know/knew a Garnet and a Feral.

WingingItSince1973 · 22/07/2021 11:16

I knew a young girl in dd school called Sunshine. Always thought what a happy positive name but also a lot to live upto.

PattyPan · 22/07/2021 11:15

@Poochnewbie1 someone I used to work with named his baby son Ian and I still can’t get over a baby being called Ian! All Ians are at least 40 to me.

Mrstreehouse · 22/07/2021 11:15

Sweetie is a very common Indian name, as is Pinky.

PattyPan · 22/07/2021 11:12

I knew someone called Monday and I didn’t get used to it. Had a conversation with DP yesterday where he was trying to convince me Amethyst was a normal name because he’d met one so evidently he’d got used to that.

MaMelon · 22/07/2021 11:09

You might get used to it in the same way you get used to anything you dislike, find annoying or roll your eyes inwardly at - but you might still wonder ‘what were their parents thinking^ from time to time - and of course, they’re going to meet many new people over the course of the next 80 years who will think ‘you’re called what???’

Dollywilde · 22/07/2021 11:02

I actually think this is true, or at least it was for me. We didn’t know if DD was going to be a boy or a girl, so we had two names picked out - one male, one female. We ended up calling her a combined version of them when in the womb - so eg the names were Jonathan and Catherine, we called her ‘Cathathan’ for about 7 months. By the time she arrived, Cathathan had really grown on me Grin (we did go for our ‘Catherine’ name though, I’m not totally mad)

HalfTermHalfTerm · 22/07/2021 10:54

@Kanaloa I’m imagining Khaleesi Rose or Khaleesi May!

PleasurePrinciple · 21/07/2021 17:26

@jaundicedoutlook

You might get used to it but the rest of the world might not.

I could never get used to Balonz.

If you were living somewhere where Balonz was the equivalent of Jack, you presumably would. I mean, I have a visceral loathing of the name George, which for me conjures up podgy, mad Hanoverian kings, gout, joints of mutton and thread veins, but I'm able to publicly control my mystifiedness about its popularity.
jaundicedoutlook · 21/07/2021 17:15

You might get used to it but the rest of the world might not.

I could never get used to Balonz.

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