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Am I the only one who thinks this name is stupid?

112 replies

heythere2022 · 05/09/2021 20:52

So, I just met a family who named their daughter Isla-Skye. Which literally sounds like Isle of Skye when you say it out loud. Am I the only one who thinks it's so odd to give that name to a baby? Or did it just catch me off guard?

Also, they were in Florida but the Dad sounded English or Australian...

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HeronLanyon · 06/09/2021 18:42

cissy yes - we’d probably need as many as 100 but if we were ever to drum them up I’m sure we’d be thanked for having sorted this out. It’s hard being a mover and shaker, eh ?

ProfessionalWeirdo · 06/09/2021 18:28

Well, it certainly fails the Tesco Test.

Before naming your baby, you need to imagine how it will sound when your child wanders off in Tesco and you have to shout their name out loud.

DoucheCanoe · 06/09/2021 18:04

I know 2 sets of twins called Isla and Skye.

I've also met a Skye-Bleu and a Marie-Celeste.

Cissyandflora · 06/09/2021 18:01

@HeronLanyon

Well that’s sorted then ! Who do we contact ?
I think we would need at least 100 signatures to make it a feasible proposal. This is what always gets in the way. It’s drumming up interest.
HeronLanyon · 06/09/2021 17:57

Well that’s sorted then ! Who do we contact ?

Cissyandflora · 06/09/2021 17:48

@HeronLanyon

tlollj yes - or maybe a ‘central register of names’ and you simply get the next in the list (maybe with a second choice if surname causes anything unfortunate). Could enter any sibling names to weed those out. Pretty sure there’s a society which has done r even does this. Bit like storm names. Makes you think !
I’ve always said this is the way it should be done. You just get the next on the list. With three joker cards so that if you absolutely detest it you can go to the next one. But no more than three times otherwise it wouldn’t work and we would be back to the crazy system we have now.
TartanJumper · 06/09/2021 17:37

Isla-Skye is better than Paris, India or similar!

longtompot · 06/09/2021 17:24

My friends loved the name Isla but their surname is White (not really but similar in sound) so she would have been Isla White. They decided on another name.

butterpuffed · 06/09/2021 17:17

@flapjackfairy

Funniest name i ever saw was on Say yes to the dress. A bride was called Heather and she was marrying a Mr Feather. She planned to embrace it full on . Good for her I say ! Personally I would keep my maiden name!
As long as it wasn't Weather Wink
Gingernaut · 06/09/2021 17:15

Sorry. Not sorry.

bamboocat · 06/09/2021 17:14

@Jemand

I've come across someone whose surname was Bridge who named their son using the name of a fairly well-known bridge. The bridge in question was quite local to them, too, so there was never any chance that people wouldn't make the connection.
Humber? Tower? Sydney Harbour?
BroccoliFloret · 06/09/2021 17:14

@IndecentCakes

Well, yes - I've now got the urge to burst into a rousing chorus of 'Donald, Where's Your Troosers?' but whatever Grin
I just came down from the Isla-Skye, I'm no very big and i'm awful shy....

If they are Australian they may get away with it. Otherwise it's bloody awful.

Kite22 · 06/09/2021 17:13

I frequently think the same @Tlollj

Through work, I come across quite a few names that I think Hmm or Grin and I have to bite my tongue and practice my poker face which is very difficult as I've been told for years I have a very expressive face.

Tabitha005 · 06/09/2021 17:12

@SleepingStandingUp

So they're in America and possibly Australian but should be familiar with the Isle of Skye?
I thought ALL Americans knew everything there was to know about Scotland.... being as they're all descended from us.
Tabitha005 · 06/09/2021 17:11

@chipsandgin

Not as unfortunate as ‘Shiloh Pitt’, I always wondered if anyone had said to Brad & Angelina ‘erm…spoonerism issue there!?’!!

With Isla Skye you’d have to assume it was deliberate, I was at school with a ‘Theresa Green’, her parents did that on purpose apparently!

Thank you for the biggest laugh of my day!
HeronLanyon · 06/09/2021 17:09

Tea trolleys

HeronLanyon · 06/09/2021 17:09

heka I used to work at - well it doesn’t matter where - and in the staff club (yes! And they served alcohol all day and we had tea trays) there were frequent tannoy calls for Mike Hunt. Wonder if it was your MH ? Grin

SirChenjins · 06/09/2021 17:01

I know a couple who called their DD Isla and their surname is another well known Scottish island. We live in Scotland so it’s not as if they don’t know. Just why?

Hekatestorch · 06/09/2021 16:57

I also genuinely know a Mick Hunt. He taught me at secondary

Teenagers found that hilarious. When I told my mum, eve she remembered laughing when she was a teenager.

Hekatestorch · 06/09/2021 16:55

I know someone who name their child

India-Ana Jones

She now an adult changed her first name when she hit 18 and the took her husbands on marriage.

It is stupid, because she will have years of 'isla Skye as in....' or a lifetime of it, if she doesn't change it herself.

PullMeInToTheScreen · 06/09/2021 16:55

@Fluffypastelslippers you've ruined it for me now! (I had no idea!)

dollybird · 06/09/2021 16:52

I was quoting Fluffypastelslippers

dollybird · 06/09/2021 16:50

What is her real name?? I once knew of a Summer Loving

GintyMcGinty · 06/09/2021 16:43

@IndecentCakes

Well, yes - I've now got the urge to burst into a rousing chorus of 'Donald, Where's Your Troosers?' but whatever Grin
Lol thanks for the ear worm
Fluffypastelslippers · 06/09/2021 16:42

@PullMeInToTheScreen

Minnie Driver is my favourite real one of these

It's just a nickname though, so not 'real' - unlike her given names.

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