To be surprised at friends/family’s baby names

Our family has 2 cousins, born only a few months apart that have colour names. Colour names that none of us have ever heard for an actual person! It seems they were trying to out do each other on the most 'unique' name.

My own step daughter has a name that looks a bit like it should be pronounced “anal”. I try not to appear phased in airports. Poor kid.

Are you sure it isn't just Lana and you're looking at it in a mirror?

My own step daughter has a name that looks a bit like it should be pronounced “anal”. I try not to appear phased in airports. Poor kid.

I have recently met a toddler Keith. Very cute baby - maybe that style
Is the next generation old names and we are due a glut of Sharon, Tracey, Debbie, Mike and Steve!

I wonder if there's a couple anywhere out there who followed the Highland tradition of naming their daughter her dad's name with 'ina' on the end and now have a DD called Iainina. Sounds like a police car!

I wanted Gideon and Torbien tho so I couldn't necessarily have been trusted alone either

Nothing especially wrong about those, although possibly not if you don't live somewhere quite gentrified.

I know of a lad with a very similar name - Torben - and I always think it sounds like an Irish Sikh describing what he wears on his head

Calling the son and daughter the m/f versions of the same name, David and davina
anthony and Antonia, Robert and Roberta etc. I know a few families who have done this - makes me wince

I know through friends, an Effie Boo.

That could sound very awkward as an indistinctly-mumbling toddler - might sound like some kind adult is just asking your name and you reply with "F you!"

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll I think they're riding the edge. Didn't expect pronunciation issues with one but apparently it's not obvious, and I spend a lot of time spelling them which we perhaps under anticipated. They have shortening we use so they can def go with easier spelling etc day to day. But we really like them and couldn't find anything else we both agreed on. I wanted Gideon and Torbien tho so I couldn't necessarily have been trusted alone either

Not as such.
i still find little baby Angus strange

some one I know have a baby Olivia, some more kids (all girls) then a surprise baby boy ‘after she was done’ called him Oliver.
wondered if they struggled to find a boy name they liked.
dno if that came out cruel. Not meant to be. Just odd to me

Cupcake was a suprise, but that was actually a few years ago now.

Parker is fairly common now

Somewhere between Maidenhead and Dorking?

Levi? Armani? I know a Parker

I’ve not seen Crate before as a name. I know Hutch is a boys name too.

I know through friends, an Effie Boo.

Wtf is that about.

I know of a family that called their twins Marley and Hendrix

I never understand why you would name your child in honour of a famous person you greatly admire, but then use their surname???

I remember reading ages ago in an old Take A Break 'You called them WHAT, you blithering idiot?!' column about a mum who was a massive fan of Tommy Steele. Nothing wrong with Thomas (known as Tommy) at all; but no, she named him 'Steele'.

I can maybe see 'Penn' - especially if you're from or have links with Pennsylvania; but 'Cage' and 'Crate'?! Why not just call him 'Wham-Box' and be done with it?!

Penn, Cage and Crate are all boys names.

Penn seems to be the most popular out of then if you move in some US circles.

I know of a family that called their twins Marley and Hendrix

What's wrong with Serena?

I know someone who called their daughter Chynna. (As in Chynna Phillips)
Then had to keep explaining to people that it was pronounced 'china' and not 'chinner'.

Even with the unusual ‘y’, the only conceivable reason for adding the extra ‘n’ is to change the sound from ‘China’ to ‘Chinner’. Why would you want to name your child the equivalent of ‘Somebody who punches everybody’???!

My sister in law’s a teacher, and she had a ‘Sharlit’ in her class years ago. Not so much an unusual name as crap or inventive spelling. She said she thought they liked the sound of it, but didn’t know how to spell it.

How many years ago are we talking? Was that internet thing around yet at the time? These days, there’s no excuse whatsoever. I’m sure some people spend far longer online uploading pictures of their very ordinary meals to Facebook than they spend doing the most basic research on the intended name of their child. We also know an ‘Issac’ – but pronounced as Isaac.

Rolf.
I can’t get “tie me kangaroo down” out of my head when I see him.
They got quite a few mini didgeridoos as gifts when he was born. They were not amused.
Also, her FIL said, “can you tell what it is yet?” when he visited in hospital and she yelled at him to fuck off.

That really made me laugh a lot! What did they expect? Imagine if she’d been having twins and it had turned out to be two little boys

Wondering if any of my friends are on here critiquing my kids names 😂😂😂

Why – are they ‘interesting’ ones?!

I know of a toddler who has the same name as a village down the road from where they live. As in first and last name. I did raise an eyebrow at that one.

Burton Joyce?
Mavis Enderby?
Upper Thong?
Slack Bottom?
Little Snoring?

Please tell us!!

I was hoping it would be Croc until you said around the neck.

I don't find this surprising - they moved on from Thomas the Tank Engine to Fireman Sam!