aibu to think there are some names...

[ptolemy]

tarquin, persephone, lucian, penelope, aurelia, cuthbert, brodwin, prunella, hubert, montgumary, primrose

just always sound like they have a million other names following them as well

eg, persephone elizabeth geurtrude huntington smythe jones

tell me the most upper class and most funny names you have heard

Disclaimer: this thread is meant to be posters with a sense of humor if you lack this and take things too seriously this thread is not for you so off you pop for your free range organic roast pheasant and elderflower cordial pip pip

Is Wentworth going to be a butler?

There was a Zoom Rockman on breakfast tv a few months ago. I felt so sorry for him. Nearly spat out my rice crispies laughing though.

Hairy - its all a bit of a Blur.....

its not pepper is it?

Squeaky - absolutely loving Wentworth - I can see him now in his cravat!

Is it Geronimo? I very nearly named ds that

Oh I agree - my mother's called Penelope and I have the poshest classical name followed by another posh one and another peculiar one. My maiden name had two parts and my married name is of the featherstonehaugh prononounced Fanshaw genre. Needless to say my children are called the near equivalent of William and Lucy

I knew a Cornelius McGillicuddy.

And a Minnie Cooper.

I've also learned recently that a child I know who has the first name of Rogan bears the second name of.... Josh.

wiki

:o

Alex James has three boys named geronimo, Artemis and Galileo and two girls named Sable and Beatrix and of course they live where else but on a organic cheese farm .. these are the kinds of people i am talking about

or how about Graham Coxon naming his child Pepper Bäck Troy Coxon

seriously do these people not think about when there child is grown up and they have to introduce themselves to other people or when they are at school

Geronimo, I think I've got it!!!!

x post with ptolemy!

what did we do before Google?

For much amusement on the name front, I highly recommend this website

One of my favourite comments:

Proud mother "I named my first daughter Odessa and my second daughter Blaze and i have gotten wonderful comments from parents at school and work."

Website owner "Could it be because all the parents at school and work are ALSO Louisiana strippers?

Odessa. Nothing like a kindergartener named after a deeply impoverished Ukrainian town sniffing distance from Chernobyl and home to one of the worst pogroms of the Holocaust. How 'bout Dachau if it's a boy?"

I knew a woman who had an Orlando but insisted on calling him Landy.

We live in rural horseville so you can imagine what people think he's named for.

Recently met children called Shrimpy (that's what I think she said was taken aback to ask again) Zip and Ocean.

I think some folk think these daft names will make their child unique but don't realise that they are unique already and it has nothing to do with what they are called.

Wentworth could be after Wentworth Miller though

carabos Oh thank God! I must be the only person to be relieved that your nephew is called Geronimo or Artemis or Galileo.

Because when you said this earlier:

"Hairy - its not a classical name as such - think mad rock star affectation along the lines of Moon Unit Zappa and Zowie Bowie. What's worse is it is copied from a rock star's child.....so just the two of them on the planet !"

I thought you meant your nephew was called Hairy and that's why the woman at the wedding thought he was a dog. . Geronimo doesn't sound so bad when the alternative was Hairy.

We once had a client at my old work called Donald Duck. Poor man.

There is actually a mner with a son Geronimo... though no idea if she's Mr James' wife...

Keats Mornington-Edmunds
Proust Otto Smith-Taylor
Wordsworth StJohn Blythe
Bronte Delphina Penrhyn

I made those up, and am that I like them. I am such a cultural snob! I could have called my sons Shakespeare (Shay) and Goethe! (Disclaimer: My boys have normal Welsh names) :o

Came across a Caspian at school today, there is a Wolf there too. As I have said before on these name threads I went to school with 3 brothers named Ptolemy Caesar and Saul.

it's all getting a bit surreal now....

Shrimpy !!!!!!! OMG!
I met a Periwinkle once.