To think people just make up insane names on the 'baby names' thread (or are tripping hormonally)

[LaurieFairyCake]

Seriously, I've seen some right stinkers on there.

All names are made up, they didn't just arrive after the Big Bang!

I didn't realise that some people on there are taking the piss although I did snigger at one thread where the OP asked for old fashioned names that arent that popular and someone suggested Sharon, Tracey and Kevin and Wayne.

Some people are mental on there! And it takes some balls to say that you don't like how a name is pronounced in it's native language so you'll just do it your way anyway, but some people seem to think that it's fine!

I think I'm going to have to go over to the baby names board for a bit of al laugh then.

My niece was at school with a girl named Community. God help her when she grows boobs (Community, not my niece).

Manic - Nursey was called Bernard wasn't she? (Blackadder memories)

I commented on the most ridiculous name ive seen suggested (Calypso) in the fact that it made me think of the iced lolly.

Had it unnecessarily pointed out to me that the name was used before the lolly came along. To be fair, the same could be said about calling your kid Adolph. Doesnt matter that the name was probably used in its thousands pre-war, you dont call yiur kid Adolph.

Ditto fecking Calypso.

The topic demonstrates just how parochial and, for want of a better word, bourgeois, people are.

It is often not at all nice.

I can't keep away. I am probably the most annoying MNer on those boards because I am like a dog with a bone.
If I ever get to the end of this sodding OU degree and mange to swing it,I may right a thesis on the subject.
I have a ds called Rudy, this is a Stupid Name but if I had called him Rudolph that would be a Lovely Name.
How on earth am I supposed to take opinions like that seriously?
Not that I would ever ask for them.

I do seriously wonder whether anyone would pick a baby name based on what a bunch of strangers on an on-line forum think.

Gnocchi Kalypso/Calypso is a classical Greek name! How can you say it has the same negative connotations as Adolf?!

As for India mentioned further up, its use dates back to the 19th century. It's hardly a mad modern name!

After years on MN I'm bored of Baby Names and practically unshockable. The current fashions, and the reactions, all predictable now

Can anyone tell me what names are fashionable in pockets of North London but not elsewhere. I'm intrigued.

One OP was prticularly petulant to me. Her OP was that no-one ever spelt her DD's name correctly even though it's really easy blah blah. I [helpfully I thought] chipped in that:

1. it is my name
2. 99.9% of people have spelt it incorrectly for my entire life (even close family)
3. I hate it because it's horrid, no-one can spell it and I got the piss ripped out of me at school for having such a pretentious name. The OP was not impressed with my honesty. That was the end of baby names thread input. I haven't bothered again

I've opened a new tab just so I can go on the baby name finder and then the baby names thread .

Funnily enough my entire name is shown as an 'interesting (my first name)' on the name finder. I am most likely to be a film director or potter that shops in Monsoon, Topshop and Waitrose and likes chocolate HobNobs. All true, natch.

It still shocks me how many old lady/men names are becoming popular - my cousin named her son Hector. I know it's a 'classic name', but to me it sounds like what you do when you have phlegm in the back of your throat.

Oh god, Waspie, now I simply must know your RL name or I will go insane!

whackamole, name popularity tends to be cyclical.

I bet in 70 / 80 years or so, there'll be a sudden surge in the number of children named things like Sharon, Tracey, Kevin and Wayne.

Just ventured into babynames and someone wants to call their child either DP's first or second name . He hates his first name but it seems to be getting a lot of praise

Whackamole it's not worth insanity I promise. I shall post it on the "Worse childsname ever" thread

amieis, indeed Harding is a lovely surname for your daughter. And it should arguably be kept as a surname. Although what do I know? I wanted to call my DD Nancy.

It was usual across Newcastle to call the first male born, by the fathers surname.

My cousin got lumbered with his mother's 'maiden' surname as his first name. Then she got divorced and went back from her married surname to her original 'maiden' surname.

I must admit to posting on a thread about names from literature the suggestion "Noddy". It was such a pretentious thread I can't believe it was for real...or was it?

Birdsgottafly hmm, really? I've never known anyone called their first child by the father's surname. Plenty of David Juniors or Mark Juniors though

jandy, I think lots of gentle ribbing is sneaked onto some threads. Is it wrong, though?

"I've never known anyone called their first child by the father's surname"

Robson Green.

Thats his grandmothers maiden name.

If someone were bamed their fathers surname as their first name theyd be Smith Smith