To think that parents who give their children unusual names are egotistical...

[Crouchendmumoftwo]

I live in an area where there are lots of children with unusual first names, one might say contemporary or ever preposterous. Names such a Lux, Brutus, Fire, Ace, Rudy. Most of these children are mild mannered and don't stand out in any particular way. I wonder if the name giving is more to show other parents the: "we are creative and middleclass and bit different". I feel that the parents havent given their children much consideration in later life. A man in his 50s called Brutus doesn't have the same appeal as a small boy. I guess that is why David Bowie's son changed his name from Zowie back to Duncan.

I know three little baby boys John, Raymond and Brian, named after their Dads, I think that's egotistical giving your son your name. He will be forever known as Little John.

In our family there were 3 generations of for example John Smith, they were known as Old John, big John and wee John, wee John is over 40 and 6 foot but s still wee John. Wee Johns DW said there was no way there would be another John, in the end they had 2 DDs

When the mothers were asked their bwbies' names they almost apologised "it's after his Dad" give the boy his own name.

In my pregnancy-induced madness I genuinely considered Skywalker as a middle name. Having said that I sometimes wish we'd used it. It's cool and it transpired that ds was hugely into Star Wars (although not so much these days).

His father vetoed Ruby and Lola (I love the song) as names had
ds been a girl, for sounding like strippers' stage names. Now they're two-a-penny.

SweetKitty The name thing also runs in my family too,

Example:
Grandfather: Christopher John Smith
Dad: Michael Christopher John Smith
Brother: Christopher John Smith

Its stops after my brother, as my Dad dont deserver the honour.

Skywalker is COOL!

I know several female Sidneys, its not that odd or uncommon

Leia Skywalker, thats cool and possibly the name a Star Wars geek would pick.

Thing is I'm not a Star Wars geek at all! I like it but I'm not obsessed, not remotely.

Personally I like the idea of a 'flexible' name. I had a very old-fashioned name growing up (not quite Bunty but it's everywhere in Enid Blyton novels) and it wasn't really 'me'; but I could fudge it a bit to make it something that was more my style. Hardly anyone knows my 'real' name (or DH's) these days.
DD has a name that can be played about with, so what she's known as now might be completely different to the way she uses her name later.

Not quite sure what you can do with Brutus, but maybe his friends will just call him Smeghead as a teenager .

Does anybody else have a list of about 8 possibilities but wait to see the baby before final pick?

and I think I meant ten-a-penny upthread, didn't I. thick face

I have a Rudi, its a fab name.

I also have a Theodore, my theo is 13 and is always the only one in his age group.but its def got more popular over recent years, as has ds2's name.

The name we chose for dd was used less rhan 30times in the year she was born and has stayed at about that figure but i am seeing it mentioned more on baby threads so maybe dp and i have a lnack.of choosing names that then become popular!

We wanted a name that wasnt massively popular but not outlandish, our rudi was maybe going to be a rufus but he def is a rudi!

We get complimented on our childrens names (apart from by mil!) and they all like their names.

I wouldnt say we were middle class! we chose names we liked and we seem to have a 'type' of names that we agreed on. if it was up to mil my children would be called things like gordon, duncan and patrick. Nothing wrong with those names but they are not my taste.

it was after the river i think,she seems to serious to name him after a womble.she called him orin for short which i think sounds nice.

socking we always had a list if a dozen names and never chose until we saw the baby infact ds2, ds4 and dd were a fortnight old befire they had a name.

Everlong, Emandlu

Me too!

I do know a Leia (not Skywalker) yes after Star Wars

Links arms with everlong and starts singing....

.... suddenly realises that I've probably had too much Christmas and stops.

Sleds My name has 7 letters too...

According to mumsnet my DC are

Boring
Reminds them of genitals
Chavvy
Mega common (only know one other)

MrsFlibble

I have the same name as my mum, grandmother, great grandmother

Less common in girls

But i'm glad I din't have a girl because I'm not sure I would have wanted to use it and not using it would cause a hoo- ha

My name has 7 letters!

I love the name Lux.

I first read it in the book Virgin Suicides.

There's nothing wrong with having a different name.

this has made me go over to baby names now,i love baby names,is it just me who hears a nice name and makes mental notes for future bambinos?

Sleds

Does it end in a?

Yasni is pretty good if you are interested in names. I've just discovered that the name 'Jane' ranks at number 37 in the most common first names, The name Ace is at number 2301, Rudy at 1790 and my nieces name is 2964 !

Amber

I am interested in names, but no more babies so just have fantasy ones...

Asa for a boy

Lyra for a girl , or Anita

< runs away>