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.

Yes Jamie! Does yours start with an S?

Nope

Long names sound posher. I had posgh thrown at me as an insult at Primary school

Mine ends in an a too.

But doesn't start with an s.

whatever can you mean everlong? Of course we have speshul names.

Well I'm not entirely surprised. Sledana isn't very common

I was going to be called Jamie if I was a boy, hence the name.

It really makes me laugh when someone who thinks they were being different finds their DC in the same class as someone of the same name!

Sweet kitty do you have a child named Fanny??

I was one of 4 with my name in just my class of 30 at school. I hated it, wanted to be called sunny like one of the girls at school as it was so unusual :-)

I've named my 3 children classic but not too common names (although failed in that totally with dc1 as the name got v v common very soon after!!

Exotic

There are 3 Rosas in one class at my school. Lovely name, I wouldn't expect it to be that common. It goes to show that many of us are just subject to the same influences and make similar choices even if we think we are being original

Ds 2 s name got very common a couple of years after he was born. Darn it

fellatio asked if any unusually named adults experience any negative comments. I have an unusual name and was once introduced to someone who laughed and said "what a silly name, have you made that up?" Aside from that I have never had any outright comments, but when the doctors' or dentists' receptionists call my name out the old ladies other patients often nudge each other and do the face. .

Jamie, do you move in lefty circles? When I attended Marxism in London a few years ago, every other child seemed to be called Rosa or Leon .

Doctors expect an old man when they call my DS2's name- its becoming more popular now though.

I'm a traditionalist with names- DC's have more Old English names.

I have never met anyone with my name...a couple of characters on tv have had my name but I've never met anyone in real life with the same name.

My Dc's have unusual names..not madly outlandish though.

We have a 5 yr old Rudy. Suits him!
I'm not egotistical, but think whatever you please...I don't mind.

I don't know anybody with my name, though it's very popular in the US. Same goes for OH, people assume he's italian though his family's Guyanese. And people always think we named our son after a popular serial killer on TV

I went through school with 5 'DSM' and was rather irritating. So DH & I chose to give names that are not within the top 100 and are very rarely heard around this part of the country.

My DD has an unusual name, she stands out because of her personality more than her name. Her name suits her personality, it 'fits' and makes sense. It's a very old name (Roman), it was popular in the Victorian era too, so yada yada yada.

BUT I can kinda see where you're coming from, some are just too fucking out there, especially the made up ones

Mind you, I stand out too, so DD and I are like peas in a pod, she just had a far more awesome name than I :)

There was a point at which I worked very closely with 2 other colleagues - all of us with extremely unusual names.

The thing we all agreed was that you get used to answering to other names - or indeed, words that aren't your name but are vaguely like your name.

On the plus side, anyone can find anything you've ever done via Google. On the down side, anyone can find anything you've ever done via Google, photos of you, videos of you, random comments you've posted, emails you sent 10 years ago, etc etc etc.

You have to be very careful about what you put on the web, and try to keep it under control and professional.

Love Rudy/Rudi but OH vetoed it. Wish I were brave enough for Lux.

I called both mine Rudy. As in RudyToodyInTheNudey whenever they ran round naked weeing on my carpets. Happy days.