Tbh I don't care If I am, some parents need to get a grip

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I give you A-Jay, Charlidh, Ameiliah, Blaiyre, Boudicca, Blu-rayne, Foozy, Deztany-Rose, Madison-Bluebell

My favourite is Wyntrr. They could at least have added an h to the end though.

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My name is completely and utterly made up. It's a derivative from another name, but did not exist until I was born and my parents called me it

When the Olympics were on, there was an athlete from brazil called Rosangela. I remember thinking how pretty that was.

if that's at me Sock, DH and have only ever agreed on 1 boys name, (my pregnancy was like a scene from rumpelstiltskin, with me listing names and dh saying no). i went on the board for a middle name idea and was bombarded with weirdness. i was heavily pregnant so quite hormonal. it hadn't occurred to me people would be so peculiar.

Lol!! Baby Justice!!

I love the sound of the name Melena, I think its beautiful. Sadly in my previous life as a ward nurse I was all too familiar with Malaena so it did spoil it for me.
All of those associations aside, I still think it's lovely.

Also MrsDeVere, he would have the namesake of Dr Rudy Tanzi - neurogeneticist extraordinaire (he also performed with Arrosmith!)

I think there will be a lot of people changing their names in about 20 years or so!

I bet their generation will be really radical and give their children names like Carol and Stephen.

Always a couple from an ethnic background misunderstanding the baby's name band and assuming that the nurse has named their baby Female

Admission time 20 years ago when my dd was born she was delivered using a particular type of forceps.

On her tag on the fish tank they used to bung them in it said NB ( but full formal name of forceps not just initials)

Now my dd's dads surname was the same as the b in the name of the forceps and I freaked out thinking that perhaps in a drug addled state I had said call her N. until a nice nurse explained it to me

wild you're not being racist / snobby - but some are...

It was koala just my way of saying bless its not nice that it made you cry gits.

oh and in the end ds's middle name was named after the obstetrician who yanked him out. 14 days overdue and 3 days of labour, Clement seemed so apt - it certainly felt fucking merciful! :)

My ankle tag in hospital when I was born said "Forceps Surname". As my then surname also began with F, my mum thought it had a certain ring to it.

Its funny how more people seem to be picking names to make their children unique now, when because of the internet its probably better to have a similar name to many other people so you aren't as easily findable (is that a word??)

A boy called Goodluck!!

These threads always have a few amusing examples of people coming on to sneer at a name, and not actually realising what what the name is, or how to pronounce it.

'Silloumie' for example, more than likely actually being Salome.

Guy - another example. I can imagine that Guy pronounced in some French accents may well come out sounding a bit like Gooey.

It just makes people look ignorant.

I am a name traditionalist, and I fully admit that I do internally judge some names as ridiculous and cringe at some spellings, but likewise, I do know I am wrong to do so.

Having said that, I do feel that some parents are perhaps not paving an easy way for their children with some name choices. Especially in a class-ridden society like the UK. People are judged on their names, and there's only too many situations in life when an, um, particularly unfortunate name has serious potential to hold you (generic) back. Or at least not smooth the way.

I have a name that is very unusual, not helped by my mother changing the spelling of it. I've only ever met one other person with the same name (but with the normal spelling).

Every time I meet someone new they get my name wrong and I have to either correct them, spelling it out, or just answer to the name they think I'm called.

I go between loving my unusual name and getting peed off at my mother.

Doesn't stop me sniggering at other daft names though.

There are sisters near me called Armani and Versace McLatchie

I love the idea of naming a child after a quality you wish for them to have in their life, like Happiness or Peace, or one that says something nice about them like Precious or Beloved. How lovely would it be to be telling your child something so positive and uplifting every time you said their name? :)

YY to everything that MrsDeVere has said.

The sneering about names is one of the few things that I really feel uncomfortable about on here. It is racist to laugh at names that come from different cultures or are spelt differently in different countries. Agree also that if someone can't spell it shouldn't make them (or their child ) an object of ridicule.

Pocahontas mcginty is alive and well in Glasgow. Truly.

I looked and there was one little girl called the same as dd2, also one little boy, two baby girls with the same name as dd1 and 69 little boys, so I succeeded in the androgyny then! One baby called DHs traditional and not very trendy right now first name, three little boys called our second name, and not one rhonda.

Not one.

DonDraper yes I thought that about Guy, the French pronunciation is "Gee" (as in bee) but it can sound like "Gui".

I have read the Guy/gooey story more than once, so it is either more common than we think - or an urban myth.

I think that's lovely too pimp.

Sometimes there is a comedy element in the juxtaposition of first and second names though, or even in the way they sound together (the legendary Orson Cart anyone?)

I love Asher, really wanted it for my DCD, dh wasn't keen. Ruby Tuesday is fabulous. I do feel for kids with really really out there spellings. I once taught a Zimbabwean girl called Wayne, you can imagine her parents thinking it was unusual, sounded nice, how were they to know they would end up in the UK, and it really would cause their dd such grief, poor kid.

I have a Dylan, I had no idea it was common amongst spirited boys! I know a lovely Connor too!

I met a grandma in Boots baby changing many many years ago and her gdd was called Precious. I thought it was a lovely name and told her so.

Also my dm (long dead now) used to call my dd 'Precious' and so dm became known as Grandma Precious to dd.