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191 replies

mix56 · 26/01/2015 14:12

Tribunal in France has refused permission for the names for 2 babies Nutella & Fraise (strawberry) & have renamed Fraisine (19C name) & Ella...
What goes on in the minds of some parents?

OP posts:
ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 07:05

Mike Hunt Grin

Poor kid.

Betsy1925 · 27/01/2015 07:05

My nanna decided that naming my mam Chrystal Cox. Was completely appropriate. Fun times through school and funnily she didn't ho back to her maiden name when she got divorced.

Betsy1925 · 27/01/2015 07:09

Also knew of an Indiana Blencoe Jones...

MuttonCadet · 27/01/2015 07:15

Mars Bari, Richard Richardson both from school.

MikeTheShite · 27/01/2015 07:18

I know a Henrietta Dick again married name Smile

CadleCrap · 27/01/2015 07:29

Andrew Ness and Peter Ness

AKA

A Ness and P Ness

Ememem84 · 27/01/2015 07:52

I was at school with a holly Oakes and a Tina turner. Always made me laugh when their names were called out in assembly. (They were the year below me)

DropYourSword · 27/01/2015 08:00

...still trying to figure out Richard Sole.

I have heard from a midwife friend:

Jimmijam (Jnr)
Beaver
Obviously
Pistol

Andrewofgg · 27/01/2015 08:01

Roger Boyes is a BBC journalist who has done work on sex abuse stories.

Eminybob · 27/01/2015 08:05

My DP knows someone called strawberry. A man! Well he knew him when they were kids.

LegoSuperstar · 27/01/2015 08:10

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PassTheGinBottle · 27/01/2015 08:50

Hollyoaks is what's wrong with Holly Oakes Grin

DropYourSword · 27/01/2015 08:52

Haha, good job I'm not a registrar!!

Itsgoingtoreindeer · 27/01/2015 08:56

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growl3th · 27/01/2015 09:26

A client we once had was called Gaye Cox. Guffaws of laughter when I had to put her calls through to colleagues.

diddl · 27/01/2015 09:37

"..still trying to figure out Richard Sole."

Glad I'm not the only one!

MTBMummy · 27/01/2015 09:56

Friends named their daughter Katherine Yasmine Jelly - yes KY Jelly!!!

ithoughtofitfirst · 27/01/2015 09:57

Some people call Richard "Dick" for short presumably. So then he becomes Dick Sole. Pmsl even writing it. Childish.

I love this thread.

Chilicosrenegade · 27/01/2015 10:01

I worked with s Richard Head.

Lovely bloke.

SoupDragon · 27/01/2015 10:01

Having grown up with a stupid name, this thread reminds me that it is right to go on Baby Names threads and tell people not t be so bloody cruel and to remember they are naming a person not a toy or a dog.

Don't get me wrong, I do love a good snigger at a silly name provided it's not actually sniggering at the actual person :)

I used to work with A Chicken once. Always raised a smile although there was nothing at all strange about their actual first name,

RosaliesGinBottle · 27/01/2015 10:14

Used to get bank correspondence from A Looney. She seemed very nice.

My gran's gynae was Dr Püsey.

diddl · 27/01/2015 10:16

Even Dick Sole doesn't mean anything to me.

Is it just that it perhaps sounds a bit amusing or is it rude in some way?

SoupDragon · 27/01/2015 10:18

I think it's R Sole that is the problem rather than Dick.

diddl · 27/01/2015 10:22

R Sole thank you!

(perhaps he had another initial to make it less obvious!)

MildDrPepperAddiction · 27/01/2015 10:24

Stan still nearly made me snort yoghurt out of my nose Grin