To ask if this is an actual name?

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Someone I know is calling their new born Treylon..is that a name? I've never heard it before.

Fwiw the grandmother's on both sides are telling everyone that asks that the name hasn't been chosen yet while trying to get the parents to pick something else.

UPDATE: baby has now been registered. As Brandon. Which everyone is relieved about.

Did you lay it on thick about celebrating Cornish heritage OP?

'neither do I like George, which to me is a 'podgy, stodgy, red-faced Hanoverian king after too much port' kind of name.'

That's exactly what I see when I hear the name George! Such a flabby, flubbery, podgy pink name.

Meh, I prefer Treylon to Brandon.

Haha, no essential, we've not seen them yet. Mum has gone back to her mum's and I've only heard through SIL.

Mum posted a photo of herself the other day. Bearing in mind baby is only just over two weeks old, her stomach is completely flat. Like a washboard. It's quite astonishing and I'm extremely jealous!! She's looking stunning. And baby is gorgeous and thriving.

Essential we knew someone who, half a lifetime ago, had problems with his application to medical school because of his Polish surname which was a challenge to pronounce. My parents had work connections and were able to put in a good word to cut through the xenophobia in the initial screening (I'm sad for other just as deserving applicants that it had to be done that way, but they helped out in the best way they could).

He's now a senior anaesthetist at a well-known teaching hospital.

wol - I used to work with a Przemysław LongPolishSurname who would let people struggle for a few seconds and then just call me Premmy.

Whether it's ever right or not, fixable or not, law is terrible for class and ethnic prejudice.

What's with the Reuben bashing? I've got one of my own, he's 43 now and it was an unusual name at the time; no longer though, we know several children called this.
When we told Friend A the new born's name, she rushed round to Friend B to tell her to change her new guinea pig's name from Reuben as Tricky was calling her baby that.
He is usually known as Roo; at one stage we had been thinking of calling him Rupert, -"Thank God you didn't, Mum" is his view of that.

When Trey is used in the US isnt it a nickname when a child is the 3rd generation with the same name ? or is that something worthy of Snopes ?