to judge this baby name?

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Or rather the parents that chose it?

Overheard in the local shop a young girl (8ish) telling her friend that her new baby brother is being called....Kaiser. She wasnt joking.

I used to live next door to someone with a kal-el too! Can't remember the siblings names but I think they were a bit out there too

My 4 year old DS has been telling anyone who'll listen (shop assistants etc) that his baby brother, due in 2 weeks, will be called Fanny. This has been going on for months and he has such a serious face when he tells people that I was even pulled aside by his new school teachers to check. It doesn't matter how many times I tell him it's a girls name, he is adamant that that's what he's going to call him, even if it is a boy.

I work for the ambulance service and I always ask pregnant women what they are going to call their baby and it often leaves me a gasp. My favourite (worst) was Disney ( spelt Disnae !!! )

Disnae dae wha?

WWI was a lot more complex than the Germans were bad British were good. Kaiser Wilhelm was not Hitler.

I went to school with a Teresa green!

WWI was a lot more complex than the Germans were bad British were good. Kaiser Wilhelm was not Hitler.

Bloody brillliant. I now have Joan armatrading singing 'drop the pilot' as an earworm.

DS came home from school in about Y1 absolutely adamant that there was a new boy called Garage. He was actually called Gareth.

When I was very little there was (briefly) a little girl in my class called Peta. No one at home believed me that this was her name. But it was!

Oh no, they didn't believe in the very real Peta but humoured my sister with her 2 imaginary friends!

(And the imaginary friends had really stupid names).

Rubbish! Other than the musicians (Prince and Duke Ellington) who has ever met someone called Prince or Duke? Queenie - never!

Queenie is an old fashioned name, my great aunt's name, in fact. Also, I went to high school with a a Queenie, in the '80s. She was Chinese. Recent Chinese immigrants often gave their kids both a Chinese and Canadian name.

Tor is a very common name in Sweden. It's the name of my adorable nephew who lives there.

Could be Keyser if family has Turkish heritage.

I suppose it's better than Fuhrer.

As long as the next name isn't Wilhelm I'm all good on it

Knew someone who was proud that she had invented her kid's name.
Chamelle.
This was quite a few years ago and it has just occurred to me to Facebook search it.....

I once knew a Peta, Fekko. I just assumed she had forrin origins.

Also isn't Queenie used as a nickname for someone named after the current queen? I'm sure in my grandmother's generation there were a fair few Queenies who were actually Elizabeths.

My peta was German but I don't believe it's a german name.

Peta is quite common in Australia I believe

My sister once said there was a boy called Doris in her class. It turned out to be Darius.

When we were registering our daughters birth the registrar told of of the time a couple came in to register their new baby girl. She had to tell them that she was not willing to register the baby "chlamydia"! They had NO IDEA why! They did not know that it was an STI and none of their friends or family had mentioned it to them! They went home to think of another name! 😱

Mark Cavendish's wife is called Peta.

My DS is called Fabian, pronounced as 'Fay'at the beginning rather than 'Fab'.

I love his name but after reading threads like this, I always worry that people won't like it or may take the piss out of him behind his back

We heard a parent shouting his daughter over and over again. Her name was Meadow.