To think most parents these days don't consider their baby's names for when they are adults..

[LondonAnne5]

Just that really.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've seen someone post a picture on their feed of their newborn with a name that is either really, really different or something that the child may not enjoy being called in the future when they are a teenager/adult...

E.g. Billi Mucklow naming her new baby boy Wolf Nine. It's different, yes and okay when he is a baby but I'm just imagining a professional middle aged businessman named Wolf and can't picture it.

I grew up with a very different name that is often mispronunced and is also a bit "babyish" for my age now which I do find awkward in a professional environment.
AIBU and alone in thinking this?

[Fluffycloudland77]

One of my colleagues gave her pfb an alternative name, banged on & on about what an advantage having this unusual name would give the child on its ucas form etc. Next two kids had very normal names no ones going to look twice at so either she's over it or she's fed up of explaining her child's name.

[ImAMarshmellow]

I know a baby called Earnest. I can’t get my head round it being for anyone under the age of 80.

I do agree that teddy, belle, bear etc is fine for toddlers or young children, but doesn’t really work as well for adults.

I doubt wolf nine is going to require a proper job.

[LondonAnne5]

@LunasSpectreSpecs yes my name is along those lines which is why I never, ever use it and also the names I were referring to in my OP! I have seen so many of them recently.

[grannytomine]

Isn't it great that Alan is now the unusual name. Soon all babies will be called wayout names like Susan or John. It will be so strange.

[upperlimit]

It's interesting because I read that title and I assumed it would be about some of the names that you see on the names board that, I think, go out of their way to signpost their class, first and foremost.

I won't say which names in particular because I don't need to go out of my way to offend anyone. But I do think that some names might make you stick out if life doesn't work out the way your parents imagined.

[Eleast]

My two boys are named after dc superhero’s (their real name not the superhero name!) and they are not common but not silly sounding either. Our youngest especially would make a nice PM name!
What Im not keen on is the baby names the Evie’s that when she’s 30-40 will sound a bit daft. But it’s personal presence I’m pretty sure some people might not like our choices but they aren’t stupid names. As long as it’s not princess conseula banana hammock it’s fine

[DarlesChickens61]

I know lots of adults called Jamie I don’t think that is a kids name

I love it for a girl or young child. It grips my shit for an older boy/adult tho....I don't know why?? I much prefer Wilf

[WhooooAmI24601]

I know a baby called Earnest. I can’t get my head round it being for anyone under the age of 80

I know an Ernie who is 6, with a brother called Walter. Two of the nicest boys I know, and I love their names!

My two have solid, old-fashioned names that I just loved. People on MN have often said "how dull to give your DC a name used by other people" so you really can't win. If you give them a crazy name you're in the wrong, if you give them an old-fashioned name you're also in the wrong. I like to think both DCs could be Kings or bin men with their names and not seem out of place.

[grannytomine]

What is a black name?

[AuntieStella]

The reason to choose sibling names that don't actively fight each other is because you will be yelling the names together across the park, signing Christmas cards, introducing them to people etc for the next couple of decades.

Actually, I think the 'how will it sounds yelled across the playground' is one of the more useful tests of whether you can really live with a name, whether for one DC or the set of names if you have another.

[AskingForAnEnemy]

Nothing wrong with the name Jamie. Wilf is ridiculous.

[KindergartenKop]

Fox Mulder is doing fine.

[Dustbunny1900]

Wolf blitzer is middle aged and seems to be doing ok with that name

[Farahilda]

"What is a black name?"

Ebony and Layla, by meaning (there are probably other, but they don't spring to mind).

Also the Ghanaian 'day' names, and others which are common in certain ethnic groups which have not (yet) transitioned into general use.

[sminkypinky]

There's a toddler Alan at my DS nursery (must be making a comeback), there's a Sandra in the preschool there too.

[Marcine]

I know under 5s called Trevor, Martin and Colin

[brasty]

By a black name, I simply meant that I had only ever heard black girls named this. Never any white girls. So I was worried the name on CVs might invite racism. Never anticipated that it would be seen as posh now.

[DarlesChickens61]

Nothing wrong with the name Jamie. Wilf is ridiculous

Wilf is not a name I would choose I agree. But if Wilf was number 190 on my list Jamie would be 500th - or never. More than likely never!

[MrsJayy]

When i first left school in the 80s I worked in a nursery you couldn't move forKylie's i had a Dr kylie afew months ago these kids are not their name I don't see why you can't have a judge Alfie or whatever

[DiegoMadonna]

Why do so many people on these threads always seem to imagine their kids as middle-aged business men/women? Maybe Billi Mucklow (whoever that is) has different aspirations for her child.

How about this...

Why do people pick such boring names for their kids? It's okay when he is a baby but I'm just imagining a talented young artist called Henry Johnson and can't picture it

[MrsJayy]

Simon Cowells son is Eric I am sure Eric will do just fine in life

[Awwlookatmybabyspider]

50 years down the line, though.
People will be saying on here.
I met a baby Ava/Oliver today. I haven't heard that in years

[MerlinsScarf]

Some languages have brilliant terms for the names mentioned by Luna, that translate roughly as 'sparkly names'. A variant on youneek I suppose, but quite a nice description.

[Lovestonap]

I just love how names come in and out of fashion, and how we all think we are not influenced by that fashion.

When I was pregnant with my first I was determined to call her Amelie, thought it sounded rare and chic and French (I am none of those things) then a friend had an Amelie, and then another friend had one, and then another friend had an Amelia (It should also be mentioned at this point that the baby turned out to be a boy). Our original boy names was also used several times over by the time ds was born. No problem at all, but just goes to show that what I thought was me being original and old fashioned was just me being influenced by some sort of hegemonic process with names, as everyone else was.

Daughter was easier to name when she came along - named after my grandma - Rosalie. We always intended to call her Rosie, but as there are a million other Rosie's in her class she is now called by her full name at school.

We're none of us original :) There is nothing new on this Earth.

[Lovestonap]

spot the rogue apostrophe....