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I know IABU, but why do so many boys have first names that sound like surnames?

54 replies

Coastalcommand · 11/12/2017 16:02

And so many girls have two first names (not a Christian and middle name, but two first names)?

I have been given a list of names to write out for a local Christmas party (I like to do calligraphy and I volunteered). But I don't know the kids and now I can't work out which names are 'firstname surname' and which are 'surname firstname'. Also I can't work out which are first and which are middle names.

Made up example:
Ava May Smith for girls
Mason Harrison for boys.

It's all so Americanised.

There isn't space to write every name in full (and for it to look half-decent).

OP posts:
MrsAJ27 · 11/12/2017 23:34

Get a life OP and mind your own business

Corcory · 11/12/2017 23:55

Loads up here in Scotland always has been. Friend has sons call Lewis and Harris!! Another common one is Iona - on no that's Islands isn't it!!!

amusedbush · 12/12/2017 09:40

Are you in America? I've never met a female Ashley (of any spelling) born before about 1995

I'm in the UK and my cousin Ashley was born in 1989. There were a few older than me at school too, and I was born in 1990.

MorrisZapp · 12/12/2017 10:05

Apparently Boutros Boutros Ghali translates as Peter Peter Expensive.

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