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To think this name is a bit too unusual...

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jarhead123 · 30/01/2018 16:28

I was being nosy on FB earlier and saw someone I went to school with.

She's had a baby boy and called him 'Chip' - it's definitely not short for anything, I saw the birth announcement. That's his proper name.

I'm all for variety, different names etc but thats too far isn't it?! Or am I boring? Grin

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SimonBridges · 30/01/2018 20:36

The patience of Job. Also Job is a book of the bible, same chap.

pieceofpurplesky · 30/01/2018 20:41

I have taught a Chipego nn Chip

PeanutButterLips · 30/01/2018 20:45

I didn't know that practise!
I think parents are big on religion too so make sense

Skiiltan · 30/01/2018 21:06

If he grows up and has a son he'll have to name him Chesney (in-joke for people who remember the early nineties).

I'd imagine everyone who saw the baby must have said he was a chip off the old block and the name just stuck. Then again, perhaps the parents just like chips.

TroysMammy · 30/01/2018 21:23

Isn't Chuck an American nickname for Charles and Hank for Henry?

NewYearNewUsername · 30/01/2018 22:42

I once met an American called Boomer

The only Boomer I've ever heard of is a female character from Battlestar Galactica.

Has anyone heard of spike

Only in Buffy the vampire slayer.

I can't see chip without adding "and dale" or "biff and kipper" I'd assume it was a nickname tbh.

pinkyredrose · 31/01/2018 20:11

The film directer Spike Lee? Or Spike Jones.

SuperBeagle · 31/01/2018 22:48

Boomer is Michael Phelps' son.

Chuck and Hank are short for Charles and Henry, yes. I don't think they're any more American than Dick for Richard though.

Daddynosharing · 01/02/2018 02:56

@blackchina possibly Gruff, short for Gruffydd, old welsh name?

Fadingmemory · 01/02/2018 03:08

Haven't RTWT but she could name her next son Rip. Many years ago there was an actor called Rip Torn! Chip and Rip Smile

Tartyflette · 01/02/2018 03:38

I've heard of Chips (plural) as a 1930s Wooster-ish nickname for upper-crust chaps. .... Chips Cadogan, he'd be the younger son of an earl, belong to the Drones club and be chums with Gussie Fink-Nottle.

daisychain01 · 01/02/2018 04:03

Chip is short for Charles or Christopher, very common in US

TheDowagerCuntess · 01/02/2018 04:53

It's a pretty well-known (nick) name, if not well used.

I mean, would I internally raise an eyebrow on hearing it? Probably. Start a thread about it?! No - it's not that odd.

Gardentour2016 · 01/02/2018 17:32

It’s a nickname for Charles. Also used when son has same name as dad, kind of the way you’d call a kid “Junior.” I have a friend named Junior - he and his father both legally named John. My cousin is known as Chip - he and his father both legally named James.

Gardentour2016 · 01/02/2018 17:35

And, yes, Michael shortens to Spike. We have one of those in family, too. 😁

Zaphodsotherhead · 01/02/2018 17:40

One of my grandsons is Griff - as in Griff Rhys Davies.

Not that my grandson is Griff Rhys Davies, of course.

cindersrella · 01/02/2018 17:40

Chip is short for Charles I think? The only other Chip I know apart from the food is the cup from beauty and the beast. I kind of like it

Fletch80 · 01/02/2018 17:49

I know a Chip, from an old Yorkshire family, surname is Sengravy.

morningconstitutional2017 · 01/02/2018 17:55

It's not my cup of tea but at least the child won't have to spell it out to people for the rest of his life though he may have to explain it, which could get annoying.

midsomermurderess · 01/02/2018 18:07

I am watching a Swedish programme at the moment and a Christopher is called Chippen, as a pet name I think. Maybe it’s much the same here.

purplebunny2012 · 01/02/2018 18:10

Yeah, great for a little kid, but the poor thing has to grow up telling people, no, that is his real name!

supersop60 · 01/02/2018 18:10

I teach a Spike.

purplebunny2012 · 01/02/2018 18:16

DancingDogs Spike was not Milligan's real name, though. Don't know about Spike Jones, probably a nickname.
Tiger Woods is a nickname, but I know someone who called her son Tiger

purplebunny2012 · 01/02/2018 18:19

MaskTasker you never heard of Griff Rhys-Jones?

BitOutOfPractice · 01/02/2018 18:22

Chuck and Hank are short for Charles and Henry, yes. I don't think they're any more American than Dick for Richard though

They most definitely are more American than Dick (I smirked when I typed that I'm so childish!). Typically American I'd say. And I don't mean that as a criticism. I just know that in the UK Charles and Henry would be Charlie and Harry (possibly Hal) never Chuck and Hank