After all these years, to still wonder why you'd call your child...

[stellenbosch]

Romeo? 🤔

(TBH, Apple is just as bad...)

But, seriously, celebrity names are stupid!

The website Notwithoutmyhandbag.com used to have a cracking crazy baby names section!

That's true, Logan. I was just reminded of the article when reading of unusual names. I found the piece a little sad, but she was a troubled young woman and there were many layers to her story.

I've heard through colleagues of a baby who'd been named Porphyria. Which is quite a pretty, classical-sounding name on the face of it, I suppose, if you didn't know it was a disease.

I used to know a Warwick Shaw

Toto. Yes really

Eh? what's it to you OP? Just wanting to judge?

I quite like 'Toto' as a name. Sounds cute.

Everyone and their granny knows a La-A story on here...

I must be the most gullible arse in my team as that's the 1st Time I've heard that story. I've no judgment against the name, just the spelling (if it's supposedly true)

A couple of years ago I met a small girl called Rioja.

My midwife colleague delivered a La-A, pronounced Ladasha. We honestly thought the registrar would refuse it but unfortunately not.

How amazing. I have a midwife colleague who also delivered a La-a but it was pronounced I can’t believe people still post this low-key racist shite in 2018 and expect people to believe it.

Romeo doesn’t offend me at all, but Brooklyn really grates my brain. Any time I hear or see that kid’s name written down I find it kind of jars. The fact that he’s an annoying sleb child, is neither here nor there. Agree with pp that I don’t get the popularity of names like Isabel or Sophie. Nice enough, but feel pretty unimaginative to me. Surely there’s a magical middle ground?! I like names that: Are an actual name, sound nice spoken and look nice written down, aren’t extremely overdone....?? Oh, and aren’t all American-y surname.

I have a well stupid name. I am certain it has held me back, and I said when I was a child that the first thing I would do when I reached 18 would be to change it.

In the event, I didn't. I wish I had now, but by 18, I had had 18 years of being called it. No other name felt right. I still think that being called Not-Griddlebone is a stupid name but it's my name. In the event, I also couldn't go through with a step that would have rejected my parents' decisions so definitely, and I was worried about exam certificates.

Peaches wouldn't just have been rejecting her parents, she'd have been dumping a tie to her late mother. If my mother had died during my childhood like Peaches' did, I don't expect I would have been able to stomach choosing a new name that I'd never heard from her lips.

Logan

I can imagine Peaches Geldof didn’t change her name because her late mother chose it for her and she felt tied to the name for that reason, regardless of how much she may or may not have liked it.

It didn’t stop her giving her sons extremely unusual names anyway.

Peaches wouldn't have just been rejecting her parents
I don't see it that way at all. I wouldn't have been bothered if my kids had changed their names, I would have just thought that they didn't like the names, not me personally. I didn't get emotionally invested in picking my kid's names, we just chose something we both liked and hopefully nothing that would cause them problems throughout their life.

That's really nice for your kids, and I applaud it as a parenting style noeffingidea, but my mother would have been devastated and expressed her feelings freely.

Oh i'm not saying she should've changed her first name. Not at all. My point was that she felt her first name 'Peaches' was a burden because everyone recognised it eg when she tried to ring up and place an order etc, in my humble opinion i think the burden was more her surname 'Geldof'? surely it wouldn't have mattered if she had been 'Mary', its the surname that was the problem, No?

It’s not like Stormi will have a normal life though is it, she’ll grow up in celeb world and will be a DJ/singer/model/fashion designer whatever else she wants to do as per all celeb offspring.

At the school I work at there's a young lady called Miracle. Miracle she is not!!

Oh and a friend of mine has a grandson called Atticus which I think is rather cute and reminds me of 'To kill a mockingbird ' which is a great book.

Griddlebone I don't really think of it as a parenting style, just part of being a normal rational human being. Kid doesn't like the name chosen for them and wants to change it - what is devastating about that? Just one of those things that can't be helped, surely.

My son has a child called Yaris in his class(12 yo)
My youngest has twins devine and divine in hers

Ziva bloody awful people watch too much tv

Could be worse. Moon Unit anyone?

What baffles me more is the people who look at the top ten babies names and think they're being really original by only picking number 3 on the list!
Yes, I am looking at you, mid-80's mothers of sundry Louises, Lauras, Emmas and Rebeccas.
I am one of those names and I think my name is fucking horrible. Doubly so if you hyphenate it with Jane or Marie.

I know two guys called Jonty, both short for Jonathon.