To think this would be a good name?

[marmitec]

Before I start I am not pregnant or TTC or even thinking of giving a child this name

Calamari.

If you don't know what it is - it's fried squid. I did not even know this until a few months ago. I thought of the name Camari and suddenly, there it was! Calamari popped up into my mind somehow. I searched it to see the origin ect. and such and found out it wasn't a name for a human but for squid dishes.

I still think it's so sweet sounding, like Lily or another traditional name. Say Calamari was actually a flower, it would be an unusual but beautiful name.

So, if you forgot the squid thing and heard Calamari, what would you think? Does it sound like a good name?

Calamari - forgetting the squid thing - sounds nice to me

It's kind of hard to forget the whole squid thing though 😂😂😂

I guess it could be worse -a mum in our village has called her little girl ‘TreSemme’ - like the brand of shampoo.

I think sequin would be a fab yoonique name.

Ah OP! I just wanted to say the biggest thank you ever :)

This was the last thread I read last night and before I fell asleep, I laughed so much I actually cried!! 😂 Proper tears of laughter rolling down my cheeks!!! That has not happened to me years! ... literally years!

And now this morning I've switched on the phone and had a look at the thread again! And again I'm laughing from my stomach!!! Proper proper laughing!!

Have no idea why this thread has made me laugh so so so so much!! But thank you!!!

This is like Alicia Douvall who has had all that ghastly plastic surgery. She called her daughter........... Papaya!!!😂 😂 😂 😂

DS2 who is 13, in all seriousness said a few months back, “if I ever have a daughter, I’ll call her Paprika”

He thinks it’s the prettiest name ever. Hopefully any future partner won’t agree.

There's a Coriander on The Archers.

Well, she's the daughter of one of the characters, not sure if she shows up much.

I know this is a joke thread but I've always thought Israel would be a nice name!

I knew a drag queen once called Tara Masalata.

Think is as said above, I’d say most people know what Calamari is. And naming a child after a weird fishy rubbery thing you eat is Not A Good Idea. Unless you move to a parallel universe. And even then......

Karamari(though r is pronounced in between r and l so similar to calamari), means entangled in Japanese. Also sounds similar to Katamari, which means chunk, clod, or clump.
Not a nice name at all.

It's no worse than Levi, Chardonnay, Ford, Montana, Wolf etc One of my dc has a name that we didn't know was an intimate object in another country.

Inanimate object not intimate

I was wondering what intimate object was!

@irvineoneohone Me too! I was imagining a poor child accidentally named Dildo or something!

Arf at Dildo Intimate object would have been funnier, I should have left that uncorrected.

Yeah, it would have kept us wondering!

When I worked in the jungle in South America the local people often named their children after things they thought were western and had heard or seen written down but didn't understand. So when I was there I met a Malaria, a Gillette, and a Stalin. You would fit right in OP!!

what about chlamydia, that's quite similar to Calamari?

S2 who is 13, in all seriousness said a few months back, “if I ever have a daughter, I’ll call her Paprika”

Hmm did he used to watch 'Blues clues' when he was little? Mr Salt and Mrs pepper had a baby called 'paprika'

Agggg. Sorry. Tried to make a new thread

I thought the name suggestion was going to be Ocado, given how many other threads there are about them today!

what about chlamydia, that's quite similar to Calamari?

We used to tell people (completely straight faced) that we'd picked Chlamydia for a girl and Lucifer for a boy.

ROFL @ Latrine. (For a girl, obvs)

I think Trainee sounds nice, Especially if you say it with a French accent.