To think parents are going mad

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I've seen a few posts recently about parents naming their kids and some of the ideas are insane. Axl, Orange, Blossom. Whats with the trends of going for really out there names - whats wrong with traditional names? Am I the only one that thinks its getting more and more out there.

My sister named her daughter Rebecca in '98 and my Mum thought that was a 'new' name when everyone called her Becky.

My sons name is a bit out there and my dd has a uncommon but recognised name, I think it’s better to have something different, we looked back on my dcs family tree and literally the same names popped up in every generation. Thomas and George, in my family John is the most common, having 4 uncles and 3 cousins called John. It’s like in Spain they use the same like 30 names.

I have a name that's very very rare in the UK but common in Northern Europe and it's just me....50 years to get used to it. My parents were hippies and kids I knew growing up? So all in their late 40's to mid 50's
Krystal, Tuesday, Birch, letian, Pebble, Skye, Thor, Mint, Lucy ( in the sky....etc. ) Jupiter, Oak. It's like our parents just named us after random objects lol......did it ruin our lives? Nope......did we get good jobs? As good as our classmates who were Samantha's, Tracy's, Jasmine, Sharon's and Amanda's, James, Peter, Steve, David and Dean not forgetting Wayne and Kevin

It's just a name you can change it as you get older

Blossom Dearie had a great voice.

@Misscherry My best friend is called Tewsday and whenever she tells anyone her name they say how much they love it. She was named after an actress.

I had a great aunt called Ansibella, known as Ansie by everyone all her life according to my dad. Doing family history and got her birth certificate, her name was Ann Isabella. On her death certifcate it is Ansibella. On censuses and her marriage certificate it is Ansibella. I think she was just called her full name from birth and sloppy pronounciation turned it to Ansibella.

There’s nothing wrong with different as long as the child doesn’t mind their name constantly being spelled incorrectly, pronounced incorrectly and being laughed at.

Her brother was known as Kit all his life. Turns out he was christened Kitchener just after the end of the First World War. Their parents had two other boys who died called Gommer and Wembley.
So unusual names are nothing new.

When I named my DC I wanted their names to be original because they were unique to me. I didn’t want to call them David and Sophie and then going into class finding there are five other kids with the same names. I had no traditional names in my family that I wanted to continue so I had a whole world of names to choose from. To my mind, why wouldn’t I choose something unique? My DC love their names and like not being named the same as everyone else.

Axl is an ancient British name.

Sweepington, presumably the American actress Tuesday Weld, once married to Dudley Moore. Though her real name was Susan...Tuesday was a mispronunciation of a nickname, which then stuck.

GabsAlot - please tell me you were being ironic.

I does tend to be where you live though, in inner city posh suburb of Melbourne where we lived, there were lots of Charlottes and Williams and Henry's etc but we've moved to a regional town and there are all sorts of crazy names. Some are nice, some are strange.
Before anyone gets offended, I'm just stating a fact no intention to offend!! A few people scoffed at the names we called our kids but it doesn't matter because it doesn't affect them.

I work with two Axels from Europe so not so unusual

I've seen a few posts recently about parents naming their kids and some of the ideas are insane. Axl, Orange, Blossom. Whats with the trends of going for really out there names - whats wrong with traditional names? Am I the only one that thinks its getting more and more out there.

Blossom is a lovely name that’s been in existence for centuries

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(Margrethe) Blossom Dearie, American jazz singer
Blossom Rock (born Edith Marie Blossom MacDonald), American actress; sister of actress Jeanette McDonald
Maxine "Blossom" Miles, British aviation engineer and socialite
Blossom Seeley (born Minnie Guyer), American vaudeville singer and dancer
Blossom, English stage name of Jasmine Wagner aka Blümchen, German pop singer
Gladys Blossom Noon Spellman, U.S. Congresswoman from Maryland
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My name is now mainly a male name! It wasn't popular for either sex when I was born, but it was unisex. Never got picked on for it, but it was often spelt wrong.

I got slated for my DSs name by a random few as they thought it was too odd & old fashioned / it is now a few decades later incredibly popular. You never never know!!

My Grandmother was born late Victoria era and was called Alicia, known to all her family and friends as Li. She died when I was 19 so I knew her well, had fond memories and wanted to pass this on to DD. Dh didn't agree as it was an old fashioned name when she was born, so we chose another also quite traditional name which suits her, but easily abbreviated by her friends since she was little.

A girl in the same reception class was called Alicia. When I told DD later about our choices, she said that she would have loved this name. It has been added to her choice of girl names for the future.

Her current and serious BF had a Grandma called Olga whose parents came here from Norway. She died recently at a ripe old age and this is his choice for a girl's name. It is nothing to with me and I would not butt in to voice any opinion, but calling a future GD Olga as a tiny little child is hard to imagine. Every Olga I have ever met has been a rather old lady. Interesting times ahead possibly.

My first knowledge of Asa as a name was Asa Briggs, the historian, when I was at university. I actually quite like it. I heard someone shout "Vedder!" across a playground once. I still wonder if the boy was named after Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam, had to be, didn't it!?!

Until you've heard of a girl child called Le-A, pronounced Ledasha YABVU!

My parents called me Starlight (yes I changed my name as soon as I was old enough lol) in the 80's so unusual names aren't new. My older sister was called Aurora and that was seen as very unusual at the time as well (though not quite as downright ridiculous as mine).

Bizarrely my brother's have very 'normal' 70s/80s names.

A close friend of mine was given no name in the late 70s and allowed to chose his own when he was older

What did his parents call him when he was younger then? confused

I was just wondering the same then saw this

Surely you have to register a name on a birth certificate within the first few months? You do here, anyway. (UK)
Plus,as you say, how do they call him?
Do they whistle for him like they would a dog or something or just say "Oy, you" if they want him?

I also had a great grandma in Scotland called Nicholas Sharpe and found a Mercy Heart (first and middle name) and a Christiania Venus (first and middle name) and these were in the north east in the 1800s so we are not talking cosmopolitan.

@KitKat Urban Legend

I have/had a Lyra(29) and a Luna(23). Not too uncommon these days but practically unheard of when they were born and growing up. One of them loved their unusual name, the other hated it and went by their middle name from 13 and then had them legally switched around at 18.

I think parents really only think of themselves when naming babies and about who they want their babies to be, not that their baby will be an actual person who has to go their entire lives with the names we saddle with them. Somebody said a big unusual name is wishing for a big personality, but what if they're not? Then your wish has cursed them. Aurora is one I think of often. Imagine going through life as an ugly Aurora.

The rest of my children have nice, strong normal names (Cora, Elizabeth, Cecilia etc) and I don't think their personalities would have been increased by naming them something outrageous like Cinderella (which was coincidentally somebody in one of their classes).

People used to often name their kids after an older family member. That tradition has largely died away though.