To think parents are going mad

[Burgh]

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 name is very ordinary but not very common these days. I didn’t like it when I was a child but now I quite like the timeless simplicity of it.

We know a Dwayne Pipe - and a Pinta Bier ...

Back in the very late 60s, my great uncle Tommy - on hearing the name my parents chose for my brother - said "I don't like these new-fangled names."

My brother's name is Adam.

I met a woman last week who had children called Teasel, Velvet, and... Pollen.

There is a child at my kids school called Khaleesi (as in GOT Mother of Dragons).

I also met some kids in the park once called Neo, Trinity and Morpheus (although they called him Jamie, or something like that).

I can never understand calling your child an unsual name from a film/tv show. For one, they might grow up and think the show is a pile of shit.

I very recently met a child called Cherry-Blossom.

As in the shoe polish brand name?

Khaleesi? As in the job title? Idiots heh

Many elderly people have "out there " names too, they just don't use them. I've cared for many elderly folk who say "Oh my real name is Waterloo but I call myself Jim" or " My parents called me Gallipoli but I go by Libby". Parents have always tried to be unique !

About 20 years ago I met a child called Nirvana and I cringed a bit thinking she had been named after the band. Never gave it much thought until about ten years later when I met a very elderly lady called Nirvana, clearly not named after the band! Turned out that the baby I had been about had actually been named after the old lady, her great grandmother.

It taught me to try to be a bit less judgmental about unusual names.