To think people should take naming their children seriously?

[DreamsOfDownUnder]

Do they not imagine their name choice on the top of a CV or whatever when naming their child 'Ballerina' or 'Buttercup' or 'Tulip'. I find it tends to more girl names than boys.

I base my opinion on someone on how they behave. They could be a cunty Katie or a sweet Savannah.

If they are nice, I'll like them. If I can't pronounce or spell their name, I'll ask.

As many have already said Precious, Blessed etc are African names often given.

Also some other countries such as Asian/Japan/ etc will have a non transferable name so often chose an English name when they come to study or work. Oftentimes they'll choose a word as a name which is why it may be bizarre sounding.

Give people the respect you'd like extended to you.

user87382294757 no, it's definitely Tiara.

DD’s teacher has a very unusual name! Won’t post it in case she’s on here

Well the worst for me has to be "Bloom" absolutely dreadful poor child

I always think of David Bowie’s son, Zowie who grew up and changed it to Duncan. Kinda says it all.

You might think a name is cool or cute but you really do need to consider your child’s future as an actual adult bearing that name.

I worked with a Blessing, bit that was her heritage (West Indies).
I did see someone didn't like the spelling of Kaitlyn, so she spells her daughter's name Kviiilyn. American

But loads of established names were invented by somebody. Shakespeare invented Miranda, Olivia and Jessica, for example. Jonathan Swift invented Vanessa. The poet Sidney invented Pamela. Florence was “invented” by Florence Nightingale’s parents. Madison comes from the film Splash. And similarly, names that may be considered modern are actually very old. Gemma and Juniper are medieval names.

I run events for primary school children. today I was inputting names into a database for an upcoming event, I had to look twice as a child was down as Labia! Poor poor child

10 years later, every infants class had 2 or 3 Oscars and you couldn't imagine anything more mainstream

It's still a cat's name for me. Although you are right about the ubiquitousness of it :)

These threads always hinge on people's ingrained class consciousness

I think mine is about a century behind. I don't like names like Ida or Hilda or Florence because they remind me of a maiden aunt. My paternal aunts had names like Alice and Nora although one sister was called Elizabeth which I do like and considered for ds when I didn't know whether he was a boy or a girl.

As for giving people "proper" names, my MIL is Betty and she has always disliked the fact her parents didn't call her Elizabeth. Sometimes she even gets letters addressed to Mrs E [surname] because people just assume she has the full name.

Not really an odd name but my boss has used the wrong name for a colleague for months, Wasn’t sure if he was doing it jokingly as I have type his letters/emails from recordings but we we were in a meeting today and he called Regina “Vagina” every time he spoke to her, to be fair he’s in his late 80’s - yep still working & using a dictaphone, he’s eyesight isn’t great and he’s a bit deaf, bless him! No one corrected him, even Regina (whom everyone else calls Reggie), she was laughing when he left the meeting so definitely not upset by it. I now don’t think it’s a joke as he’s very proper and I’ve never heard him swear or say anything untoward to anyone in the 17 years I’ve worked for him, until this happened, so I’m going to talk to him about it.....or perhaps I should mention it to his son who works for him too!

Why? Lily, daisy, buttercup - so what?
I love all those old names of older generation Caribbean women like Blessing Grace and Charity.
Each to their own - let’s hope that future employers aren’t as shallow and judgmental as you appear to be.

kennehora Jesca was the anglicised version of the Hebrew name Yiska but Shakespeare invented Jessica.

I know an Adolf. He works in London and is highly professional and well respected

I knew one in Germany! He'd only be about 52 now at most, so definitely born after his unfortunate namesake. I was actually discussing this with my husband the other day - that you don't get Adolfs but you do get plenty of Josephs, despite Stalin. But of course it is a much more common name so you don't get the connotation.

Shakespeare invented Jessica

How on earth does anyone know what Shakespeare did and didn't invent? He may have been the first to record it but that doesn't mean he made it up.

A couple of weeks ago I heard someone calling to their child “Milia”, my first thought was why would you call your child after a spot.

I worked with a very capable "Martini" and she obviously hadn't had a problem getting the job. She did have to correct many rotas marked Martina but it didn't seem to bother her

My ex wanted to name our child Aqua-Topaz Stephy- sue. There was a star - Barr Deville in my daughters class

His son was James Tiberius Kirk

I agree and disagree.
Some names can be common in one place but totally unsual in another.

Although I did come across a woman who called her child Kennal - literally sounds like a kennel as far as I'm aware there is actually no real meaning to it, nor origin.

But I can imagine she will snazz it up when she's older to Kenaal or something, Joe Dirt style

@fairweathercyclist the Adolf I know is about the same age and is German - I can't imagine there are many of them.

@TigerTooth I don't mean to sound judgemental. I just mean the world in general is judgemental.

His son was James Tiberius Kirk

I've always wanted to change my name to T'Pol. My nickname at one place I worked was the Vulcan and I didn't mind a bit.

LOVE Tiberius!
What a cool name.