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.

We were talking about the resurgence of old fashioned names today:
Violet, Ivy, Mabel, Florence, Edith, Valerie are lovely. These fashions go in cycles.
I have taught a Fox, Saxon and Lulu.

Chinese parents often give their children an English name whilst they are working here and we’ve had a few in our school.
We had a year 5 girl whose parents had chosen Fanny. She had no English at all and was confused by the giggles poor love.
We had to speak with the lovely parents and explain - they were mortified when we got the slang meaning across and she was then known as a Francis, but of course to yr 5 she was always Fanny. She didn’t stay long.

I know a Boudicca and she's done very well for herself

It's very wrong of teachers to predict a child's behaviour based on their name. Also inaccurate. I had a few years of the most appallingly badly behaved kids called Joshua or James - neither of those are unusual names.
There are lots of unusual names at the school where I work and I find them really interesting.

i used to work with a bloke whose name was hardon.
i would chuckle like a bloody teenager whenever i said his name.
thank god he had a brilliant sense of humour

I will admit I am incredibly judgmental of other peoples choices when it comes to names. Here in the US people seem to think they can throw an apostrophe into any name or just add a "y" to make it unique. My children go to school with a young man that they call Josh. His parents spelled his name XJosh. They tell people that inquire that the "x" is silent.

UnicornBrexit has been reading up on the Equality Act 2010 and must be thrilled to have alighted on this thread.

Tbh I prefer unusual names - in fact one of the first names mentioned in the thread is my current favourite. I always think that having a very unusual name helps weed out the morons. Would you really want to associate yourself with someone who judges people based on what their given name is? Someone who thinks that a person called, for example, Tiger, is somehow less worthy of respect?

Having a very unusual name isn’t like it used to be. There were perhaps 1 or 2 kids in the whole school with names Venus when I was young, but now it’s more like 1 or 2 in each class or year group.

Also wasn’t there an episode of Call the Midwife a few years ago where someone called their baby Samantha and people thought it was weird?

I agree. Just makes their life harder. Starts with lots of teasing at school. And embarrassment when being introduced. My friend has a strange name. Lucky she had a better middle name and chose to be called by that. She is still hates when people call her by first name.

I agree with you, just seems like parents being selfish. I work in a care home so when picking names I-

1. Ask the residents if it sounds stupid (they are brutally honest, thank god!)

1. Imagine someone that age and how stupid them names would sound.

What gets me is when people spell their names oddly, ie Abbygale, or Hollie,Kloe, or Shevaune you just think to yourself that the parents couldn't spell!
Recently spoke to someone at call centre who said they were called Layticia, when I asked how to spell it they spelt out Leticia!! This is an old name and I have never heard it pronounced LAY. Although I am missing the point about Khaleesi ??? I expect the long list of names from Unicorn are all African origin, I love those names, fun. BTW came across a male Skye and he's no hippie! Interesting article about name assumptions/expectations in a teaching mag I read. Ie Henry wouldn't be expected to be a basketball/sprinter and Tyler wouldn't good at maths/science. Not my words....just quoting.

A friend knew someone who named their child Rowdy. Obviously said that's a lovely name when told.
But really you might as well call your kid Noisy or Thuggy.
I hear said teenage child now calls himself Rory.

A few years ago a friends young DS moving from East London to the home counties came across someone with a really weird name Amanda!!

I know a Malibu and a Feral.
Just leaving that there.

I just interviewed with a woman called Blessed Conception as a first name. She's a VP. I do agree by the way with you. Why put barriers up when you don't have to.

so she spells her daughter's name Kviiilyn

Yeah, no, that's bollocks.

I came across an Ohshun recently. Took me a while to realise it was Ocean which is still terrible

You will love my girls names then... Skye, Ruby Ace, Star & Phoenix Blaine. All girls

Just realised I said girls twice

My son has a name that many think is unique.

It's not. It's his dad's name, and his grandfather's name. It's actually a very traditional name in their home country.

Just because it's not a normal British name doesn't mean I've made it up and he's destined to be unemployed.

We've given our daughter a very similar name to Tulip and Buttercup and everyone always says, oh how lovely. After all she can choose to shorten it when she's older.

We considered Tiger, Pixie, Acacia and have since met a Nova and a Noa which I love.

I got slated for my kids names but to me there pretty normal I couldn't give a hoot what others thought

@Itwouldtakemuchmorethanthis

Spot on

In my immediate family we have beautiful and unusual names. We are white middle/working class and all are successful, intelligent and have never experienced bullying because of names. On the contrary the unusual names have always been a real ice breaker and no one in my family would want to change theirs. We have Honey, Hudson, Willow, Bear, Flame, Sonny, Marley, Jet, Cougar, Harley, Madison.

Also NHS:
Smiley Joe and Lovely