For thinking baby names are getting silly

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Hi everyone,

Recently read through a thread with OP who wanted to name her child something completely ridiculous.

I have noticed a lot of threads with the same comments of very odd baby names, think things Like Spartacus or Amicablalette. For some reason this now seems to be the norm.

It seems like people are now either trying to make their normal child sound like a WW2 veteran by naming them Albert or Rodney or the lord or lady of the manner with names like Tarquin or Agatha.

Is it just me or do some of these names not look ridiculous. I know a child at a local nursery with working class parents called Horatio.

I can't imagine naming my children anything other than something normal so that when they finally go for a job interview their names appear professional and easy to read/pronounce.

Are there a list of normal Girls/Boys names you can give me! And does anyone else agree with me?!

AIBU?

Kid down the road is called Kairo-Bear, why would you do that to your child? Do you hate them and want them to be bullied & scarred for life?

You sound absolutely awful, and your OP is very insulting. How does a name sound “professional” and easy to read and pronounce? Do you have the same requirements and judgement for names that originate from different parts of the world?

You’re perplexed by a working class boy called Horatio? What a ridiculous classist thing to say. Outside of the fact that one can give their child a name from any supposed class they bloody well like, there is a lot that may go into a name - like culture, language, tribute, religion etc.

Seriously, OP get over yourself. This actually sounds like dog whistling for classism and xenophobia.

I think the plumber thing was a joke. But yes, working class is not synonymous with unsuccessful or poor.

Better than Chardonnay/Paris/ridiculous spellings of ordinary names

Do you think it was meant to be Araminta, but the baby was friendly so they went for a mash-up of amicacable and AliBaba?

Wait until you hear that there's a woman in the FailycDail calling herselfca 'baby-naming' consultant...

I mean, I am so pissed off that I didn't think of that. I would be a multi-billionaire bt now. An oligarch!

But isn’t it a massive coincidence that both this child’s parents have the same name.. ?

Better than the American trend of spelling names so ridiculously it takes an hour to work out what they’re meant to be.

See Kynezeleigh, Viyolehet, Kaittlynn etc etc. WHY do they do that?!

One of my grandfathers was an Albert but all adults called him Bert. I imagine a present day Albert child might be called Albie by his mates. My own name (not Maud) was very popular at one time but not now. I do agree that some name choices now are quite odd but more so when you have to go over and again to work out the pronunciation.

Lindas Johns and Davids with a sprinkling of Carols and Margaret's ahhh the memories 🙂

Don't be ridiculous.
No-one will be able to pronounce phlegm!!!
I guess they'll cough it up eventually

I would have them all trained to sit there saying 'I'm Spartacus'

Naming trends evolve. The names come back in cycles. My child's class next year has a beautiful mix of names.

You are looking at the names from your one experience of life. Expand your horizons. There is absolutely no reason a name should be associated with one "class".

No, they are camel traders

Times change, name trends change. My toddler has a pretty old fashioned “normal” name but that won’t help him get ahead in life/work. An unusual name on a CV won’t mean shit, lots of the other CV’s will have unusual names too. And if you’re going to judge someone based on the name they were given at birth, that says more about you.

That said, I did question the parents apparent obsession with jeans when I was in the park with siblings called Diesel, Hugo and Levi recently. (That’s not a joke)

Exactly this. It's very telling the names people are throwing out as "normal".

I do feel sorry for the little girls named Khaleesi (DS1 had one in his nursery class, even with a yooneek spelling!) from a few years ago when the earlier series of Game of Thrones was popular. Before the character went nuts and started killing everyone

J R-M only names his children using Latin numbers, so sadly, Horatio remains a plumber's child only.
ThexFrench used to be very bureaucratic regarding naming of one's offspring; there was a list, and thatcwas it. You could not register a name the Brits think are exotic such as Chardonnay, pinot noir, or terroir, despite the obvious French connection to each.
However, they have sadly dropped this fabulous law, so expecting a slew of 'brew-dogs', 'watney's red barrel' and 'the rec' before long

Imagine naming your child based on a fictional job interview. Pathetic to be honest.

I do think there is value in getting names which fit in lots of different places.

We needed names which worked in French and English, which limited what we could use. I wanted them to be the same spelling (not necessarily pronunciation) and no accents. I know how irrititing it is to have the English spelling of a name and live in France where they permanently try to spell it a different way.

We have also moved to a very different place (overseaa) to where our DC were born and will soon be moving again to yet another different type of town. Fortunately their names work everywhere, without particular connotations. This definitely helps them when starting new schools and clubs (and for administration purposes! )

I don't see anything wrong with those names.

I know someone in her 40s called Blue, so perhaps it’s not that unknown. Lots of dogs are called Blue. And of course there’s Scarlett, which is a fairly usual name. It seems that the word “normal” has various meanings on this thread. Years ago there were loads of girls called Kylie and names beginning with K have been inexplicably popular for a long time. I do think that unusual spellings for names are a burden because that’s a lifetime of corrections, misspelt documents and birthday cards

I’m a 60’s dc and my great aunt thought I should be named Lily after my deceased dgm.
My dm was horrified at such an old fashioned name and fortunately, imo, refused to entertain the notion.
Yet now Lily is considered a v. lovely name.

I had a colleague who named her dc Florence, another colleague, D, thought the name was awful, in her opinion it was too old fashioned.
My friend pointed out to D that her dc is named Noah, one of the oldest names in the bible.
D replied with, yeah, but it’s trendy innit.

I love the ever changing name trend.

My dm was a MW and delivered a boy who the nice middle class couple named Joshua. My very working class dm, who has a W. Midlands accent said how nice and that her df was named Joshua. Apparently the couple looked horrified.

What’s wrong with Albert? It’s a completely normal name.

Those are normal names.

I thought you were talking about those who call their child - Dusty, Peaches, Wave etc etc.

Agatha is a normal name. Rodney is a normal name, Horatio is a normal name!
This post is just uncessarily mean

Ah yes the “unique” names and spellings,….

Mason, Jayden, Kayden, Amelia-Mai, Kasey-Lee, Kyreece etc at one end of the spectrum; Atlas, Juno, Lysander, Olympia, Persephone Peregrine et al at the other….

bit daft and pity some of those kids when it comes to job interview time…inviting prejudice.