Daughter shocked to find she was named for a lampshade

[MissPeachyKeen]

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Where did she think the name came from?! 🙄

Maybe that's where he was conceived?!

So did I.

Demi Moore was named after a face cream apparently.

Why do so many people still trot this out about MJ's son? Blanket is(was) a nickname

Yep, and honestly no different to Faith, Joy, or Patience, which were very popular English names years ago and probably due for a revival.

Ah right, that wasn’t as clear in the article I read - I looked at a different one. Seems he was adopted too and this name was chosen by his birth parents.

No L-Asha but I did meet a Sian - pronounced See-Anne. Guess her parents either didn’t know or like the Welsh pronunciation?

Or a Guy known as Gooey

Oh, I did. He was a professor and the people calling him that were other academics. I suspect it got pronounced something like that by a French colleague at some point and it stuck.

It's common in some African cultures to name children after the traits you hope they will develop as adults - I have worked with plently of Wisdoms, Blessings etc.. as well as the occasional Godlove.

Some cultures also name children after successful or revered world figures in the hope it will bring similar success or wealth. As a result of his intervention in the war there in tbe 90s there is a whole generation of Kosovans named "Tonibler".

Yes. Constance, Prudence too.

Yep, and honestly no different to Faith, Joy, or Patience, which were very popular English names years ago and probably due for a revival.

Yes, I don't know why anyone would comment negatively about 'virtue' names and synonyms for 'joy'.

Though I once heard a piece on radio 4 about a boy from a culture which would also used negative words as names - I've forgotten what his was but things like Sorrow or Tribulation.

Some cultures also name children after successful or revered world figures in the hope it will bring similar success or wealth. As a result of his intervention in the war there in tbe 90s there is a whole generation of Kosovans named "Tonibler".

Happens here too - I'm sure there's generations of kids named after pop stars etc - Kylie for instance. Just that our criteria may sometimes be a bit shallower!

We have a new baby in the family (my cousin's) and they named her Prudence.

I think you mean Tin Opeiner

Seems to have been going for a couple of centuries worldwide in a number of cultural contexts - so maybe it's not so 'stupid' after all?

Quaker? They often have that sort of name. I think it's charming.

The Aga Khan was named after an aspirational kitchen appliance....

We had a guide on holiday in Tobago, beautiful rasta guy called vision.

Shaide (pronounced sha-eed) sounds like the Persian name Shahid.

The Spanish name Dolores actually means pain or sorrow.

Thankfully not the aspirational fridge, Smeg.

I work with a lot of people from an African heritage. There are plenty of names like
Blessing, Gift, Precious, Sunny, Happy etc. Just worth pointing out, before laughing at these kinds of names.

I knew someone who worked as a teacher in east Africa, and lots of kids had names that were just random-seeming English words. One was Remnant IIRC. I think it was just seen as prestigious or cool to use an English word - sometimes the meaning matters like with Precious, but sometimes not. A bit like western obsession with Japanese lettering on clothes and Superdry pretending to be Japanese but most people wouldn’t know or care what the lettering actually says. And vice versa the Japanese sometimes use weird meaningless slogans made of random English words.

However I don’t think there’s anything wrong with finding it funny if it sounds funny to a native speaker of the language being used. I wouldn’t laugh in someone’s face, but I can find Remnant a funny name. I’d also be fine with anyone from around the world finding my name funny if it sounded funny in their language.

Seems there’s an Arabic name - Shadé. Means singer.

Thanks for the amusing replies, shame about the less pleasant ones but there you go!

I know people called Happiness & Marvellous and I think their names are wonderful, just brings to mind the joy of their birth.

"Shade" is also a lovely word, I can understand why it's been used as a name, but I do think the daughter is massively overreacting to realise its inspiration- it can't be that much of a surprise, surely?!

I think Neaveh is an attempt at the Irish spelling. Pronounced how you want it. 🙂

No. It’s literally heaven backwards and every parent who has a kid called this will tell
you

At least he wasn't called Table all the time. He was an occasional Table.