Brady / Hindley

[Glindy]

So I like the name Hindley for a boy -Wuthering Heights Hindely Earnshaw is my associate, but obviously I hate the Myra connection.

It also got me thinking, why is Brady such a popular name but Hindley just isn't and many people probably aren't aware it is a real forename.

Stay well away from both unless you want to look weird and saddle your child with a lifetime of explaining, if that’s even possible.

Please. This is really not funny.

Myra is the most famous Hindley but I don't think Ian is the most famous Brady. You ask many people in the world and they'd say Tom.

I never heard of anyone called either.
Bradley is a first name as is Brad not Brady though. Surely no one is called Hindley?

A million names out there that aren't child killer associated...
Pick one.

This is a pretty sick thread.

Why would you even go there...

But it isn’t a real given name. It’s a surname 🤔

Brady as a first name is quite normal.
I have never heard Hindley as a first name.
I doubt many younger generations would make the murderer link but more likely think it's an odd name because it's a surname.

Maybe it's because when you Google "Brady", the top thing to come up is Tom Brady but when you Google "Hindley", the first thing to come up is a young offenders institute just outside Wigan.

Even ignoring the murderer connections, Hindley isn't a good option.

Hindley Earnshaw?

Its actually a place as are quite a few names

I met someone called Myra the other day. I was really surprised as she was I'd say in her mid 50's so named at the height of knowledge about it.

I guess Brady is one of those American first names and Hindley is, as you say, an old fashioned English name that has fallen out of use.

Apologies.
I seriously have never heard it as a first name ever.

An author’s choice to use a surname as a first name doesn’t make it a first name though 🤷🏻‍♀️

(who is Hindley Earnshaw)

What makes something a first name?

This

I reported the thread to MN.
But MN obviously think OP has the right to have a laugh about child murderers .
Disgraceful.

A surname is normally used to denote someone’s job or where they’re from. Hindley means ‘from the deer clearing’ (or close enough thereabouts).

A given name separates out an individual from that group. So say Peter Hindley would be ‘Peter from the the deer clearing’ as opposed to Peter Fletcher (Peter the arrow maker).

But if you have two surnames it just sounds… weird. Mason Fletcher, for example… ‘The stone worker, the arrow maker’ 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hindley is actually a place near wigan also.

Please don't, this is awful.

Isn't it just?
I cant believe this thread is considered acceptable by MN
I remember the trials of these two monsters.
I remember the horrific details of what they did to the victims.
And relatives are still alive.
Yet OP thinks child murder is something to joke about.

It wasn't trying to be funny, but im surprised nobody things its misogyny - she was no more abhorrent than him.

Even if Myra never existed, I wouldn’t be inspired by Hindley Earnshaw for a baby name. He was awful 😂

I wouldn’t say Brady is ‘such’ a popular name - I only know of the fictional Brady Hobbs on SATC and he was named after his dad’s surname

@kierenthecommunity I think Brady as a first name is more popular in the USA but wouldn't be considered particularly "unusual" in the UK.