to ask what is wrong with ordinary baby names and spellings?

[FlappyTheBat]

Ok, why do people have to have outlandish names for their children?

Or choose a name that has a completely differentmadeup spelling, so that their child will spend their entire life going "oh no, it's spelt xxxxxx"?

Is there some sort of hierarchy of baby names?

What is wrong with ordinary and easy to spell names?

I'm sure that some people must go out of their way to find the most obscure name possible and post it on mumsnet, just to see what the reaction is!

Fascinated to read that someone else knows of a person with a daughter called Nevaeh, can't believe there would be that many around... and the people I know made it up on their own.

A NZ teacher friend had (in the same class) Cello, Qantas and Porsche - don't even ask about the 'correct' spellings, but unusual names are pretty common in the South Pacific where parents choose english inspired names as opposed to names from their own culture because they think they are helping their children get ahead, Foodtown, Woolworths etc.

The pronunciation of my name was made up by my parents and turns out to be the male pronunciation in italian, which prompted howls of laughter from italian flatmate.

ah, but I got howls of lughter in Japan cos apparently my name means 'plate'

My name is a v boring commmon 70s one - not Claire, begins with S...

My name is pretty boring and quite common (altho it is one of those that was orig a diminutive, then became a name in it's own right, which annoys me.)

BUT it was only when I met dh, who is Greek, that I found out it means 'rabies' in Greek. Hurrah.

adair - sharon by any chance

i also know of a neveah - irish

and i had a jo king in my class at school - shes married now

dare i say that her brother was called wayne

yes seriously - theres a 40yr man called wanking - walking about - rofl

I had a naughty boy in my class called Gaylord, in France the d is silent. It was a horrible class and it really cheered me up to say " sit down Gaylord" or " be quiet Gaylord", made the lesson much easier. Sorry Gaylord.

(Blondes, nope - think Thin Lizzy song, red haired royalty...)

madamearcati Mon 26-Oct-09 10:35:41 Add message | Report | Contact poster

"Cory I tink that the first Oscar may have been before 1990. Ever heard of Oscar Wilde ?"

didn't my earlier post make it clear that I was aware of the earlier spate of Oscars:

"Oscar (out of some pseudo cult work of fake folk origin)"

I've even read bits of MacPherson

sarah then - nearly right

The most outlandish names I can remember (from babies born last year) were:

Princess-Vanessa (yes, hyphenated too)

Nevaeh-Lleh (Heaven and Hell backs and hyphenated)

One of my dds has a fairly unusual name, but it is easy to spell and has an everyday shortening.

Friend's SIL named her daughter Mali, I thought that was somewhere to go on holiday?? Or is it a real one, just from outside the UK

Is this thread still going? Thought of it when I met someone's DDs yesterday.

What about people who take an existing name and change one letter of it (so it sounds different, not just spelt different). I just met a mum with two DDs: Tianca and Briannah.

So they're going to spend their whole lives saying, 'No, not Bianca, Tianca, spelt... '

I'm a secondary teacher and have the problem of lots of children with the same name spelt slightly differently. E.g. Abi, Abby and aby. Ciaran, kieran, kieren, kieron. Harry and harri.

On top of this is the Polish variations and if those some have polish spelling that want English pronounciation!
I.e. Dawid and david, jakub and Jacob. Michael and michal.

Can't we go back to simpler times of Emma and Charlotte Simon and James?

Apologies for lack of capital letters. Although most children I reckon about 60% seem to have done away with capital letters for their names.

This is the second very old thread brought back to life by kandyutt. WHY ???

Midnight, kandyutt has posted the same message on a couple of really old baby name threads. Just looking for a reaction, I think.

X-posts!

Actually this is my first time on here I'm sorry. And ps my children lobe there names.

It's they're by the way

their to be correct

Haha at least your amusing.

This one is even worse- it is well over five years old!!