Raydon - boy or girl?

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303828/Couples-shock-baby-girl-named-Raydon-registered-BOY-birth-certificate.html

Oh dear, a baby girl had been registered as a boy due to an unusual name. I do think it sounds masculine.

I think it sounds like washing powder.

it also sounds like a poisonous gas (radon)what were they thinking?

Or synthetic fabric
or dangerous radioactive gas..

dont think they were finking.at all

Naa incapabel of finking.. I, errrr fink!

Raydon is the ugliest name I have ever heard. It sounds like a treatment for warts.

It's not a nice name for a girl!

This is yet another example of the Jayden effect.

I cant believe that it took them a week to spot the mistake!! There isnt that much info on a birth certificate- idiots!

Radon is a cancer-causing gas. Poor kid.

That is, I'm sorry to say, the ugliest-sounding name they could have come up with, whether for a boy or a girl. Let's hope they chose a middle name. Any middle name.

I used to know a girl called Raye back in the day ..I always thought it was kind of a cool name ..

Hmm,
UK Raydon = boy
US Raydon = girl

Not Rae? I quite like Rae. But Raydon? Dear God!

Did they not check when asked? My little girl has a name that many (of the older generation) consider to be a boy's name, although it can quite correctly be either. I checked very carefully. They don't sound very bright...

They think the only mistake is that the registrar got the gender wrong?

I can't say I'm surprised about the pink thing though. I've taken DD out in a very pinkish red top with a frill, trousers with flower detail and pink socks and been told how lovely he is.

...and she's a delicate wee thing - not a big bruiser.

it's a hideous name. If they had wanted to give her a name to honour the grandfather then Raye is quite pretty. It sounds like they wnated to honour 2 grandfathers Raymond and DOnald and combined the 2 together.

I don't think it was because of the name was it, just a typo from the sound of it. For once I am chortling rather than getting enraged by DM comments - particularly loving "You really are trying to turn the English language into stupidity aren't you?"

I also thought washing powder. And I now have the jingle from the Calgon ad running through my head.

I was thinking washing powder too!

When we went to register DS, the info the registrar had from the hospital had him down as a girl. He has three VERY unmistakably male names. I think that was more down to stressed, overworked midwife, dealing with the mid-September rush!

Raydon is a poisonous gas.
Idiots.

in scotland registrar can refuse daft names.maybe weee raydon could have been saved

If you scroll down through the comments on the article, poor Mum of Raydon is defending her name choice.
Raydon is their derivative of Raymond, babys grandfather.

Feel a bit sorry for them they have had a right flaming, like lambs to the slaughter for the DM

how are they lambs to slaughter?more like the liked they attention.no one compelled them

I can just see the DM, oh yes we'll print your story about this terrible mistake....whilst laughing up their sleeves knowing we would all be taking the piss out of stupid name choice.