Please remember these children have to grow up!!

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It is all well and good choosing a name for your darling newborn that revolves around the latest fashion or trend or just being so lazy and giving your darling little one initials or what ever but PLEASE remember that your darling little one, all too quickly will be off to school and then be taller than you could ever imagine and they won't thank you for being stuck with a really stupid name!! I work in a primary school and some of the names we see on the school registers year after year are enough to make you cringe!! Children are not stupid and please before you saddle your darling infant with something that makes you go 'wow, that's original, unique etc etc etc' remember that one day they have to go out into the real wide world and sadly sometimes the real world can be not a nice place to be, the play ground can be a tough place. Just a word of warning........

My sister is a registrar.

She has sent people away to think about it a few times. And flat out refused when she was able (there are rules re numbers etc).

But she is so professional and discreet that she won't bloody spill. [tskk]

I know a little girl called Geisha and brothers that have the initials TWAT and CLIT.

Pag - you mean your sister NEVER spills the beans. How bloody frustrating.

I could never do a job like that, I couldn't be in the police either, I would have to tell my sisters the juice details of things.

Ah people can do as they please....names, like anything else will change and develop as times move on.

Hate name judging.
OP why would you say please do this and please do that??

Nothing to do with you.

An Pag it's just soo unbelievable that regstrars would do that...unless the name is rude or offensive.

Like Twat or Nazi...otherwise...it has nohing to do with anyone.

Mine have relatively normal names...both in the middle of the top 100 but I woudn't judge or more annoyingly BEG someone to rethin their choice.

I have a suspicion that the registrar tried to do that to someone I know.

"That's nice, but what's his real name?"

"No, I mean what's it short for?"

"No really, what's his full proper name?"

"OK then..."

Friend thinks registrar didn't get it, now after pag's story I think maybe she understood completely but was trying to make a point.

Haven't their been cases from Australia where the courts have been involved in preventing some namings? Tallulah does the hula from Hawaii springs to mind for some reason.

Well in poor Tallulah's case that's fair enough!

I think the OP is getting an unfair bashing here! I can't stand all this " he's my child so I'll do what I like " - with little regard for the child's possible future feelings - what makes me laugh even more is that in most cases the people who are desperate for 'unique' names are themselves called John or Linda!!! If you want to be so bloody different then change your own name!!
And yes we do judge other peoples choices in lots of ways; when we disapprove of the mum smacking her child on the legs; when they feed them crap; when they let them play out unsupervised etc etc - we might not choose to do the same and we may well judge them. If they are free to name their DARLING something like Clit then frankly yes I am free to think they are stupid!!!

Well said mousemummy. The OP is right and everyone who says 'it's just a matter of personal taste' or 'it's nothing to do with you' is wrong. In my opinion of course.

I know a LO called Huxley and another one called Daniel. Maybe the kids in the playground, as a matter of personal taste, will think that Daniel's a silly name and take the pee out of that. What do you think?

I hope Gandalf is just a kid that likes to play out fantasy alot.

DD is rarely DD. I often have to call her 'kitty' or 'fluffy' or 'simba' depending on what animal she has decided to be for the day.

I agree with the OP as well. I can understand people not wanting to call their child the same name as every second child in the playground, but some people go waaay over the top. I think celebrities are the worst for this: Beau, Bluebell, etc. I think if you have to try that hard to be original and quirky, well, you aren't really.
My most creative and arty friend has three children called Lorna, Alice and Luke. She doesn't have to prove a point about being unusual by foisting silly names on her children.

I've never understood the "unique" argument. Surely a child us unique by the virtue of the fact that he/she exists?!

I was once advised that, when naming a child, you should ask yourself - Prime Minister or stripper?

In some countries (most of Scandanavia and France spring to mind) there is an approved list of names that you can choose fr

at Imarriedafrog and bumface.

totally agree with op. Sometimes when you spend ages on mn you get really caught up with having a unique name, but in rl children just want to fit in.

Calling them something that is hard to say/spell and even worse pigeonholes them as from a certain background is cruel.

Bluddy iPhone!

As I was saying, there is a list of approved names you have to choose from. This is a perfectly acceptable option to me: there are thousands are perfectly good names to choose from so why on earth do people feel the need to make up new names/change the spelling of existing names?

[casts mind back to reading the 2008 list of UK baby names and recalls the poor child (or possibly 2) that were named "KC" and hopes god their middle name was not "and the Sunshine Band"]

I would argue (rather ridiculously) that those who choose unique names are in the right...and those who choose boring ones will have children who get laughed at in the future...

when little Clit and Bumfaice are standing in the school yard, pointing and laughing at little Sarah and Olivia who'se going to be there to defend them?

When Gandalf and Tygerr are snickering at James and Jack where will you be? Will you be there to comfort them, "But your name was normal once darling!"

Will you mousemummy? You Swandduck?

When names such as Felaysio, Nypple and Prynsess become the norm....you'll all be laughing on the other side of your faces!

By name is Swanandduck, not Swandduck.
Swandduck is just sooooo ordinary and boring and popular.

I know...I really wish my Mum had held out for WimplelleOoofLaBally... so much more original than the boring traditional version.

I thought Mauvais was French for naughty and fess?e for bum

OK, what about this:

if your child has a unique name, they will be compeltely and totally googable for most of their adult lives.

It is amazing how much information you can get about someone who has a vaguely different name. I'd be careful.

Pranma, I put "bum face" into an online translator and it said "Mauvsis Visage". Could be a lost in translation thingy though!

PAG please please please get her tipsy enough to spill!! We don't need the parents names or surnames - just the mad things they wanted to or did use!! Please!!

Mmmm just looked at the top 100 names things - my son is not in the top 100, but is in the top three in some counties. How's that for regional variance!
My daughter barely scrapes into the top 100.

:)

hah, and our surname gets into the top 100 as a first name lol!