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*Judgementalness alert* Worst DC/sibling names you've ever heard.

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DancesWithWoolsEnPointe · 19/11/2012 20:56

I know someone whose daughter and son are called Paris and Troy. Really! Aside from being utter rubbish, I mean, if we are going with mythology Paris is a boy not a girl, and Troy is a place not a person! Its Paris and Hector surely? Or Troy and Mesopotamia?

So can you top that? Go on, I could do with a laugh.

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CheerfulYank · 23/11/2012 04:56

I'd love to use Lumi as a middle name for a daughter someday...it's Finnish for snow and I think it'd be gorgeous on a winter baby. Where I grew up the Finnish culture is still quite evident, even several generations down the line. :)

I am having a spring baby and have tried like mad to find a Finnish word that could pass for a name and means anything spring related: rainbow, robin, etc, etc, but to no avail. :(

CheerfulYank · 23/11/2012 05:08

Though Lumme is close and means waterlily....

mathanxiety · 23/11/2012 05:29

I have brother and sister cousins named Michael and Michelle.

Alisvolatpropiis · 23/11/2012 07:57

Cheerful I wouldn't have held it against you if you had been called Brynn...I'd have just cried a little bit inside! Grin

There's a college called Bryn Mawr that's women only isn't there?

goralka · 23/11/2012 08:09

it means 'Big Hill' in Welsh

TheWholeEnchilada · 23/11/2012 09:45

When I was 5-7 we lived near a set of quints - I can't remember the fifth name but four of them were Christa, Charla, Chanda and Charles.

And my best friend's mum grew up with 6 sisters who were ALL named Mary! Yes, it was a catholic family. BF's mum was the eldest so she was the only one that was called Mary. The others were called Mary + their middle name...ie. Mary Margret, Mary Elizabeth, Mary Louise, etc. (There were also 8 boys in the family but there wasn't a pattern to their names.)

TheWholeEnchilada · 23/11/2012 09:53

And this is outing me, but my Southern American step-mum and her sisters are Bobbie Sue, Betty Jane, Bonnie Marie and Billy Marion! They are really a lovely bunch of smart, interesting women except for the one who has recently gone all crazy religious and sort of scares me with her righteousness!

Bettyintheburbs · 23/11/2012 17:10

O'Neil and She-Neil, brother and sister

Bettyintheburbs · 23/11/2012 17:11

Also a few years ago in Fiji, there was a little girl called Princess Margaret .
I thought she was royal at first Blush

LilBlondePessimist · 23/11/2012 21:19

Sorry, but has no one else noticed that 'Elodie Disney Sparkle' reads like, well, like she's actually a bit dull? Or is that my Scottish slang roots coming out in me? Sorry, as you were.

BikeRunSki · 23/11/2012 21:59

enchilada I know a family where all the men are called Charles. There is then a complicated system of who has which nn, who uses their middle name. I manage one of them, he lives in the same town as his not-unlarge family, and has twice been called to.his dad/brother's dental check up!

Frikadellen · 23/11/2012 22:08

I used to know a couple in Germany who had 2 daughters called Porche and Mercedes.

My cousin has Nicolas, Sarah and Filuka I actually like Filuka now I have heard it several time but I was a bit open mouthed (having expected something more like Mary or Catherine) when I heard it first.

Viviennemary · 23/11/2012 22:10

Wayne, Kyle and Toby are all dire. And Maddison for a girl is dreadful. I don't like shortened names either. And cute double names. Maysie Boo and so on.

mathanxiety · 23/11/2012 22:18

WholeEnchilada, I knew sisters named along those lines too: Mary Pat, Mary Beth, Mary Jo and Mary Kay.

I have a family of cousins with eight boys and two girls and all the boys have the middle name Mary. The two girls also have some form of Mary incorporated into their names.

Dragonwoman · 23/11/2012 22:43

My mother traced her family tree & her great-grandparents had 12 children - 10 boys & 2 girls. You would think that they would have plenty of girls names to use after naming all those boys. The girls were Jane Mary and.......Mary Jane! I know most people used unimaginitive names back then, but still!

CheerfulYank · 24/11/2012 03:23

Alis it's just as well I wasn't; I married a man whose surname is Brick. Brynn Brick just wouldn't have cut it really. :)

PurplePidjin · 24/11/2012 04:00

Aston and Astyne

Karma and Chakra

Both twin sets. Yes, i judged didn't let it affect how i spoke to them though

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Notafoodbabyanymore · 24/11/2012 09:03

I went to school with a family whose surname was Whitehead. The children were called Jermaine, Dinane, Marlin, Inane and Dwayne. (Not sure of the spelling on these...) Marlin broke the pattern because her dad caught a huge marlin the day she was born.

Heard of twins called Pacman and Tetris.

Also heard of a family whose children were all named after alcoholic drinks (Brandy, Sherry etc)

My dad knows a couple with the surname Peacock. Son called Drew.

HavingALittleFaithBaby · 24/11/2012 09:33

On holiday this summer I heard a Mum call out Cornelious, where's Barnaby? :)

I also have distant family where Janet and John had Jemma and Jane. Janet and John divorced. She remarried - to Steve. Who had kids called Jordan, Jodie and Jade! Hmm

winkle2 · 24/11/2012 09:48

Frankella, Floyd and Flavia!!

BoyMeetsWorld · 24/11/2012 14:15

Used to know 3 siblings called Sophie Starlight Smith, Chloe Sunset and Aidan Storm

MadameOneSword · 24/11/2012 14:27

My daughter goes to school with a d'vine, siblings all follow a pattern of d- names there's d'loris, d'lilah and d'angelo thennnnnnn there's the youngest.....d'david!!! Where did that d come from!!!!!!

BliztenShitzinURWheelieBin · 24/11/2012 14:28

faith must have been mumsnetters!