Why the fashion for stupid names.

[ceecee32]

Can someone please explain to me why on earth there is the need to saddle your poor children with a stupid name which will affect them for the rest of their life.

Is there a competition somewhere to have the most ridiculous thing that can be thought of.....why???

My nephew has such a naff name. Its 2 USA towns. Hyphenated. His mum wanted the names. I also know a couple of 'Nevaeh's' ... for God's sake

I see 'Xavier' mentioned on similar threads. Curious as to why this is deemed a naff name? Its my dad's name and quite common in my home country actually. I dont get what the problem is with it here.

MistressDeeCee I thought it was quite common too. Very popular in Latin countries too. And Professor X makes it even cooler. sighs

StJohn just confuses me. Why did/do people feel the need to add Saint to the start and then pronounce it differently?
Surely it's no different and possibly even more stupid cause the pronunciation is different than Saint West?
misses entire point of thread. this has bugged me since 3men and a little lady and also Jane Eyre

I have a Xavier. He's amazing

With xavier most people pronounce it za-vi-heir or zay-ve-a which are both lovely names, occasionally you get a sha-vier which I'm less keen on but it's common in French and Portuguese speaking countries.

But you occasionally come across an x-zavier or ig-zavier which is just .

X Men are to blame for X-Zay-V-Er. Grrrr.

Adore the Italian pronunciation / posh English of Za-vie-aire but not post enough here aha

Za-ve-a drives me potty

Its not just first names - its surnames also that parents put to associate 'trauma'

Look at 'North West' and others....

3 chardonnays all with different spellings. If you are going to call your child after a variety of grape then at least toddle down to tesco and read the label.

Chardonay
Chardonnay
Chardonae (may have been nn- cant recall)

When I rule the world you will be allowed to use 3 different types of names. All names must show a reference to a previously used name with spelling .

1. Names that are, or have been historically, in use in the country you are living in.
2. Names that are, or historically have been, in use in any country or culture you can claim ties to (standard of evidence: it must be a country your family has ethnic or national links to, you can't call your daughter Karma because you went on holiday to India once).

The historical rule should allow resurrection of nice flower, jewel, and biblical names while allowing for a bit of quirky naming by the character you're hoping for (e.g. Endurance) but would disallow naming after random environmental features (I was at school with a Stone in the 70s but I'm not allowing that either).

1. IF and ONLY IF using a last name as a first name is common in your country of origin (e.g. Scotland) you may do this. Standard of evidence may be higher - if it's only acceptable to use family names in this way for example.

I'm not a monster though - middle names, knock yourself out.

drspouse can you tell DH to let me have Lilleth Arabella please?

I think it's Lillith but if you've got a citation for your spelling, I'll rubber stamp it.

Nah just sleep deprivation. Its the name I request formal permission for oh great leader cost DH said no. I stand by your correction haha

For my fake twins I'm planning to use Girl - Colubery Protasia and Boy - Rabbidge Derrick.
Both names with documented historical use in the country I currently reside

Nice creative ideas there.

Our DCs have family names, both English, we live in England. Both outside the top 100 when they were born (something like 23 in the country of DD's the year she was born).
We've clearly started a trend though as they are BOTH now in the top 100. DD's must have been number 756 or something less than 5 years ago. People have been name stalking me.

Momma good luck! Going by mine, they'll be top 100 once people hear them.

The spelling is Lilith.

DrSpouse is running the world Mike , they get the final say aha

Our sobs name is on a bloody upward swing too grrrr

I once had to care for a child whose middle names were Railway Station because that is where she was conceived. I refrained form asking full details. Thankfully her first name was (relatively) normal.

Nice creative ideas there

Nothing creative about them. Real historical names. If you don't know what is and isn't genuine then you can't decide what is allowed

Just illustrating that 'proper' documented historical names aren't always good.

I am pretty sure that when my name was decided no one could know it was to become possibly the most unpopular name on Mumsnet!

I grew up with best friends who were twins called Bubbles and Pebbles. They had an older sister called Cleopatra and a younger brother called..... Ian!!!

I distinctly remember being very jealous of their "cool" names and wishing I was called something more exciting.

Pebbles has stayed Pebbles but Bubbles now calls herself Bea and Cleopatra uses her middle name - Marie.

There was a Pebbles at my DC1's school but she left before he started.
Creative can include thinking up unusual ways to research real names. It doesn't necessarily mean making them up. It may mean not just names you've heard currently or that are in your family.

It always just amused me that the parents had gone to such extra effort for the girls, then settled on ian for the boy!