Names that go with Banga ?!

[lys611]

My partner and I are expecting our first baby in September! Our only problem is his surname: Banga.
We have already decided Esther and Arthur as middle names as they're family names.
We like short sweet names for both genders and nothing too common .. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!

Responses on this thread are, like many threads on this forum, pretty racist.

Agreed. And if not racist, ignorant.

I'd go for a strong first name. The alliteration suggestion was good.
Most names will go with it.

Nina Ba*a sounds good and for some reason I'm thinking Paul Ba*a

** in case you use those names

Old..
Old Banga!!

But if you don't like the surname, why are you not taking the very obvious and traditional route of giving the child YOUR surname, as you aren't married?

Once again it's as if there is no choice at all, it's HIS surname so it HAS to be used. No it doesn't. As you're not married, he doesn't even have the legal right to register the child at all, you have to do it!

Why should his surname come first?

If you ever split, YOU'LL be the one, 95% chance, who has the child living with you.

Use your surname - it's obvious!

Responses on this thread are, like many threads on this forum, pretty racist.

I disagree in this case. OP has started this thread precisely on the premise that SHE (possibly they!) are the ones saying the surname is an issue.

And it kind of is, simply because in the UK it references a comedy word for breasts. And sausages. Nothign inherently racist about that - it just happens to have that association, surely? People in the UK are going to laugh at it and OP doesn't like the thought of it.

I used to work with a woman who’s surname was Banga. She was from India originally - as I remember her DC had traditional Indian names but with more western/UK pronoun citation friendly nicknames.

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Ed?

It's not racist. It's a translation issue! Like the MR2 car having to be called something else in France and maybe Spain because it basically meant fuck off in those languages.

I have a surname that doesn't mean anything at all (or not in English, at least) and which doesn't sound like any other word, rude or otherwise, and I still got bullied for it at school because apparently it was a "stupid" name. I have no idea on what basis it was supposed to be stupid, it's a very old regional name, but kids will pick up on practically anything they can use against each other.

I do see what people are saying, but there are some traditional British names like Longbottom and Pratt that sound pretty comical (I genuinely used to work with a Bastard, and that was her married name). At what point do you allow other people's reactions to dictate what you call yourself or your kids?

The Vauxhall Nova was Corsa in Spain because nova means won't go.

Traditionally children take their mother's name. If the mother is married then traditionally said name would also be the father's name. If the mother is unmarried, then it would be the mother's name of birth.

Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls' children are Coopers rather than Ballses.

If you do go with Banga then avoid any name which can shorten to Ed, Ned or Ted - so Edward/Edmund/Edwin/Theodore/Nathan and Nathaniel.

Avoid names beginning with A, I and U.

I would avoid William as Billy Banga is quite spectacular.

I would go with something quite classic or currently popular:

Emily Banga
Sophie Banga
Lucy Banga

A classic longer name like Elizabeth or Katharine could also work.

For boys:

James Banga
Thomas Banga
Henry Banga

A common, or classic name will balance the unusual surname a bit.

I agree about the classic longer name.
Elizabeth Banga
Henrietta Banga
Victoria Banga

Rose
Lucy
Sophia
Alice

Henry
Louis
Rex
Benjamin

I would avoid William as Billy Banga is quite spectacular.

Willy Banga or Will Banga moreso.

Ed and Mash 😂

women really? Henrietta Banga?

There's nothing wrong with the surname, it's a name. Sounds mildly humorous here, not so elsewhere.

By the way I think Billy Banga sounds like a superhero's alter ego, or a character from the Beano. I can't decide which. Bit I actually really like it.

I agree that Emily and Sophie work ok. Other suggestions, of that ilk:

Olivia Banga
Madeleine Banga
Abigail Banga
Felicity Banga
Elodie Banga
Imogen Banga
Natalie Banga
Juliet Banga
Violet Banga

Forgot the boys!

Jonathan Banga
Timothy Banga
Frederick Banga
Matthew Banga
Thomas Banga
Elliot Banga
Nicholas Banga
Anthony Banga
Dominic Banga
Alexander Banga

Gang

Etta

Like the MR2 car having to be called something else in France and maybe Spain because it basically meant fuck off in those languages.

Wasn't it because if sounds like merde in France - effectively asking people to pay very good money to drive around in a vehicle called the Toyota Poo?!

I believe Mitsubishi had the same issue with the Pajero, which they had to call Montero in Spanish-speaking countries, as in Spanish, it means, erm, somebody who conducts themselves in a solo symphony

If it is an Asian surname and you want a corresponding first name, I'd avoid Trupti. Nothing at all wrong with that normally, but with the two names together, it would rapidly get extremely tedious with people over a certain age constantly asking/singing at you and enquiring if you had a lovely time.

I too would go with a longer name

Like..
Clarissa
Claudette/Claudia
Carol/ine
Jasmine
Genevieve
Francine
Etc

I think the risk of short names like (lovely as they are encourages jokes) eg
Iva
Ada
Evie

Unless you went just for names you like..eg (not saying you like these)
Mollie
Rosie
Amy
Charlotte
Victoria
Rosemary
Honor
Honey

I’m not great on boys names

It is not racist to point out that a child living in the UK might have issues with the surname, if the first name is not carefully chosen. Personally I wouldn't want a different surname to my children though. How about Mishka, or Anushka?

Or Rohan for a boy?