Do you think that you can get used to almost any name?

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No matter how strange it may appear at first?

Just thinking of people I've known with unusual names. It didn't take more than a day or two to get used to them.

Examples being a man called Fudge. Another called Elton. (I thought of Elton John for a day or two then it was just his name.) A girl called Sunday. One called London.

Does it take you long to get used to unusual names?

Nope once I've used it a few times it just becomes their name.

Probably. I knew a girl named Gold, and although we did keep singing the Spandau Ballet song it didn’t seem an odd name once I’d know her a few weeks.

Some I can never get used to and grate on me every time. Some I do get used to, but would still hate to be called/wouldn’t call a child one because although people may get used to it quickly it could always be awkward everytime they introduced themselves to someone new.

I've known LOADS of people with very unusual names and I've always gotten used to it very quickly. It's their name and that's it, surprise over.

Mostly, although I taught a King David and that took more than a bit of getting used to.

Although now I think of it I used to look after a little girl named after a game of thrones character and although I got used to it I still had occasional moments where I thought what a name to be stuck with.

Nope to me if a names ridiculous it always will be

Once I associate a name with a person it becomes that person. A name simply identifies a person. Not the other way round!

No.Some names just say 'WTF were the parents thinking?'

Pretty much.

Yes, if you see someone regularly enough you don't really think about their name anymore imo - even if it's something very unusual, it's just a word you associate with them . To me it's like the names of anything - say a "table" or "chair", you don't think about it at all imo unless it is new to you because it's a foreign language, but after regularly using the word you soon get used to it.

Yes I think pretty much any name you can get used to and just associate with that person although I think there are some exceptions to the rule when they are a bit too 'out there'

I know a girl named Happy and at first I thought it was funny but after a few days it seemed normal.

I know a Memory, a Rainbow, an Echo and an Ocean. All female.

All seem pretty bonkers every time I hear the names.

I think there are exceptions. I doubt I could ever get used to a child called Satan, for instance.......

I couldn't get used to someone being called Fudge...

People with ridiculous names will continue to meet new people throughout their lives, and have to go through the same waiting for it to grown on people process again and again.
Why do it to your child?

I reckon you're right and you can get used to it after time. Although I know a Winterbelle and
I misheard it for wind turbine the first time, everytime I see her I'm reminded of that. Also another child called Annamae which is literally pronounced animae, so I think of Pokémon.

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name. Goodness knows what her parents were thinking! The school told her that she couldn't be called that and so she had to be known by a different name.
I don't think i would ever get used to her real name.

I also asked one tiny little girl her name and in a cockney accent she said "Arthur miss" I said don't be silly that's an old mans name and then she showed me her planner and it was Arfaa. I did feel weird calling her that 😂

Does Fudge live in Cardiff?

It depends on the name.

Years ago I met a half Chinese half Danish guy who was called Orm. Orm means worm in Danish. Had he been half Chinese and half any non Scandinavian country i would have got used to it. I just never have been able to get used to the fact his dad knew he was calling his so worm (he could speak Danish too so he knew it)

However names like Precious Promise Tiare', Echo, Ransom and Snow (all people i have lnown) their names i got over the ohh weird sensation after a few days.

@tintodeverano2 - did you really say that to her? What if it had been her name?

I went to school with a girl called Cyd which I always found weird, particularly for a girl. But now when I look back and think of her I don't think about her weird name, I just think things like 'Wasn't it funny when me and Cyd did ..' whatever. You absolutely do get used to it, and then when you tell people the name in passing their reaction reminds you that you once thought it odd, too.

[quote Musmerian]@tintodeverano2 - did you really say that to her? What if it had been her name?[/quote]
Arthur?! As if.

I used to teach a girl with a horrendously racist name I though registrars were supposed to refuse to allow certain names to be registered if they were offensive?

@Kanaloa

Although now I think of it I used to look after a little girl named after a game of thrones character and although I got used to it I still had occasional moments where I thought what a name to be stuck with.

It wasn’t Khaleesi was it?

I used to get irrationally annoyed at people calling their daughters that (as it’s a title not a name, and not brilliant title either!) but having seen the last series of GoT I now just feel really sorry for the children