Am I the only one who thinks this name is stupid?

[heythere2022]

So, I just met a family who named their daughter Isla-Skye. Which literally sounds like Isle of Skye when you say it out loud. Am I the only one who thinks it's so odd to give that name to a baby? Or did it just catch me off guard?

Also, they were in Florida but the Dad sounded English or Australian...

@IndecentCakes

Well, yes - I've now got the urge to burst into a rousing chorus of 'Donald, Where's Your Troosers?' but whatever

I just came down from the Isla-Skye, I'm no very big and i'm awful shy....

If they are Australian they may get away with it. Otherwise it's bloody awful.

@Jemand

I've come across someone whose surname was Bridge who named their son using the name of a fairly well-known bridge. The bridge in question was quite local to them, too, so there was never any chance that people wouldn't make the connection.

Humber? Tower? Sydney Harbour?

Sorry. Not sorry.

@flapjackfairy

Funniest name i ever saw was on Say yes to the dress. A bride was called Heather and she was marrying a Mr Feather. She planned to embrace it full on . Good for her I say ! Personally I would keep my maiden name!

As long as it wasn't Weather

My friends loved the name Isla but their surname is White (not really but similar in sound) so she would have been Isla White. They decided on another name.

Isla-Skye is better than Paris, India or similar!

@HeronLanyon

tlollj yes - or maybe a ‘central register of names’ and you simply get the next in the list (maybe with a second choice if surname causes anything unfortunate). Could enter any sibling names to weed those out. Pretty sure there’s a society which has done r even does this. Bit like storm names. Makes you think !

I’ve always said this is the way it should be done. You just get the next on the list. With three joker cards so that if you absolutely detest it you can go to the next one. But no more than three times otherwise it wouldn’t work and we would be back to the crazy system we have now.

Well that’s sorted then ! Who do we contact ?

@HeronLanyon

Well that’s sorted then ! Who do we contact ?

I think we would need at least 100 signatures to make it a feasible proposal. This is what always gets in the way. It’s drumming up interest.

I know 2 sets of twins called Isla and Skye.

I've also met a Skye-Bleu and a Marie-Celeste.

Well, it certainly fails the Tesco Test.

Before naming your baby, you need to imagine how it will sound when your child wanders off in Tesco and you have to shout their name out loud.

cissy yes - we’d probably need as many as 100 but if we were ever to drum them up I’m sure we’d be thanked for having sorted this out. It’s hard being a mover and shaker, eh ?

@ProfessionalWeirdo

Well, it certainly fails the Tesco Test.

Before naming your baby, you need to imagine how it will sound when your child wanders off in Tesco and you have to shout their name out loud.

Haha I did that with my dogs name, though not round Tesco, but imagined what it would sound like in the park. Or at the vets.

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone over to Isla-Skye.

@HeronLanyon

cissy yes - we’d probably need as many as 100 but if we were ever to drum them up I’m sure we’d be thanked for having sorted this out. It’s hard being a mover and shaker, eh ?

It’s very hard yes. But once we get the first 100 on board the system will get up and running organically and without the need for our consultation and people will wonder how they ever did without it.

I was at school with an Alisa Craig (in Scotland, so in context! I also knew a Ryan Ayre). I suppose her Australian cousin would be called Aires Rock...

I think it's a bit funny but ok. Tbh u hate any name double barreled for first name. Esp ones with Mae/may sounds very chavy/red necky. I don't think the kids like it either. Often introducing themselves as only their first part of their name and cringing at their parents who insist they use the the thing.

My son's at school with both a Jack Daniels and a Jack Russell. Those you can probably laugh off as adults but I've also worked with a child called Tequila and, really, when they went to register the birth certificate, someone should have had the balls to say "Don't be so fucking silly."

Hardly anyone in Florida will get the reference.

I worked with an Ivor Hardwick

@mum2jakie

I know a Paige Turner

😁 I have joked to my husband about calling our baby Paige (we are Turners!) Can't believe someone has actually done it!

@MsMeNz

I think it's a bit funny but ok. Tbh u hate any name double barreled for first name. Esp ones with Mae/may sounds very chavy/red necky. I don't think the kids like it either. Often introducing themselves as only their first part of their name and cringing at their parents who insist they use the the thing.

You know, judging people as ‘chavvy’ based on having a double barrelled name is really poor form. I dislike this nasty habit of referring to things as ‘chavvy’ in a really unpleasant way, because generally those things you call chavvy are inextricably associated with the working classes.

I like Tia Maria 😂 if they are not from the UK Isla-Skye is fine

@DoucheCanoe

I know 2 sets of twins called Isla and Skye.

I've also met a Skye-Bleu and a Marie-Celeste.

Teaching in Coventry, I came across several Skye-Bleus (nickname for the football club for those unaware).

Maybe they have a sentimental attachment to the place. I've heard some lovely stories behind unusual names.