To be surprised at friends/family’s baby names

[AllyCatTown]

Anyone else been surprised at what people in their lives have called their children?

I think Serena could be a nice name, but in the accent local to here, where all the vowels are eeeeeeeelongaaaaated, it doesn't sound so good. SerEEEEEEEEEEEEnuuuuuuuuuh!

Beret? Tie (Taidgh maybe?)? Woggle?!

I know one of these... wonder if it's the same one or if there are two?

It’s got to be socks.😂

Taigh pronounced Tie

I was hoping it was Incontinence Pants but I see it’s something you wear round your neck so I think it’s Cravat

Lol. I also have a cousin once removed named Hades!! I also wish I were joking. 😂

Choker?

There’s two instances in my life I can think of, one very recently and another close relative many years ago. Both chose perfectly ordinary names but I was taken aback as the style is so different from what I’d thought they would choose.

I know a Tigh, pronounced Tie.

You watched Your Christmas or Mine? didn't you?

Cravat !!!!

Choker, Noose?

Well…. my neighbours called their gorgeous baby girl, Luna-Saturday…. Yes it is double barrelled 🙈 but i have a worse one… apologies if anyone has a child with this name but a girl in my class at school, a child of the 80’s was called Blue September. Now I know, you are imagining hippy parents. Nope, daddy was a solicitor and mummy was a teacher. 🤣

Snood????

That’s not the problem with Pollux!

I have a Raymond. Goes by Ray usually. I think it’s increasingly difficult to find names that are unusual but not too weird.

There was a female character in Bates Motel called Bradley so depending on when she was born perhaps they got the name from there? It ran from 2013-2017.

A former classmate named her kid Heaven-Leigh

The cringe factor was painful

Picked a double-barelled 'clever' excruciatingly tacky name but just calls her Hev anyway. Never once heard her call out her DDs full name. I presume she's realised it's awful said out loud but likes to cling to 'aren't I unique and trendy' so never changed the poor kids name. And now it's far too late.

Cuff??

Hoodie?

Well, I'm guilty of giving my own kids unusual names - but only the middle ones.
They are medieval, if you're interested. But the first names are reassuringly normal.

It's hard as a teacher as pretty much every name brings to mind a child you've taught.

So many get vetoed that you kind of end up having to go a bit off piste!

Very working class, black country town. School technically in a deprived area. So no, no gentry here lol

Please let it have been Lysander. He was my favourite Jilly Cooper character too.