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've got cousins; Danny Boy and Danny Boy Jr. Not Irish, not travellers....they are vegan though, so....

Or good golfers?

Friend of mine named their daughter Emma-Leigh, which I thought was a long winded way of spelling Emily. They pronounce it exactly like Emily too. Although I do think it looks pretty when written down.

I once had three different and wrong spellings of Siobhan in one group!

A friend who worked on a maternity ward asked a very young new mum what name she was giving her baby. The mum gave the name of a deodorant and said she's heard it on TV and liked it! The 'baby' could now be on MN so I'll be discreet.

Different spellings and different pronunciations. Can be so difficult: Maia/Maya - had three in a school, 2 pronounced it one way, but the third was different.

Dove?

My name ,when abbreviated, is the same as the dog we had when I was born (he was male and I am female). When my DM was pushing me in the pram and walking the dog at the same time, I imagine it would have been quite confusing to passers by!

Yes - I have a friend who has 3 children, she insists on making up names completely. One name is okay, it sort of sounds like a real name. One isn't great. And one is absolutely awful, to the point that I actually couldn't believe she was being serious when she announced it.

Another friend of a friend named her boy/girl twins a boy's name and then the same name with an A on the end for the girl. And it's not a name like Paula that that's common for. So their names are like James and Jamesa or Samuel and Samuela.

A friend who worked on a maternity ward asked a very young new mum what name she was giving her baby. The mum gave the name of a deodorant and said she's heard it on TV and liked it! The 'baby' could now be on MN so I'll be discreet.

To be fair, most of the users on here are in the same position - commonly known as 'Mum' (well, I assume that; can't be absolutely 'Sure'!)

Friends and family - no all seem to have great taste

Some colleagues however - crikey!

I'm always surprised that so many people here in NZ call their son Cain. I'm not religious, but he was the first murderer in the Bible!

I'm always surprised that so many people here in NZ call their son Cain. I'm not religious, but he was the first murderer in the Bible!

Yes, it's an odd choice, isn't it - he killed a quarter of the world population!

Snood?

Impulse?

Lynx?

Vaseline?

Mitchum? 😂

A bit outing but I’ve met three as adults whose names are ok but dodgy With their surnames added on:
Cosima who’s surname is Pratt, Paul whose surname is Hiscock
and Robin whose surname is Banks.

That's my favourite quiz question 😀

I knew a mum at a playgroup with a Rupert and a Teddy. I often wondered what she would choose if she had a third, Paddington, perhaps, or Yogi?

Cravat?

Did we actually establish that it was Cape, or is it yet tbc? I'd been hoping for Medallion. I really hope it wasn't anything to do with those studded leather dog collars that pervs characters wear.

I suppose it could have been 'Ring' as in the old Elvis song - but I always thought that either Elvis must have had a gigantically humungous ring (fingers like marrows) or otherwise his lover had a teeny-weeny little humming bird-sized neck. Nowhere in the lyrics does it ever suggest that the ring would be on a chain around her neck!

I STILL, decades after the fact, marvel that Frank Zappa (musician and artist...you should SEE his art! Very interesting!) named two of his children "Moon Unit" (girl) and "Dweezle" (boy). And that the founder of the Lear Jet Corporation named his only daughter "Shanda." Can you imagine the jokes about "swinging from the Shanda Lear" that she had to put up with?

LOL, that said, my Elder Spawn, now 41 years old, STILL tells people, when in my company, "My name is Dammit, Drew, right mom?"

I have a teddy, not an Edward either, but she’s named after a family member. All my kids are, and there are a few!

I once bumped into an ex sister in law of my sister in law, she introduced me to her kid, who I shall rename alexis, for her own bloody good, like this “and this is Alexis (insert unspeakable made up name) A L E X I S…” spelled it out like it was one sentence, name followed by spelling, I just replied ‘that’s gonna get old quick…’ and left.

“and this is Alexis (insert unspeakable made up name) A L E X I S…” spelled it out like it was one sentence, name followed by spelling, I just replied ‘that’s gonna get old quick…’

In the same way that nobody is ever just called Nevaeh, but "Nevaeh - it's heaven spelled backwards!!"

I know someone who is a teacher and her 2 DDs have very pretty, but unusual names. It's probably because they come into contact with so many children that it is difficult not to associate a name with someone else, such as "Nope, I know a £%#& in class 7 and they are a real pain!"

Medal?