To be surprised at friends/family’s baby names

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

A relative of mine just called their third child Huxley. I just can’t stop thinking of “Huxley Pig” and humming the theme tune

I used to work at a private school and we had a couple of footballers children. They always had the most out there names. I’ve never forgotten Siblings called Austin & Texas that had American state as their surname

Yep, like a DN "Stopit Steven"

@KAYMACK Blanket is Michael Jackson’s son! I think he’s changed his name now though.

Well done! I couldn't remember for the life of me.

Cravat 😁

Cravat 😊

Blanket is Michael Jackson’s son! I think he’s changed his name now though.

Yes, he's now legally known as Bedspread - and has been rumoured to be considering proposing marriage to Holly Valance.

we were talking about this name at the weekend, a girl in my grandson’s class is called Nevaeh and I said it’s a made u name, he said it’s heaven spelt backwards, so I said but that’s like taking any word, spelling it backwards and using it as a name. He proceeded to come up with such names - the best was “Wobniar”.
My daughter, his Mum, is a Midwife and she says that there is another Nevaeh born on 75% of shifts and each of these parents says “it’s so unique”.

Just can’t stand Nevaeh. The Nevaeh at my DC’s school gets her name shrieked across the playground. Her Mum has one level of speaking, loud.

There were 5 with that “unique” name in one year at a school I worked in once.

Ooh Kaftan, for a boy or a girl d’you think? 😆

Apart from the ubiquity of Nevaeh (it's heaven spelled backwards, just in case you didn't know ), isn't it kind of weird taking a nice thing and putting it backwards? Wouldn't you think that was a way of shifting it 180 to the dark side?!

Maybe some Welsh parents out there might want to consider introducing the name Lleh?!

The first seven letters of Anne Hegerty's name spell gehenna backwards - spooky, no?!

Ooh Kaftan, for a boy or a girl d’you think?

Did Yoko Ono ever consider having a daughter and calling her Kim?!

Bananarama21 · 08/01/2023 19:14
Yes one of the children in the family has a ridiculous name, hes named after an item of clothing. I feel sorry for him as all the other kids in the family have normal names even his brother. When I've mentioned his name in passing to people always ask me to repeat the name.

Sorry, not read it all, but surely not noose?

Blanket wasn’t Michael Jackson’s real name, but a nickname he acquired as MJ often covered his face with a blanket to obscure his identity, including the famous window scene.

article about “ Blanket”

I know of a toddler who has the same name as a village down the road from where they live. As in first and last name. I did raise an eyebrow at that one.

Hopefully not Old Sodbury then.

Buff

I used to know a young adult Elizabeth who went by Buffy, which seemes a little odd (although clearly just a nickname); but just 'Buff' on its own. Might as well be called 'Phwooaarr!!"

sisters friend called her kid vanilla because it sounded so exotic.

Neapolita would have been far classier

they write Italian poetry?

No luckily I don't mix with scumbags, so its no daisy mae we have to come across.

Vienetta has a nice sound. Etta for short.