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The new Sharon and Kevin?

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lumpasmelly · 08/12/2009 16:32

Just wondering what all you MNers think are going to be the new "Sharon/Kevin" type names for our kids generation (i.e. names that will become dreadfully common in the future, and the subject of sketch show stereotypes!)

BTW - please don't take offence if you are a Sharon or a Kevin....there are lots in my family and none of them are common, but they DO get a lot of stick for their names!!!

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sweetkitty · 09/12/2009 12:37

In DD2's small nursery class there are 2 Evie's, one Eve and one Eva, very confusing.

I think anything that smacks of trying too hard, made up names, different spellings etc

teameric · 09/12/2009 12:42

Just out of curiosity what are everyones DC's names then? so we can slag them off

Bucharest · 09/12/2009 12:44

I think this thread will be OK as long as people don't start with "well my son is called and we're ever so posh"

Anything hypenated or kre8iv is the answer to the question, with the -ie names of both sexes in second place.

The absolute ne plus ultra however would be
I think Kaden and Ellie-Mae.

GetOrfMoiLand · 09/12/2009 12:50

My dd is called Sophia and I am ever so posh fnar fnar.

GetOrfMoiLand · 09/12/2009 12:51

And who the frick calls their son Lee-Jay (sorry if I have offended anyone, but seriously you deserve it anyway).

MerryXmasMrsHenry · 09/12/2009 12:51

Well my son is called Floyd StJohn Algernon Simpus and we're ever so posh.

MerryXmasMrsHenry · 09/12/2009 12:52

x-posts Get Orf! And what's wrong with Lee-Jay? Or Pee-Jay? Dee-Jay? LL-Cool-Jay?

teameric · 09/12/2009 12:53

can't believe people get so snobby about other peoples kids names. Fucking ridiculous

sweetkitty · 09/12/2009 12:57

Well according to MN or some MNers

DD1 has a common boring name

DD2 chav

DD3 is a slang teenage term for fanjo

Will soon be asking for "advice" re naming DB4 or maybe not!

As long as YOU love the name sod everyone else

RnB · 09/12/2009 12:59

i quite like StJohn

Bucharest · 09/12/2009 13:00

It's not snobbery, I like to look on it as communtiy service.

If one hideous name can be forever consigned to the Kevin and Sharon bin, my work here is done.

"How can some people be so defensive about other people's opinions of the names they have chosen. It's fucking ridiculous"

BalloonSlayer · 09/12/2009 13:02

"I have a cousin Tracy thus named because her mother thought High Society was really classy."

  • that's why the name Tracy became popular, bellisima, because of "High Society." The character Tracy Lord (?) was beautiful, rich, well bred and ice-cool. The name was the epitome of class at the time.

Tis actually a nice name, IMO.

teameric · 09/12/2009 13:02

it is snobby and a bit insulting really

bellissima · 09/12/2009 13:20

Balloon - I know! That and the smart Diana Rigg character in the mid-sixties Bond with wotsisname the unsexy Aussie. I was only trying to point out that names that are subsequently sniggered at have perfectly good origins.

bellissima · 09/12/2009 13:22

PS - but I suppose it is an object lesson in the dangers of calling your child after a movie character you admire.

5inthesleighbed · 09/12/2009 13:27

Liam is quite a popular name in my area. I know 7 of them, aged between 1 and 6. Also, Owen and Alfie are equally "common". My 3 ds' have names that are probably boring in the eyes of MN'es, but I don't give a hooping funt about it. Someone's Sebastian is another womans Jack.

countrybump · 09/12/2009 13:44

I can't believe I've wasted my time reading this thread, all a bit snobbish and insulting really.

(countrybump flounces off to round up Archie, Alfie, Evie, Ellie and Kayden to go and do a suitably posh activity.)

teameric · 09/12/2009 13:50
Hmm
MaggieNollaig · 09/12/2009 13:54

Ruby and Alfie.

But, it won't matter so much in 30 years. People use more names now, so no ONE name will have to take the abuse.

I would have hated to have been called Sharon or Tracey but my parents weren't very imaginative with names. I could have been.

MaggieNollaig · 09/12/2009 13:59

bellisima, i've been questioning why i was so determined to find unusual names for my children. Well, outside the top 100 anyway. I didn't want tat in card shops to bear the name I chose for my children.

This year i bought christmas tree baubles with the names of my nieces and nephews, and i just wished and wished and wished that i could buy some for my own children.

i got some made at a craft fair though...

pandaseyes · 09/12/2009 14:00

Alfie and Jayden

Ellie and Madison

MaggieNollaig · 09/12/2009 14:05

sharon and tracey as a name only became a liability post-viz

up til then, i suppose people might have registered, 'another sharon, there are posher names' but pre-viz, i don't think it was a stigma.

it'll be the same for all the alfies, rubies etc etc... it will entirely depend on who in the media or public eye turns a name into a laughing stock.

catherine tate made lauren a bit embarrassing (sorry to mums of laurens). but if some wannabe abi titmuss type comes on the scene and she happens to be called Eloise or Imogen, it might (might) tarnish those names slightly.

It is just so hard to see into the future I think

hattee · 09/12/2009 14:07

No, not Ruby! I don't have a Ruby by the way, but it's a lovely name in my opinion. I agree it's very popular and is definitely a name of the noughties, but I don't think it will be seen in the same light as Kevin, Sharon and Tracey in years to come

newpup · 09/12/2009 14:09

Archie/Liam/Finn

Ellie/Evie/Grace

pandaseyes · 09/12/2009 14:16

I don't think Ruby will be the next Sharon either. Nor will Grace, Joshua, Finn, Evie or Archie. They may date, but not in a naff way. They'll date more like Sarah, Marie, Claire, Emma, Mark, Stephen, Andrew, Robert, Peter etc