'made up' names

[sparkleshine]

Was just thinking ( very dangerous).... people keep coming up with this thing with saying a name or spelling sounds 'made up'.

Afterall, isnt/wasnt every name 'made up' at some point by a parent in the past thousands of years?
Thats why we have so many of them throughout the world.

Even the unusual 'made-up' names now could be the next Sophie or Jack of the future. (Even those names would have been seen as odd and 'made up' in the past)

Just something that i was thinking about while reading posts. No offense to anyone of course if it sounds like it...it was only a quick fluuter of brain cells working overtime and had to let them free.
No need to reply

I'm inclined to agree with you to a certain extent. It seems to me that SOME people (not all by any means) also use it as a shorthand for the fact that they've either not heard of it or that they dislike it. I think it bothers me most when people deliberately re-spell a perfectly adequate name (which often has numerous variations in any case), but again, that's just a prejudice. After all, spelling only became standardized fairly recently. Shakespeare spelt his own name umpteen different ways, for example.

I think the main issue I have is that people who blatantly make up names (Di'monae is a recent one to come to mind) - clearly think their child is simply too precious to share a name with the hoi-polloi, so they foist some ludicrous original name on them, and then imagine that their name is going to take off and be the Jack/Alfie/Sophie/Emily/Chloe of 100 years' time.

Charmingly deluded, really.