What did your friends call their kids and you had to stop the snort..

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I know a gemini and a leo didnt make me snort though..because I know them!

My mum called my brother Kent while they lived in ...Kent WTF??!!!

I love the name 'Fox' for a boy.

Equally though, I'm worried for the well-being of little ones with names like this because of the cut and thrust of the playground environment.
It would be a shame though if we all chose safe (boring) names for our kids to protect them from
mindless playground taunting.

yes, but there is a limit!!
and I say this in the knowledge that my own ds's name has cropped up on this thread!

a friend said she was at school with a boy called Badger in Pembrokeshire (hippy parents)

I know a boy called Otter. (hippy-sih parents)
They love the name so much. I quite like it to. But I know he's 'for it' at school.

Three of my kids have unusual names. It's a worry. I didn't try to give them unusual names but I combed the books, asked around, spent years collecting boys names and didn't like any of them sufficiently. What could we (dh and I) do but give them names we love and which have relevance to us and our union?

I did so much research and I remember talking to friends with unusual names to see how they felt about it before committing myself and my kids.

I'm really glad they have such gorgeous names and that they're likely to be the only ones with those names in any given group.

I'm not going to reveal those names to mumsnet by the way so don't even ask.
It's a very personal subject and I fear the ravages of the mumsnet pack of hounds who would feel free to rip the names to pieces.

I wonder what your ds's name is teevea. I must say there are some pretty tame names on this thread which people think are weird. It makes me even more determined to keep schtum about mine.

There was a really awful woman and her child at the McArthur Glen Outlet in Swindon the other day. The child was called Sage. I know this because she bellowed it a billion times a minute. "SAAAAAAGE. GET 'ERE OR YOU ANT GETTIN' NO CRISPS" is just one example.

The best names, though, can be found in the "They called them what?" section in Chat magazine. The most memorable of these were Tia Maria, by some shazzy bird who probably drank it all the way through her pregnancy, and a poor unfortunate little girl called Kyomi, whose mother named her after a deodorant. Nice.

I also always snigger at people called Candida. It always makes me feel a bit, well, itchy......

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Well, my son's name is Welsh, and might sound weird to those who are unused to hearing it. It's actually relatively run-of-the-mill though!

If children have enough self-assurance hopefully their name will enrich their lives, rather than be a burden.

I bet all those women called Candida were really pissed off when thrush was termed Candida in the 80's.
I would be forced to opt for 'Candy' in their situation.

When I first started going out with dp I said - isn't marie-noelle a silly name for french women -just means 'Mary Christmas', like santa's wife

he replied - that's my mum's name

still think it's a crap name though - she wasn't even born in december! she doesn't like it much herself..

How could I forget these? Friends of mine (well,acquaintances)

G has a dd called Aanayah and a ds called Dre. After Dr Dre the American rapper

R has dd called Chardonnay ds called Chase and Chance

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One of the academics in our department is an Irish man called Noel. I never thought much about it, until the day he asked me when I am due (18 December) and said, 'Whatever you do, please don't be like my parents.' Noel was born on - you guessed it - 25 December.

My Mum used to work in City Hospital in Birmingham, and she told me about a woman who gave birth to twins there and called them Dolce and Gabanna.

Also, my HV friend told me about a lady who called her DS Guthrie, after the heel prick test they do in babies.

pmsl

expat - you just reminded me, my best freind was born on christmas day, his mum wanted to call him christmas, luckily his dad put his foot down and they called him Christopher!

my dp is called pascal cos he was born easter weekend - how inspired

I think calling a child born on Christmas Day Noel is quite common actually. A friend of mine called her dd who was due near Christmas, but was born a few weeks early, Natalie. I think that is rather nice, like calling a girl born in the evening, Eve. Not that it wouldn work for me though as I always had my children's names planned out months before they were born. I can never understand those parents who named their children after the midwife or doctor who delivered them. You mean, they hadn't spent nine months thinking of a name?

There were quie a few Christmases in Wales at one time.

A friend's DD went to nursery with a girl called Kizzy-Star. (Just her first name - hyphenated!)

WHY?

What happened the March before I wonder?

Noel did not appreciate his name. He said he was picked on a lot at school b/c of it. I'm sure his folks thought it was really sweet. But kids often have a different opinion of it all, I suppose.

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