Met a baby with a brilliant name ..... [grin]

[ghosty]

The other day I met a lady with a 3 month old baby boy with a great name ....

Wait for it ....

Spike

Hands up if you would ..... (pmsl)

Ooh - where do you live arfy?

We liked Sebastian, and it would have gone well with our surname, but we thought that he would get beaten up at school!

My DS has spike as his middle name - I love it, but didn't want to go the whole hog and have it as a first name in case he turn out to be the 'sensative' type. My parents in law went totally bananas and begged us to change it saying he'd never get a job and he'd sound like a yob! We tried to explain how many 'unusual' names there are around now and that it is only a middle name, but they were not happy. Personally I think anyone who's judgemental about it is narrow minded and boring.

Actually, when I say I knew of a baby - said baby must be about 20 now! (God, that makes me feel old).

London Bony, but I could've read the name anywhere - it does rather stick in the mind!

Having unusual names is nothing new. Researching my family tree, I have great great aunts/uncles called... wait for it:

Alomas Obadiah, Alice Kaomi, Albert Napoleon, Trafalgar, Madonna Elvina, Lauretta Preselen, Joseph Levi, Mary-Ann Augusta, Ebby Rosanna. All brothers and sisters. Beat that lot!!!

fantastic!

In our local paper a few years back my mum noticed a baby named Snow you can guess what her surname was....
My mum cut it out in case people wouldn't believe her

I know a BUFFY a boy

my mum works in the library and knows a Mrs White Christmas

and a Mrs Rain in the face crow

Ds1 has a Cassius in his class and he's just lovely. Would never have the nerve personally but he's a great boy.

there was a fab announcement in the time a while back a daughter-decima a sister for..and then a list of nine names!

but can imagine it? ten kids!!!!!!!!

god no!

I looked after three sisters once, Scarlett, Amber and Jade!! and four siblings Dakota, London, Sydney and Paris - named after the place s they were conceived apparently!!!!

My Uncle Robin's surname is Hood too!!

I used to teach a brother and sister called Nike and Adidas! Another kid was called Micro. Try and keep a straight face when telling them to be quiet!

There were at least two Pocohontas's born in Dublin the year ds1 was born

I think the spiderkids are called:
Mooncup
Lentil
Starblossom
Yurt
Absinthe

pmsl trying to imagine Pocahontas in a Dublin accent!

Our youngest is Maxim Mjolnir Stanley Tiger.

Maxim cos we like it, Mjolnir because he was born at home on a very stormy night, Stanley because that is what OH wanted his baby bro to be called when asked age 12 (his mother completely ignored his suggestion) and Tiger because I like it - OH didn't much.

Tamz77 I did not snigger at Cheyanne, I just mentioned it as unusual

And I don't think people are judging the children on behalf of their names, but as lovecloud says, it's the trying too hard element that is questionable and reflects on the parents. FWIW my boys are known by the shortened versions of "boring" names and are the coolest kids on the block, but can always go back to the "boring" versions if they want to, it's the unescapability of Nike that evokes sympathy for the child.

SuzyWong, I was teaching English to Chinese children, so thankfully these were their "English" names given to them for their bushiban classes (I notice you have a chinese sounding name), so I'm assuming that they weren't direct translations!

hi kokeshi
What is bushiban?

I am a big whitey and Australian dh's family are Chinese Malaysian (I dont' think we've "met" before on M, hence the unsolicited biog ). IKWYM about Chinese speakers choosing English names; DH's cousins chose some good'uns for their education in the UK.
Our kids have Chinese names as middle names.

and before the grammar pedants jump on me I know that should have been in - escapability