Names

Looking at the names of Jamie Olivers children you do wonder how it will effect them growing up. Still each to their own as they say. Taking my grandson to a park this summer, we were in the paddling pool when a young mum called out, Willow, Princess, Lexus.........i waited to see and two boys and a girl came running. Who would name their child after a car? Oh wait, yes i remember a girl called Porshe........

Well I could think of a lot of names that should not be used.

The worst offence IMO is using really silly spellings of a name that can be spelt very easily.
As in NanaandGrampys example of Sienna being spelt Xeyenna.
It is pointlessly pretentious. You would have to spell it out for everyone every time, and explain how to pronounce it. That is quite a burden for small children.

My grandsons both have very short names DGS1's has four letters and DGS2 has three.

Teachers and social workers etc have been known to keep lists of the more outrageous names. Unprofessional probably. but no more than we do on here.

I few years ago there was a fashion for names made from Initials. PJ BJ and any other similar contruction you can think of.

I did encounter the name Crimea but I never found out what gender the child was. It made me think of all the other wars and battles you could call a child.

Well I have a fairly unusual name- Nicolette- my sister is Adrienne, although my brothers have more usual names. I think it has made me prefer slightly different names. My daughters are Candy, Amber and Finette and I'm happy that they've continued in the same vein with Phoenix, Forrest and Brody. I never liked the idea of having friends with the same name, although I wouldn't want really weird names. My husband did suggest 'Armitage Shanks' for our youngest because of where she was conceived!

When I was filling in the school.admissions forms a mum informed me that her son's name was Dijon. 'Oh, named after the town in France?' I said. 'No, after the mustard'.

I know of a family whose children are Tarka and Ossian and of another with an Axel.

Serial!

....or a General in the army, or a serail killer?

glamma.... perhaps he became an elephant trainer?

Yes but this was 'wall to wall' if you will forgive the pun! Plus all over the pavements.Next time we will go at a quieter time, it was as if all the inhabitants of East Yorks had crammed in to Whitby that day, with the express wish of eating fish and chips al fresco and much as I love fish and chips ( only have them on holiday usually as we don't live near enough to a shop) if was very off putting.

DS2s friend at school many years ago was called Hannibal I often think how that boy got on in his career and managed his name.

I knew of a boy who was called Jenson because his dad had always wanted one. (Or is it Jensen?)

Nothing like sitting on the sea wall eating fish and chips rosesarered

Mind you, Whitby had a lot of people sitting everywhere, walls, even the pavement and noshing fish and chips from paper bags.Not a pleasant sight.

I think that Bridlington was always the more downmarket sister to Scarborough, but staying near Scarborough last year, it seemed much as it was 50 years ago ( Peaseholm Park, still there.) But, oh dear, Bridlington was a disappointment.Yes, Brid had a good beach, but seemed very depressing, and a lot people supping out of bottles(not babies. )

Up until reasonably recently children in France were only allowed to be named after a saint - that was considered the way to protect the child.

The beach at Brid is lovely but the town is now very sad.

The south beach at Brid is still lovely Christine.

Rosesarered regarding the Scarborough & Bridlington comment, I lived and went to school in Brid for several years and remembered it with affection. However I went back a couple of years ago and was so disappointed, it was dirty, lots of tacky shops and generally far from the place I remembered. I know our memory plays tricks as time goes on but even so ......

My great-nephew is called Lyle and when his sister was expected DH suggested she should be called Tate (she wasn't!).

It is difficult for children who have middle names that begin with a vowel as you can make words from the initials - and some times not what you planned! I should know!!!!

Someone I know was named Caesar even before birth, because of his planned Caesarian arrival. His little brothers had to have names that came up to that standard, of course.

My neighbour's first son was named Ross, her second was referred to as Cromarty until he was born.

Pigglywiggly

Isla Wight?

Elegran GD is called after the Scottish island, her daddy's preferred malt comes from there

Islay would have been OK.