John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
Children's names
- Thread starter awomaninsane
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Bodhbh
Guru
On a similar note I did know an Icelander called Thor, seems quite common over there.
In comparison our names are quite dull, I think you have to go back to the anglosaxons till they liven up again. Think I'll pass tho on calling my kid Athelstan, Woden, or Cynwulf. A dog might get it soon tho
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
- Location
- In green and pleasant hills.
On a similar note I was passing a church recently and thought Oswald a great name. There are several other saints whose names you never hear anyone called nowadays.On a similar note I did know an Icelander called Thor, seems quite common over there.
In comparison our names are quite dull, I think you have to go back to the anglosaxons till they liven up again. Think I'll pass tho on calling my kid Athelstan, Woden, or Cynwulf. A dog might get it soon tho
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
Some of us do share our names with Anglo-Saxon kingsOn a similar note I did know an Icelander called Thor, seems quite common over there.
In comparison our names are quite dull, I think you have to go back to the anglosaxons till they liven up again. Think I'll pass tho on calling my kid Athelstan, Woden, or Cynwulf. A dog might get it soon tho
Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
- Location
- Basking in my own brilliance.
A local company is owned by a Thor (English surname) I am acquainted with an Ulf and aOn a similar note I did know an Icelander called Thor, seems quite common over there.
In comparison our names are quite dull, I think you have to go back to the anglosaxons till they liven up again. Think I'll pass tho on calling my kid Athelstan, Woden, or Cynwulf. A dog might get it soon tho
Winnifred which both seem very unusual to me.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I'm just back from a presentation evening at school, and there is a wide range of names, everything from Emma, Thomas and Henry to the more unusual names: Ondine, Amber, Eoghan, Ceri, Tabitha, Leighton, Etienne, Yaqub, Shereena, Tomasz, Reide, Cole, Kianna, and Kaylem. I think when you meet someone with an unusual name it stands out but you soon get used to it, I grew up with a friend Sumani and her name didn't seem odd at all. Yes you sometimes make a judgement, just as you do by their looks or style of dressing, but often you find that first impression wasn't correct, a name is just the starting point.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
These are all common names in languages other than English (Etienne, for instance, is simply French for Stephen), and probably just reflect a large number of linguistic backgrounds among parents.
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
Were the parents so overcome with emulsion when the kids were born or something??
I was at school with a girl who's big sister was called Louise.
Nothing wrong with that and it is actualiy quite a nice name really I hear you say...... Well, yes, except that she was regularly nicknamed
'Louise The Disease'.
I knew a guy who named his cat Clamydia as he thought it was a great name for a pussy......
Don't tell us it was worse??!!
I was thinking, Cuthbert isn't a name you hear much of these days.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I know that the names are from a mixture of different origins, and not really unusual, it just stuck me at the evening the range of names, in comparison to when I was at school and most children had duplicate names in the school or even in their class. Children grow up with more and more different names around them. Maybe in twenty years the maternity wards are going to be full of Blue-moon, Sugar and Tink-Grass (sorry trying to think of names that aren't names starts getting me thinking of stupid words).
One of mine is a Xander. Yes, he really was named after Xander from Buffy the vampire slayer... I guess he should be glad though, as we already had a cat called Willow so if he'd been a girl maybe he'd have been a Buffy. The midwife commented that she'd never delivered a Xander before.
Bizarrely, there is actually another Xander in his year at school. For a year they were even in the same class.
Bizarrely, there is actually another Xander in his year at school. For a year they were even in the same class.
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
[QUOTE 3799454, member: 10119"]One of mine is a Xander. Yes, he really was named after Xander from Buffy the vampire slayer... I guess he should be glad though, as we already had a cat called Willow so if he'd been a girl maybe he'd have been a Buffy. The midwife commented that she'd never delivered a Xander before.
Bizarrely, there is actually another Xander in his year at school. For a year they were even in the same class.[/QUOTE]
Now that's just ignorant. Even Xander out of Buffy wasn't actually named Xander. I wonder how many Alexes that midwife had delivered.
Bizarrely, there is actually another Xander in his year at school. For a year they were even in the same class.[/QUOTE]
Now that's just ignorant. Even Xander out of Buffy wasn't actually named Xander. I wonder how many Alexes that midwife had delivered.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
When my kids were born we were asked by the midwife what we were going to call them, which led to a bit of a discussion around "traditional" names. She let slip that she had just delivered her first Teletubby, a Laa-Laa. Apparently the name was chosen as it was her big sister's favourite. This was in 1997, so the programme had been running about 6 months.
