Kid's names that won't make a comeback

[kapelmuur]

Didn't the Queen have a race horse trainer called Richard Head?

 

[slowfen]

where I work, in the lessons there is a kid called Alexa

 

[Profpointy]

was Rupert EVER a serious name?

(well since Prince Rupert)

I dimly remember someone in the background at university who was a Rupert - it was a university where some who had failed to get into Oxbridge consoled themselves with.

I gather "Rupert" is the slightly disparaging term for a junior army officer of limited capacity from a particular social background

 

[cyberknight]

When I was at a soft play area ages ago with my daughter, there was a young woman shouting for her daughter that was called Lexus. I've never heard that before, sounded crazy to me, but I'm old...

In daughters class theres a girl girl Aprillia .........

 

[clid61]

Our son when born in 1993 , we named Eden very unusual at the time Guess there will be still quite a few still in the future

 

[Mr Celine]

When I was at skool the head of the chemistry department was Norman Conquest.

 

[Blue Hills]

The bbc had (maybe still has) a reporter called julia caesar. Maybe her parents thought they were striking a blow for gender equality but still seems bonkers to me. She must have faced continuous double takes. I know i had to rub my ears the first time i heard the handover, then my eyes to peer for a screen subtitle.

 

[robrinay]

When my son Joe was just a bump on his mums tum, Ken; a family friend asked our three year old daughter Charlotte what would be a good name for the baby. She had us all in stitches when after some thought she said ‘Lampo’. When Ken got his breath back he asked if she might suggest a middle name ‘Cooper’ was the response. So the bump became widely known as Lampo Cooper.

 

[robrinay]

I came across a few old fashioned names when I was teaching including Tyrone, Theophilus, and I heard from a colleague that he’d taught a lad called Dwayne Pipe and another called Richard (Dick) Head (didn’t believe him though).

 

[Beebo]

When I was at skool the head of the chemistry department was Norman Conquest.

My lecturer at uni was Dick Goodenough.

He should have been in a Carry on film

 

[Pale Rider]

A few people around here have the name Keegan, often as a middle name.

They will have been born in the mid-90s when Wor Kev' was pulling up trees at the Toon.

Trans: Kevin Keegan was doing well at Newcastle United.

 

[Dirk]

I met a girl in the 80s called 'Ming'.
Her surname was D'Nasty.
This is not fictitious.

 

[Blue Hills]

I met a girl in the 80s called 'Ming'.
Her surname was D'Nasty.
This is not fictitious.

Sure she wasn't trying to scare you off a blundering approach and that she was really merciful?

 

[Mrs M]

Hopefully seen the last of Euphegenia and Cornelius

 

[Rusty Nails]

There was a boy I knew from the students union bar at Cardiff University in the 60s called Nimrod Ping.

I've never seen him since but I've always remembered and been jealous of that name.