Kid's names that won't make a comeback

[Blue Hills]

Never came across a Fanny for years.

Not even in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry?
Which was obviously referred to as fanny.
Not sure if it was a blind spot or mischief which led to that name.

 

[Blue Hills]

Shaun Keavney on BBC 6music has had a thing recently... trying to find a Simon younger than 35ish years of age... his theory is no one has been christened Simon since the mid eighties. I guess the same goes for a lot of names that were common place in high school in that decade.

Yes, you can often tell someone's age from names, they have fashions, often short.

On the wider theme, maybe I'm grumpy but must admit there are a fair few names which strike me as middle class poncey.

 

[raleighnut]

I used to work with a Welsh guy named John Thomas.

 

[Blue Hills]

There’s apparently a girl local to me who has been named “Unicorn”.

Yelp, seem to remember coming across that.
Bonkers.
It also has a sexual meaning.

 

[Blue Hills]

Very biblical.

Anyone who names a child after any character from the old testament had better do some deep reading research. A fair bit of that book is a horrorfest.

 

[Blue Hills]

As a teacher, i reckon kids with unusual names are teased a lot less than they were back in my day

Interesting.
Any theories as to why?

 

[User169]

Perhaps she read Silas Mariner by George Elliot. There was an Hephzibah in that, shortened to Eppie. You don't hear of many Silas's these days.
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More likely to be known from Harry Potter these days: not sure if schools still make kids slog through Silas Marner.

Classical musos would know the cellist Hephzibah Menuhin (sister of Yehudi).

 

[Blue Hills]

There was the loony neo-Nazi couple who named their child Adolf.

They were sentenced by a judge called Melbourne.

Presumably, until Hitler came along Adolf was a name that would have passed without comment.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ter-hitler-jailed-for-terror-group-membership

Ah, beat me to it pale rider.
Similarly, i would imagine Benito.

 

[Blue Hills]

My wife's a childrens nurse and she tells me she's heard some right howlers. There's twins called Blue and Pink, a girl called Chlamydia,.

Last one seems hard to believe. Absolutely sure? If true, mind boggles.

 

[otek59]

My mother swears that was the name of the baby in the bed next to her when I was born. I wonder if it was the same one?

Could well be if you were born in Leicestershire in the early fifties

 

[Venod]

Last one seems hard to believe. Absolutely sure? If true, mind boggles

Its very catchy though.

 

[Sharky]

It was fashionable to have a personalised number plate for your children's names.


So we christened our first born MVX313C

 

[bruce1530]

Last one seems hard to believe. Absolutely sure? If true, mind boggles.

I’d heard that one too, different part of the country which may make it apocryphal..,,

 

[Julia9054]

Could well be if you were born in Leicestershire in the early fifties

No - must be two of them!

 

[Julia9054]

Interesting.
Any theories as to why?

Maybe just a wider pool of names out there - especially if you take the media into account as well as the other kids they actually know