Top boys' and girls' names

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How come these names?

No particular reason, other than we liked them. My son was born first, and "Hawk" came mostly from chatting with a friend about what a "cool" name would be. Then with our daughter we decided she'd better have an unusual middle name too, or she'd be left out.

 

[ianrauk]

No particular reason, other than we liked them. My son was born first, and "Hawk" came mostly from chatting with a friend about what a "cool" name would be. Then with our daughter we decided she'd better have an unusual middle name too, or she'd be left out.

Fair enough & fair reason

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son number 1 middle name is Rhys named after the hero in Terminator (really!) but spelt Welsh way as half my family are Welsh.
Son #2 has two middle names John Brian after his deceased Grandfathers.

 

[stowie]

This, I promise you is the truth - I used to work in a large company where one of the accountants was called Chris Peacock. With that surname I would have hoped that the parents would have spent some time repeating any potential names but apparently not.

My daughter's middle name is Alves, which has been misheard, and written as Elvis a few times.

 

[Accy cyclist]

There's a young lad who lives near me called Eli. Him and his wife have a youngster named Seth. These are very old fashioned names to some but i prefer them to the made up names we hear of now,and the latest fashion of giving babies surnames for their Christian names!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

I must admit my parents gave me what i thought at the time the worst middle name in the world......i was given my Dad's name of Arthur ! I hated it at the time but now i love it,but boy did i get the pi$$ taken out of me at school !!!

My middle name is Elliott, old family middle name for the first born boy, but as a child in the late 70's early 80's growing up with the films Pete's Dragon closely followed by ET, I hated it with a passion for the p$$$ taking it got me. To this day my knee jerk internal reaction to hearing * puts on an ET voice* 'phoooooone hoommmeeee' is F********kkkkk oooofffffffff.

but I grew up and grew into it and my eldest sons middle name is Elliott too.

If I'm honest, I'm a bit miffed it has become more popular, I'd got to enjoy the unusualness of it.

The best/worst name I saw was in our free paper birthday column a year or so back, some poor little girl had ended up as Courtney Fish.

 

[gary r]

we named our children Oliver & Francesca,My friend allowed his small sons to choose a middle name for his yet to be born 3rd child. so the new child was named Jesse "Ace" Ace being chosen by the kids

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Think ill call my child ACE DANGER TURBO, he will be so cool......

 

[Beebo]

Think ill call my child ACE DANGER TURBO, he will be so cool......

I used to work with a guy called Hunter, he just soooo wasn't suited to his name!
If you're calling your son Hunter, you need him to grow up big and strong, with a deep voice and 5 o'clock shadow.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

I was in a childrens soft play area just before Christmas with my young daughter when I heard a chavvy kind of looking young man shouting at his daughter, she was called Lexus. It sounded ridiculous to me even considering how daft some names are these days.

Still I guess I have heard of the name Mercedes and Porsche for girls, not that I would use one. Somebody should start naming kids after shoot car makers for a change.

 

[gary r]

I was in a childrens soft play area just before Christmas with my young daughter when I heard a chavvy kind of looking young man shouting at his daughter, she was called Lexus. It sounded ridiculous to me even considering how daft some names are these days.

Still I guess I have heard of the name Mercedes and Porsche for girls, not that I would use one. Somebody should start naming kids after s*** car makers for a change.

Mercedes is an old spanish name,before the car was around

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Somebody should start naming kids after s*** car makers for a change.

Like this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kiernan

 

[Noodley]

I await the first Cycle Chat baby to be called Nobber

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Mercedes is an old spanish name,before the car was around

Thanks for that, honestly did not know.

[QUOTE 2849555, member: 1314"]Lexus is an old gender-neutral name. I like it.[/quote]

Didn't know that either, thanks again, everybody to their own, not my cup of tea though.

Like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kiernan

Lol, depends if you think Fords are shoot or not though. It's one of those surnames as a first name, but a pretty obscure one.

 

[ScotiaLass]

My lot are: Holly, William, Oliver, Rachel and Joshua.
My grandsons are called Harry, Christian and Matthew.

Guess my naming of them with (all but one) traditional names, rubbed off lol

 

[Yellow Fang]

There's a young lad who lives near me called Eli. Him and his wife have a youngster named Seth. These are very old fashioned names to some but i prefer them to the made up names we hear of now,and the latest fashion of giving babies surnames for their Christian names!

I think is used to be quite common practice to give children surnames as Christian names, but I suspect more often as a middle name and maybe only among the middle classes. The Bronte sisters' brother was called Branwell, which was their mother's maiden name. When they first published they used the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. They sound male, but I had never heard of these names before, because probably they were surnames. In Jane Eyre, Mr Rochester's first names are Edward Fairfax, Fairfax being his mother's maiden name. This probably explains why posh people often have unusual names, like Benedict Cumberbatch. I once had a colleague called Bertrand Piers, but I sometimes got confused and called him Piers Bertrand.