Top boys' and girls' names

[Yellow Fang]

According to a survey:
http://www.guardian....n-oliver-olivia

It so happened, today one of my colleagues came in, along with missus and new-born babe. Aaaahhhhh bless! Sweetest little girl you can imagine, and good as gold, she didn't make a sound!

Name? Rhea.

It's not on the list - I looked. Nor for that matter is my first name - which is a bit more mundane.

But Rhea? Fine, a very distinguished name, the Earth-Mother of ancient mythology and all that (also one of Saturn's principal moons). But what sort of nickname is the poor mite going to pick up at school? Have doting Mum and Dad considered that?

So - anyone with a name they wish they hadn't - or know someone else so afflicted?

I thought a Rhea was a large flightless bird from Australia.

Ian don't get me wrong I love the name, but a year or two ago I hadn't heard the name for twenty or thirty years. I called my son George fifteen years ago when it was an old name not in common use , now it's as usual to hear a George as a Jack or Harry. My point was that proper solid adult names can be be a bit surprising on a newborn.

Paul

I thought Jack was an alternative name for John, and that Harry was an alternative name to Henry. I thought the idea was you put John or Henry on the birth certificate, but called them Jack or Harry.

 

[661-Pete]

I thought a Rhea was a large flightless bird from Australia.

Quite correct, except that it's Argentina not Australia. You were probably thinking of the emu and the cassowary which are from Oz.

Now - there's a thought !

 

[Black Sheep]

a friend was qualifying as a midwife

one family named their twin boys 'red' and 'blue'

 

[ianrauk]

a friend was qualifying as a midwife

one family named their twin boys 'red' and 'blue'

I used to work with a chap who called his son Blue.
Blue would be in his mid 20's now... be interesting to know what he thinks of his name.

 

[ChrisKH]

We've got a Rhian at work. My nephew was called Stanley (the thurd) which we had reservations about when he was young but it has grown on me and to be honest, it's who he is now. I've also got a cousin who called his daughter Chelsea for obvious reasons.

Different class of kids (quite literally) now eldest KH is playing rugby - (<cough> did I say they had won the Thurrock Rugby Festival Under 11's last weekend? <cough>) - lots of biblical names (e.g. Benjamin, Noah,) Irish (two Finn's), older names (Albert), Italian (Vittorio), posh (Miles), American, sort of (Keaton, Ross, Spencer) and one hot favourite (Chilli).

 

[J.Y.Kelly]

I used to teach, and one poor little sod was named Lancelot. Another had the name Keith Roger Sole, or K.R.Sole!
My cousin named one of her kids Cheyenne!!!

 

[Black Sheep]

I used to work with a chap who called his son Blue.
Blue would be in his mid 20's now... be interesting to know what he thinks of his name.

he's possibly a bit blue, dah ba de dab a dah

 

[adds21]

My son's middle name is "Hawk", my daughters middle name is "Dax".

I have a friend, whose son's middle name is "Danger" ("Danger is my middle name" etc).

 

[Maz]

one family named their twin boys 'red' and 'blue'

I foresee them being marooned on a desert island one day...



[b'doom-tish]

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Different class of kids (quite literally) now eldest KH is playing rugby - (<cough> did I say they had won the Thurrock Rugby Festival Under 11's last weekend? <cough>)

So subtle I almost missed it - well done eldest KH and team

 

[ChrisKH]

So subtle I almost missed it - well done eldest KH and team

I'm trying to avoid living life vicariously but it's bloody impossible!

 

[alecstilleyedye]

We've got a Rhian at work.

which is, apparently, not a short form of rhiannon (my eldest's name)…

 

[taxing]

I don't think a Rhea would be picked on for her name. Names have lost their currency as jokes now, because so many kids have funny ones.

My mum is called Maxine, and I'd love to name a future kid after her. But it'd have to be a boy and be Max, I couldn't saddle a girl with Maxine.

 

[ianrauk]

My son's middle name is "Hawk", my daughters middle name is "Dax".

I have a friend, whose son's middle name is "Danger" ("Danger is my middle name" etc).

How come these names?

 

[ianrauk]

I don't think a Rhea would be picked on for her name. Names have lost their currency as jokes now, because so many kids have funny ones.

My mum is called Maxine, and I'd love to name a future kid after her. But it'd have to be a boy and be Max, I couldn't saddle a girl with Maxine.

I like the name Maxine...has a nice ring to it and has nice shorter versions also, Max & Maxy...