Top boys' and girls' names

[MarkF]

I was born in the early 1960's, there were lot of "Mark's" about, in my eary thirties I played in a 5 a-side team where the goalie was James, all the rest + sub, Mark. I now coach an under 16 team now and usually field 5 Tom's, it is a right pain in the arse.

My daughter is called Tierra, I loved it, of course everybody has always called her Tia, after first mangling the pronunciation of Tierra, I should have thought about that. It should be a rapid Spanish 3 syllable name but ends up in the UK reminding of the Kiora song and I cringe.

Middle son is Joe, my middle name, my father's first, it's gets about in the family. His middle name is Felix because I liked the cartoon so much as a kid. Wished I'd gone for Felix first.

One of my friends had a son called Reef, I thought that was coolio. Until when he was about 10 & realised he was boring old Reece.

 

[Lullabelle]

One of the girls who used to work with us, went to Turkey, got pregnant by a waiter, she is financially better off not working, anyway I digress she gave her son a name that even she forgets how to spell Kairan/Kaiyran something like that

 

[marknotgeorge]

My girls are called Aisling and Emily. I chose Aisling because I liked the sound of the name and the shape and look of the word, although numpties do sometimes call her Ashley. Emily was chosen because it's a classic English name that wasn't excessively common at her birth.

And although Mark's not excessively common either, I've never worked in a place that hadn't got at least one Mark. At the moment, the guy I share an office with is also called Mark...

 

[Sandra6]

Our eldest is called Joby. It was never a problem - apart from the general assumption it was short for something, or people correcting the spelling and changing the b for a d - until we moved to the borders.
When the Scots say jobbie it sounds the same as Joby. Oh dear.