Unfashionable Names

[Fnaar]

I don't know her well enough to ask

It'd be a great chat up line. though!

 

[trustysteed]

IMy name is, as you may have guessed, Jeremy. I've never been terribly keen on it as a name as I've always felt it sounds a) a bit silly and; very posh. I usually stick with Jez except when introducing myself to someone not from the UK as I get sick of having to explain "no it's JeZ with a Z not Jess. It's short for Jeremy. Yes, Jeremy. No, no that's fine you can just call me Jeremy".

mate i grew up with called Jeremy is now just known as Jed. And you don't have to explain the spelling to anyone!

 

[Vidor06]

At school we used to have fun looking in the school register to see what peoples middle names were. In our class at the time we had a Herbert and a Reginald. The guy with Reginald as his middle name became known from then onwards as Reggie and I remember going to his house and asking for Reggie and his mum was raging and kept telling him to make us stop calling him Reggie. Turns out that Reginald was his dads name and the dad had buggered off with another woman and therefore was no longer flavour of the month. The guy I knew ended up changing his name to remove the Reginald part but still to this day, over 20 years later he gets referred to as Reggie.

 

[trustysteed]

Ged with a "G" then?

I Geddit.

 

[goo_mason]

Wasn't there someone on the US who called their kid "Latrine"?

Did see a name that's fallen out of fashion on a local gravestone recently - "Fanny". Her surname was "Snow". Sounds like some medical condition

(For the best names, I recommend getting yourself a copy of the book "Potty, Fartwell & Knob" - had me in kinks for hours. The author trawled old UK records of births, deaths & marriages to find the funniest / daftest & filthiest names).

 

[ChrisKH]

I wanted to call my daughter Ada, but was vetoed by Mrs Cisamcgu, and both sets of Grandparents, and both uncles and the aunt, and just about everyone else who heard of my plan .. I suppose it was a bad idea in hindsight ..

I've got an Ada working for me. She comes from Albania.

 

[ChrisKH]

My brother in law just had a kid and wanted to go for something a little bit different. Their choices were Hugo, Hector and Boris. IMHO not great choices, in the end they went for Hugo.

A friend of ours called their only son Hugo. Poor sod. Mind you, he does go to private prep. school and lives in a big apartment in Butler's Wharf. And Daddy is a Barrister who is a bit of a swinger who ran off with the kid's skin specialist who he invited to a swinging party. Not sure where that all came from, but if you call your kid Hugo, watch out.

 

[ChrisKH]

I'm a Nicola, at school I was in a class with a Nichola and a Nikki. Right pain that was.

MY son is a Nicky but everyone keeps spelling his name as Nikki. Why?

 

[ChrisKH]

A friend of mine called his kid "Edmund" about 15 yrs ago... seemed an odd choice at the time, but not now...

I know one of those too.

 

[swee'pea99]

At school we used to have fun looking in the school register to see what peoples middle names were. In our class at the time we had a Herbert and a Reginald. The guy with Reginald as his middle name became known from then onwards as Reggie and I remember going to his house and asking for Reggie and his mum was raging and kept telling him to make us stop calling him Reggie. Turns out that Reginald was his dads name and the dad had buggered off with another woman and therefore was no longer flavour of the month. The guy I knew ended up changing his name to remove the Reginald part but still to this day, over 20 years later he gets referred to as Reggie.

For some reason this reminds me of that recent thread on footballers' nicknames and that guy Musampa who played for, I think, Man City, who was dubbed by the fans 'Chris'.

 

[ChrisKH]

I'll start responding to my own posts soon.

 

[blockend]

I've got an Ada working for me. She comes from Albania.

Ah, that's an example of old people's names sounding dead sexy on foreign birds. My chum had a gorgeous Italian friend called Titti. She'd have had the life teased out of her in Blighty, but grown men went weak at the knees at her Sophia Loren looks and apposite moniker.

 

[ColinJ]

I'm currently watching series 2 of The Wire and was quite amused during last night's episode when a large Afro-American dude's name turned out to be Cedric!

 

[ChrisKH]

Christopher, there's another godforesaken name. Don't do it.

I was going to say there's not a lot of Martin's about, but we know one on here. And the other one is my brother, but he prefers to answer to Verm (as in Vermin).

Then there's Robert, not many of them any more. He's the other brother. we call him Rob and his mates call him Bob (as in Blackadder).

One of my middle name's is Edward, I've always fancied being called Ted like my grandad. Except I get called Chris, in the same manner as 'Big Chris" out of Lock, Stock.

 

[ChrisKH]

Ah, that's an example of old people's names sounding dead sexy on foreign birds. My chum had a gorgeous Italian friend called Titti. She'd have had the life teased out of her in Blighty, but grown men went weak at the knees at her Sophia Loren looks and apposite moniker.

Except I now realise you mean Aida and she pronounces hers Adda, all sexy like.