Does a name have to have a connection to the parent's name?
I might be missing something here.

Somewhere I know, is a child called Breeze.
She has a sister called Strom (deliberately misspelt by me in case of internet searches).
Seems mean to make one more powerful than the other. Although Strom is the least stormy child you could ever meet.

I've never really understood calling children by the same names everyone else has, or giving a child your own name, yet I know it's more common than not. On the other hand I wouldn't want to give a child a name that needs an explanation every time, or has to be repeated over and over and then spelled out EVERY TIME. Can you tell I had some issues with this before I reverted to my childhood nickname? And no, Monster, I don't count your children in with the bizarre names, only with the uncommon ones.

Mine would have been Felix and Oscar and Ruby and Rose
Although if I had met their father he might have wanted a say...
Not serious, just that those are names I really like.

One of my pet dislikes is Anglicised Gaelic names.
Orla. No. They should have the courage of their convictions and have it spelled Orlaith. Yes that breaks my rules above, but if you want a Gaelic name you should be willing to stick up for it. I never promised to be consistent.

I know this is not my childs name, but my street name is Karen St, every time I have to tell someone over the phone they say, can you spell that for me? Like it can't possibly be just plain old Karen. The girls name, from the old days. Just plain old Karen.

It's mystifying. lol

I think I've said before that Mum & I both use the call-sign alphabet when giving out initials.

I've had letters addressed to Charlie and Mum to Sierra. And before she joined the Ambulance Service (way back when, where she learned it and we had to test her), letters to Sugar.

A friend of mine lived on Slave Hill.
No, really.
I think it was named after a local landowner.
He would say, "Slave. As in bondage."

It's a lot easier now they just ask for postcodes and door numbers.
But even then you can really puzzle call centre staff. I always start with the actual postcode, then repeat it with Hotel, Papa [etc] - "Sorry, which hotel?"

Charlie Kilo Oscar signing out.

Sundae mentioned my new neice's name! :lol: Do we think she might get nick-named Oral at all? :eek: Did we tell the proud parents of our fears :bolt:

I knew a boy called Robert.
He was called Sniffer.

I knew of a girl called Sultana.
Everyone called her.... Sultana.
And didn't make any jokes about it either because she was a real bruiser.

The name doesn't automatically denote the nickname.
Fingers crossed for little Orlaith though ;)

I don't have a problem with anglicising names. We've always done it. Names travel and are changed. If they didn't change, our history would be one of Guillaumes and Jeans, instead of Williams and Johns.

That's funny... when you alluded to her potential negative nicknames, I immediately assumed Beest was thinking "whore-la."

I just thought, Orlly?

Yeah, I thought you should preemptively teach her to arch an eye brow.
Orly?

yarly, Orly was my first thought. beest just has a filthy mind.

Here in the U.S. there is a trend (that we could probably do without) of blending the parents names to name the child. I suppose it's an additional confirmation of paternity, other than just giving the baby the father's last name.

Of course, people do turn around and do other stupid shit.

I went to high school with a girl with a rather distinctive first name (misspelling of an insect) and a last name with romantic associations. She called her out-of-wedlock (a bigger deal then than it is now) child "Romeo."

crazynurse's daughter clearly had some sort of brain damage during delivery and named her child "Draven."

Yes, she named her kid after the dead guy in The Crow. Not Eric, which would have been perfectly acceptable, but Draven.

I do not get this. I do not.

could have been worse -D'raven.....

Don't. Just stop right there.

My family have been, in general, mercifully unimaginative in our naming patterns. Probably the most unusual would be Fleur, my cousin's lass. But most are fairly solid, traditional names. Sam, Joshua, Stacie, Calumn, Paul. Closer to home are Sophie and Amelia. My own generation was similar: Danielle, Martin, Stephen, Paul, Neil, David, Shirley, Karen & Gary (twins :P) ...I'll stop there, not gonna name them all :p)

I like unusual names, but not the ones that sound 'made-up'. Sometimes I hear the names people have come up with for kids and think...that's the sort of name I'd have dreamed up for a cookie roleplay character in an online world.

I like Fleur! The inventive spellings thing can be a problem when teaching kids to read. Singing the Wilabee Walabee beginning sounds song to a kid with a bunch of silent consonants in front of his name can confuse.