Working in childcare I've come across a few weird and wonderful names over the years...
Girls- Ribbon, Stevie, Immaculate (Imma for short) Harleigh, Gift, Ruby-Marmalade
Boys- Oswald (who's parents insisted we called Oz... Why saddle a child with a weird name then instantly shorten it?) Jojo, Colbylea, Bede, Boaz
Bede is quite a common name in Jarrow. For Bede of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. I have worked with 2 men with that name. I like it. It's not a made up name. Just an ancient one.
I know a traveller girl that had twin girls and actually named them Romani and Gypsy. (Not sure if I've mentioned this before) She and all her families have also always lived in houses for as long as I've known them, so I'm not sure how they can identify themselves as travellers.
Having given my own child an unusual name, I wouldn't say people shouldn't do it (obviously ), but parents shouldn't do it lightly and without a bit of consideration on what it might be like to have the piss taken throughout childhood. I suppose it's worth mentioning that people generally say they like my daughter's name, but maybe they say otherwise behind my/her back.
Bede is quite a common name in Jarrow. For Bede of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. I have worked with 2 men with that name. I like it. It's not a made up name. Just an ancient one.
I think Bede's parents were RE teachers actually! I don't dislike the name myself, I'd just never heard it in modern day life!
Someone earlier mentioned Cuthbert... I once had a hamster called that but I think I'd draw the line at naming a child Cuthbert!
I know a couple who, when their children were expected, said that they wanted to give them names that could not be shortened, Peter, Pete; Deborah, Deb; Valery, Val, you get the picture.
They had two daughters, first Kelly, who they, and all their family, when trying to get her attention, call Kell, followed a couple of years later by Zoë, who gets called in the same scenario, Zo.
There are a fair few kids with non-Polish names that just don't make sense to have where I am, along with some ridiculously old-fashioned names.
My son is called Oskar which, when a Polish person reads it, sounds proper. But there is someone with Oscar, which when read by a Polish person comes out as Os-sar which just sounds stupid.
My friend said she would name her daughter Oceania and I told her it sounded like the name of a cruise ship, fast forward 3 years she had her daughter and named her Hope??
I was given an unusual name (well, just rare really) & as a young child I hated it! As I got older, I started to really like it as I've never had to use my surname to identify myself. Just recently, my name has cropped up a few times in TV programmes & I've also seen it in birth announcements so maybe it's about to become more popular!
An unusual name that always makes me smile is the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.
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Bede is quite a common name in Jarrow. For Bede of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Monastery. I have worked with 2 men with that name. I like it. It's not a made up name. Just an ancient one.
Anyway, I do quite like Louis CK's take on naming your kid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNSf-KQORRk
I think Bede's parents were RE teachers actually! I don't dislike the name myself, I'd just never heard it in modern day life!
Someone earlier mentioned Cuthbert... I once had a hamster called that but I think I'd draw the line at naming a child Cuthbert!
It may not have made it to real life yet but I'm sure it will.
They had two daughters, first Kelly, who they, and all their family, when trying to get her attention, call Kell, followed a couple of years later by Zoë, who gets called in the same scenario, Zo.
Probably conceived on a grassy knoll I expect.....
Can you get red Jasmine then .... I thought it was white.
Just terrible.
Uke = Yuck more like. The poor child.
My son is called Oskar which, when a Polish person reads it, sounds proper. But there is someone with Oscar, which when read by a Polish person comes out as Os-sar which just sounds stupid.
Do they live together in perfect harmony.
I know - I think they ran out of red names - or maybe they didn't know it wasn't red - I think it's a nice name that goes with the others sort of.
Chav-tastic lol
Her even smaller brothers are Tyler and Tommy Lee.
"rolleyes"
An unusual name that always makes me smile is the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan.