What Do You Think Of This Baby's Name?

[Patsy33]

At first I thought, what?! Then when Mother said they will shorten it, I quite like it.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/27/dani-dyers-baby-name-santiago-what-does-it-mean-13976575/

[gness]

Irish children never say Santa. They call him Santy. So it'd not do here..... :-)

[AuntPollyGrey]

very apt -santi sounds like a hand sanitiser. Why can't parents name children sensibly these days instead of trying their hardest to be 'unique'. I reckon there will be lots of kids in 18 years time changing their names.......

[puzzled54]

Also rhymes with pantie

[Peter Pedant]

// They could have called him Compostillo and shortened it to.....Compost..lol//

since it is Santiago de compostela
you could also shorten it to Daygo Lool

Do you remember the Livergirls - die-uppa doo da die uppa-do....
and there was someone called Loolie

[Peter Pedant]

xanti is an island in the med

[AuntPollyGrey]

PP Zante or Zakynthos actually -Greek Island -see PP we are not all ignoramus on AB......innit :-)

[jno]

it's just St James. An unusual form of name but not unknown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_Ellis

I don't suppose he's like Brooklyn Beckham, allegedly named after the place he was conceived?

[Cloverjo]

APG//Why can't parents name children sensibly these days instead of trying their hardest to be 'unique'//

That’s what my dad says.
He gave me the most boring name ever. Not Clover; I would have liked that. Not Jo either.
I would have preferred Santiago, but... you get what you’re given.

[Paigntonian]

Actually it's Iago that's the Spanish version of Ian or, to be even more pedantic, it's Ian that an Algicized version of Iago.

[pixie374]

My daughter's baby is half Portuguese, so their name choices are more "unusual".

[Patsy33]

Pixie, my granddaughter is half Iranian. Her second name is unusual, but pretty.

[Eve]

Dani's grandfather, who she is very close to, is from Majorca so maybe a link there. I like it.

[webbo3]

Its quite nice, I go to a place in Tenerife called Puerto de Santiago.

[Eve]

Correction, just looked it up, he's apparently her father's father, so Dani's father Danny's father. But it's said her Mum has Spanish heritage too.

[barry1010]

I have never heard of any British males named St James but I have heard of St John (pronounced Sinjin)

[Peter Pedant]

oh is it time for a bit of levity

Times report today on a wills case being heard concerning Nemo Remi and A third Rea
https://www.nelsonslaw.co.uk/rea-v-rea/
and I thought yup
isnt it lucky that a fourth litigant isnt Diana Rea whose name the hacks could shorten to Dia Rea.

as in one of the sibs is trained and legal - Dia Rea

ho hum cold and parky outside

[Peter Pedant]

no it is St James of compostela ( two apostles to choose from) and not St Ian or St Jaydun or St Wayne

[jno]

PP, those are only female Reas; isn't there a Men's Rea?

[Mozz71]

Seeing who the kid's mother is, he was lucky to avoid being called "Surf".