Giving children weird names

[dave50]

Why do poeple usually from deprived backgrounds give their children weird 'made up' names? i find it amazing that a lot of the time (not all) you can usually tell what the parent is like by the child's name. Has anyone else noticed this?

[Manwithnoname]

Some of these names have an historical significance if you research them. Others want to be individuals& unique.
Really its just some people getting older & cant understand why the younger generation have to have their own cultures & habits.
As OG says it adds to the list

[gina32]

i dislike names like gemma and lucy or julian or nicholas

[joko]

all names were new and weird and unusual once and all were made up by someone...

it is familiarity that seems to make names 'normal' and 'acceptable' amd im sure that over time most of these will just be considered the same as sophie or william etc

if you think of some of the older more 'traditional' names and break them down, they sound equally as weird as new ones...such as chloe...elizabeth, frederick, cuthbert, among many others...

if no-one made up new names we would all be called things from thousands of years ago...like boudicea and julius or whatever..

[Answerprancer]

Most children (and adults) I have met that have unusual names are the product of parents who are intelligent, loving and prefer to steer clear of societal norms and expectations

[joko]

i think there are 2 main types of 'unusual'... the attempt to be highbrow, learned and obscure, and create a talking point with names after ancient gods or literary characters etc,
and the ones that attempt to be 'with it' and take something 'cool' from popular culture and slightly adapt it for 'originality' as thats a far as their level of research goes...by changing spellings or naming after a celebrity etc...

then of course theres the random jumble of words ones that just try to be weird.

[beso]

annie0000 //I "think" I am still waiting for the first "text speak" name - I'll put a tenner on L8on. //

Surely it would be "K8".

A New Zealand court banned a couple from naming their baby 4Real so they decided on Superman which was accepted.

A Chinese couple were denied the right to us the @ symbol in a name.

In Germany and France only names on an approved list are allowed.

[heathfield]

Many years ago I read of an American couple who named their son 'John 5/8ths Smith', just so's he'd be different from all other John Smiths.

[sara3]

my friend is a registrar, and we laughed a lot about the poor baby girl named Amber Beaver.

[Answerprancer]

LOL that reminds me of Arthur "two sheds" Jackson.

[Carakeel]

I just wish parents would put more consideration into the problems the names they give their children may cause them later on in life when they go to school, college, work etc. Apparently some crazy Texan model called her young son "magic wand Baggins"! Now I ask you .... did she really think how this will affect the child???

[Carakeel]

LOL, I wrote something else, but AB changed it to magic wand ... but I am sure you all know what the name was ...

[pretty_snowdrop]

I know a bloke named Paul Nurse. i didn't understand the problem until OH explained he was P..Nurse.

[sara3]

lol.. I don't ;o)

[albaqwerty]

I think he'd have preferred magic wand

I knew a girl who was called Vicotira, fine, surname Park, fine. Lived in Glasgow next to yep....

[beverleymot]

My daughter is called Oregan, and I made it up- and i'm not weird- infact ive only ever had compliments about it!

[annie0000]

do you think she meant Bilbo but couldn't spell?

[Barmaid]

Children in my family are named "Valentine" and "Milla". No idea where those names came from.




But given both were baptised in the 1760's I'll let them off.

[beverleymot]

although i do know someone who has 2 boys called piran and Jago ( as in the parrot from aladdin) but its all about personal choice isnt it

[jason.p]

I was christened Jason back in 1944, and I didn't hear of another one till many years later. As O.G says, naming children, like language in general, needs to evolve.

[lozzer50]

PMSL@ Calico thats the name of the council housing company in Burnley !!!