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  • Posts: 47 Member
    I named my daughter Graysen Winter & have gotten crap over it being "too out there" so I tend not to judge other parents.
    With her southern accent, people often think she is stating her middle name is "Winner" so that doesn't help things. With a last name of Smith I wanted to be a little unique.
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    Just to clairify, my child is not special and unique because of his name?

    Nope boring name = boring kid :wink: Don't worry though, my unspecial ununique boys are in the same boat.

    Seriously, my kids have a difficult last name and the very last thing I would want to do is make their first name hard to pronounce or spell.
  • I went to school with a girl named Tequila. As you can imagine she had quite a few jokes thrown her way. In my family we have had....Virginia, Ruby, Pearl, my uncle August, Grandfather name is Roland, my other grandfathers middle name is young(he was named after the dr who delivered him) and Bunny :)♡★♥☆
  • People get my name wrong a lot, it's Francie, but I get Francis all the time! We have Layla Angeline, Aubrey Hunter and Beauregard Francis.

    Aubrey is automatically thought to be a girls name, but guess what.... It started out as a boys name! My husband and I catch hell all the time about his name. I personally think it's very fitting for a boy.

    Beauregard, well people thought it would be hard for him to learn how to spell. I don't make dumb kids, so we are good.

    Picking names for me was very difficult. I associate names with people I know. I still wish that I could have another boy so I could name him Titus. I have a huge affinity for Greek mythical names.
  • Posts: 279 Member
    I will sit back and judge people for naming their kids stupid things but I draw the line at the givernment stepping in and actually telling people what they can name their children.

    I was being facetious in my first post about removing children from parents who name them stupid names.

    That is good. I was being facetious in indicating that this was a good idea. That doesn't change the fact that there ARE countries which have lists of names that people must choose from when naming their kids. (see link in my first post.)

    I think parents should be able to name their kids whatever they want. I do think some people just don't think or thought they were being cute (seriously - if your last name is Duck you don't name your kid Donald, and yes there is a Mr Donald Duck walking around)
  • Posts: 2,141 Member
    I named my daughter Graysen Winter & have gotten crap over it being "too out there" so I tend not to judge other parents.
    With her southern accent, people often think she is stating her middle name is "Winner" so that doesn't help things. With a last name of Smith I wanted to be a little unique.

    That's very pretty! I initially wanted to name my son, River Tate, until my fiancee at the time's family and friends tormented me on the name and things got ugly between us. I refused the names Hunter, Fisher and other crap my son's father wanted to name him because he didn't put any thought into it. Hunter is a name of one of my ex's, and Fisher is the last name of my ex fiancee's sister (someone I loathe and who has a kid named, Arriyah or however you spell the name), and naming my kid Justin with a middle name Time, isn't cute. So, I went to another favorite name on my list and went with Russell.
  • Posts: 2,141 Member
    My cousin's oldest is BAD.

    My initial's are DNR. Lord, I certainly hope the admitting E.R. doctor has a keen eye for detail if ever I need to intubated...
  • Posts: 4,317 Member
    I went to high school with a girl named Love Seamen. I don't know what her parents were smoking when they signed that birth certificate.
  • My first name is very normal. (It's not pennelope)
    I always wished I had a more unique middle name to make up for it but sadly thats normal too. My middle name is Lynn.
    Haha.
  • Posts: 456 Member
    I have quite a boring name (Kim), because I'm half Welsh/half Dutch and my parents wanted a name that's pronounced the same by all the members of our family. They initially wanted to call me Rachel (which I think is a very pretty name) But we since we live in the Netherlands it would be pronounced 'Rah-shell', which my parents didn't like. So they stuck with Kim.

    I'm quite a fan of traditional names. If I ever have a daughter I'll probably name her Catherine, Kate for short (No nothing to do with Kate Middleton, my late mum's middle name was Catherine), And if I ever have a son it'll either be Jack or Owain :smile:
  • Posts: 9,525 Member
    UK here.

    We are taught from an early age that our children should be named so that if you put the honorific title "king" before their name, it would sound dignified.

    My children are Richard and Daniel. King Richard, King Daniel.

    King Dylan or King Connor doesn't quite cut it.

    That's just reflecting your English bias. Welsh or Irish people might well find Dylan or Connor more dignified than Richard or Daniel.

    Anyway wanting to sound royal isn't everyone's ideal in names.
  • Posts: 3,290 Member
    I just feel bad for the child if the name sounds like some thing other kids will make fun of.
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