Names you don't get anymore.

My grandad was called Harry, his wife and my nan was called Nancy and my other nan was called Dorothy but we called her Dot. I really like the traditional names of yesteryear. We went to Scotland last year and heard a lady call her daughter Mabel and we thought it was a lovely name, and if we had another girl we would do the same.
 
Names are great.

They never move up the social classes only ever down.

A study has proved that your name has no real bearing on how you will perform in life. Parents tend to name their children on how they think the name will make other parents and friends think of them (not how it will effect the child). eg poor people tend to go for very expensive or exotic names.

A great story about a dad who decided to use very unusual names for two of his kids

In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly typical name. But this boy – well, Robert Lane apparently had a special feeling about this one. Winner Lane: how could he fail with a name like that?

Three years later, the Lanes had another baby boy, their seventh and last child. For reasons that no one can quite pin today, Robert decided to name this boy Loser. It doesn’t appear that Robert was unhappy about the new baby; he just seemed to get a kick out of the name’s bookend effect. First a Winner, now a Loser. But if Winner Lane could hardly be expected to fail, how could Looser Lane possibly succeed?

Loser Lane did in fact succeed. He went to prep school on a scholarship, graduated from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, and joined NYPD (it was his mother’s longtime wish). Although he never hid his name, people were uncomfortable using it. “So I have a bunch of names,” he says today, “from Jimmy to James to whatever they want to call you. But they rarely call you Loser.” Once in a while, he said, “they throw a French twist on it: ‘Losier.’” To his cop friends he is known as Lou.

And what of his brother with the can’t-miss name? The most noteworthy achievement of Winner Lane, now in his mid forties, is the length of his criminal record: almost three dozen arrests for burglary, domestic violence, trespassing, resisting arrest, and other mayhem.

These days Loser and Winner barely speak. The father who named them is no longer alive. Clearly, he had the right idea – that naming is destiny – but he must have gotten the boys mixed up.
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If you want to learn more about names and their impact then I would suggest listening to the podcast about half way down this page

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.freakonomics.com/tag/baby-names/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.freakonomics.com/tag/baby-names/</a>
 
My dad was called Cecil, but he told me his parents couldn't decide between Percy and Cecil when he was born.
They should have compromised and called him Percil.
True. :-)
 
old names in family,mabel,douglas,emma,charlie,george,hazel,audrey,john and philip. i knew a lady called ida way,i dont think her parents realised it,her nickname was hide and seek.
 
Wasn't there a City fan a few years ago who was going to name his first child Niall after his favourite player, Niall Quinn. He was talked out of it when his mate reminded him of his surname, Littler, and how it would sound!!

My mum was a Hilda, my dad a George (surprisingly the same as me, as well as my granddad). Traditions die hard in my family.
 
I'm surprised no-one has spotted that there are also seem to be very few kids with these names now. There are none in my kids school aged between 4-10.

Philip
David
Richard
Stephen
Keith
Karen
Judith
Amanda
Caroline
Sally
 
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