Names you don't get anymore.

blue underpants said:
Luke_mcfc said:
My mrs is pregnant at the min and if its a boy he's gonna be called Frederick. I already have a little girl called Ivy. Nice names I think. Not heard of a lot but also not too rogue.
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You do know Frederick is German dont you, i like it but years ago it was frowned upon
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My great uncle was called Frederick. Take your point. Still like it though. Probably get called Fred and or Freddie anyway!
 
Some old boiler gobbing down her mobile in the pub the other day about "our Kai".
There's a joke in there somewhere.

Also hate the name Mackenzie/Kenzi Bailey Teighan/Keighen and all that other pseudo Irish stuff from people who've no connection with it.

Girls used to all be called Susan/Karen/Tracey/Anne /Deborah and Tracey.

All awaiting a revival in maybOh and no Julie's anymore.e 20 years time.
 
Deepest Blue said:
Some old boiler gobbing down her mobile in the pub the other day about "our Kai".
There's a joke in there somewhere.

Also hate the name Mackenzie/Kenzi Bailey Teighan/Keighen and all that other pseudo Irish stuff from people who've no connection with it.

Girls used to all be called Susan/Karen/Tracey/Anne /Deborah and Tracey.

All awaiting a revival in maybe 20 years time.
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Bang on and my elder sisters are fucking useless and gave most of my neices said names with no affiliation to us.

Megan
Arianne
Amelia
Paige
Teagan
Hadley (lad)

They have a couple of others also but not seen them as i stay away from my family as i like a quiet life :D
But yeah i'm afraid my sisters are guilty of this bullshittery.
Katie and Alex are the only normal names.
 
Luke_mcfc said:
blue underpants said:
Luke_mcfc said:
My mrs is pregnant at the min and if its a boy he's gonna be called Frederick. I already have a little girl called Ivy. Nice names I think. Not heard of a lot but also not too rogue.
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You do know Frederick is German dont you, i like it but years ago it was frowned upon
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My great uncle was called Frederick. Take your point. Still like it though. Probably get called Fred and or Freddie anyway!
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Or Ric !!
 
TCIB said:
Rocket-footed kolarov said:
The worst are giving kids names of countires; India, Ireland FFS! My brother's girlfriend is called Namibia.
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Oh god please tell me her brother is called Uruguay ?
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Lol, usually goes by Mibby; that is the thing is n't it if you have an unusual name you will often shorten it save embarrassment.
 
mindmyp's_n_q's said:
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>
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Glad im not called cliff edge wwwwwhhhhhoooooaaaa. Ssshhhhiiitttttt.
 
Heres another 3 unusual names i have worked with all mens names, Daxton, Kenton and Zachariah (sp) wouldnt wish them on anybody
 
My late granddad was called Archibald (Scottish of course) and my late nanna was called Edna... proper old time names. My living grandparents on my mum's side are called Tony and Sheila. :)
 
LoveCity said:
My late granddad was called Archibald (Scottish of course) and my late nanna was called Edna... proper old time names. My living grandparents on my mum's side are called Tony and Sheila (Australian of course) ;)
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