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General => The Common Room => The Lighter Side => Topic started by: RedMystic on Friday 14 December 12 14:15 GMT (UK)
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What will genealogists 100 years from now think when they come across forenames names like: Rogue, Yoga, Drifter, Burger or Hashtag?!!! :P ::) :D
http://www.babycenter.com/0_unusual-baby-names-of-2012_10375911.bc
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I couldn't believe someone would call their son BURGER ;D ;D ;D
But yes they did........well all I can say is what a pair of silly BURGERS his parents are.
:o :D 8)
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One of my friends had an ancestor named Eugene Kossuth Kosciuko (those were his forenames)
What about the fondness for Old Testament names like Kerrenhappuch (one of the daughters of Job)?
Or the Puritans who gave their children names like Zeal-for-the-Lord?
My son has a friend who called his son Mycroft (it's the name of Sherlock Holmes' brother)
One of my granddaughters is called Esha and her sister is Arpana, but their dad is Indian and those are Indian names. Sometimes there is a reason for seemingly strange names (but all too often you wonder which planet they're living on!)
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The unusual names will probably make life a lot easier for future genealogists, especially if the surnames are common ones - less results than with Jack or Chloe for example.
Less unusual names might be easier on the child though!
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Americas ? Gawd 'elp us ! ::)
Maybe someone in the UK could could call their offspring UKAS ? ;D
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As a teacher for very many years, I often used to wonder which came first the silly child or the silly name- quite frequently a child with an unusual/embarrasssing name tended to behave in a way which, if not really bad, was certainly very silly.
Would the child have been daft anyway or was he/she daft as a result of having odd name?
This applied to surnames as much as to first names.
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A weird one I've seen from the past is the first name Sobieski. There were quite a few children baptised with this exotic name, a lot were in the Black Country from 1719 right until late 1800s. At first I thought it was perhaps from some early Polish immigration but after reading around a bit I realised the children were named for Maria Sobieska who married James Edward Stuart "The Old Pretender" in 1719.
Of today's names I think the strangest I've heard was at my workplace when a woman called her very young son Kine over to look at something. I'm assuming it was spelled Kine, it may have been Kyne.
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I was interested to find that a man known as Lonnie was in fact named Salonika ( first name)- presumably named after a place and its military links.
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In case anyone missed this story, the New Zealand courts have ruled that you can't name your daughter Talula does the hula from Hawaii: see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html#
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As a teacher for very many years, I often used to wonder which came first the silly child or the silly name- quite frequently a child with an unusual/embarrasssing name tended to behave in a way which, if not really bad, was certainly very silly.
Would the child have been daft anyway or was he/she daft as a result of having odd name?
This applied to surnames as much as to first names.
Guess it is in the genes
It is a silly person who chooses a silly name for their child. Thus the child has those silly genes and is also a silly person!
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In case anyone missed this story, the New Zealand courts have ruled that you can't name your daughter Talula does the hula from Hawaii: see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2452593/Talula-Does-The-Hula-From-Hawaii-not-a-girls-name-New-Zealand-court-rules.html#
I remember the Hoola about that .......
Cheers
KHP
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As a teacher for very many years, I often used to wonder which came first the silly child or the silly name- quite frequently a child with an unusual/embarrasssing name tended to behave in a way which, if not really bad, was certainly very silly.
Would the child have been daft anyway or was he/she daft as a result of having odd name?
This applied to surnames as much as to first names.
Guess it is in the genes
It is a silly person who chooses a silly name for their child. Thus the child has those silly genes and is also a silly person!
Have you been at the cooking sherry Elizabeth? LOL
;D ;D ;D
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Of today's names I think the strangest I've heard was at my workplace when a woman called her very young son Kine over to look at something. I'm assuming it was spelled Kine, it may have been Kyne.
Kine is the lesser known plural of cow!
sallysmum
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Could it have been Kyle?
Quite agree..some parents don't pay attention to things like initials either..other kids can be very cruel.
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36 years ago when choosing a name for our first son,I liked the name Wayne,but hubby disagreed.
We would have ended up with a W C :D
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I've always thought that the Chinese had the best system - give the children numbers, and let them choose their own names when they get older. If my own family had done that, my dad wouldn't have been named after his maternal uncle who moved to Australia without a 'by your leave', leaving him lumbered with a name which he hated.
Similarly, I was named after my mother's nephew, and I hated my name too, because it was far too posh for a working-class kid, especially when Benny Hill started making fun of the name too ::)
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As a teacher for very many years, I often used to wonder which came first the silly child or the silly name- quite frequently a child with an unusual/embarrassing name tended to behave in a way which, if not really bad, was certainly very silly.
Would the child have been daft anyway or was he/she daft as a result of having odd name?
This applied to surnames as much as to first names.
As another ex-teacher, my rule of thumb was that boys with unlikely names were usually trouble, but that this didn't apply to girls.
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somebody on rootschat had found folk (I dont know if his ancestors or not); the parents must have a classical bent because they named the kids Unus , secondus etc//
Imagine the life septuagesimus (sp) would have led at school.
I have however seen several Pharoahs in the birth index :o
and it was not unheard of for children to be called Doctor in the belief that certain children possessed healing powers.
These were of course registered names not baptismal names
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somebody on rootschat had found folk (I dont know if his ancestors or not); the parents must have a classical bent because they named the kids Unus , secondus etc//
Imagine the life septuagesimus (sp) would have led at school.
A quick search of the 1881 census finds many Septimus and Octavius, plus one Septuagesima and a Septuamus!
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... especially when Benny Hill started making fun of the name too ::)
Wasn't it Arthur Haynes (with Nicholarse Parsons)?
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... especially when Benny Hill started making fun of the name too ::)
Wasn't it Arthur Haynes (with Nicholarse Parsons)?
That's probably why 'our' Nick chooses to call himself by the shortened version of his name :D :D :D
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somebody on rootschat had found folk (I dont know if his ancestors or not); the parents must have a classical bent because they named the kids Unus , secondus etc//
Imagine the life septuagesimus (sp) would have led at school.
One Septimus really helped my research - his name indicated that I had yet to find some of his older brothers.
Wouldn't a Septuagesimus have been born on Septuagesima Sunday?
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... especially when Benny Hill started making fun of the name too ::)
Wasn't it Arthur Haynes (with Nicholarse Parsons)?
That's probably why 'our' Nick chooses to call himself by the shortened version of his name :D :D :D
I'd rather have that than what my father was lumbered with....... Horace ! ;D
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On holiday in Nigeria in 1976, just after the end of the Biafran war, I came across a number of people with unusual names eg Hyacinth and Sea Breeze (both men), but the most touching were little two boys, Peace and his baby brother Thank God.
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I have a Stout Simpson born 1893 ???
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I have a Stout Simpson born 1893 ???
Cheers ;D ;D ;D
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A relative on my husband's side in the USA ( a cowboy) has named his son Rope ???
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So that he can tell him to get knotted?
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He's obviously stringing you along! ;D
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brother Larry A T ?
sister Lass O ?
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In the MailOnline recently was an item about Alex James, the Blur bassist turned cheesemaker.
His oldest child is called Geronimo.
He also has twins called Galileo and Artemis, & two other children, Sable & Beatrix.
How a teacher can call out the name Geronimo in class & keep a straight face... ;D
Betty
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Seeing an earlier reference to the boy's name Wayne - reminded me of a relative (related through marriage) had two sons who she named Wayne and Dwayne. ::)
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Seeing an earlier reference to the boy's name Wayne - reminded me of a relative (related through marriage) had two sons who she named Wayne and Dwayne. ::)
Nearly 40 years ago when we were chossing our first baby's name,I liked the name Wayne,but our surname begins with a C. My husband said " no way are we giving a child the initial WC" !!!
So he's an RC .......almost as bad methinks 8)
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In the MailOnline recently was an item about Alex James, the Blur bassist turned cheesemaker.
His oldest child is called Geronimo.
He also has twins called Galileo and Artemis, & two other children, Sable & Beatrix.
How a teacher can call out the name Geronimo in class & keep a straight face... ;D
Betty
I know someone with a dog called Geronimo, ???
When I had my first daughter the lady in the bed next to me in hospital was naming her second son Shane, her first son was Wayne....her husband had a thing for coyboy films ::)
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In the MailOnline recently was an item about Alex James, the Blur bassist turned cheesemaker.
His oldest child is called Geronimo.
He also has twins called Galileo and Artemis, & two other children, Sable & Beatrix.
How a teacher can call out the name Geronimo in class & keep a straight face... ;D
Betty
This made me smile...
Because when I was teaching in Watford, - a few years ago now, - I had a child called Geronimo in my Class! (And he was a very nice little lad:-)
Romilly.
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I once taught identical twins Edward and Edmund (and they were both known as Ed...)