#82

Now there’s a connection no one has ever made before… (safetywink)

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#83

life is such a rollercoaster with you

#84

or you could name your son The Barbarian

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#85

Months!!

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#86

well yeah but i guess my point is that even if we didn’t, i’m still not sure i’d steam in and say it was appropriation, at least not like white people at festivals wearing native american headdresses or whatever. we’ve never felt like we’ve had to explain it, especially ask people will continue passing down their surnames even if you have no recent connection to the origin (e.g. my surname is very very scottish, and my wife’s maiden name is very very irish).

#87

Yep. There was a lot of tongue-biting done by the rest of the family.

#88

guess maybe if you choose like a specifically African name or something people might think it was odd. Most white people look like they could have Irish ancestry anyway

#89

Whenever people make constant Ronan Keating jokes I just think…

It’s only words

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#90

Wankier > Wankya > Wankja > Wannkiya.

#91

Is that the Spurs midfield?

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#92

(Thank you for playing along)

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#93

I think that’s what the fans were singing, anyway.

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#94

tbh this is exactly the kind of thing i can see myself doing.

I’d be like NAH don’t like it let’s call it PETUNIA now

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#96

Naming our kid was pretty stressful. We’d discussed a lot of names and eventually there was only one we both really liked. I didn’t want something super popular (I feel like it’s a name, you know, your main identifier - surely you want that to be fairly individual?) and it’s definitely not, but at the same time I don’t think it’s particular outlandish. And it strikes a balance between sounding quite American and quite English (though maybe more of a surname in England), so that works. Then her first middle name is her late grandma’s middle name, and her second middle name is her mother’s surname (because Mrs HYG kept her name when we got married, but we decided our daughter would have my surname for ease).

Going to be a pain when if / when we have to do it again. Not sure what we would have done with a boy. FAO @Ruffers, Taliesin would have been a contender.

#97

We went for female musicians we really like for our children. They seemed to work out pretty well - Joni and Etta.

Brilliant names for brilliant girls, in my view.

Middle names were a cinch too - first one was my wife’s mom’s name, and the second’s middle name is the latter half of my wife’s hyphenated first name.

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#98

That’s still a big thing in Wales.
I mentioned it to my dad one Sunday and he was going strong with more examples half an hour later.
Some goodies in this: https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/welsh-nicknames-found-back-old-13928033

#99

we were aiming for ‘the only child named X in the school year’ kind of level but not so outlandish it’d never been heard of.

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#100

If it wasn’t a joke that would wear out pretty quickly…I’d love to call my kid something like Keith. Or Trevor.

#101

Yeah, that’s about it. Though long term, you have no idea - I’m one of three boys, when we were born, our names were all pretty out of fashion / unheard of - but over the past twenty years, they’ve all been in the top ten boys names (and one year were 1,2,3!).

#102

There was a Sketchy Dai in my school

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