#123

Ahhhh, but if it’s a c-section then it is a Dr! He probably meant that.

#124

Doctor still signs it all off though.

#125

Dang!

#126

I thought I’d picked something relatively original for my lad. Went to register his birth and discovered it was the second most popular name in SW London for the last 6 years (after Mohammed).

We didn’t spend much time deliberating. Just pick a name, innit?

#127

I named my boy after one of the greatest Welsh men ever. Gruff Rhys :slight_smile:

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#128

I love that for blokes of a certain age of West Indian descent it’s quite common to have names like Trevor, Rodney, Wayne etc. Those very English 70s names.

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#129

Theodore Whitmore

#130

I think one thing you have to do when expecting a baby is keep the name to yourselves until you’ve named the kid…because it turns out everyone’s got a fucking opinion on what they do or don’t like, what is or isn’t acceptable…and you speak to enough people and someone will tell you before long you’re doing it wrong. There’s a bit of that in this thread. People seem to accept it a little more, or at least not impose their views on you once you have actually given the child their name and it’s all settled.

It already feels like a big enough responsibility to give a person a name and you worry enough about how it will be received by the wider world, whether they’ll ever feel self conscious about it etc. without adding any extra anxiety to the process.

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#131

met a dog called blue the other day. good dog name.

blue

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#132

bit misleading imo

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#133

^has a daughter called Daenerys and a son called Spiderman.

#134

Considered it, but unfortunately Spiderman Zowee would just have sounded daft.

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#136

probs wont have any kids but if i did i’d go for some weird name and annoy everyone
when i was 11 i really wanted to name my kid Charlie after Charlie Simpson

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#138

My mum wanted to call my brother something like Teifion but my (Welsh) Dad was against it, they gave me a Welsh middle name (more spelling) which i like cos my first and last names are quite/very common, looked it up and it means ‘sea of bitterness’ so might pass that down (probably to a cat).

Reckon it’s a good thing to have popular names so people can’t find you so easily on the internet.

#139

you can have it for free

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#140

This is a good point but if it hadn’t been for everyone giving their opinions my sister would have called her kid Xavier instead of George

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#141

There was a period where we might have named R Robert, which would have made him the third generation with the name. After a Bob and a Rob, I was insistent that I would refer to him as Bert. Probably why he didn’t end up with that name…

I do like names you can make lots of different shortenings from, like Francesca (Fran, Frankie, Frank, some more ridiculous ones) was a girls one I liked.

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#142

We chose names out of the top 50 because I never got any keyrings, badges etc with my name on and so, much like chocolate advent calendarS, neither will they :rofl:

R we always liked, plus watching a fair bit of snooker around the time he was born.
V I wanted to be Spike but was talked out of it…grateful now though. We just liked the name.

If we had girls we would have argued as I liked Maude and Pearl, MrS didn’t but we agreed on boy names. Middle names are standard solid names just as we liked them. I suggested a middle name me and my dad share but Mr s wasn’t keen …

We both drew up Google Docs shortlists and then shared them, deleted ones we didn’t like and saw what we were left with. Fun times!!

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#143

If I had a daughter, I’d want to name her Kathleen, partially because of Kathleen Hanna but mostly because I think it’s one of the cooler sounding “old lady names”.

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#144

Me and the TV used to spend ages naming kids whenever we got pissed but then, when it actually happened, we were stumped.

Eventually settled on ‘Olivia’ when I was clearing some records away and saw Dusk at Cubist Castle by Olivia Tremor Control. Indie prick…

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