#8739

Unless their surname was Grove, Virgin, or Batouttahell, I think that’s okay :slight_smile:

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#8740

I thought this might be a Star Trek character, so I googled to check.

Turns out, this is a Ryker.

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#8741

Also a New York prison.

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#8742

tbf, girlchild_gunslinger is quite niche

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#8743

A lot of people name their children after the place they were conceived

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#8744

they did, but they meant the Dutch place

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#8745

Have mentioned this before but I once knew a Channing, named after the prison in which he was conceived. Think the rise of Channing Tatum was a real blessing for him.

And yeah, people should be able to name their kids whatever they want. My two main provisos would be a) will the other kids make fun of them for it and b) will it be a pain in the arse to spell.

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#8746

Yeah. But I think there’s a lot of stuff from what people remember at school. E.g. my mum wanted to call me Richard and my dad, despite having a much loved cousin called Richard (who sadly died before I was born) wouldn’t have it because a kid called Richard at school got called ‘dick’ all the time specifically as a means of insult.

I wanted a name that was a bit different like mine. I really appreciated being the only one of my name unlike the FOUR Daniels we had in our class.

But I totally get a lot of people don’t want to stand out and probably remember how the kids with a different name got the piss ripped out of them at school and just want them to fit in.

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#8747

:grimacing: :smiley:

#8748

Yeah, I totally get it. It’s about not shaming either way, right?

#8749

Oh sure, but I guess there’s only one of those you feel you can actually do for your kids or something?

I reckon there’s also a lot made of parents giving kids terrible names, like just a sort of general thing, that makes it seem like something people carry as a millstone far more than anyone actually feels. Quite a literary thing isn’t it, to speculate on a poor person’s given name. So I guess that really pushes people a lot.

(Plus the whole weird thing of naming kids after previous generations etc.)

#8750

Noah Derby Two-up Two-down Vale

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#8751

Ironically, your name is incredibly popular in recent years

#8752

Such is the wheel of names, really.

#8753

Yeah, mine has been through the same process. About ten years ago my brothers and I were the number 1, 2 and 3 boys names, none were at all popular when we were born, my mum is just a trend setter.

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#8754

dinga clacton caravan ling

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#8755

My niece’s school class is mostly Alfies, Archies and Bellas. Can’t imagine how righteously savaged an Archie would have been in my class at school.

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#8756

that’s not actually as bad as what i could’ve been called

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#8757

I blame Mumford & Sons and the general 1920s throwback thing that’s been happening for a while. (Or was.)

#8758

Apparently Peaky Blinders has inspired a wave of early 20th century names, Ada has shot up because of it (I know this because we liked the name Ada because it’s my favourite book / Ada Lovelace, but when I saw it was popular because of PB we crossed it off the list)

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