Children's names

A friend of a friend called her new baby Zachariah Bartholomew, that's something of a mouthfull. A child in my DGD's previous school was called Halo I never found out if it was male or female, having just seen a list of prize winners on a board in the hall.

In one of my classes India sat next to Chynah.

Doesn't it mean "Dawn"? Very apt for a lot of girls I should think.

There was a girl at my school in the 1950s called 'Aurora' - I believe she is now a Disney Princess!

Dusty Roades is a WWE Super star ,so they must be wrestling fans how do i have this info well been a closet fan for 50years

Dusty Roades! I have taught a Carol Singer and a boy called AJ whose baby brother was Wolf. My mum once showed me a school photo from the 1930s and there was a girl in her class called Norah Window. I am sure that many fellow retired teachers on here will also have names which they would never have used for their own children as the said pupils were so 'challenging'!

It's all to do with the parents need to feel 'special'. Why, God only knows.
It's moronic.

My DD childminder a little boy in Canada called Dusty Rhodes.

Our neighbour's son is called Jaz (just one z).

I knew an Arora Pandora -not joking.

I encountered a Tewsdae at the school where I worked - a lifetime of spelling it out lay ahead poor child.

My sons and grandsons all have 'traditional' names, but my daughters have slightly unusual names chosen for their meanings.
My youngest daughter was once out on the town and met a girl. It turned out that the girl and her sister had the same names as my eldest two daughters - apparently their mother had met me at some stage and loved my daughters names. I took it as a great compliment.

In my class at school there were 4 Janes, 4 Ann (e)s and 4 Susans. A friends GD was recently called Elsie Norah Jessie. Would fit right in with that 1950s class mentioned earlier!

I have an unusual name which I have only come across about half a dozen times. I have always hated it until I met a girl with the same name who served us in a national trust tea room. I asked if she also hated it or if she shortened it, as I do! She looked totally baffled, so I have decided that it can't be that bad really.

DD3 called her youngest by a very different name but it is getting more common now. It really suits DGD3!

One of the most beautiful but gut wrenching bits of writing ever, that. Makes me well up to think about it.

"Sorrow" was the name that Tess gave her dead baby in "Tess of the Durbervilles". It was apt then and in that book, but today?

When my mother booked my sister's baptism, the priest was very concerned that she had a first name – Wendy – that wasn't a saint's name, but my mother suggested that there was a first time for everything (clearly wishful thinking). He was less cross about my baptism, but still not a saint's name. Our second names are. Why should it matter? If the name sounds right, why not use it?

Ive heard many strange and odd names. I think the worst was 'sorrow' what's wrong with people! Honestly poor mite. I'm always amazed that people get so offended when I miss spell or mispronunce these wacky names. The tick-a-tape in my head says "well pick something easy then" but of course I smile ever so sweetly

We used to have a cat called Eedy.....Geddit?

We were sitting by the river in Woodbridge on a beautiful summer's day, when we heard a mother scolding her son of about 8 to 'Do hurry up, Oedipus!'

Shocked into even more silent silence, we were!

Now there's someone who hadn't read the book, I thought...

I don't think Romeo Beckham etc would be teased as the children these days are used to barmy unusual names and take them in their stride. It's just us (who grew up with classrooms full of Margarets Susans and Jennifers who find it all a bit hard to take.

And Katie Price has a Princess and now a Bunny! The actor David Carradine named his son Free Seagull, don`t know if the son changed it when he grew up or not.

You were saying about whacky names Purpledaffodil

It's not just the wacky names either. Misspelling ordinary ones is popular, Apryll is one I saw recently. I was in a class of eight year olds the other day which reminded me of a fifties Darby and Joan club; Stanley, Ada, Elsie and Agnes among others

Yes, Romeo Beckham's 13 now so I expect he's got used to it! David Bowie called his first son Zowie but the lad changed his name as soon as he could - to Duncan...