Names

DD2 here in Oz has a neighbour with 2 boys; the 3 year old is called Rider and the 8 month old is Hunter - duh!

Have known of 2 (English) girls called Jorja.

In Leamington Spa there is a firm of Solicitors call Wright Hassell. Their offices are quite large so they must be quite successfull!

How about the solicitors in Sligo called Argue and Phibbs? And DH was very taken with the chic young businesswoman being interviewed on an American news programme. Her name was given as Feleny.

There's a newsreader on Channel 7 or is it 9, who is referrred to as ' and now back to Nataarsha'. What the****? How pompous can you get, until I realised that she is actually spelt Natarsha......duh; one to add to my collection on the other thread - goes well with Rebekkar!

I told my eldest sister I was sure Orroroo was one of the towns on the Mallee Highway, I was sure I had seen a sign saying Orroroo. She said no, it is a town in the mid north of South Australia. The next time I was driving to Victoria via the Mallee Highway I passed through a town called Pinaroo, as I was leaving I saw a sign which said 'ooroo from Pinaroo'. Ooroo is Aussie lingo for goodbye. No wonder I was confused.

In the suburb of Toowong, Brisbane, there is a Chinese restaurant called 'The Two Wongs'.

In the film 'Brassed Off' they called a fish n chip shop 'In Cod We Trust'.

We have some funny place names round here - I particularly like 'Yorky's Knob' a small hill on the way to Nimbin.

I knew someone called Lydia Kettle, also my swimming instructor was called Mr Crabb, and an excellent one he was too, instructor that is!!

Ahaha - our daughter was born June 73 there. Yes, remember Mr Baker well too.

Hey granjura...Mr Club was my consultant in the 70's.....and there was also a Mr Baker!

Granny23 I was at school with someone whose surname was Nutt and she had a cousin called Hazel.

There was an estate agent in Dartmouth...Letcher and Scorer

We have a local hairdressers called Tangles which really doesn't fill me with confidence.

The nearest fish and chip shop is called The Right Plaice.

I thought my name would be unique until my brother-in-law introduced us to his new girlfriend and her 2 year old daughter who had my first name. They later married and he adopted the daughter making 2 of us with exactly the same name, including middle names, in one family.

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I have often wondered which bright spark came up with the Impact School of Driving.

DD3's as well.

jura, not 100%, but I'm pretty sure my first name last name combo is unique too.

I chose my surname after my divorce as I did not like either my married or my birth name. I thought it would be fairly unusual, but there are 127 people with the same first and surname as me on Facebook. I usually have to spell it out in France and even in the UK I have had at least four spellings of what I thought was a straightforward name.

A girl in my class at school was called Wendy Cockshaw - I don't think her parents had thought about the initials. Another girl was called Tannith Diggle. I wonder if either of them are GN members!

The most common name in my class was, surprisingly, not Mary, but Sheila.
(I can still list all 32 classmates in alphabetical order - along with the states of America it is one of my memory tests for myself).

Swindles and Gentry - accountants in Seaford

The Consultant obstetrician who looked after me/us when we had our first was called Mr Club - always a big joke in that area (Staffs).

There was a plaque on a wall in Darlington..not sure what the guy did ... but as kids we always laughed at it and joked, 'Look there's A Minto on the wall! Don't think they make Mintoes anymore!

Oh, how could Mr and Mrs Nutt have called their daughter Hazel? Shame...

I also had a GP called Dr Bone when I was a child.

One of the specialists at SRI was Dr De'ath.

I went to school with Ellen Nutt and her sister Hazel.

Our unisex hairdresser/barbers is call 'All Cut and Dried'

We used to have solicitors nearby called Welch & Robb and now have a firm called Black & Markie.

No one gave a thought to his name when Christopher Smith joined my DD's class until that unmentionable time of year came round and he was subjected to hundreds of bad jokes featuring Chris Smith's cards, presents, trees, stockings and so on. I believe he is a dad now so he will be Father Chris Smith!

I remember when my son and DIL were talking about names when my first GD was expected. I said pretend you are a teacher in a playground and you call out the name. If everyone doesn't fall about laughing or with horror the you're ok.