Please tell me I didn’t just see this....,,,,

I wonder if he is 'Awesome'

Isn't Kate Windswept Winslet married to someone who changed his name to Ned Rock'n'Roll?

SpringyChicken - I love the story of Tom and Awesome. Really made me chuckle! Must be the way you tell 'em!

My mother worked in a restaurant where the waiters were mainly Spanish and Portugese. Lovely names abounded including one called Jesus, pronounced Haysoos. So Mum was taught to carry multiple cups of tea and coffee on one hand by - Yep - Jesus. who better?

Jalima - Extended family has a baby Connie Jean, her second name is after a GA.
Loads of Margaret's at school with me but only a few Jeans and I don't remember an Isobel. Plenty of Carolyns too, and Gillians.

I have friends here named, Memory(male), Monday(male), more than one Prince something, and Geneva(female).
One Ambassador had a very unusual name and I always found it difficult to say it with a straight face.
My DDs name is difficult to say in French and she is now resigned to having it shortened, but not by English speakers or she gets a bit stroppy.

Interesting that Isobel has come back as a popular girls' name but the others haven't paddyann.

I have a friend who has a very nice foreign name which could have been Anglicised quite easily but her teacher in primary school said she 'couldn't pronounce it' and gave her another name which has stuck (which I don't like but I wouldn't say so).

My friend Giovanni as a small boy came to the UK several decades ago with his family, was enrolled in primary school where the nuns told him they couldn't be doing with that and he'd be John!

Wondering where those children sit

Not shocked....just a bit taken aback. It may be heard in Portugal (actually I thought the Portuguese name was Adamantino) but it’s certainly not common in the UK. It tends to sit out there with little girls called Diamonte /Chardonnay/Versace for me.

Each to their own opinion......including me.

I have great-nephews and nieces with Italian and Spanish names. Diamontino doesn't seem in the least odd.

must make life more interesting for teachers ,when I started school there were 4 Margarets ,3 Patricia's 2 each of Jeans and Isobel and the boys were worse,an abundance of Johns and Davids

we have a friend called Diamond .....
(male)

Daisyboots - I'm muttering 'Sheila' to myself but rusty school French gives me no clue to the imprecation! Zut alors!

Katek must be careful to avoid visiting Portugal and Brazil if so shocked by little Diamontino!
Bongo will either style it out or change it as did Zowie Bowie. Or answer to Mo!

Lol Diamontino is quite a popular name in Portugal. The lovely man I bought two cars from is called Diamontino and our local hardware/builders merchant is called Diamontino Rita. The ridiculous names that some people in the UK saddle with would not be allowed here. There is a list of names that have to be adhered to. There are many people called Fatima and shortened to Fati here but no one finds it funny. There is a local restaurant called O Farto which makes adult "expats" snigger but all it means is well fed or full up. Just like in my teens and staying with a French family some of the girls there could not bring themselves to call another girl Sheila because the same sounding word is a swear word there.

I have met a Dior, a Stryker, and a Princess Vogue.
Also, many people who claim a friend of a friend definitely knows a Pocahontas, but there’s no evidence of this.

www.scotsman.com/news/pocahontas-mcginty-no-she-disney-exist-1-683286

Exactly. Poor little love

[gasp]

I have posted this before. We had a lovely little girl called Brooke. Her surname was Hunt!!

I was thinking that Dwayne was not that peculiar until I read his surname
[oh dear]

My dad had a boy in his class ( honest) called Dwayne. Sadly his surname was Pipe

During a drunken university party, my friend’s son thought it would be a good idea to change his name by deed poll.
The documents arrived at home around Christmas time when his parents and grandparents were present and naturally curious about the contents of the brown envelope.
He had to confess that Tom had become Awesome.

Smithy - oh dear, you're asking me to imagine someone chavvy. Bit judgemental that, isn't it?

On second thoughts, perhaps it wasn't mis-spelled, perhaps it is correct in some countries, and it's me that's wrong?!