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Those names are dreadful gally - I would even hesitate on naming a dog with some of them!

Those Ozzie names are truly awful Gally.I was very indecisive about naming my four DCs and didn't register the names til the last minute.With my last DD we chose Kate but when I was sitting in the car park of the Registry Office I changed my mind and registered her as Alice!She finds it funny to read through all the cards congratulating us on the birth of Kate.I hope someone doing family history in the future doesn't think we had an extra secret child

Sprry, CAN'T find me again. Too early in the morning, for a Sunday.

Lilygran I do sympathise. In my case the problems are compounded by a long double-barrelled surname.. Every time I go to collect a prescription we have the same pantomime. We solemnly decide whether they will file me under C or S, until the next time, when they can find me again. Computers often truncate my name anyway. Heaven knows how the system copes with all the complex foreign names of pole who live here now.

Gally my sister decided, when she was in her late forties to begin using her middle name and amazingly everyone adapted very easily and quickly. Both my husband and I are known by our second names and mostly it doesn't cause too many problems.

I have come across some corkers here in Oz :
Reeannon, Indyannah, Kade,Keeghan, Kaelan, Mahlaya (all from one family - Mum's called Sharon and Dad is Kevin!). Bronte, Reegan, Ayeesha, Sierra, Paris, Cruize, Bekkaah, London, Clayton, Tully, Meeghan, Slater, Rocky, Mawgern, Fletcher, Murphy.............
I am thankful that my 8 grandchildren all have conservative names, although I did become slightly exercised when D3 considered naming her son Percy (surname is Prescott!). Luckily common sense prevailed...
My first name I never,ever use although unfortunately it is on all formal documents and my second name is Sara, but for some reason I have always been called Sally and only answer to that. I would like to revert to Sara but it is all too complicated at this late stage in the game.

Oh, Ganja, I've suffered from this all my life! A friend at school in the same position took advantage of the move to secondary school to change to her first name but I didn't have the nerve. It has got worse now all your details are on-line. Also, have you noticed that there's often no room on official forms for more than two given names and one family name? When I was teaching I found that often this caused problems for staff and students from countries where people habitually use several names. Whichever two they decided to use, there would be complications because there would be discrepancies among their various official documents.

When we joined the Regiment in the early 70s it was Wayne, Lee and Darren, Sharon, Tracy and Meeechelle. Or Simon, Henry and Mark, Sarah, Emma and Charlotte. Nuff said!!

My Elder DD has never quite forgiven me for giving her a first name she does not use. She is always known by her second name, has her bank account etc. in that name but bucket shop airlines have been known to charge her £40 to change her ticket to the first name on her passport. New parents beware, it can cause problems.

I grew up with a lot of Margarets and the other names were Carol and Shirley, but I was glad when I moved to Germany to have name that was easy. I gave my daughters international names as well, as I suffered from an unusual surname and had to spell it out again and again. I wanted to spare them that.

Both my daughters have kept their own surnames after marriage and the children are called after the father in one household and after the mother in the other. Siblings have to have the same surname but apart from that the law leans towards Womens' emanzipation.

Two of my nephews are Alfed and Albert named after my dad and grandad. Now there are lot's of Alfie's but 21 yrs ago it sounded very old fashioned!
My two grandsons have street names as their middle names! Hamilton ..the road where we lived next door to SiL & his family (DD & SiL were just 3 at the time!) and Hallam the road they live in now with the two boys!

crimson never thought of that!!

crimson!

I've often thought how difficult it must be being a celebrity and having to think up an unusual name for any offspring, which is obligatory if one is famous. But find Shiloh Pitt rather confusing [spoonerism ].....

Doris, Gladys, Eunice, Hilda, Cyril, Cedric, Percy, Oswald - I can't imagine any of these names coming back. Which probably means they will be trendy next year! I used to know a Eunice who must now be 50-something. Were Cedric, Percy and Oswald characters from Walter Scott?

I once heard a child shout: Eyengell, you seen Precious?

I had only met one other person with my name until my brother in law married soneone who already had a daughter with the same name. He eventually adopted the child so there are two people in one family with unusual names. Apart from our neice I have only ever met 4 other people with my name. I hated it until about 5 years ago and now tolerate it. My mother's maiden name was Tracy which my granny wanted her to use as my first name - luckily she, predictably, chose the more snobby route.

I was born in 1947 and my mum wanted to call me Sharon but my dad wouldn't let her as he'd never heard of it and so I became Christine. Boring then as there were quite a few in my class but I'm not sorry now, especially as I come from Essex.

being 'blessed' with the name Audrey (not Mollie - that is just a nom de plume) I have found it is far more common in N America (pronounced Oddrey) but very few of my vintage or younger share this name. Oh and I hate being 'Aud'
my son is a John, and my Grandson a 'Thomas' - so nice to use the old standard names.

My mum was called Queenie but the vicar (1918) refused to christen her Queenie so she has Doris on her birth certificate.

I wonder what the miserable old devil would make of todays names?

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Ella46, Mabel's middle name is Rose and I found an old postcard drawn by Mabel Rose which my DIL has framed and put up in the nursery.

Just remembered, when I was in hospital after having DD the girl in the opposite bed had had a boy, who she named Harold, after his father! I suppose he would have been called 'Harry' eventually, but I often wondered how he got on....

My hairdresser gave birth yesterday to her second son Frank, the first boy is called George.
Her friend, also a hairdresser at the same salon, has a 3 week old Maisie, and Ruby.

My dgcs are Megan Ella, Amber, Roman Bo Ming and Savannah Mai Lan (sorry Dorsetpennt)

crossstitch I always think of Mabel as Mabel Lucy Atwell's chubby babes!

There are three Florences in my GD's class.

My 5 month-old granddaughter is called Mabel. I always associated that name with my late great-aunt so think of it as an elderly lady's name. My grandson is called Charlie. Great-aunt Mabel had a brother called Charlie. My son did not know these names were old family names when he decided what to call his children.

My ex-SIL named her son Wayne, after Wayne Fontana! I don't think the poor lad ever lived it down, he was a slip of a boy and very shy....