Names

Do you ever hear a certain name on the radio or out and about and just think that kids gonna be a shit when they are older?

Cheynade, Destiny, Junior, Chardonnay etc

The way I think of names is.. in the corporate environment would I take someone called that seriously.

My daughter's name is Kyra, which is quite normal I wouldn't have ever considered calling her anything
out of the ordinary or made up it is really selfish to call kids names like that imo.

If I had a boy I would have called him Nathaniel.. Nat for short.

I'm in a super bad mood today so stupid names irk me more than usual.

Would you take the name Indiana seriously?

How could you not take Indiana seriously?

A friend of mine called her daughter Chauntayne a few years back. We no longer speak.

indiana, montana... fuck that shit

I prefer names employed by the royals

Edward, Kate, Charles, Pippa et al are proper

Indiana: serious bidness.

Well apparently they don't

My sister is an educational psychologist and she said kids with the names that begin with 'J' seem to be the most problematic like Jake, Jeff, Jaden etc

yup was gonna say Jade saw it in news t'other day like an' thought to mesellf aye that's gonna be one problem child

John????

JESUS

I think your sisters telling ya stories for shits and giggles

d as in daktar straight to prison

Purely from her experience of kids she has had to work with....it's hardly concrete fact for across the board

google suggests she's not alone

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/sep/08/baby-names-popular-chart

I'd suggest that if there is any correlation between the letter of the name and behaviour it would be a reflection on the parents socio and cultural makeup rather than the name itself

saying that who calls their son bigdogcunt?

refer Viz

Unfortunately, there will be a heavy amount of confirmation bias here too, which is only bad for the kids. I recall another study around expectation/perception where kids new to a class were randomly split into two groups and the teachers were told "this group of kids aren't that bright" or whatever, and the opposite of the other group. And at the end of the term, the "bright" kids got significantly better grades...

That will never happen. Well not unless people change a lot over the next few years. I've been a Nathan for 30 years now and it's only ever Nate (with the occasional addition of 'dogg' to the end) or, as I prefer, Nath (said Nayth). Saying 'Nat' implies that your son's name is Natalie. Which would still be preferable to calling ones' child Chardonnay.

(For fuck's sake who are these people?)



gc.

Yeah I'm assuming she meant Nate, as Nat is undoubtedly a girls name.

Yeah I mean Nate that's a good nickname.. or short name

I always wanted people to call me Lee.. but that doesn't happen it's just Lisa.

My friend called her son Jett and another friend called her son Ocean. We are westies but c'mon seriously that is just fkd up.

I was supposed to be called Louisa but yeah... I think mum spelt it wrong or something not sure but my cousin has that name now. I'm gutted cos I could have been Lou for short.. how cute is that

I think that for sure. Not directly because of the name, but because I know if the parents named their kid something like that, they almost certainly won't be any good at being parents.

What about Loulou?

I was gonna be George but my parents decided I wasn't a George when I was born.

You think Nathaniel is an unusual name? Kyra isn't particularly common, but I wouldn't class it silly either.

I should look through our student management system for some great examples.

I wish my parents had made the same decision with me. Having the extra G in front of my name is annoying!



gc.

lol that's right!

I was going to be Kieran - but I was a girl, so that name got given to mums best friends son.

And as for the Q, yep me too! None currently spring to mind though.

Nathaniel is a pretty stupid name to me heh. Sounds Amish. Kyra is all good though.

... Your real name is Gnathan?

what I was thinking...

I find I keep shagging girls who's name start with the letter 'K'... is that normal?

I like GNT.

oh dear, my name begins with J does that mean I was a problematic child?... most likely I was/am. I was going to be Bronwyn.... don't like that name... reminds me of a 1960's ginga. No idea why.

And if I was a boy it was to be Duncan. :/

kyra.... normal... what.planet.

Only acceptable names for girls are Catherine, Victoria, Elizabeth, and possibly Rebecca although it's always been too jewy for me.

Same with boys... only acceptable to name them after powerful / important historical figures. So you have John, Richard, James, Alexander etc (and of course my first name too)....

Bernice?

well I didn't mean that literally, there are a few others.. Bernice would maybe be one of them, because of Berenice was the first queen of one of the most important dynasties of Egypt, so it count's because it's a name of an important historical figure.

Greatest girls name of all time is Athena you fucking opies! :>

Reminds me of a slightly chubby dyke a la Lynda Topp for some reason.

It's no more religious sounding than Luke.


I play cricket sometimes with a dude named Nat. For ages I called him Nate before he corrected me heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U59AKvP_E0

"Nathaniel" instantly makes me think of this from hen I was about five

Nup, Bronwyn is a hot hippy girl's name, and yes you were ^_^

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I think I'm the same with "P" names.



Time to move on to Q or O maybe

My friend knows a dude in Canada that changed his name to Park Bench. By deed poll. Serious business.

Naming your child after alcohol is just sad

My parents thought about naming me Roxanne, but I guess they thought the better of it. I was also going to be Vanessa, but they didnt want my initials to be VD. Im glad they put some serious thought into it.

A few years back I heard some woman call her (about four years old) daughter "Paris Hilton" at Onehunga Dressmart.

Poor kid.

But my REAL pet hate is mis-spelling Jarrod - Jarryd/ Jarrad/ Jarred/Jared/ etc etc. FFS, your name will forever be a monument to your parents illiteracy.

if the parent has picked and written the name on the registry papers (or whatever they do) then surely one can't accuse them of misspelling?

Maicon Douglas says otherwise (Brazilians can't spell Michael).

My wife's uncle is a pilot for Cathay Pacific and his fellow pilot buddy was hiding from his ex wife (settlement monies etc..) so he legally changed his name to Jack Sparrow. So when he makes any announcement over the in filght pa, he starts with "Ladies and Gentlemen, this is Captain Jack Sparrow..." Awesome.

I laugh when people name their kids after fruit. I also know a couple that named their daughter "Angel"!! Ah ha ha ha haaa

Parents who want their children to have supposedly 'unique' names can go fuck themselves.
If I have kids they'll have boring but solid christian first names and preferably no middle names.
Their deeds and exploits shall make them unique.
I'm going to train them as ninjas.

ninjas aren't unique though

My dad has suffered a life of people misspelling his name - "Warryn".



gc.

Fuck, Australians are so good at fucking with the conventional spelling of names. Fucking illiterate cuntbags :/

Agree that spastic spellings suck, but Jared is the right one!

Jarrod is a bastardisation of the proper Biblical name Jared...and there's a heap of related names which are prefectly valid

Spelling Michelle as Meshal is a better example of retarded spellings

I have a bastardised name spelling.