Kids with stupid names...

[Bobberoo99]

Could all this be a carryover from our American friends? There are some fantastically screwed up names over there:-
Shaniqua
Jayden
Peyton
Beyoncé (yes I know she's hot and popular, but REALLY!?!?!)
Kanye (He's just a Kn*b so it's fine!)
But you get my drift, everyone knows we secretly covet our American cousins!!

[AstonZagato]

A useful widget for plotting the change in popularity of almost any child's name on a graph. Unfortunately it is embedded in a Daily Mirror page.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/how-popul...

[HTP99]

AstonZagato said:

A useful widget for plotting the change in popularity of almost any child's name on a graph. Unfortunately it is embedded in a Daily Mirror page.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/how-popul...

Interesting, my daughters name was at a peak the year that she was born; 1999, almost 400 registrations (which is very low compared to the popular names) but it dropped significantly from the following year to a low of about 60 in 2014.

I guess everyone else came across the name the same way that we did; a controversial character in Eastenders, who was a nutjob!

[Bullett]

My son was born in 2009, the year after his name had a massive spike in popularity peaking at No5 and then declining again slowly.
I wonder why.

[del mar]

Have you ever looked at the roster of an American College football team ??

I can only assume their parents use some form of random letter generator to come up with their names, and if they don't make it as a pro god help them in the employment market

[SpeckledJim]

Bullett said:

My son was born in 2009, the year after his name had a massive spike in popularity peaking at No5 and then declining again slowly.
I wonder why.

Poor little Pistorius.

Reassure him it doesn't matter how popular his name is, you'll always love him.

[lucido grigio]

There's a bloke on tv quiz now called Oobar or something ,that's how its being pronounced.

He appears to be English ,not some foreign Johnny.

[jas xjr]

oddball1313 said:

A new low today at a petting zoo in Leicestershire

Caleb, Keanu and, Mason were having a birthday party according the welcome board

Then heard in no particular order (apologies if spelling is off)

Kaylon
Kaydon
Arun (thats how she pronounced it)
Some horrible Katy Jane, Ellie May, Lilly Mae thing shouted across the sandpit

Maybe the parents think these names will help them do better than them in life and get to shovel st with a JCB rather than a shovel although looking at the fat f**ks i doubt they do much physical work

arun is a traditional indian name. fairly popular with the indian community over here

[LordHaveMurci]

Why is it that the vast majority of missing kids that spring up on my Facebook feed have names from the many replies on this thread, the latest being Kallum, the last one was Kourtney.

[shirt]

HTP99 said:

AstonZagato said:

A useful widget for plotting the change in popularity of almost any child's name on a graph. Unfortunately it is embedded in a Daily Mirror page.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/how-popul...

Interesting, my daughters name was at a peak the year that she was born; 1999, almost 400 registrations (which is very low compared to the popular names) but it dropped significantly from the following year to a low of about 60 in 2014.

I guess everyone else came across the name the same way that we did; a controversial character in Eastenders, who was a nutjob!

3 registrations for my name in 2014 which is where the graph goes upto. 3 for my OH in 2016 with a high of 6 over the year range.

a colleague named his son cayden/caiden recently. it was all i could do not to smile when thinking of this thread. apparently it is both celtic and persian, suiting both parent's lineage but also suiting many council estates the length of the country.

Edited by shirt on Friday 13th October 16:47

[shirt]

HTP99 said:

Interesting, my daughters name was at a peak the year that she was born; 1999, almost 400 registrations (which is very low compared to the popular names) but it dropped significantly from the following year to a low of about 60 in 2014.

I guess everyone else came across the name the same way that we did; a controversial character in Eastenders, who was a nutjob!

saskia?

whats annoying is that there are 250 sidneys registered last year and 3 nevilles. my name is on the popularity par with neville FFS, its not even remotely strange or obscure!

amusingly my OH's name is one letter out from that which is 2nd most popular for girls.

[HTP99]

shirt said:

HTP99 said:

Interesting, my daughters name was at a peak the year that she was born; 1999, almost 400 registrations (which is very low compared to the popular names) but it dropped significantly from the following year to a low of about 60 in 2014.

I guess everyone else came across the name the same way that we did; a controversial character in Eastenders, who was a nutjob!

saskia?

Yep!!

[Some Gump]

Hackney said:

I'm a bd and have stitched my kids right up with names completely incompatible with life.
Sadhbh and Ruairí will now spend 4% of their entire lives trying to tell people their name, and a further 14.7% repeating their email addresses, only for the email to bounce back yet again.

FTFY =)

[Lance Catamaran]

Some Gump said:

Hackney said:

I'm a bd and have stitched my kids right up with names completely incompatible with life.
Sadhbh and Ruairí will now spend 4% of their entire lives trying to tell people their name, and a further 14.7% repeating their email addresses, only for the email to bounce back yet again.

FTFY =)

I know someone called Sianne, which is pronounced Cyan, and she has had to spend her entire life explaining it to everyone she meets. She's said before how genuinely difficult and frustrating it can be, and she's thought of changing it several times. So giving your child this sort of name has long-term consequences.

[Steve Evil]

shirt said:

saskia?

whats annoying is that there are 250 sidneys registered last year and 3 nevilles. my name is on the popularity par with neville FFS, its not even remotely strange or obscure!

amusingly my OH's name is one letter out from that which is 2nd most popular for girls.

We named our son Sidney last year, after my Grandad, my wife has since started watching Grantchester on ITV which has a main character called Sidney, so I'm guessing that counts for a fair chunk of the other 249.

[funkyrobot]

HTP99 said:

AstonZagato said:

A useful widget for plotting the change in popularity of almost any child's name on a graph. Unfortunately it is embedded in a Daily Mirror page.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/how-popul...

Interesting, my daughters name was at a peak the year that she was born; 1999, almost 400 registrations (which is very low compared to the popular names) but it dropped significantly from the following year to a low of about 60 in 2014.

I guess everyone else came across the name the same way that we did; a controversial character in Eastenders, who was a nutjob!

17 babies were given the same name as my daugther when she was born in 2014. That was the peak year for that name. It's dropped to 13 a year since.

[shirt]

Also worth noticing no Le-a's were registered in any year.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

[CanAm]

shirt said:

Also worth noticing no Le-a's were registered in any year.

http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp

That's rubbish! Four or five people on here know someone who definitely know someone who have heard of someone called Le-a.

[jimPH]

A girl I know told me her baby daughter was called Teagan-Flo, which was trying too hard to be original I thought. It would fit in well where I work overseas, they use a lot of English words as names, such as; Happiness, Godspower, Loveday, Goodluck, Bright, Smart, Precious (male), Comfort, Peace, Prince, Believe etc.

My second daughter is due and although we haven't decided her name, it will be a traditional English one that we like.

[thegreenhell]

Jihad!