What's in a name?

[QueenBee]

Parents give their kids a name when they are born and in most cases and countries these children are pretty much stuck with these names for life. Some people have beautiful names. I hate my name and I am stuck with it. Does a name make a person? My partner and I are trying for a baby- if it's a girl can I call her Mercedes. Should I go even further and call her Mercedes Gullwing my dream car? Why do parents give children silly names? Please post your thoughts on this and silliest names you have come across.

[MethylatedSpirit]

This is why people have nicknames

I know someone called Treasa Green

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Girl at my school was Nicola Tipple.

What were they thinking?

[Ari]

Mercedes is a lovely name for a girl. Why not hyphenate it with Chardonnay to give it even more class.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

I also knew a family in Sheffield who had several children, 2 with the same name (they ran out of ideas)

[Buff Mchugelarge]

Mercedes was a girls name before it was a cars.
I thought the name Vectra would be nice for a girl if the car wasn't so.. mundane.
Elise too..

[Codswallop]

Ari said:

Mercedes is a lovely name for a girl. Why not hyphenate it with Chardonnay to give it even more class.

Mercedes-Porsche also sounds classy

[GTIR]

Buff Mchugelarge said:

Mercedes was a girls name before it was a cars.
I thought the name Vectra would be nice for a girl if the car wasn't so.. mundane.
Elise too..

Mondeo is mundane.

I met a boy called Skye last week. (Met as in chatted to his stupid big titted parent)

I met a bloke in Surfers Paradise, Australia in about 95 who was trying so hard to be cool it was embarrassing. His name was River.

I like my unusual name. (Tarquinius)

[QueenBee]

When i worked for a university in London I met Africans with names like; "Wisdom", "Bright", "Precious" or "Patience".- Why? Worse still I met a; "Trymore". It makes "Apple", "Peaches" and "Blossom" sound "normal".

[QueenBee]

Buff Mchugelarge said:

Mercedes was a girls name before it was a cars.
I thought the name Vectra would be nice for a girl if the car wasn't so.. mundane.
Elise too..

I have met an "Elise", but I guess that is why I moved out of London. There was a "Darlington" and a "Blessing". The name "Pretty" seems normal amongst Asians (it may be spelt differently though). Is it right to just name your child anything? Should there be rules for this sort of thing.

[lamboman100]

There is very strong academic research suggesting your name determines much of your success in life. Short, simple and posh will do better in life than long, complex and common. There was research just a few days ago suggesting short simple names are more "trustworthy" than long tongue-twisters. Humans are funny things.

[QueenBee]

Lol I just found this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2529425/...
Peppa?! Luck!!! and is it "Tea-Reem"? Or is it Tea and someone else named Reem?

[QueenBee]

MethylatedSpirit said:

This is why people have nicknames

I know someone called Treasa Green

Well I have never had one for some reason :-(

[kiethton]

Went to Uni with a guy called Phillip Hunt, what made it worse is his middle name was Michael...

[drivin_me_nuts]

I know a Nazi and a Golliand yes, names can be tricky.

[QueenBee]

lamboman100 said:

There is very strong academic research suggesting your name determines much of your success in life. Short, simple and posh will do better in life than long, complex and common. There was research just a few days ago suggesting short simple names are more "trustworthy"
than long tongue-twisters. Humans are funny things.

Please post a link for the research if you can. I named my first child after my mum. If I have a boy I am thinking Zacchary. Trendy at the moment, (I Think) but would the child hate that old fashioned biblical name in 20 years?

[Dave Hedgehog]

lamboman100 said:

There is very strong academic research suggesting your name determines much of your success in life. Short, simple and posh will do better in life than long, complex and common. There was research just a few days ago suggesting short simple names are more "trustworthy" than long tongue-twisters. Humans are funny things.

or maybe that posh ppl give their kids posh short names and have the money to ensure their kids have the best start possible

[lamboman100]

QueenBee said:

lamboman100 said:

There is very strong academic research suggesting your name determines much of your success in life. Short, simple and posh will do better in life than long, complex and common. There was research just a few days ago suggesting short simple names are more "trustworthy"
than long tongue-twisters. Humans are funny things.

Please post a link for the research if you can. I named my first child after my mum. If I have a boy I am thinking Zacchary. Trendy at the moment, (I Think) but would the child hate that old fashioned biblical name in 20 years?

http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2012/02/09/people-wit...

If you are serious about naming, the trick is to look at the latest baby names in the top 5 richest towns in southeast England (e.g. Ascot, Berkshire), work out which 5 names are the most popular there, and then copy one of those. Where the richest 1% lead today, the other 99% usually follow tomorrow.

[Honk]

I knew of a Ms. Town who called her daughter "Tamla-Mo"

[Pickled]

One of my old neighbours had 3 kids, 2 girls called Mercedes & Porsche and a son named Robin...