A wacky cricket celebrity baby name...

I've always wondered how many people dubbed absurd names by bonkers parents change their name.

The ones I hate are the bogans that angrily correct you when you get the pronunciation of a weird name wrong. I feel like saying "well give the poor thing a proper name then, you look-at-me donkey".

Yes. I really do not understand all this.

I have a Samoan friend with both traditional tattoos and name. 

He told me he has met two young kids, one in the US and the other in Pomgolia, who share his name. Both families have no ties to Samoa.

He is also amusing on the subject of Westy/Euros inking up. He sees it as a form of cultural appropriation when he has had a skinful and is cross. Otherwise he just laughs at the vacuity that prompts folk to needle meaning into their lives.

skully wrote:I think wacky baby names are like tattoos. Favoured by trendy bogans and designed for "look at me" value, but largely ridiculed and ultimately regretted.

Sage

It's mainly about creating children who they think are special.

I know of parents of a drug-addled daughter who named her son Napoleon, changed his name when they were awarded custody.

JGK wrote:

Red wrote:Pharoah

Did spell correct not work on the birth form?

nice one ... you know the answer

Red wrote:It's mainly about creating children who they think are special.

I know of parents of a drug-addled daughter who named her son Napoleon, changed his name when they were awarded custody.

The first Freakonomics book talks about names and whether it has an effect on your life.   The conclusion was that shit names don't cause you to have a shit life but it is correlated - mainly because the first thing you do for a kid is give it a name.   If you can't even do that properly you are unlikely to do the harder stuff properly either.  

The great example they used was about a teenage girl called Temptress who, as it turned out, was in court for soliciting sex.  Her deadbeat mum was in the court and the judge asked her why she gave her that name.  The response was "I named her after the actress in the Cosby Show".   Of course, that actress' name was Tempestt Bledsoe - itself a stupid spelling but not Temptress.

Even worse than the whacky (moon unit, dweezil, fifi-trixabelle etc) is the stupid spelling of common names. "It's Danni with a h, j and an asterix somewhere".

In my line of work, I've sadly seen people afflicted with names for other reasons, clearly not through their own choice or that of their parents ... a bloke called Bimbo, and whole families afflicted with surnames like Potato and Cokebottle. amy you will also have seen this.

... and then there's people called Taylor choosing to christen their daughter Jenna ...

I actually knew a bouncer in PNG ( and bouncers in PNG can more or less shoot first and ask questions later with impunity) whose name was Fifi. His dog's name was Colin FFS!

Bradman wrote:Even worse than the whacky (moon unit, dweezil, fifi-trixabelle etc) is the stupid spelling of common names.  "It's Danni with a h, j and an asterix somewhere".

The greatest abomination is Jorja.

Whatever happened to Sozzie Jorja??

Red wrote:It's mainly about creating children who they think are special.

I know of parents of a drug-addled daughter who named her son Napoleon, changed his name when they were awarded custody.

They changed it to Illya?

JGK wrote:

Bradman wrote:Even worse than the whacky (moon unit, dweezil, fifi-trixabelle etc) is the stupid spelling of common names.  "It's Danni with a h, j and an asterix somewhere".

The greatest abomination is Jorja.

Yeah that's at least in the top ten. Apols to anyone who gave their kids farking stupid names.

JGK wrote:

Bradman wrote:Even worse than the whacky (moon unit, dweezil, fifi-trixabelle etc) is the stupid spelling of common names.  "It's Danni with a h, j and an asterix somewhere".

The greatest abomination is Jorja.

Whenever I see silly, or unusual spelling of kids' names, I feel for them later in life when they have to spell it out every time they are stuck on the other end of the phone, or making transactions etc.

Some of the doubling of consonants for example is ridiculous. I've come across many names like Eloise which have become Elloise, Imogen, Immogen and so on. Why?

Then there was an Emily, spelt as Emmaleigh. Le-ah. I wondered about this and till I was told that it was Lee dash ah.

The trendiest thing at the moment is to name them after countries and cities. Flowers are very much passe, but it seems like abstract nouns are in fashion again.

It is interesting to note that when the Beckhams named their daughter Harper, people thought they were going all literary, but it turns out it was after the fashion magazine.

Didn't they name one after the city/suburb they first shagged in? That should be an interesting after dinner topic in ten years or so.

skully wrote:Whatever happened to Sozzie Jorja??

She's not here ... we lost her and E_O at around the same time.

Bradman wrote:Didn't they name one after the city/suburb they first shagged in?  That should be an interesting after dinner topic in ten years or so.

Brooklyn.

Red wrote:

JGK wrote:

Bradman wrote:Even worse than the whacky (moon unit, dweezil, fifi-trixabelle etc) is the stupid spelling of common names.  "It's Danni with a h, j and an asterix somewhere".

The greatest abomination is Jorja.

Whenever I see silly, or unusual spelling of kids' names, I feel for them later in life when they have to spell it out every time they are stuck on the other end of the phone, or making transactions etc.

Some of the doubling of consonants for example is ridiculous.  I've come across many names like Eloise which have become Elloise, Imogen, Immogen and so on. Why?

Then there was an Emily, spelt as Emmaleigh.  Le-ah.  I wondered about this and till I was told that it was Lee dash ah.

The trendiest thing at the moment is to name them after countries and cities.  Flowers are very much passe, but it seems like abstract nouns are in fashion again.

It is interesting to note that when the Beckhams named their daughter Harper, people thought they were going all literary, but it turns out it was after the fashion magazine.

I've got no problem with exotic or rare names (Lord knows, my kids' names aren't exactly common). But yes, stupid spellings and just made up words are annoying. The former in particular will sentence the kids to a lifetime of annoyance.

Yeah but there's no Moon Units is there?

lardbucket wrote:

skully wrote:Whatever happened to Sozzie Jorja??

She's not here ... we lost her and E_O at around the same time.

Not sure she ever made the jump. Was in contact for a while but then she disappeared.

Which one had the disability?

Jorja

tac registered as jorja on C4

embee wrote:tac registered as jorja on C4

And Jorja posted as Sozzie