bronze Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 My family suffered the same thing as my maiden name was David. Used to drive me potty I dont think I look like a boy. My brother has another name that could be a surname too. Was nice though because I could give my eldest it as a middle name and it not sound odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I'm a sucker for old-fashioned names, but I never expected to have a Stanley of my own. OH had kept it in mind (he has an uncle with the name and always liked it) and started calling him by that name when he was just a bump. By the time he arrived and was definitely, as we had suspected all along, a boy, there was no way I could think of him as anything else! His middle name is George, after my Dad and OH's Dad who had it as his middle name, most convenient. DS2 is Louis Edward and is heartily sick of being called LEWIS not Louis, by people who read his name. Now he wades in and says 'I'm called Louis, you spell it luh-o-uh-ih-suh and it's French' He's 6! Sometimes we regret lumbering him in this way, but that's how you spell Louis and I still think it's a beautiful name for a boy. It goes well with our surname which is French in origin. Had he been a girl, he would have been Florence. I have taught numerous kids with unusual names - two of them have letters rather than names - CJ and BJ, and another is TeeJay. What is it with 'J'? And as for the list of names I couldn't even have considered beacuse of the kids associated with those names , well suffice it to say it made naming our own rather more tricky than it could have been. A friend of mine became a Granny the other day - the little mite is Esme which I think is beautiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Theres a child called BJ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Oh yes. Poor soul. His parents just can't have thought it through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susanbb Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Theres a child called BJ?? They must like Barney the dinosaur then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Maybe. His brother is Tod. Perhaps they were just going for the 'shortest names' section in the guinnes Book of Records? I once taught a John Smith, he compensated for having the world's most ordinary name by being a real character - lovely lad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 And I lived along the road from a Tuppence........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 ...and another is TeeJay. What is it with 'J'? Teejay? That's on the birth certificate? Just like that? I always presumed 'TJ' would be short for two names - Thomas James - etc. I'd never dreamt it would be a name in it's own right. Quite bizarre really. There's a lady at work who has a JonJo. I'm just not sure myself. Each to their own I guess My friend has an Esme. Lovely isn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 What is it with 'J'? I always thought the 'J' stood for junior. Maybe the dad was called Billy and they name the son Billy jnr which is shortened to BJ? Could be wrong though Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I was one of several Catherines during my school years although we all abbreviated our names differently, Cathy, Kate, Katie etc Ditto but I was the one who got stuck with being just "Catherine". As soon as I left school and started nursing with a new group of people, I shortened it to Kate and can't think of myself as anything else now. My eldest is Thomas James with the James after my brother. Turned out my Step Great Grandad was a Thomas James too. Ollie was going to be a girl and we'd not thought of any suitable boys names as we were so sure he was a she. We'd got Rebecca Lucy lined up as a name but I desperately wanted to use my Grandma's name - Constance. Mum would have disowned us if we had . Shame because it's a lovely name and shortens so nicely to Connie. I'd also have liked Emily as a girls name but with our surname........Emily Bellamy .........I think not! Anyway, Ollie turned out to be a he so quick thinking provided us with Oliver from goodness knows where as it's not a family name and Edward as a middle name after LSH's middle name. The best name I came across while I was a classroom assistant was Anakin . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I have a Constance in one of my classes Kate. She's a Connie. I think it's a lovely name, and a first for me in all of my 10 years at the Uni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I only ever came across one other Connie when I was working in schools. It's a name which grows up nicely to adulthood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 What is it with 'J'? My middle name is Jay! I hated being called CJ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 See, Jay is fine. I quite like it for a boy. It's name in itself. I can't imagine anyone spelling it 'J' though. It's almost like people are naming their children to make it easy on the texting!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 What is it with 'J'? I always thought the 'J' stood for junior. Maybe the dad was called Billy and they name the son Billy jnr which is shortened to BJ? Could be wrong though Tessa Fraid so Tessa. When we admit a child with an unusual name we triple check - his birth certificate says 'BJ'. And 'TeeJay' is on his birth certificate too. At a parents evening I asked BJ's Mum if it was short for anything and she said no, they just liked it. Jay is not unusual as a name in the area I work in, at one point I had 3 male Jays and one female in a class. It sounds like a Great Classroom Birdwatch! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 There is a person in my school called Darshi t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 There is a person in my school called Dar"Ooops, word censored!" To be fair its a Hindu name and I doubt it has the same impact in Hindi and Urdu and the like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 Fraid so Tessa. When we admit a child with an unusual name we triple check - his birth certificate says 'BJ' I'm gobsmacked at that. I just don't see the attraction? Jay is not unusual as a name in the area I work in, at one point I had 3 male Jays and one female in a class. It sounds like a Great Classroom Birdwatch! All you need are a couple of Robin's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 There is a person in my school called Dar"Ooops, word censored!" To be fair its a Hindu name and I doubt it has the same impact in Hindi and Urdu and the like Yes, but still.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 OH went to school with a lad whose name was Jam Butisani. You have to say that with a Brummie accent to get the full effect. Unfortunate how non-English names can sound to English ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 OH went to school with a lad whose name was Jam Butisani. You have to say that with a Brummie accent to get the full effect. *thinks in thick Brummie accent* I used to know a Kamaljit (that's not what her brother called her ) she was Kam for short. A colleagues daughter is called Tochel, pronounced Te shell, which I have never heard before. Her son is Damarl, he is known as Marley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popcorn Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 My Oh is stood behind me reading this thread. He's just reminded me that he had a student called Genghis. And yes, unbelievably, his surname was.....yes, you guessed it.....Khan. It's true, and he was always on the naughty list apparently.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah 2 Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 (edited) Due to going to school with 6 other Sarah's I called my daughter Thea. I liked it because it was unusual but not too wacky. Noone pronounces it right though. She gets called Freya or Tia which drives her crazy. My sons are called Henri and Elliot we couldn't decide on the boys names so put about 10 names in a hat and got my daughter to choose. I found choosing boys names so much harder. My friends just had a baby and called her Clara. Edited March 14, 2008 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 We gave our second son, the one that came pre-named, the middle name Tranche, it's a small village in south Wales. He was furious when he got older and learned that it also means sandwich in French and never admits to it being his name oops Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
little chickadee Posted March 14, 2008 Share Posted March 14, 2008 I grew up in a class of 6 Clare's (all with the same middle name as me!!!)and my OH grew up in a class of 6 Stephens. We decided to give slightly more unusual names to our children (which I'm not allowed to mention due to my OH) As a teacher, there is a long list of names you cannot use because of unpleasant children !! I was horrified when, shortly after we had named our daughter, we saw a double decker bus advertising a major film with her name in the title! I was so worried that it would suddenly become a popular name. Luckily it's not too popular. There were no other children in her school with the same name as her, but when we moved to a small village school, there was another in the same year group I used to teach in Birmingham, and I loved the Hindu/ Muslim names. It took me a while to get used to them, but I loved them, and in the end wanted to give one of my children an Indian name. I loved lots of names incuding Hammara Nisha Jay Aliasgar Vaishali Arun We did chose an indian name and when we moved to the small village school, there was also another boy with the same name I agree that you shouldn't tell people your choices before you name your child. It's horrible when people pull faces We were told that we couldn't call our son Zach because of Zach Dingle in Emmerdale (by OH's grandmother!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
