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[The Dogmother]

Latest in the line of daft names to call your child... Tylan

 

That's a veterinary antibiotic!

[Purplemaniacs]

I know of a Tylan.

 

Working with children you do hear some interesting names

 

Chrissie

[Cat tails]

We've got a Map...

A Twinkle....

And a Fanta....

[The Dogmother]

[Ain't Nobody Here]

to all those names.

 

Wonder if any of them will end up doctors, Rt Hons, etc .

 

At least it'll be easy for them to clarify their names when giving them out as adults - "Tylan as in the vetinary antibiotic", "Map as in Google", "Twinkle as in star" and "Fanta as in orange fizzy drink".

 

What are their parents thinking, seriously .

[Cat tails]

I know...

 

Friends of friends have a Wester Storm and Finne Wolf... Poor kiddies

[soapdragon]

I read in the papers a few months ago about the French authorities not allowing a set of parents to register their child because of the name that they had chosen.......can't be sure but I think it was Strawberry (ie; fraise!)

 

When I went to register YS with the hospital registrar there was a couple ahead of me who called their son Merlot.....they told me they already had a daughter called Chardonnay; for the very first time in my life I was totally speechless and could only manage an inane grin!!!!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

They also banned Nutella as a name in France .

 

What if that family has another child - Leibfraumilch, perhaps?

[mullethunter]

can't be sure but I think it was Strawberry

 

It was Nutella

[Ain't Nobody Here]

can't be sure but I think it was Strawberry

 

It was Nutella

It was Strawberry (Fraise) and Nutella .

[Space Chick]

I was in the doctors surgery and a little boy was called. His name is "Substantial Evans"

[Cat tails]

A friend of mine knows a Chardonnay. Three guesses what her brother is called...

 

Authorities banned a family from naming their kid Flower. Their last name was Pot....

 

Edit: calling your kid Nxt, when your last name is Drink, is somehow acceptable

[Alis girls]

We had a baby called Beyonce at my last practice. She was a large baby and not that pretty and quite a few remarks were made re the fact she wasnt as attractive as the woman she was named after. She may well blossom and be a swan later on in life. I do feel for these tots with silly names.

[Charlottechicken]

Ooh, there's a thread on here from about 5 years ago that I started when I heard a little girl being spoken to at my local station. Her name was Ikea, which turned out, after discussion on here, to be a religious name. A previous neighbour's granddaughter is called Mercedes Cara

[gavclojak]

Oh I bet I can trump all you guys. Over the last few weeks I have had a "godsgift' and a "princess Diana".

 

Last year I had a "praise jah"!!!

 

We have had a dimple too and a take on casey which was spelt K'C.

[Blackrocksrock]

Oh I bet I can trump all you guys.

 

We have had a dimple too and a take on casey which was spelt K'C.

 

That surely was the dog!!!!!!

[The Dogmother]

 

I have come across a Dimple through work, although I understand that it is a common name in India.

[Bramble]

I've come or across one or two parents who've later regretted naming their children after "celebrities" - it seems like the parents were quite young when they had children and they've sort of grown up together but are stuck with the name ...

 

I still find it amusing that Katie Hopkins rants about various names she considers inappropriate - she, apparently, doesn't like place names as names for children ... not sure why she called her daughter India, then?

[Ain't Nobody Here]

And to think my mother was frowned upon for choosing Matthew and Victoria for our names - deemed very old-fashioned at the time apparently!

[Daphne]

This thread has made me laugh

 

Mercedes is a traditional Spanish name though, so perhaps Mercedes Cara is of Spanish descent? Or Mercedes Cava as I have just typed!

[Valkyrie]

My husband liked the name Mercedes I did too though but then I told him no cars and no football teams because he told me no flora or fauna. Well that put paid to Forrest then. Poor kid probably would have been called Gump!

 

But then I said no names beginning with B - with Leach as a surname the little darlings would probably be nicknamed Domestos or Harpic!

[Cat tails]

Btw Tylan is a normal North African name. We have a few of those in school too.

[Charlottechicken]

This thread has made me laugh

 

Mercedes is a traditional Spanish name though, so perhaps Mercedes Cara is of Spanish descent? Or Mercedes Cava as I have just typed!

 

Nope, English and unfortunately from the rougher side of the tracks

[The Dogmother]

Btw Tylan is a normal North African name. We have a few of those in school too.

 

It is? I lived in north Africa, but don't remember the name from there.

[Cat tails]

Okay well maybe the people originally from North Africa are going over to the ridiculous baby names too...