Borg naming conventions for your children would be funny.

"1 of 3 get your butt over here now!"

Sean, Brock and Jason

But no matter what the names would have been...it was my choice and I do believe most people put a great deal of thought into naming their children. And who is in a position to judge a good name and a bad name but the one doing the naming and the one carrying the name?

My name is Andrew, my brother is named Alexander, and my sister is Jennifer. nah we don't have common names at all....

You should read http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article2130988.ece article..... I'm just sayin'

I agree with you, It's the parents decision on what to name their child. :shrug:

But when you start naming your child Audio Science or Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily IDK..... That maybe a little far over the line. :shrug:

Yeah, some of the people in my new classes have names that sound like Neopets.

I don't mean to offend in any way, but I feel that is a rather selfish view (although the names you gave your kids are fine). Your child is the one who is going to grow up with that name, the one who is going to bear the taunts and insults of other kids if he/she has a weird name... whether you like it or not, people are judged by their names, and giving the child a really weird name is likely to result in highly negative consequences. There are many, many studies linking really weird names to poor academic and social performance.

In summary, you are legally allowed to call your kid Rover, or Honker, or Doorknob, but that doesn't make it any less idiotic and spiteful.

EDIT: First Google response to "Weird name study" backs up my point nicely. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/29/study-links-unusual-surnames-to-criminality/

WHY WOULDN'T THEY CALL HIM HAN!?

lol there was supposed to be zis guy at my mom's old work who was calles Fred Flippo...or at my work I once had to register a customer with the name W.C. Gast this is prolly not going to make sence to you guys cos it's in dutch but it's roughly translated as Toilet Guy in english... :violin:

Me and my brother kinda have "unique" names for our generation, in the netherlands [yes ze only country that matters in ze world!] my name wasn't a very common name for a boy so I realy like my name...

:lol:
Well, talking names are nice thing. My Pa & Ma both are somewhat redheads, Pa completely and Ma reddish-blonde, and both their surenames equal "red" in one of their parents mother tongues. And now guess where my nick comes from. ^_^

One of my neighbours has a son named "Storm". I don't know about you, but I think that's pretty awesome.

http://comicwiki.dk/images/thumb/Storm_xmen.jpg/300px-Storm_xmen.jpg. ^_^

JOTUN!



The Y always seemed superfluous to me, over here it is spelt Zo?, which sounds the same as Zoey.


There are some countries where names must legally be chosen from an approved list, because in places like Iceland you're also condemning your grnadchildren to crap surnames.

There was the Chinese guy who wanted to name his son "@" in honour of the internet, but the PRC vetoed it. Probably on the grounds of child abuse.

My name is Jordan and it is common but not too common.
I feel lucky.
Incidentally,my birthday is also the birthday of two Jordanian princesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Aisha_bint_Al_Hussein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Zein_bint_Al_Hussein

They should have named him Han.

Boy Solo? That rules pretty hard actually.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7522952.stm
And I remember reading about twins called "Fish" and "Chips", yeah you shouldnt name them what you want, there has to be a limit.

But I remember reading a name "Anna sassin" that sounded kinda cool, but as a name I would hate it.

My real name is Sindre by the way, I've yet to meet any english speaking person able to pronouce it correctly. Hint: The R is pronounced before the E, just as it's written.

Not that uncommon in Norway, but I've never heard of it in any other country.

My name's Jeffrey, which was fairly popular when I was born. My brother had a bit of a "faddish" name - Jackson. At least my grandmother's maiden name was Jackson, so it was related to our family. Always cracks me up to see people hang surnames on kids - Madison, Addison, Taylor, Tyler, Morgan, Cody, etc..., that have nothing to do with their family history. My two sisters have rather unique names that aren't part of a "trend" - Glenna and Janell. All in all I think my parents did a pretty good job naming us.

If I ever have kids I'd name them something classic, like the boy William and the girl Jane just to go against the "popular" name trend.

There will never be laws to limit what one names their children.

People have gotten denied trying to name their children a ridiculous name before, though, haven't they?

Maybe not in the US, but many countries do. Germany and France are notably restrictive about allowing non-mainstream names to be registered.

This may have been from a long time ago, but I read about a couple that couldn't give their girl an English name - it had to be the French variant.

If I follow family tradition then my first son should be called Jentje Ruurd

Seems France dropped a priori restrictions in 1993. The cases I read about were earlier too. But French registrars still can, and occasionally do, intervene.

Lydia here. I haven't met too many Lydia's... But I suppose it's a pretty common name. Now I'm going to embarass my siblings by naming them:

Brothers: Jerome, Sebastian, Phillip
Sisters: Charletta, Rose

I don't mind our names, I'd rather have my middle name, May, to be honest.... Ah well. I know Jerome hates his name because people pronounce it wrong, but to be honest there are two ways of pronouncing it. Jerom-y and Je-rome. He prefers the latter.

Mum is Italian and dad is English, my brothers have French names I think. My sisters and I are pretty generic I guess. If I had kids I'd stick to the French theme for boys, and I have no idea for girls. I'd hate to embarass my children...

I know someone called Isabel End. Bit of British slang there... But that's seriously her name. Poor girl. :shakehead: