The Baby Name Wizard: NameVoyager

Please, though, don't saddle the poor kid with an 'unusual' or 'fashionable' name just for the sake of it, a bad choice can only make his life difficult or miserable. No kid ever got teased at school for being called Dave...

Quite rightly too, we all know the kids called Dave had the best of life ;)

If we had a boy, we've agreed on Oliver. I just like the ring of Ollie.

I didn't have a name until the internet came along.....

As to OP,when they(our twins) arrived our original choices just went out of the window

It's "Olly", Ollie is short for Olive or Olivia! And no, I don't care what Wikipedia says :razz: :D

Funnily enough,my alleged 'man's name' is used by the french for a ladies name:o

Lucifer.

Then you can say "Lucifer, come here you little devil"! :D

:lol:

spaticus



then he can truley claim he is

sparticus



then he can truley claim he is

I think Hortense and Warlock are due a comeback soon as well.

OllyTheHat does lOOk better. ;)

how about "mmm danone" for a girl :Whatever_

Little lad at my kid's school was called Olly.


Surname - Berry :D

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ill get me coat lol

It's the same poster that declared she wouldn't say what dog she had for fear of abuse. Does that help?

My friend called her little boy Merlin...

definately different but also strange...

You mean like Ramsay McDonald the Victorian Statesman and Prime Minister?

Andy/Andrew - good name :D:D

Or Grant

"Adolph" has fallen into spectacular disuse over the years, maybe you could help improve its popularity? :D

Wife and I were in disagreement about names. Eventually, I compromised!

Jade is actualy a lovely name, just has a slightly negative association these days.

I would always choose mainstream and 'user -friendly'. Being called Asif always made for some amusement at school for thers (children can be SO cruel!) but did work as a 'character building' vehicle for myself.

Tom and Dave are perfect, except that when older said child will wonder why he got the 'boring' name over the others'.

Had a mate at school called Jeremy, but was shortened to Jerry, which I thought was very cool. Very Seventies.

Asif

LOL!

Funnily enough we were very into Biblical names for boys:
Adam
Daniel
Jesus
Isaac

But would have been the Arabic pronounciations:
Aadam
Danyaal
Isa
Ishaak

But then found out we were having a girl so that all went out of the window!

And we have settled on Sophia/Sofia!

Asif

IMHO boring is good - and why should he wonder why he didn't get called something else? I certainly don't, I'm just grateful to my parents for giving me a normal first name that doesn't cause me any problems.

My surname, on the other hand, is a PITA, because it's spelled a completely different way from how it's pronounced (Cawte, pronounced 'court'). I don't mind spelling it out to people, but it does p*ss me off when they still manage to get it wrong - it's only 5 letters long FFS, but I still find that half the people I deal with over the phone can only remember the first three before asking me to repeat it. (My Dad even had someone tell him once that he was wrong...!)

Unusual names - they're just a nuisance :(

We called our boy Bailey, there isn't many about and its a nice name.


Dougie

That's nice actually.

We are having a boy and these are the only names we agree on so far

James (Jimmy for short)
Leon
Nathan

We thought so :thumb: .

Dougie

My wife wouldn't let me go with Ptolemy :mad:

Hmm, Contract Killer for definate :thumb: