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My Mother knew a family who had four sons.

Matthew, Mark, Luke & Fred.

I'm not joking!!

Maybe they had a disagreement with their church?

:-D

My great grandfather was Elisha.

His parents were Edward and Emily I think. Two Es anyway.

Children had they many.

Elisha, Ezra, Eliza,Edwin, Emma, Eliza etc. and then they had Elbert!

I always liked the name of the daughter in Grapes of Wrath.

She was Roseofsharon. That would have been a handy one had I ever had a daughter.

Hmp?

I don't understand why you want to delete it

Maybe it means something in the UK that Aussies don't get :-S

Had a cracker in my work today Hollie Day

This is absolutely true. When my niece was at school she was friends with two sisters named Crystal and Chardonnay. My lovely old Auntie who was slightly deaf and tended to get confused always called them Champagne and Crimplene. It was so difficult not to call the girls by these names.

I just found this on YouTube....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INILISUwN90

:-D

Not joking, I saw something yesterday, a man's name is Mike Litoris!!!!!!!!

The mind boggles :-0

My mum did put her foot down as my dad wanted to call me Florence and my initials would have spelt FAG

As has been stated these children can always change their name when they become adults. However, in this country the only one you cannot change is your baptismal names.

No I would not use any of these names. I took a lot of time to decide their names and even checking that the initials would not spell something.

We had one Fijian boy at the school where I worked and his name was Head Accountant, and there was another one named after the company Burns Philp. They seemed to think they were honourable names.. this was probably in the days when Fiji played Rugby in their bare feet.

I do hope my daughter does not choose any of these names :-0 :-0 :-0. All I know is that it will be of Irish theme when he/she is born in January time ( no. 12 Grandchild for us) :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Actually, looking at the list, Lexus is a child's name of Latin origin.

Wonder when they'll name a car after my grandson :-S

A boy in our town..... Tsunami :-(

My g g aunt Bella's (from Suffolk) real name was Etheldreda. Appropriate, as Saint Etheldreda was an East Anglian princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian queen and Abbess of Ely. Etheldreda, in a modern context is Audrey.
I also have an ancestor called Wolfran.

One of my grandsons has a common Latin praenomen, or personal name. Not because it's 'trendy' or unusual, but because it is a family name. It is both my ex and late father in laws third name. Apparently, it was once part of a double-barrelling of their surname.
Other grandson has an old Cornish name, as my dad was from a long line of Cornish ancestry. It's quite common now.

But no, I wouldn't call any of my children a name from that list.

One of my current customers is called Shann pronounced Sharn

Dopey Dwarf
United States Public Records

residence: 1 December 1995 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Golden Balls

England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975

christening: 8 May 1836 Aylsham, Norfolk, England
residence: Aylsham, Norfolk, England

father: Golden Balls
mother: Mary Ann Pull

Used to work in a children's play area and some of the names there were interesting. We had two girls Shaunee and Shaunisay (wonder what their dads were called) we also two sets of siblings Canielle and Cemre pronounced Janielle and Jemrey and Lumai and Jolon pronounced Loomy and Joelon. We also had Angel, Trinity, Emma-Leigh, Reignbow, Cloud, Rikki-Leigh (a girl) and two boys called Lindsay and Christie

my daughter in law's neice is expecting a baby which she is going to call Shalah!!! Her other two are called Thear and Namiah :-S

Grandchild 3 is due September my son wants names like peter, David, James but his g/f isn't keen and wants more modern names. Loagon I think is the latest choice. We will wait and see...............................me I call it Billy at the moment.

Anne

DetEctTive

The names on the list at the beginning of this thread, are in the main completely made up or are considered 'trendy'.

Those you mention in your last paragraph are to me quite normal. But having worked on the Post Office counters for some years, I have come across my fair share of odd names.

One thing we did notice was that a lot of W. Indian people had names associated with 'white' such as White, Blanc and others. Wondered if it was the slave owners being ironic! And we also noticed the trend for playing around with ordinary names, such as Molene instead of Maureen, pronounced the same!!!