"Strange Christian Names"

[61653 HTAFC]

On this basis mine would be Torquay, Penryn and Redruth. Doesn't work!

And my name would be Harlech! Not sure if that fact allows me to claim Welsh heritage though.

My nephew is named Noah and is a week shy of his 2nd birthday. Not the name I would have chosen but his mother's family are vaguely religious, so it was always going to be biblical. Any of Matthew/Mark/Luke/John would have been a better choice though.

On the Mohammed question, using the same ruling (counting all the variants as one) the names of John, Jonathan, Sean/Shaun and Ian/Iain would all be counted together too.

The name that winds me up is when someone is called Rhys but spelled "Reece" or "Reese". Don't know why, it just rubs me up the wrong way!

 

[Busaholic]

And my name would be Harlech! Not sure if that fact allows me to claim Welsh heritage though.

My nephew is named Noah and is a week shy of his 2nd birthday. Not the name I would have chosen but his mother's family are vaguely religious, so it was always going to be biblical. Any of Matthew/Mark/Luke/John would have been a better choice though.

On the Mohammed question, using the same ruling (counting all the variants as one) the names of John, Jonathan, Sean/Shaun and Ian/Iain would all be counted together too.

The name that winds me up is when someone is called Rhys but spelled "Reece" or "Reese". Don't know why, it just rubs me up the wrong way!

Heard on the radio this morning that Noah has replaced James in the top 10 of boys' names in this country.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

My submission may take us off on a small tangent for which I apologise in advance if anyone objects.

I used to work with a fellow by the name of James, which doesn't seem so strange, but then take into consideration that his last name was Bond. Childhood is difficult enough but to consciously make the choice to call your child James Bond, not as weird as some submissions but still.

Last names can also provide some entertainment.

When I was in the Navy I heard of (but never met) a guy called Micheal Tate who decided to become a Radar Operator. There after he was known as RO Tate.
Navy Net also shares the delightful tale of Lt Gash, those familiar with Jack speak will see how this is hilarious.
The other night at the Transport Management Company I work for (Naming no names to avoid the wrath of some of my fellow members ), we took a booking for a Polceman by the name of PC Truncheon.

My parents used to know someone whose name really was Russell Hobbs. They also once knew a Maurice Mann.

 

[cb a1]

I was at the University of York in the late 80's, the bloke who took over something to do with student accommodation was called Richard Head...

 

[Calthrop]

I knew an Adolf in the 1970s - he was living in London, married to an English woman. I would guess he'd been born in the 1931-3 period, so his parents weren't necessarily supporters of the 3rd Reich. He didn't try to disguise his name, either.

There's also this chap:

www.nativevoicebooks.com/content/adolf-hungry-wolf

Adolf Hungry Wolf is, in addition, a railway enthusiast and photographer, and has published books accordingly. He spent much time in Cuba, documenting the rail scene there.

 

[krus_aragon]

Heard on the radio this morning that Noah has replaced James in the top 10 of boys' names in this country.

Will it continue to gain in popularity, or is this a high-water mark for Noah?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Will it continue to gain in popularity, or is this a high-water mark for Noah?

I find it to be a flood myself...

One of the nurses coming round to check on my recovery about an hour ago was a male nurse called Lucoz. When I mentioned the odd spelling of what I thought was Lucas, he replied it was not Lucas at all but Lucoz as in Lucozade the energy drink... Seems his parents really loved the stuff and named their child after it

 

[Calthrop]

Heard on the radio this morning that Noah has replaced James in the top 10 of boys' names in this country.

Will it continue to gain in popularity, or is this a high-water mark for Noah?

With your fiendish puns -- you, sir, ar' a rat...

 

[Gutfright]

This thread reminds me of a woman I used to know, whose hippy parents had named her after the ancient Egyption goddess of health, marriage and wisdom.

I often wonder how she feels nowadays, when she has to tell people her name is Isis.

 

[deltic1989]

I think the Icelandic system, though draconian, might be preferable to a total free-for-all.

The Icelandic way in my opinion is great. You have to be much more careful with picking a name because if its a daft one you ruin 2 generations of childhoods. Imagine calling your son Snowmobile, bad enough for him to go to school with a name like that, but then his children poor Jimmy Snowmobileson and Jane Snowmobilesdottier.

 

[Calthrop]

This thread reminds me of a woman I used to know, whose hippy parents had named her after the ancient Egyption goddess of health, marriage and wisdom.

I often wonder how she feels nowadays, when she has to tell people her name is Isis.

I would think and hope that what she feels, is equanimity. There’s no reason why her parents should have foreseen – come the future appearance of that lot, on the world scene -- the title that would be applied to them. Should the denizens of Oxford University abandon for the same reason, their centuries-old practice of calling the River Thames in their area, the Isis (after, I gather, the Tamesis of the Romans? I feel that the proper response to stuff like this is: bugger those ****s – treat them with the contempt and disregarding, which they deserve.

In a similar vein -- I have the impression that because of the female participant in the notorious Moors Murders having had the Christian name Myra: very few if any girls born in Britain since the early / mid 1960s, have been given that name. Her male counterpart in those doings being named Ian, does not seem to have lessened the popularity of that name for boys. Likely, one feels, because it has always been ubiquitous; whereas Myra has never been greatly common, and has long had – including 50+ years ago, I have the impression – a rather old-fashioned feel to it; plus general sentiments / preconceptions, however unfair and irrational, about the male and female halves of mankind. I would (if I were acquainted with any) encourage Myras named half a century and more ago, to wear their Christian name with pride: nothing that might have happened subsequently, had anything to do with them.

 

[61653 HTAFC]

Heard on the radio this morning that Noah has replaced James in the top 10 of boys' names in this country.

All those mums who thought they were being so original (including my sister-in-law) must be furious!

I still think the best celebrity kids' names were those chosen by Frank Zappa and David Bowie- Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa, and Zowie Bowie!

 

[Busaholic]

Will it continue to gain in popularity, or is this a high-water mark for Noah?

It will advance up the Top 10 list two places at a time.
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I would think and hope that what she feels, is equanimity. There’s no reason why her parents should have foreseen – come the future appearance of that lot, on the world scene -- the title that would be applied to them. Should the denizens of Oxford University abandon for the same reason, their centuries-old practice of calling the River Thames in their area, the Isis (after, I gather, the Tamesis of the Romans? I feel that the proper response to stuff like this is: bugger those ****s – treat them with the contempt and disregarding, which they deserve.

In a similar vein -- I have the impression that because of the female participant in the notorious Moors Murders having had the Christian name Myra: very few if any girls born in Britain since the early / mid 1960s, have been given that name. Her male counterpart in those doings being named Ian, does not seem to have lessened the popularity of that name for boys. Likely, one feels, because it has always been ubiquitous; whereas Myra has never been greatly common, and has long had – including 50+ years ago, I have the impression – a rather old-fashioned feel to it; plus general sentiments / preconceptions, however unfair and irrational, about the male and female halves of mankind. I would (if I were acquainted with any) encourage Myras named half a century and more ago, to wear their Christian name with pride: nothing that might have happened subsequently, had anything to do with them.

It had never occurred to me that the Myra who works in a convenience store near to me, and has done for about fifteen years, shared her name with the late and unlamented Ms Hindley. This Myra would have been named in the early/mid 1950s, so well before the Moors Murders.

 

[Cowley]

I find it to be a flood myself...

One of the nurses coming round to check on my recovery about an hour ago was a male nurse called Lucoz. When I mentioned the odd spelling of what I thought was Lucas, he replied it was not Lucas at all but Lucoz as in Lucozade the energy drink... Seems his parents really loved the stuff and named their child after it

. Reminds me of my stepdaughters boyfriend who's called Ocean. He's also got a brother called Reef and there's another one called Seaweed or something, when I asked the 17 year old blue haired Ocean if his Dad was a lover of the sea he said. "No he hates the sea to be fair".
That was about as far as the conversation went.

 

[Jona26]

There is currently an article on the BBC news website about bell ringing. The name of the interviewee is Dickon Love

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37257729

Tower captain at St James Garlickhythe in London Dickon Love said bell-ringing tended to get bracketed with Morris dancing as a pursuit for old men with beards, but that was misleading.

 

[backontrack]

That's still not as strange as 'Garlickhythe'.

 

[Calthrop]

It had never occurred to me that the Myra who works in a convenience store near to me, and has done for about fifteen years, shared her name with the late and unlamented Ms Hindley. This Myra would have been named in the early/mid 1950s, so well before the Moors Murders.

That figures. To the best of my knowledge / memory, I've never been acquainted with a real-life Myra. As I mentioned upthread, it was never a particularly common name.