General Chat

A family friend of my daughter has 3 children under the age of 8 called

William
Albert
Ruby

which in my opinion are old fashioned/traditional names. When choosing names, you also have to think how they will be shortened in the playground.

For our daughters, we chose names which could be adapted to be one syllable gender neutral so they weren't stuck with a feminine one if they turned out to be tom-boys.

I don't like trendy names, but also dislike a lot of the old names, there are so many Alfies and Charlies around everywhere and I know of two Sidneys as well. In our family including my o.h.'s sons and my son's cousins, there are 4 Isabelles with various spellings. I chose a name for my son that was sort of timeless, so his age can't be guessed from his name, the only comment he gets is that people expect him to have been born in November when he was actually born in July. He is very happy with his name and he has a biblical and family linked middle name of Samuel so he could have called himself Sam had he not liked his first name.

My o.h.'s son dislikes his Christian name so tells people his name is Sid and his wife still calls him Sid as that's the way he introduced himself to her.

I also think we have to watch the initials, one of my relatives has a daughter with the initials JAF and I know my late uncle was FAT.

Lizx

My neighbour has four boys under sixteen called Abraham, Daniel, Joseph and Noah, her name is Keeley

My grandson called Jacob and really suits his name.I also have a grandaughter Hannah and a daughter Catherine i also have a daughter Laura that is a old name but now has become common

Don't see my name coming back!!! My paternal grandmother was Jennet Ann and my maternal grandmother Nellie Lavinia

My Dad was Harman, his mother's maiden name, but strange thing was two of his brothers were called Harry and Harold - always seemed odd to me. Sisters Ella, Nancy, Margaret and Betty. I have so many Betty's in my family that they have to have an addition to their name to distinguish them - so there's our Betty, Tommy's Betty, Cyril's Betty, Betty Blue and now I've found a long lost cousin and she's Betty too!! And not one of them is Elizabeth!!

Well I can not see Horace or Wilfred making a come back

It's strange how names can become stereotyped over the years.
My dad was called Denzil. When (a few years back) a friend of my daughter heard this, he said to me 'You don't look black' I asked why I should. Apparently, Denzil (or more probably the misspelt Denzel), along with Winston was/is considered a 'black' name!!
I pointed out that Denzil was Cornish - which is exactly where my dad came from, as had his family for generations!!!

Among my Aunts are Nellie,Ethel,May and Margaret :-)


and I almost forgot,Alice

MY Great Grandmother named her children after names. from the Bible. Isaac.- Hannah.- Mary.-Frances-,Emmnuel -John -Daniel - Absalom. Sarah., others are what I call normal names. I wondered why ? this was. and then it came to me. she could not read or write but could reconize the names from the bible.

Myself, I use to be able to tell roughtly the year someone was born
because their names, names used at the time. I am not good at it now as the names do not follow on. .they often name their children names from people in Soaps.


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My children are called Leila, partly after the Palestinian 'terrorist' who blew up a plane (minus passengers) and is now a peace envoy, partly because my father converted to Islam when I was 12. Leila is the Islamic Juliet (Romeo and...)
Other child is Nina (little Anne) sort of after my sister,Anne! Both names are multi-national, which I like.
One of my grandsons has an extremely old Roman name - not many of those about - after his grandfather, great grandfather, and gg grandfather, who had it as their 3rd forename. Prior to that, the name was double barrelled ie Strange name-Smith.
Just realised with such unusual names, they can be easily traced, so have omitted the Roman name!!!!!
Safe to say grandson is the only child in a lot of years to have his forename!!
I call him Curly :-D

David I have sisters called Gwendoline and Doreen named after my Mums sister who is Gwendoline Doreen she was named after her Mum's sisters Gwendoline and Doreen - I was quite agrieved I didn't get a family name till I realised I did but only for the first two days of my life. Dad was having none of it! I think I'm relieved I didn't now.

I like some newer names and some older ones. I love the name Charley for a girl, but also the name Florence (after my nan <3). Iris is lovely too.

One of my Granddaughters has the name Ella, which I have come across during my family research. Her Middle name is Annie after her great gran.

Thinking of two families I know - ages range from 14 - 3 yrs, Rebecca, Matthew, Samuel, Benjamin and Isabella.

i wanted to call my son Bram
but the registrar wouldn't let me
she said Bramwell or nothing
so called in Christopher at the last minute

and my daughter got a modern name
with a unusual spelling and a hyphen
diffrent reistrar thank god ;-)

i gave my little man a modern name, now every other child seems to be called the same lol,

Both of my sons have traditional names.

When I was expecting my third child we couldn't make our mind up between two names if it was a girl. When my daughter was born we just joined up both names, both tradional,

David, I think your Mum's first name is lovely :-)

I was given the name David.
An old name that goes way back.

But my Father's name was Samuel,even older.
My nephew named his son Jonah,older still.



Incidently,my Mother's name was Ella Doreen.You never hear those names now.

Do not think that there has been a resurgance in 'older' names, just that we notice the faddy names more when they pop up.

ie Kylie, Channel, Chantel etc.

in years to come more different names will come in and out of fashion but traditional naming will almost always remain the same.

When you look at the lists of the most popular boy/girl names they rarely change over the years.

Our 3 all have traditional 'ordinary' names, which they seem to think are OK, although our son generally uses a shortened version these days.

We didn't name them after anyone, but after announcing their names, we found that we'd named the youngest after my husband's aunt, although she was known to everyone by a different name.

I like most of the older names, but not sure that I'd name any children after some of my aunts, - Hilda, Ethel or Minnie.

Gwyn