Be Honest do you like these names

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Takoda wrote: »

I did some SEN work a while back and one of the girls was called Klo-ee. I nearly wet myself when I read it.

When I see an unusual spelling of a common name I assume the parents are illiterate.

I am of course assuming that you only do this once you have established that the child does not have any overseas heritage? Otherwise you would be potentially assuming a child of a differing ethnicity to be of lower intellect/potential than someone called Emily? How do you do it? By checking the ethnic monitoring forms or making assumptions based upon the colour of their skin?

Indie_Kid

csh wrote: »

Thats a lovely name! Not chavvy or illiterate parents at all!

Thanks:) The proper spelling is actually Sophie Hayden. (or Haydon)

C_Mababejive

princessleah_ wrote: »

The OP is half Greek

Great...so if its Nicos Papadopolous then it fits. If its Nicos Shuttleworth,it doesnt.

seven-day-weekend

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Unless you would like to try seeing how Canute goes in the playground or perhaps Ethelred, Caractacus or something else a bit more early 'English'?

My next door neighbours were going to called their child Bedivere if it was a boy. Luckily it was a girl.

Isn't Caractacus a latinised form of Caradoc, who was Welsh?

My name is Spanish (although I'm English) and means 'beautiful'. It has come in very handy as I have lived in Spain virtually full-time sine 2004!

pigpen

underlay_guru wrote: »

Hi,

I really can't understand all this exotic names for babies lark. Do foreign parents actually called their babies Dave or Steve because they are fashionably British names??? Absolutely not.

Do you ever see French parents giving their babies traditional Israeli names, such as Joshua or Reuben? Is their anyone America called Luigi that has not got Italian roots? Why on Earth would anyone wish to give their child a name that is of a nationality or faith they have absolutely no association with? Why on earth would you call your child Nicos if there is not a scrap of Greek heritage in the family? Have you ever met a German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian person, for example, that does not have a traditional German/Dutch/Spanish/Italian christian name?

Britain must be the only place in the World that are not happy with their traditional christian names, and lamely adopt traditional names of others as a fashion statement....

No wonder foreigners laugh their heads off at us. They must think we are stupid.

Actually yes this does happen.. Chinese children are regularly given their traditional names and also given a 'British' name.. Knowing Sophie, Sandy (Suk Ling), Melissa, Anna (Suk An), May (Suk Ping) and Suk Fay just used fay though her english name was Jane.

African peoples often give their children traditionally English names too.. taken from the British invaders we regularly have had children named as such.. Esther, Elsa, Dennis, Albert, and of course the many biblical names from the missionaries visits... along with more traditional names of Moza, Ula and Mazim.

pigpen

seven-day-weekend wrote: »

My next door neighbours were going to called their child Bedivere if it was a boy. Luckily it was a girl.

I love the name Bedivere.. Settled on Bevan instead

Nicos is the better/more traditional sounding of the 2 names., Zayden is sounding way too chavvy and doesn't sound Greek at all. but I don't 'like' either.. Yannis is ok though

Each to their own though and well done you for keeping in with your beautiful heritage.

given the large percentage of other ethnicities in our primary school I wouldn't think twice about any childs name.. aside from DJ.. whose mother is an idiot.. she got it from Roseann.. the boy was called DJ.. initials for his actual name of David James or whatever it was..

ixwood

As the discussion has moved on a bit from just the greek names, I have to say I'm in the bland, correctly spelt "normal" name camp.

Of all the names listed in this thread, most of them I didn't even know were names, I wouldn't know how to pronounce them if I read them, or spell them if I heard them. Isn't that just making life harder than it needs to be? What's the point? I'd hate to have to point out how to say/spell my name constantly.

I guess we have all the "unusual" celebrity baby names to blame.

Although, looking on the bright side. The normal names I'd consider are now seemingly rare.

peachyprice

OP, I don't know where you found it but I cannot find ANY reference to Zayden being of Greek origin, at best there's a suggestion it's Hebrew, but most sites I found seem to suggest it's an American made-up modern name, possibly derived from Aiden, and in the Jayden camp.

Kentmumof1

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Saturday morning Greek School..lovely.

'Really Greek' to me means my old boss - I answer the phone, take the message, thank the caller, walk into his office...

'Who is it, Ioanna?'

'Father xxxx'

'S%*£! The Priest! What does he want?'

'To talk about some idea he's had.'

'When?'

Now. He's on his way round' [Retrieving the icons from behind the door and giving them a dust over before placing them in easy view]

'S*$&! F£*@! B($&£**!' [plus lots of Greek words as he drags a tie out of the bottom of his desk]


I never remember anyone English, Scots, Welsh or even Indian reacting in such a way, but during the meeting, someone else came in the office with his best mate, they were a little noisy (and cheeky as ever). I whispered 'Shhh, he's got Father xxxx in there'

'The Priest? S$&£!'. Like a pair of naughty school boys, they were...

Ha Ha Ive some uncles like that, they crack me up :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Kentmumof1

C_Mababejive wrote: »

Great...so if its Nicos Papadopolous then it fits. If its Nicos Shuttleworth,it doesnt.

its not gonna be Papadopolous but to tell you the truth its not going to be far short either !!!:j