Baby Boy Names

JBD

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

that poor child is going to spend her entire life spelling her name....

Why? Emelia is a perfectly normal name.
I have spent my life spelling my name. Even though it is a traditional [boring] 4 letter name, there are 2 versions and people assume it is the other version.

seven-day-weekend

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

There's no such thing as a name which can't be shortened - I know an Adam who is called Addy, too. And a Guy who is called Guyla!

My son's name is Ben. Not Benjamin or Benedict. Guess what some people call him?

If a name can't be shortened, it will be lengthened.

I have quite a funny story about this. We knew a guy who was a plain ordinary teacher at the school my husband also taught at, and occasionally came to our house for parties etc. He got promoted and eventually became Principal of the school. By this time Ben was in the Sixth Form, and the Principal had called him Benjamin for the umpteenth time,. Ben (politely, not cheekily) said 'Mr ?....., if you call me Benjamin one more time, I'll tell the whole school how you once got drunk at my parents' house and sang Land of Our Fathers at the top of your voice in Welsh with the teacher who is now the Assistant Principal.' Mr ?..... did have a laugh and did try very hard not to call him Benjamin again!

umdelicious

Joseph .

neverdespairgirl

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

I agree, unusual spellings of names are nice, but people will never spell them right.

Out of that list I like Joshua. We were going to call 1st DD Daniel if she was a boy, or Matthew.

My Dad's gone through life with a fairly common name, spelt in the very uncommon Welsh way. It's caused him no end of grief.

Abbafan1972

I know 2 people who have daughters called Izobelle and Jazmine. A bit pointless to be honest as most people would just put an S instead of the Z.

On the subject of names that can't be shortened, my Dad apparently chose my name on this basis. I'll give you a clue, it's a purple flower.

vroombroom

Pansy?

I like Oliver. Not a big fan of Joshua, think its far too common x

Flora_Poste

I work in a school and this year we have a Kamran and a Rheeyan coming through. Sometimes it seems like the parents just use the letters left in the scrabble bag at the end of the game.

Mind you Isobel/Isabelle/Ysabel is a perfectly normal name and we have NINE different spellings.

seven-day-weekend

Flora_Poste wrote: »

I work in a school and this year we have a Kamran and a Rheeyan coming through. Sometimes it seems like the parents just use the letters left in the scrabble bag at the end of the game.

Mind you Isobel/Isabelle/Ysabel is a perfectly normal name and we have NINE different spellings.

We have friends whoes little girl's name is Isabel (spelt that way) as she was born in Spain and they were living in Spain at the time and spelt this way it is acceptable in both English and Spanish (It is Spanish for Elizabeth).

neverdespairgirl

Abbafan1972 wrote: »

On the subject of names that can't be shortened, my Dad apparently chose my name on this basis. I'll give you a clue, it's a purple flower.

Violet? Could be "Vi", though (-:

pollypenny

They are all lovely names - and proper names at that.

Last week I read somewhere about a celeb of sorts calling her child 'Egypt'; another was 'Bingham".

It seems that some people just pick random words.