Kid's names that won't make a comeback

[Blue Hills]

I’d heard that one too, different part of the country which may make it apocryphal..,,

yes - I was also wondering if the name had been misheard.
one wonders if a well meaning adult had ever asked the unfortunate child," oo, that's a nice name, what does it mean/where does it come from"?

 

[MontyVeda]

Anyone who names a child after any character from the old testament had better do some deep reading research. A fair bit of that book is a horrorfest.

Eeek... I'm really a David; he that slayeth with stone

 

[Electric_Andy]

Melvin. Sid. Mary. Lilly. Gladis. Earnest. Walter. Howard. Barry. To name a few.

there's loads of Lilly's around now

 

[Sixmile]

Anyone who names a child after any character from the old testament had better do some deep reading research. A fair bit of that book is a horrorfest.

My in-laws named their boy Uriah.

Sure, Uriah was a noble character but still..

 

[Blue Hills]

My in-laws named their boy Uriah.

Sure, Uriah was a noble character but still..

Cripes - for most folks will of course think of Dickens - and one of the creepiest figures in literature - have known a small number of Uriahs (dickens) in life - worms.

have come across a few names I fear the parents didn't realise the import of.

Probably because they were trying to seem clever/cultured - but actually displaying their ignorance and awful tendency to use their child as some sort of totem.

 

[Chris S]

Rupert seems to have gone out of fashion. I don't think Kermit would be too popular in the US any more either.

 

[Beebo]

Not many Adolf’s around these days.

 

[Blue Hills]

Rupert seems to have gone out of fashion. I don't think Kermit would be too popular in the US any more either.

was Rupert EVER a serious name?

(well since Prince Rupert)

I dimly remember someone in the background at university who was a Rupert - it was a university where some who had failed to get into Oxbridge consoled themselves with.

 

[Chris S]

There haven't been many girls called 'Myra' since the 1960s.

 

[AndyRM]

My mate Chris called his daughter Isis.

 

[Julia9054]

was Rupert EVER a serious name?

(well since Prince Rupert)

I dimly remember someone in the background at university who was a Rupert - it was a university where some who had failed to get into Oxbridge consoled themselves with.

I knew a Rupert at primary school - he got teased for being posh.
Mind you, there were 3 Julies in the class plus me - Julia. I got teased for having a posh name too!

 

[Venod]

My mate Chris called his daughter Isis.

Was he a Dylan fan.

 

[DCBassman]

"a friend called Hephzibah."

Very biblical.

Also a minor Harry Potter character.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

When I was at a soft play area ages ago with my daughter, there was a young woman shouting for her daughter that was called Lexus. I've never heard that before, sounded crazy to me, but I'm old...

 

[otek59]

No - must be two of them!

They must be a pair of Kirtons