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the explorer mungo park was mentioned on telly last night

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

(i have a vague memory a quite similar thread happened b4)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Yootha!

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Titty

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:40 (twenty-three years ago)

ISAMBARD.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

IKB's second name was pretty good also

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Offspring

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Chastity.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Lettice. Except I know someone called Lettice (and she is ten.)

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Capability

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Corky

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Crieky

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Vivian Fuchs!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Bohemond

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Gaylord

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything about IKB was ace. I wonder if we still have that bizarre cartoon about him that I used to watch years ago on video.

(I can think of no actual answers as yet. I never did type in that top 20 names of the 1920s list from my parents' encyclopedia, either. I might still do so, because it amuses me, if nobody else.)

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Adolf.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:50 (twenty-three years ago)

the IKB cartoon is called GREAT!!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Berlington Bertie

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Chastity - oh dang, N. got that one first.

Reginald.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 21 October 2002 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Buttfuck

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Oscar

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Petri Dish

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

rasputin.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Nobody is called Eustace any more but this is probably just as well; when I watched the televised Narnia Chronicles as a kid it took me the whole series to realise that Eustace wasn't called Useless. So I think it is not a great name.

I was, however, a big fan of Jeremiah Obadiah after the weird nonsense poem. Also not enough people are called Theophilus (a great name if you ignore the meaning, but that never bothers any Tims, right?), and I was pleased to see Tad on these boards because Thaddaeus is a great name and taking out all the clumsy letters and putting a Z on the end makes it even more so.

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Googie

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Graham!

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:17 (twenty-three years ago)

here's the earlier thread

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:18 (twenty-three years ago)

KITT

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Jocelyn.

― RickyT (RickyT), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Cordelia

― arantxa, Monday, 21 October 2002 13:41 (twenty-three years ago)

ulysses.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Primus, Secundus, Tertius

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

When were people named Buttfuck (and why wasn't I born during this halcyon age)?

(Um, I don't want to be named Buttfuck, I want to laugh at people named Buttfuck. Oh Christ, that joke's backfired in the WORST WAY... yet still I hit "Submit".)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Inigo. Lemuel. Tyrone. Bathsheba.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 21 October 2002 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Patience and Prudence.

One of the cashiers at the local Shop Rite is named Tyrone.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

paging mr. easton and his list of names

― ron (ron), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Ignatius

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Vera

― Plinky (Plinky), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ethelred

― michael (michael), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Hercule

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Romeo

D'OH!

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:21 (twenty-three years ago)

My great-grandmother was called Myrtle. My grandmother had a friend at school called Grizzle Ng.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:23 (twenty-three years ago)

My cousin's grandmother is also called Grizzle.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

My granny was called Gobnait but, unsurprisingly, preferred to be known by a different name.

― angela (angela), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum had a great auntie Nettie, which was short for Mignonette. My Grandad's middle name is Ethelbert - I can't imagine that rivalling Jack or Chloe.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 October 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Romeo Dun's called Romeo.

Archibald. Or just Archie.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a great aunt named Mignon. Her mother was Henrietta.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

My grandparents' names: Alf, Len, Ethel and Joyce, none of which seem very remarkable to me but all of which I think are great and now unfashionable.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

(If Tim sees a cat, there is a 25% chance he will try to eat it.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

my mother's family are full of old fashioned names:

vincent, winifred, gerald, agnes, millicent, arthur, bernard, edmund...

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Tim, I have heard quite a few Alfies about, it seems to be gaining popularity as a cute name for ickle baby boys. Also I have an auntie Joyce (hello auntie! she is lovely) but she is knocking on a bit so...

― Emma, Monday, 21 October 2002 14:52 (twenty-three years ago)

I always find it amusing when names that are old-fashioned in English are still cool in other languages, like Victor, Federico (=Frederick) and obv. Jesus.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 October 2002 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Also Alfie Joyce was the feared psychoboy of Woking College. I am hoping he doesn't know how to google.

― Madchen, Monday, 21 October 2002 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Doris.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Robert Elms has a son called Alfie - a cast iron reason for the death of that name.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

has jesus ever been in fashion in britain?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Minerva

― Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I suspect my dear departed Grandfather would have lamped anyone who presumed to call him Alfie.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an auntie called Karen but my dad (her brother) and all their family pronounce it (and only in her case) "carin'" as in caring and sharing without the gs. I don't really understand this and I've never asked why it is.

I don't know many people called "Nuala" these days, except a different Auntie, I guess it was probably quite a popular Irish name back in the day.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 October 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

the baby in queer as folk was called alfred

― Alan (Alan), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:05 (twenty-three years ago)

How else would you pronounce Karen?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan pronounces it "Lovemuffin." This has caused problems.

My grandma's name was Hope and her older sister was Faith. Yes, Charity would have been used had there been a third sister.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

in the new english bible charity is called love

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Well most people would pronounce "karen" to rhyme with "sharon". Not in the ariel sense either.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

That would have made this putative sister's name "Love Thomas," which sounds suspect.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

B-b-but Karen and Sharon and caring and sharing all sound similar!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

The name Jesus was enormously popular in the UK in the late 1980s as a result of the massive pop stardom of Jesus Jones.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Do caring and sharing have the same 'a' sound as 'Dan' in your head?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

What Dan said.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Do caring and sharing have the same 'a' sound as 'Dan' in your head?

No. They all have a long (closed? IPA folx help me!) a.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

mmmm, IPA.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Are ppl called Clarke still nicknamed 'Nobby' in the UK?

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah. You want to be pronouncing it like Darren. But not like Warren. Do Americans really pronounce Sharon with the same vowel as "sharing"? Oo.

I always find it amusing when names that are old-fashioned in English are still cool in other languages

I like the way names that are really old-fashioned (as in 1900-1930 old-fashioned, not as in Aethelred) in this country seem to be not at all old-fashioned in Jamaica. All the examples I can currently think of are from 70s reggae artists so maybe they're all 30 years out of date now, but anyway. (I am listening to a CD featuring Winston Blake and Clancy Eccles, can you tell?)

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Wait. You pronounce Sharon as "shore-un"? NO WONDER WE SECEDED.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Not 'shore-on'.

The 'a' is like the 'a' in 'Matt'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Quentin. Tarquinn.

― Android (Android Elvis), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:35 (twenty-three years ago)

CLARITY. Although it doesn't really sound all that different. Rebecca's explanation = not very helpful becaue Darren = Sharon = Karen = sharing = caring = daring usw.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 October 2002 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Clarence, Cuthbert, Ermintrude.

Are ppl called Clarke still nicknamed 'Nobby' in the UK?

We have a mutual friend of the Clarke persuasion, Andrew. I think we should all start calling him 'Nobby'.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 21 October 2002 18:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I love names from Greek mythology. Achilles. Hector. Diomedes. No-one is called this sort of thing any more. Although, I have to admit I don't know many Greeks.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Tallulah

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 21 October 2002 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Some French people are still called Diomede hopefully!

Greek names are grebt. Ajax!

Judas. Is it not the case that when Judas betrayed Jesus and thus got the sack from the disciples they replaced him with another bloke called Judas??

Roman names I have encountered in the 20th/21st century - Marcus, Gaius, Titus. Have never met a Horace or Virgil though I think Virgil survives in America. Have never alas encountered GRUMIO.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

"Is it not the case that when Judas betrayed Jesus and thus got the sack from the disciples they replaced him with another bloke called Judas?"

No, the other Judas was already a disciple. The new one was called Matthias (Acts I)>

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a friend at school called Horace. Did you really know a Gaius, Tom?

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes! Unsurprisingly he wanted people to call him Guy but it turned out it was short for Gaius. That wasn't even at Winchester either.

I've also met an Augustus but never a Julius or a Claudius.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Surely he shd have wanted to be called Gay?

I wz at school with Nero and Caligula.

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the name Edith, but only 80 yr old grannies are called that now.

I love the name Orlando too, but fear it would be associated with the tacky Disney village.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 21 October 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Ariadne

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 21 October 2002 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I too have a fixation with Greek/Roman names. I've met a Galen or two. I would inflict that, Quintus, Lucius, or Roman on a child of mine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 05:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i know a galileo, which i think to be a pretty cool name.

― donna (donna), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 07:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Biggles, that one deserves to make a comeback, along with Algernon.

All Clarkes are now called Kipper, especially Sarah.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 07:35 (twenty-three years ago)

CLARITY. Although it doesn't really sound all that different. Rebecca's explanation = not very helpful becaue Darren = Sharon = Karen = sharing = caring = daring usw.

????

en=in ing=well.......ing, like bing or sing or king.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 07:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Edna.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Reynard

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Marmo! Lamatshu! GORGO! Lilith unless you are a goth or in Frasier! Guinefort! I am reading a book on FAIRIES can you tell? Does Gawain map to Gavin? That's a bit pants. Launce/Lancelot too - oh oops though, forgetting Lance from Neighbours.

― kipper (starry), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 08:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Abraham.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Edith Bowman has successfully reclaimed Edith and made it young and sexy (for people who've heard of her that is). A girl at my school's sister was called Tellulah. (Sarah, Beth, Joel and... Tellulah?!??!).

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The 10-year-old Lett1ce I was talking about earlier has siblings called H*ratio, Ele@nor and Alfr3d. Their father is called Lucius. Someone somewhere keeps all these names alive I reckon. Cept Gorgo.

(Also, to confuse matters for Dan, I have a friend called Karin whose name is pronounced cah-rin.)

― Sam (chirombo), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:18 (twenty-three years ago)

A pregnant friend of mine joked about calling the child tallulah, until one day she decided that she would actually name her child that. Once we saw that she was serious we tried to explain why it wasn't necessarily a good idea, and we ended up falling out and not talking for months.

She stuck to her guns and did call her tallulah, although everyone calls her tally. She goes for unusual names. The two older girls are called sorcha and faylinn, the youngest is called emmett, and i think her husband is flirting with the idea of naming the soon to be born one zebedee if it's another boy.

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i know a galileo, which i think to be a pretty cool name

donna, can he do the fandango?

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:40 (twenty-three years ago)

sorcha and emmet are not unusual names in ireland. however here emmet is a boy's name (after robert emmet, a patriot from the late 18th, early 19th centuries).

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 09:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I think scorcha would be a good name.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend who sometimes posts here, Tim B, claims he plans to call a daughter, if he ever has one, Melisande.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 10:55 (twenty-three years ago)

A friend of mine really wanted to call his kid Spartacus but his wife was having none of it.

― Alfie (Alfie), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend who named her baby Salome. It seems unwise. Considering the state of the U.S. education, most people will probably think the correct way to pronounce the poor kid's name is Salami.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:27 (twenty-three years ago)

No joke, my father nicknamed me Spartacus because a)I'm a little stubborn b) he is insane

― Miss Laura, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was at school with a girl called Melisande. That was middle school, at primary school there was a Lupin (male), a Cressida and a Persephone. My aerobics teacher in Spain was called Salome and she was lovely.

― Emma, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I went to a school with such interesting names! Everyone at my school was a Jennifer or a Jessica. Even the girls.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a friend who named her baby Salome.

I know a Salome and her sister is Delilah. the bad girls of the Bible. always wondered what the parents were thinking.

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 11:55 (twenty-three years ago)

hmph orlando wd have been a brilliant name (it's my favourite book, obv) except some ELF nicked it first. curse you Mrs. Bloom. now it will have to be future cat's name (if it is a MARMALADE cat obv). also all my best baby names have been nicked by celebrities/mates eg. molly, dylan, iris...

i went to school with some gurls called Hero, Cressida and Miranda. i also once SNOGGED a bloke called Gaius!

― katie (katie), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Katie SNOGGING? What pervy fanfic is this?

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

hey i can do snogging! except now i can't remember if i actually did (too much vodka). i definitely ended up falling asleep on him, poor chap...

― katie (katie), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

my two grandmas were called Cicely (shortened to Cissie) and Vera Lillian (except everyone called her Babs) They were lovely.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 12:31 (twenty-three years ago)

en=in ing=well.......ing, like bing or sing or king

MORE CLARITY: I was only talking about the first syllable. Yes, the 'g' is pronounced unless speaking quickly or with certain accents.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

One of my housemates is called Corianos Agnostheos (sorry, sp., means 'Wise Little Girl' approx. apparently) - because her father is (a) Greek and (b) mental.

Also, the younger sister of an acquaintance at school was (presumably still is) called Zuleika. The surname being Dobson, obv. Yay for Max Beerbohm. For that matter, isn't Maximilian a great name?

My sister is called Eleanor. We were named after feisty queens (she being after Eleanor, Duke of Acquitaine in her own right and missus of Henry II). Elizabeth is a bit common, ho hum.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 13:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe Lixibell's brother is called Phinnius (sp?)

― Madchen, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Phineas shurely? From the novels by Mr Trollope (tee hee). Hence the abbreviation Finn. Ho ho. Speaking of which, I had 'ho fun' for lunch.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I love the name Edith, but only 80 yr old grannies are called that now.

Oi - and my 23(?) year old cousin. And that MTV presenter who supposedly lezzes it up with err.. that other one.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Qui Qwag or Barry.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 14:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Percival.

Or at least, I don't know any.

― ragnfild (ragnfild), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:16 (twenty-three years ago)

i met someone called faulkner the other day. also i knew a kid in skool whose SISTER was called TERTIUS. i got beats when i told him his parents were idiots.

urrr. i always look out for southend's barrington belgrave in the footy.

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Ha ha - haven't heard "I got beats" for a while.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Okay, maybe in England all kinds of hot sexy bitches are called Edith, but I've yet to meet one in the U.S.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 22 October 2002 21:17 (twenty-three years ago)

baseball players still have the greatest names: Troy Percival -- swoon.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

how about Helen?

― gabriel (gabe), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 05:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Helen and Grace are super-popular names among Korean-American women.

― felicity (felicity), Wednesday, 23 October 2002 06:29 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

Aha, revive!

In the course of my work I've come across a client of H4ringey's Occupational Therapy dept. called Randolph Tingler. Yes, that's...Randy Tingler. Ace. But not enough people are called Randolph these days, although my windband conductor in school was a dour Scot called Randy Colville. He used to wander off for a fag while we were playing.

My dearly departed granny's name was Constance Mary, but she was always called Trix. *sigh* I miss her.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Saddam.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:21 (twenty-three years ago)

That's what you think. I shall name all my children after him.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 08:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh man: Reginald Horn. First name was my grandad's, yay.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Hamlet?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 10 April 2003 09:50 (twenty-three years ago)

My cousin Titti is really called Palmira, which she hates with a passion. I don't know why. My grandfather was called Virgil and my (14-year-old) cosuin is called Lettice, but it's not as bad in Italian form (Letizia).

Oscar and Walter are common first names in Italy (and Oscar seems to be coming back over here). I did once know one full-blooded Italian who was christened Alan, poor sod.

― Mark C (Mark C), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Your cousin would rather be called Titti than Palmira? Blimey.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 10 April 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

My grandmother was named Honorine, one of her sisters was Alphonsine, a great-uncle was named Achille--but the way cycles run in the Frog-speaking world I suspect they are all already back in style.

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Thursday, 10 April 2003 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

My grandmother used to be called Gussie. She changed it to Geraldine.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Erm, hate to tell some of you that Greek/Roman names are very different. Lots of Greek names are in common circulation with anglicised spellings for instance: Penny (from Paniota), Demetri, Alexander, Yianni (John), Melissa, Chloe, Daphne, Yiorgos (George), Grigoris (Gregory)Phoebe.

Bring back the stranger and older Greek names like: Euripides, Aristotle, Arachne, Persephone, Demeter, Sappho, Hippolyta, Bacchus, etc.

― Wouldn't you like to know (Amused), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't forget Orestes.

― hstencil, Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Doh - fell on my own sword there. Yes, Bacchus is a Roman name. Sorry folks. Long live Dionysius.

― Wouldn't you like to know (Amused), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, and Agammemnon, Perseus, Hades (now there's one for you!) or even Charon (but don't expect him to be popular).

― Wouldn't you like to know (Amused), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

"Yiorgos" rules! I'm gonna have a kid just so I can name it that!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 10 April 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Standish

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I think I will name mine Broomhilda, Clodagh and Ethel.

― Wouldn't you like to know (Amused), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

fido.

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:08 (twenty-three years ago)

How 'bout Egbert? Actually if you go down the list of the Kings of the House of Wessex you find quite a few fantastic names.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 10 April 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Jabez (the name of a great great great great......great great grandfather of mine, and a name i was VERY NEARLY saddled with)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

My b/f says he wants to name his first Balthazar Balzac (his arabic last name here). I'm not planning on having kids.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

You deny your man his pride? Shame! < / lamer >

Please tell me his last name begins with a 'B' too. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-three years ago)

there are 14 artists on AMG whose first name is "Zbigniew"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 11 April 2003 00:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Seamus. Hamish. Seamish. Shamus. Hamus. Shamu. Hashish.

― Aaron A, Friday, 11 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Blaze. If I have a son, my father's family will be immensely pleased when I give him a family name (I had a great-great-nth-grandfather named Blaze), but secretly I just want to name a child BLAZE.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 11 April 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

My grandfather had an Aunt Sophronia and an Uncle Lucullus. My grandmother's name is Opal, and her original surname was Ing. She had brothers named Sherman and Dude (a nickname, though for what I can't remember since his real name was never used). I have an uncle named Robert Sidney, known to all as Butch. And his sister's name was Nola Mae. (n.b. my family is southern)

Also, I have known gals called Satya and Phaedra. I have never met a Shirley, though I've always wanted to.

Reading this thread has cheered me up.

― sgs, Friday, 11 April 2003 03:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Lots of people are still being named "Zbigniew" in Poland to my knowledge.

I don't think enough people are named Lillian these days.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 11 April 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a re-run of House Invaders on UK Style just now (I know, I'm bored) and the woman whose house is being invaded is called Lillian, and her surname is something like Fillian. I have a friend whose middle name is Lilias. My dad's middle name is Archibald.

My Latin teacher wanted to call his daughter Ariadne but his wife wouldn't let him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm occasionally mistakenly called "Sherman". It's actually upsetting.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 11 April 2003 20:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got relatives by marriage named both Yiorgos and Egbert (well, the latter as a middle name) (two different people).

― Methuselah (Methuselah), Saturday, 12 April 2003 02:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Stanley

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Milton

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 12 April 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got two Ebenezers back up my family tree.

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:31 (twenty-three years ago)

No joke, I had a science teacher in junior high named Ray Darr. (Or maybe it was spelled Dahr). I thought that was bitchin'.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Honky
Dipstick
Hoser
Four-eyes
Weenie

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:57 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Nook Logan

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://media.theinsiders.com/Media/MLB/589740_NookLogan.JPG

(that's Nook)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Smitty

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Eziekial
Hepzibah
Habukuk
Jehosephat

All fine biblical names.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Jovanka
Nyssa
Turlough
Dodo
Polly
Leela
Romandvoratrelundar
Adric
Peri

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Persi

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Or Perseus, even.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 30 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Horatio
Germanicus
Apollonia
Sapphira
Shadrach
There was a vet called "Phaedra" at the clinic I went to this weekend.
My great-grandfather was named Blaz.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Spinning Star Kick

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

More of a title, but I haven't heard anyone called 'internouille' since I came back to upper canada.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Will people donate money for my hospital bills if I name one of my eventual kids Kamchatka?

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Pol Pot.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 30 August 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Agnes

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Alma

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Sasquatch

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Horace

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Aubrey Beardsley

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 30 August 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yahweh

― Huck, Monday, 30 August 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Cy (Sy as in Sy Sperling doesn't count)
Satchel
Honus
Grover
Odibie
Harmon

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Tris
Rogers
Mel
Pie
Hoyt
Nap
Buck
Cool Papa
Kirby
Goose
Rollie
Early

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

HOSS
RUBE (c'mon luna, i know you like that one)

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

motherfucking Mordecai!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

that's my hebrew name motherfucker!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Mordecai? That's a fucking cool name. There should be a Jewish superhero called Mordecai. I mean, besides you.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend is called Gay. Well, Sally-Gay actually.

Arthur is a good name.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never met an American named Katarina. We need to get more in touch with our German roots, 'cuz that's a sexy sexy name.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"Buck" has a few problems.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a client who'd filled in an order today with herself as the tech contact and her name is Eunice. I have a vision of an 80 year old pensioner putting a new hard drive into someone's Dell.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and speaking of Jeds friend Gay - once at a Rotary meeting with my grandad, a lady came up to do a talk and her name was Gay Priest.

!!!!!

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

fyodor

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never met an American named Katarina. We need to get more in touch with our German roots, 'cuz that's a sexy sexy name.

The problem being that when you're naming your kids, you're not trying to come up with sexy sexy names.

There should be a thread about great stripper names that have never been used.

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i know a katarina but she goes by "katie."

― amateur!!!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

clyde. myles also seems uncommon nowadays.

― youn, Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Xavier

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ethelred, and Ethelwulf

(also Oswest - I believe the town of Oswestry was named after an ancient King Oswest)

― caitlin (at work), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Eziekial
Hepzibah
Habukuk
Jehosephat
All fine biblical names.

-- Wooden (josephgoode...), August 30th, 2004.

There's a journalist in one of the broadsheets who is called Hephzibah. The reason I mention it is because the meaning of the name Hephzibah is really really beautiful:

Hephzibah = "in her is my delight"

Awwwwwwwwwwwwww, sweet!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't Hephzibah also a character in Carrie's War?

― caitlin (at work), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:31 (twenty-one years ago)

fucktard.

― splooge (thesplooge), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 10:32 (twenty-one years ago)

osama
adolf
jess

― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work with a woman called Joy Gay. She was was one of the most good-natured people I've ever known.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Water
Ugly

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a guy at work here named Xavier, but he's french. there is a woman here name Katrina, she's midwestern.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

My grandparents all have rather quaint, old-timey names: Chester, Gertrude, Harold and Iva. I also have two aunts, on opposite sides of the family, named Leola, and a great-aunt Rolfcan. Not to mention uncle Leslie and aunt Odes (pronounced like "Otis").

I wanted to continue this tradition with my own children, but their mother was like nothin' doing.

― briania (briania), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Lemuel. Mehitabel. Hepsibah.

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

deidre, alfred, arthur, rupert

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Aloysius, St. John (Sinjun), Lucrezia, Samson

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Napoleon

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i remember my granny and aunties gossiping, when i was little, about a woman who lived in the street who seemed to be called 'Famie Sanderson' (pronounced as 'Fay-May' but with the 2nd syllable shortened, almost to 'fay-mi' type length)

found out yrs later her full name was 'Euphamia'

― Snowy Mann (rdmanston), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

My pal N's family: a grandfather, Ovid, a cousin, Tertius.

My mom is called Claudia. She will inflict pain on anyone who calls her Claude. Our cleaner was called Una (pronounced you-na).

French friends: Laurence (female), Florence, Emmanuelle

School: Buffy, Augusta, India, Arabella, Raimy, Royce, Ivy, Illaria, Genevra, Prudence, Galaxy, Galadrielle.

Note that Irish people haven't explained: the name Mary is often pronounced 'maah-ri' there, as is Marie; Karen tends to be like Kaaren.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

mahalia. that's my current out-of-favor favorite.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 September 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

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