New Names for Children

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  • joenobody
    joenobody Posts: 563
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    In a previous job I worked with a Turkisk bloke in our Istanbul office called Fatih Berk.
    I knew an Egyptian bloke called Mustafa Kamal. I always wondered if he did...
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,331
    I have Michael Jackson working for me.

    I also knew a guy called John Mee who had a brother called Roger (never met him though).
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,814
    JoeNobody wrote:
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    In a previous job I worked with a Turkisk bloke in our Istanbul office called Fatih Berk.
    I knew an Egyptian bloke called Mustafa Kamal. I always wondered if he did...
    Spare a thought for this bloke:

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    "I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    How about with a daughter and a surname of Burns call her Chlamydia.
  • andyc182
    andyc182 Posts: 12
    Our IT department have two blokes called Ken Dodd and Robin Williams. Both are about 40-50 years old, bet they have had a hard upbringing!
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,814
    andyc182 wrote:
    Our IT department have two blokes called Ken Dodd and Robin Williams. Both are about 40-50 years old, bet they have had a hard upbringing!
    Ask Ken if he's got 2 new Diddy Men - Diddy Pay and Diddy F***
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    edited August 2014
    There's this real estate company in the US called The Bender Group.

    The founder's name is Randy Bender. Here he is and here's their website. http://www.thebendergroup.net
    www.thebendergroup.net wrote:
    "To Serve All Your Real Estate Needs - Call Randy Bender!"

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  • laurentian
    laurentian Posts: 2,568
    I know a lad called Max Speed
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  • tangled_metal
    tangled_metal Posts: 4,021
    My mate at primary school was Andrew Pratt, we called him Andy. A very mild example I know but it was a genuine person's name and being 5 or 6 I really didn't know it was also a joke name.

    I wonder if some of the more amusing names are done by the parents deliberately. Kind of the "man called Sue" approach to toughening up your kid ready for the world.
  • Serious Cat
    Serious Cat Posts: 489
    D o you think in 2014 there where any kids with Maud, Enid, Deirdre, Beryl, Reginald, on the birth cert as those are as much a horror as the names in this thread
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  • RideOnTime
    RideOnTime Posts: 4,712
    Randy Bender looks like the man for the job to be honest. Always trust a Randy Bender.
  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    At my school their were twin boys called Sonny and Perry. They used to be nicknamed Sonny Winkle and Perry Winkle.
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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,108
    Serious Cat wrote:
    D o you think in 2014 there where any kids with Maud, Enid, Deirdre, Beryl, Reginald, on the birth cert as those are as much a horror as the names in this thread


    Sound OK to me, I could see Maud and Enid making a comeback, Reginald too with Reggie becoming popular in the way Archie has. I've got quite a common name myself (now - it wasn't so much when I was a kid) and I wouldn't have minded being saddled with Reggie.
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  • Cornwall5
    Cornwall5 Posts: 6
    As far as I know there are statistics that show that among earners of high income are more persons with conservative birth names than among low income groups of the same age. A name like "William" and "Elisabeth" would be considered as conservative in these statistics and a name like "Justin" and "Mia" would be considered as modern.
  • mouth
    mouth Posts: 1,195
    A guy I used to work with many moons ago had twins called Harry and Hermione. No joke, although they were born in like 1994 so along time before JK did her thing.

    A relative of mine has a few kids called weird things like Riiver, Forrest and Angel. The other 6 (I kid you not) are all named 'normally'.

    My mrs teaches 11-16 and some of the names she tells me about are trul hideous - twins called Neo and Trinity for starters.
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  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,974
    I knew of a Mr and Mrs Mann who were TT fanatics. They Christened their daughter, Isla.


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  • mr_goo
    mr_goo Posts: 3,770
    I recall a story told on Radio 2 many years ago by Terry Wogan of a young lady named Megan who was engaged and after much deliberation and soul searching she had to break it off with her intended. All due to the surname she would have been saddled with....... Bacon......... Megan Bacon!!!
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  • Giraffoto
    Giraffoto Posts: 2,078
    [url=http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19708585#p19708585]Mr Goo[/url] wrote:
    I recall a story told on Radio 2 many years ago by Terry Wogan of a young lady named Megan who was engaged and after much deliberation and soul searching she had to break it off with her intended. All due to the surname she would have been saddled with....... Bacon......... Megan Bacon!!!

    It could have been worse, she could have been Gillian Icecream
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  • graham.
    graham. Posts: 862
    Anyway. If Isla StClaire married Barry white, divorced him, then married Bryan Ferry, would she be
    Isla White Ferry?
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