A lad (well he's in his 30's now) that uses my local goes by the name of Sun. His somewhat hippy mum & dad named him Sunshine, the only other person I have ever seen carry that name was the Native American wife of Dustin Hoffman's character in Little Big Man.

Nigerians and other West Africans have a tradition of using Anglo names, although not in what we'd consider the correct order. Hence the current president, Goodluck Jonathan and there was a Nigerian lad at Hull Uni called Innocent Harry

Could you imagine, say, a Rugby League player named after an American space mission?
(Apollo '11' Perelini)

When my daughter was choosing a name for my Grandson, my suggestion of Fuifui Moimoi Clark wasn't well received.
There is a growing trend in America of children being named after brands, and a few years ago, along with names like Timberland, there was a report of a number of children being christened: ESPN

There is IMHO a strong link between names and being subject to Child protection concerns.

For Boys being called Jayden seems to be a good one to get involved in care proceedings and Destiny seems to be a good one for girls.


Their is also a correlation between Americanisms and poor spelling which seems to be a significant interrelationship with child protection.
Things like Charmyne etc.

There are some quite daft names knocking about.

If I ever have kids, don't really want any but if I have a boy it's being called Jack and the girl Jill.

If that ever happens then get in touch and you can buy my house.

I live at the bottom of a big hill and there really is a well at the top of it. (OK, its a reservoir, bit it still works)

I see what you did there.
Nice one.

Speaking of Hull Uni and names, I used to know somebody who worked there in admissions who told me that a lot of the students with traditional chinese names tend to adopt an English name rather than have people mangling the pronunciation of their real name. Apparently they had a tendency of using what they thought would be common, traditional names from classic English literature (Dickens being a popular choice), resulting in a few old names that aren't particularly in common usage any more after all, such as Henry/Henrietta, Walter, Frederick, Cecil and the like. Quite a few Roses as well, although that does seem to have had a revival anyway since the return of Dr Who.

When I was studying elsewhere with some chinese students they went by similar names too, so it seems like she was right. I'll always remember William being mad as a box of frogs.

Rooster Booster wrote:I feel you need to be a little more accepting FA of other country's rules. I don't mind there being "rules". We have "rules". I just prefer our reactive system to ludicrously proactive systems where you actually have to have every name pre-approved. Which means basically you can ludicrously only use names someone else used first. This is ludicrous, because I can use "Gudrun", or whatever, through the happy chance that the "naming committee" only came into existence after someone came up with it; but had it been the other way round, then I couldn't, as you can't "invent" a new name. That is just silly. The only issue should be a sane assessment of the welfare of the child, and nothing else. Rooster Booster wrote:I know of a child over here called "Star of the Sea" as his first name. Is this his school: http://www.staroftheseaschool.co.uk/ ? If so, he went to school with my lad, here's an old class photo-

Rooster Booster wrote:I feel you need to be a little more accepting FA of other country's rules. I don't mind there being "rules". We have "rules". I just prefer our reactive system to ludicrously proactive systems where you actually have to have every name pre-approved. Which means basically you can ludicrously only use names someone else used first. This is ludicrous, because I can use "Gudrun", or whatever, through the happy chance that the "naming committee" only came into existence after someone came up with it; but had it been the other way round, then I couldn't, as you can't "invent" a new name. That is just silly. The only issue should be a sane assessment of the welfare of the child, and nothing else. Rooster Booster wrote:I know of a child over here called "Star of the Sea" as his first name. Is this his school: http://www.staroftheseaschool.co.uk/ ? If so, he went to school with my lad, here's an old class photo-

A well was never specified, just somewhere to fetch a pail of water from that was at the top of the hill.

Among my family and friends there is something of a tradition of giving babies a code name while they are in the womb before reverting to more traditional names once they are born.

Hence:

Town Hall became Joseph

Febreze became Emily

Lotherton became Thomas

Chlamydia became Sarah and

For-Longer became Jack.