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.

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.





Is this his school: [urlhttp://www.staroftheseaschool.co.uk/[/url ? 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.

I used to work in a library and one poor unfortunate junior member was called Piers Mycock!



Did his parents not think before christening him or did they have a sick sense of humour

I'll go: Was his nickname Albert?

There really is a very eminent Dr. Hugh Koch.



I'm unsure if this is at all relevant. Or if he has.

There used to be a newsreader on one of the Scottish TV channels who went by the name of Shona Twatt. Good for her, she absolutely refused to change it