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CelticWarlord
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Hunter and Aurora top the list of baby names UK parents regret calling their children, a new survey has revealed. <<<
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Tis_Bearself
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I was always fascinated by the fact that parents in Mexico used to name girls “Jesusita” fairly frequently till the Church banned it some decades ago. You can still name your son Jesus, but Jesusita for a girl is not allowed.
Tis_Bearself
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That song is from 1916. The name was still allowed for girls then.
Tis_Bearself
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I think it’s a sweet name myself. I’m always a little shocked when guys are walking around with the name “Jesus” especially if they’re not behaving in a godly manner, but if they can have that name it would be nice if women could have the female variant.
They usually go by “Chuy”
I have a couple of cousins like that…
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Montrose
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What is wrong with the name Aurora? Here in the Philippines which is a Catholic country the name Aurora is quite common.
Tis_Bearself
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Sometimes parents don’t like the name because it got too popular. Like if there are three other Auroras in school with one’s daughter Aurora.
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Montrose
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Okay. I misunderstood. I had the impression from the comments in the thread that this name was banned by the Church.
Tis_Bearself
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No, this is a totally secular article. The Jesusita discussion was a sideline.
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christofirst
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Way back in my family tree, there is a Stoddard, who named his daughter Flavilla, and his son Flavel. You don’t hear names like those anymore.
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Tis_Bearself
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If one were to start naming children after early Christian saints, or even later Christian saints, one could get some interesting names. Like “Frigidian” and “Ermenburga”.
“Flavilla” sounds like a nice Latin name from the days when people better appreciated Latin.
“Flavilla” sounds like a nice Latin name from the days when people better appreciated Latin.
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DaveBj
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I would be interested in seeing a similar list, but this time of names that the kids hated having been given.
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Katherine438
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I named my daughter Gilda Besse after two relatives that had passed … everyone always called her Jill, but to this day she won’t forgive me for naming her that … even though a lot of the people she knows now only know her as Jill.
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RN69
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My aunt and godmother was baptized Ethelredis Veritas. She went by the nickname of Babe! Never knew her real full name until much later in life.
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F_Marturana
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One of my father’s aunts was named Arcangela. She was born in the late 1800’s.
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0Scarlett_nidiyilii
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I’ve taken care of kiddos named Jihad.
In Arabic it just means a “struggle for a noble cause”.
But in America it’s fraught.
In Arabic it just means a “struggle for a noble cause”.
But in America it’s fraught.
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EmilyAlexandra
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I had never heard of this “Karen meme” that is mentioned in the article. When I Googled it, I found that it is apparently “nearly ubiquitous”. That’s news to me. I still don’t really understand it. The only reason I would avoid the name Karen is that there are three different pronunciations (that I know of), and people understandably get upset when you use the wrong one. I know one Karen whose husband uses to pronunciation with the short “a” (as in “Carrie”), whereas everyone else (including her parents) pronounces the “a” as in the word “care”. There are yet more Karens who pronounce the “a” as in “car”.
Much the same problem with Sharon: is it “Sha” as in “shambles” or as in “share”, and is the emphasis on the first or second syllable? In Britain, this inevitably ends up being a snobbery thing, with people saying that Sharons who use the “share” pronunciation are just trying to distance themselves from the name’s associations with lower social status.
And the same problem with Ralph: if you pronounce if “rafe”, people think you’re a snob, but if you pronounce it the way it’s spelled, people think you’re lower class or ignorant (probably both).
The only names I can think of that always seem really bad choices are names that are derived from brand names. The most obvious ones I have come across are Armani and Chanel (also spelled Chanelle). I know that these were names (albeit surnames) before they were brand names, but they have comes to be used as names because of the popularity of the brands.
Given what’s transpired in Britain since the death of Jimmy Savile in 2011, I think it’s probably wise to wait a good long time after somebody’s dead to risk naming your child after them. I don’t suppose too many people will be naming their children Cyril, Clement, or Rolf, for example.
Much the same problem with Sharon: is it “Sha” as in “shambles” or as in “share”, and is the emphasis on the first or second syllable? In Britain, this inevitably ends up being a snobbery thing, with people saying that Sharons who use the “share” pronunciation are just trying to distance themselves from the name’s associations with lower social status.
And the same problem with Ralph: if you pronounce if “rafe”, people think you’re a snob, but if you pronounce it the way it’s spelled, people think you’re lower class or ignorant (probably both).
The only names I can think of that always seem really bad choices are names that are derived from brand names. The most obvious ones I have come across are Armani and Chanel (also spelled Chanelle). I know that these were names (albeit surnames) before they were brand names, but they have comes to be used as names because of the popularity of the brands.
Given what’s transpired in Britain since the death of Jimmy Savile in 2011, I think it’s probably wise to wait a good long time after somebody’s dead to risk naming your child after them. I don’t suppose too many people will be naming their children Cyril, Clement, or Rolf, for example.
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