Abba - Father Aviv - Spring Avihag - Father-Of-Festival Avshalom - Father-Of-Peace Almog - Corral Meir - Lighter (or possibly Illuminator) Mizrachi - Easterner (esixts only as a last name) Menora - Lamp Matan - Giving And I could go on for ever and ever if not for the fact that this online name collection I found only includes names beginning with Alef and Mem. Avihag and Avshalom are both Biblical names, by the way. Quite a few names from that period were, in fact, a collection of several words with a certain mening. As names in Hebrew, they work. As names in anything else, they don't.
I have a house near Norwich (when I am not in Holland). The local doctors use the abbreviation "NFN" on medical notes, which stands for "Normal for Norfolk". the following perhaps explains what this means: -------------------------------------------------------------- Sure enough, there was an Ikea born in the UK, but it was more than three years ago. Linda Dagless, who was 26 at the time, named her fourth daughter after the furniture store in May 2002. At the time, she told her local paper in Norwich: "I was pregnant, sitting on the sofa with my boyfriend and trying to think of a name for the little girl I was going to have when I noticed the Ikea advert. "I saw the name Ikea and thought it would make a nice name for my baby. "I have seen the Ikea adverts on the telly and in magazines and thought they always had nice furniture, but I've never been to the shop. I'm now planning to go there with my mum ------------------------------------------------------------------- Full article here
Apparantly there has also been a huge increase in people naming their daughters "Chardonnay". Blargh.
It's all very well worrying about the effect unusual names might have on children , but there are times when I would welcome having one - as long as it started with a letter well down the alphabet! Being named Alan, I have a strong chance of being the first person in peoples' mobile phone directory - so when their keylock gets switched off and a directory based call gets triggered by random movements when the phone is in their pocket, or their kids get at the phone, or whatever - guess who gets the irritating call with nobody on the other end but the ambient noise wherever they are - or even worse, if the phone is offline or I don't hear and answer it, a long stretch of ambient noise on my voicemail!
That is exactly what happens with my friend, Abraham. He says it is not such a big problem for him. He actually enjoys it. It makes him seem popular to the people around him, what with all the sms's and missed calls he gets. When he awnsers the phone and no one awnsers, as in the no-key-lock-in-pocket scenario, he usually just leaves it on untill the other person realizes their mistake or their airtime runs out (prepaid). That teaches them a lesson.
Do you think your friend would like to move to Brussels, get into the English-language amateur theatre scene and make friends with all my friends? "Ab" beats "Al" for first place!
Nah. Just follow his advice. If someone phones you and it is an accidental no-key-lock incident, just awnser and leave it at that, don't put the phone down (disconnect them). People will soon learn to lock their phones, or brain you with them.
A story in the Sydney paper had this which I thought was fitting... The list of worst celebrity kid's names are here: The top 10 is: 1 Moon Unit -- Frank Zappa 2 Apple -- Chris Martin (Coldplay) 3 Misty Kyd -- Sharleen Spiteri (Texas) 4 Geronimo -- Alex James (Blur) 5 Heavenly Hirani Tiger Lily -- Michael Hutchence/Paula Yates 6 Dandelion -- Keith Richards (Rolling Stones) 7 Dweezil -- Frank Zappa 8 Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q -- Bono (U2) 9 Zowie Bowie -- David Bowie 10 Rufus Tiger -- Roger Taylor (Queen)
My Dad went to school with a girl called Candy (Candace) Bar. To this day he wonders what became of her... But yes, there are some kids with very strange names, and you just wonder what the heck their parents were smoking when they picked them out. There are some amusing instances though. Two kids at my school, Martin Bland and Alexandra Martin, are dating. We all think that if they got married and he took her name, it would be very funny. And one of my best friends names is Jim Carter. He never got the joke though, being uneducated in American History and all... Those celebrity children names Spiky mentioned were ridiculous. It just makes you want to cry and laugh at the same time...
A friend of mine (well I say friend...) took this nickname willingly (actually making it up herself)...she calls herself Guchi (and it sounds just like Gucci, the brand name) and the reason behind it was something to do with her parents pinching her cheeks when she was younger and going guchiguchigoo. She calls herself Guchi cause she can't be bothered to correct people with her real name...of course she doen't mind telling people this story....and her real name isn't exactly hard... :roll:
I'm resurrecting this because my cousin Jessica had another son. Sky River's brother is named Ocean Orion. I think the initials might even be worse then the name itself. I hope they don't use them for his nickname, but I bet I think of him by them.
Strangely enough I knew a family who had 6 kids whose names were Sky, Sundance, Rain, Orion, Etoile (star) and Che. They lived up a mountain in a barn, although I don't think that will surprise you much.
I actually knew that Etoile means star, it is on the seal of the state of Minnesota "Etoile du Nord" and it doesn't surprise me at a all that they lived on a mountain in a barn. I have actually considered giving a child the name Orion, lucky for the potential kid my cousin beat me to it. I have maybe a little less than a month to find out what my nephew is going to name his second and her third child, I hope it's not too Lancrastrian.
My sister has a friend called Jigamantus. They call him Jigus for short though. I was almost a Xaviera, but my mum refused (luckily!). And one of my relatives had the names Fidel Désiré (faithful desired) as his first and second names.
... I actually read the title wrong the first 3 times I looked at it. I was wondering what weird names had to do with Lancaster...
For all you lovers of Loony Toons, I had two authors submit a paper a couple of months ago. In order of apperance on their paper: Kayo Te and Wei Lee.* I spent 5 minutes proof reading the paper before it clicked and I had to go back to the first page to double check it. Then I had to leave the room for a few minutes until I stopped laughing and came back. *For those that don't get it, the Coyote's name was Wile E. Coyote
I only just found out, because Marcia recognized the name Mel Blanc in the credits, that the voice Twiki from Buck Rogers is the same guy who did Bugs Bunny and a bunch of other cartoon characters. It was sort of an "oh yeah" moment, when you realize something is obvious but you never thought about it your whole life.
