Author Topic: Baby names  (Read 10913 times)

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #25 on: 22 September, 2018, 08:53:07 pm »
My wife suggested Broughton for a boy. Honestly, I'd drown myself.

I put October in a story. I think she's sort of enjoying herself there.

Rupert. RUPERT!

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #26 on: 22 September, 2018, 10:35:38 pm »
The one that horrifies me is Jaxon, which sounds like a hip hop/funk crossover band but is a very popular boy's name.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #27 on: 22 September, 2018, 11:25:47 pm »
Really spelled with an 'x'?
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #28 on: 22 September, 2018, 11:58:58 pm »
Jackson seems OK to me but Jaxon????

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #29 on: 23 September, 2018, 08:50:42 am »
With an X is now the default spelling :hand:
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #30 on: 23 September, 2018, 10:07:41 am »
See Huckleberry Finn.
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ian

Re: Baby names
« Reply #31 on: 23 September, 2018, 11:47:07 am »
Really spelled with an 'x'?

I on a course about infographics several weeks back and one of the things we were working on was graphic on naming trends. No one could figure out Jaxon, it just seemed de novo stupid.

Re: Baby names
« Reply #32 on: 23 September, 2018, 01:03:16 pm »
Back-formation from Jax in Sons of Anarchy, perhaps?

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #33 on: 23 September, 2018, 03:25:35 pm »
Squinting at the names on the terminal-thing at the pub earlier revealed among the waiting staff an Olivia, a Georgia, a Wyllie and a Liberty.  Well, it is Leafy Surrey.  Also a Matt and a Louis.  And someone who could have been either Stan or Sian.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #34 on: 23 September, 2018, 03:36:26 pm »
And someone who could have been either Stan or Sian.

As in "... is a work of Sian"?  Equality at last.

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #35 on: 23 September, 2018, 03:39:00 pm »
And someone who could have been either Stan or Sian.

As in "... is a work of Sian"?  Equality at last.

I thought "Poppy" was the female equivalent.  However, I am stealing "jbex of Sian", 4 teh lulz.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #36 on: 23 September, 2018, 04:18:30 pm »
Poppy did go on to replace Lucifer as regent of Hell.

See, Lucifer would be a good name for the boy. The demons got all the best names. Oh, Astaroth, look what a mess you've made again, you've made mommy really rather angry.

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #37 on: 23 September, 2018, 08:18:46 pm »
Really spelled with an 'x'?

I on a course about infographics several weeks back and one of the things we were working on was graphic on naming trends. No one could figure out Jaxon, it just seemed de novo stupid.
Canadadadadaian crooner Justin Bieber has a half brother yclept  Jaxon. This may have influenced the popularity of the name.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #38 on: 23 September, 2018, 08:22:08 pm »
Or it might just be that people are fucking thick and can't spell.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #39 on: 23 September, 2018, 10:33:14 pm »
The granddaughter of the manager of the Battle Mountain Super 8 has a name pronounced "Caitlin" so natch I assumed it was spelled that way too.  No.  Katelyn.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #40 on: 23 September, 2018, 10:37:36 pm »
One of the constancies of American naming is the inconstancy of Caitlins.

That and their pronunciation of Siobhan and other Gaelic names. I'm sure I've mentioned my travels in the company of two Irish ladies of ill-repute and names most unpronounceable.

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #41 on: 23 September, 2018, 10:48:35 pm »
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #42 on: 24 September, 2018, 08:30:06 am »
This is about a year ago but has stuck with me - overhead some parents in the park calling their kid Guinevere.

If that wasn't bad enough, IIRC from the Arthurian legend, Arthur's wife was supposed to be exceptionally beautiful. This kid was never going to live up to that description.

My wife has some friends whose surname is Gow.  Their child is named Tristan and so I have always referred to him as the shake it up baby.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #43 on: 24 September, 2018, 10:39:10 am »
It gets worse.  There are more than a few Jaxxons.  Let's hope for their sake that none of them ever live or work on a lower-ground floor.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #44 on: 28 September, 2018, 02:54:57 pm »
Jaxxon is the child of good ol' Southern boys and girls. They named him after the state capital of Mixxixxippi. For similar reasons, Auxtin and Louix (...iana) are also popular down in Dissie. That should say, in Dicksie. No, I mean...
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #45 on: 28 September, 2018, 10:09:59 pm »
I don't suppose they're all Van der Graaf Generator fans. I'm sure many here will remember Jaxon Sax.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #46 on: 28 September, 2018, 10:53:15 pm »
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ian

Re: Baby names
« Reply #47 on: 29 November, 2018, 01:32:26 pm »
Randy Woofer.

Really. Just really.

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Re: Baby names
« Reply #48 on: 29 November, 2018, 01:58:19 pm »
Randy Woofer.

Really. Just really.
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Re: Baby names
« Reply #49 on: 29 November, 2018, 02:17:08 pm »
If I were to have children (which is unlikely) a boy would be called something like David and a girl, Claire. I cannot be doing with the pretentious names people give their kids these days. And people who give their kids traditional names, but spell them in an absurd way can fuck right off....
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