Society & Culture Terrible baby names

[Pistol Night]

I mean, all names are made up at the end of the day.

 

[Sqotty from office works]

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Will get drafted to the krows

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

I never really noticed until recently how many names are both first and last names, albeit sometimes with different spelling or slight variations. It makes sense but, apart from a few obvious ones, I hadn't really noticed before. Probably more common with boys names than girls names but also applies to girls names.

For example I used to think names like Ryan and Darcy were a bit weird as first names but when you think about a bunch of other more common names - David, Peter, John, William, Jeffrey, Craig, Patrick, Brian, Gregory... the list goes on - they are all also surnames, we're just more used to them as first names.

 

[Over The Post]

It's funny when you look at other cultures, too. I've worked with an Icelandic guy and their surname changes with almost every generation e.g. Magnus Hafnarson (Magnus, son of Hafnar) or Birna Rednesdottir (Birna, daughter of Rednes). If they got married their kids would be something like Olafur Magnusson and Gudrun Magnusdottir (they keep their father's name).

 

[Gough]

It's funny when you look at other cultures, too. I've worked with an Icelandic guy and their surname changes with almost every generation e.g. Magnus Hafnarson (Magnus, son of Hafnar) or Birna Rednesdottir (Birna, daughter of Rednes). If they got married their kids would be something like Olafur Magnusson and Gudrun Magnusdottir (they keep their father's name).

They put their bankers in jail after the GFC too so they might be onto something there.

 

[sabso]

They put their bankers in jail after the GFC too so they might be onto something there.

Must have missed the time when the entire geelong football club went to jail

 

[RedmanWasHere]

It's funny when you look at other cultures, too. I've worked with an Icelandic guy and their surname changes with almost every generation e.g. Magnus Hafnarson (Magnus, son of Hafnar) or Birna Rednesdottir (Birna, daughter of Rednes). If they got married their kids would be something like Olafur Magnusson and Gudrun Magnusdottir (they keep their father's name).

Correct me if wrong but I believe the Norwegians have the -ssen/datter double.

 

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[Gough]

I always like Nixon Alexei McNamara Mclean's parents who named him for Richard Nixon, Alexei Kosygin and Robert McNamara.

 

[JackOutback]

Tyrown.

 

[Over The Post]

 

[Pistol Night]

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Bet she gets a few suspicious looks at airport check ins

 

[Cleavy]

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apparently whoever did the captioning wrote it wrong, her name is actually Erica.

 

[Foxx]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

 

[Over The Post]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

OK Samantha.

 

[Over The Post]

Thought you were going to say Callum Murray.

 

[sabso]

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Thought you were going to say Callum Murray.

Took me a while.

I went to school with someone called Isabel Blower.

 

[Pistol Night]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

Dixie Normus

 

[TubbsFarquhar]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

Rick Cotter. Rick O'Shea.

 

[Whats a Battle]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

What did West Adelaide Magarey Medallist Richard "Dick" Head ever do to you?

 

[the fly]

I always like Nixon Alexei McNamara Mclean's parents who named him for Richard Nixon, Alexei Kosygin and Robert McNamara.

Don't forget the other kids Kissinger, Reagan, and Golda.

 

[GreyCrow]

Any first name that doesn't bode well with the surname like Teresa Green or Dick Head.

Family tree has a Percival Leaker

Or Percy Leaker

 

[sabso]

Family tree has a Percival Leaker

Or Percy Leaker

One of my great x lots grandmothers was named Fanny Brandley

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Family tree has a Percival Leaker

Or Percy Leaker

One of my great x lots grandmothers was named Fanny Brandley

Mine has a Minola Grey and a Sydney Hawthorne.

 

[Gough]

My granny was a real life Sheila.