Author Topic: The "Hollywood" names given to children will they stand the test of time?  (Read 6768 times)

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Offline Jacqui Harvey

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Seems that today a lot of children are given names by their parents that are "unusual" to say the least.
Where we live, is an area from the Hollywood type names the latest I have heard of including Halo and Angel, (they are cousins) J.J. Maylia, Dior, Rio, Lulu,Yallissa, was surprised to see Esme as I know it's an old name, but am told it's after a character in the Twilight Films.  To carry on the latest two I just hear of are brother and sister.  He is Pirelli she is Mahiki Bow.
I wonder will some of these children be tempted to change there names when they get older or will these name become the norm??
Can anyone top these names?

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Cecily Pitt ?

Offline KKOB

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There's a big trend, especially in East London, to make one name out of parts of two others.

Susan + Jennifer = Sufer
Tulisa + Rhianan = Tunan
Olivia + Beatrix = Olivtrix

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It was all Kylies and Jasons when I became a grown up.

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I think Pirelli and Mahiki Bow may have a hard time when they grown up... Perhaps Pirelli will get a job in Kwik Fit.  but no hope for Mahiki Bow.

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My Mum had a waitress working for her who left to have a baby... She came round to see us with her new son called "Roman"  I said "oh that's an unusual name" turns out that she had named him after "Roman Keating"   we didn't have the heart to tell her...

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Each to their own I suppose, but our kids have said that if we had given them "silly made-up names" then they would have changed them as soon as they could.    There's a little lad local to us who is called J-Z and that is how they spell it but they pronounce it Jay-Zee.  Also, there's a little girl called Beyonce(!) but in a strong Barnsley accent it just sounds ridiculous - more Beyoncy than Beyonce!!

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I told expectant Hilary that if it was a boy I wanted to call him Caradog Cadwaladr. She said she was only going to have girls. And so she did.

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There's a little lad local to us who is called J-Z and that is how they spell it but they pronounce it Jay-Zee. 

Jay-zed surely  :)

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No word of a lie, but during my life I have known a; Theresa Green (Trees are Green), Richard Bird (Dicky Bird) and Anthony Pratt (A Pratt).




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