Whatever happened to normal names ?

[Roarcelona]

Gary is going to be extinct in Australia soon, not one registered birth for a Gaz in 2017. My missus taught an Absidee too, spelled ABCDE

 

[canuckblue]

I was watching a kids game a year or so back and some mother started shouting at her little darling, Tarquin. I nearly pissed my pants. Sure it's an old, classic name but really?

It wasn't Tarquin Fintinlimbimlimbimbimbimbostockfatangfatangolaybiscuitbarrel, was it?

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

@Kurt I think you would approve of what they do in Scandinavian countries, then. For example, in Denmark there is an approved list of 7,000 baby names you can choose from.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

I have worked with a Richard Head in the past. ...

Used to work with a guy called Warwick Hunt - I swear it.

 

[RAFUH]

A teacher I used to work with used to plat a game. At the start of each year, without looking at past performance orvanybother data he would assign a (secret) predicted grade to his kids based on their first names.
The Dwaynes, Biancas and Chardonnays never got good grades, the Toms, Harriets and Edwards faired better.

He was uncannily accurate in the predictions when the test results came in.

Could also be said that biased expectations led to the predicted results.

 

[WA Toffee]

I'm still trying to work out the thought process of the parents of their first child, a daughter, and them calling her Fox.
I could somehow imagine some well heeled home counties young bloods being hip, but this was in Hartlepool ffs!

In Australia we call them Bogan names, and it usually the less affluent suburbs that are rife with them. The parents are usually called Darren and Kathy but the kids are called Jackxyn, Ubud and Armanee

 

[tommytowne]

In Australia we call them Bogan names, and it usually the less affluent suburbs that are rife with them. The parents are usually called Darren and Kathy but the kids are called Jackxyn, Ubud and Armanee

Each to their own eh?
I think it's been mentioned earlier, but it was Australia I reckon that began the vogue for surnames to surplus christian names.

 

[LEONARD]

The lumpen-proletariat in full cry.

A good way of keeping track of your progeny, years after they are taken into care, and subsequently adopted.

Easier to keep track of Jaguar, Cheyenne, and Herro.

 

[magicjuan]

..... I came across a "Sarah" the other day who spelt her name Cera.........

'Came across'? Biblically or in the back of your van?

 

[anjelikaferrett]

When did BRUCE go out out fashion. Don't see many little Bruce's round nowadays.

Could say the same for Gladys, Doris, Edna, Irene, Joan, Jean, Margaret. Not many of them around under the age of 50. My daughter knows of a child called Lucifer. I mean, really, why would you do that to a kid??

 

[RobC]

Did he predict a Wayne, would become the all time top goal scoring player for England and Manchester United ? And a multi, multi millionaire ?

Yes but his grades were [Poor language removed] which is the point.

 

[Tree13]

Could also be said that biased expectations led to the predicted results.

You can ask any teacher anywhere the same question, and the answer is the same.

In my last class, I had a "Jaxon" and a "Grace"... guess who did better academically? Guess who had more supportive parents, who were more prepared to cooperate with the school? It's the same everywhere.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

lad has a mate called Marc & commented that its the only 1 he knows.

other lad has a mate called Bon, named after bon scott that had already died way before either parent was born. Kids keep saying its after Bon Jovi to him.
John was the name given to every other kid when I was growing up, how many these days ?

 

[Rob17896]

Saw a kids football match yesterday and couldn’t help but hear the array of names being called out..... Henley, Lincoln, Hartley, Brodie..... and others too.
Whatever happened to jack or tom ? Why is there a need to empty a bag of scrabble letters on the floor to name your child these days.

All parents are preparing themselves to join all of other non-entities in the list of tabloid celebs. I blame the Beckhams!

 

[SerenityNigh]

A teacher I used to work with used to plat a game. At the start of each year, without looking at past performance orvanybother data he would assign a (secret) predicted grade to his kids based on their first names.
The Dwaynes, Biancas and Chardonnays never got good grades, the Toms, Harriets and Edwards faired better.

He was uncannily accurate in the predictions when the test results came in.

Is that a predictor of outcomes or a predictor of teacher bias against certain students?