What's in a name eh!?

Think the Germans have the right idea. I think that we shouldn't be allowed register the name until a month after the birth and this would allow for post natal euphoria to wear off and commonsense to kick in!!!
 
My youngest has a somewhat unusual name which raised a few eyebrows at the time, nothing as weird as "the number 16 bus shelter though". That said, a couple of years later I found another two babies with the same name (my daughter was on the tv a lot in the two years after she was born).

On an aside, it translates beautifully into Irish and she sometimes goes by that.
 
Brianne said:
Think the Germans have the right idea. I think that we shouldn't be allowed register the name until a month after the birth and this would allow for post natal euphoria to wear off and commonsense to kick in!!!
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Where would you draw the line in terms of state interference in the lives of private individuals?
 
I saw a mass booklet from a Christening two weeks ago for a child that was being named Robin Hood. Poor kid will be tortured in school. The parents should be shot for doing that.
 
Niallman said:
I saw a mass booklet from a Christening two weeks ago for a child that was being named Robin Hood. Poor kid will be tortured in school. The parents should be shot for doing that.
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Why? Because hanging is too good for them? :rolleyes:
 
How does one go about registering the name of a baby? Is it when the birth is registered? I wonder do a lot of people change their minds later? I knew a guy called David, and it turned out his name was actually Peter, but for some reason his parents had gone off Peter after a few weeks and unofficially renamed him David - so he went by either, for legal stuff, signatures on documents, cheques etc...he used Peter, but socially he used David.
 
my husband went to school with a guy called dwayne pipe.... (my husband is a new zealander)
 
I have known people with the most ridiculous names.
Brian O'Brien and Dermot McDermott are 2 that immediately spring to mind.
 
But sometimes ordinary names are used against people in school, I knew a girl with the surname Cunningham and for her school career she was called Sly Rasher.
 
According to the Irish Times today, the judge actually ordered that the court take custody of the girl until her name was changed. The headline is 'Parents lost custody for calling daughter Talula does the Hula'.

I know a Brian O'Brien too. And a Conor O'Connor.
 
truthseeker said:
How does one go about registering the name of a baby? Is it when the birth is registered?
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CitizensInformation - Registering the birth of your baby
I wonder do a lot of people change their minds later? I knew a guy called David, and it turned out his name was actually Peter, but for some reason his parents had gone off Peter after a few weeks and unofficially renamed him David - so he went by either, for legal stuff, signatures on documents, cheques etc...he used Peter, but socially he used David.
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Pique318 said:
I have known people with the most ridiculous names.
Brian O'Brien and Dermot McDermott are 2 that immediately spring to mind.
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What's ridiculous about those names!? :confused:

truthseeker said:
But sometimes ordinary names are used against people in school, I knew a girl with the surname Cunningham and for her school career she was called Sly Rasher.
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Huh!? :confused:
 
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