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Muhammad #1 for baby boys!

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Cameron and Mason, don't name your children these for all that is good.

Cameron is a great surname, but a bad first name.

Mason? What the fuck is this? Game of Thrones?
Were your ancestors builders? As a first name on a boy? Maybe...But on a girl?
Get in the bag, while I hit you with a hurling stick, before I let you name your child that.

It's really refreshing to hear a boy just being named John or James these days. Nice and strong, timeless, but not boring and has a bit of class. Its cool looking up all the variations of these two in other languages.

As an aside, I've rarely met a girl named Marina who wasn't good looking. Very feminine name. Same with Elizabeth.

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What about fuckin' CODY! CODY!

Ashley! Men named Ashley! Any unisex name is to be avoided.

The already mentioned KYLE is a travesty as well. What a soft-arse name! KYLE!

Then there's the grown-man name on babies. Like Grant, I want Grant to look at my portfolio but the kid is still in diapers!

Not even going to go into the usually African American names because those are often a beauty, especially the female ones, but Kentavious or Montavious or I dunno is weird as hell.

Rant over, hope no one with the above names gets offended

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Just name your son Chad.

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Pick classic names from England that aren't so popular anymore.

Adam
Alan
Alexander
Aleyn
Andrew
Arthur
B'rtram either a scanning error or a scribal abbreviation in the source; it clearly represents Bertram
Bartholomew
Bernard
Bertram
Charles
Christopher
Conand from Old Breton Conan, apparently fairly common in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (1, s.n. Conan)
Davy
Degare a form of Diggory (1 s.n. Diggery; 2 s.n. Diggory)
Denston The entry Stratton: Denston was mis-formatted; it may be an error, possibly a combination of two separate entries.
Ebull We can't identify this name.
Edmond
Edmund
Edward
Elis
Esmond a form of Eastmund (1 s.n. Eastman)
Filbert
Frederyk
Gawayn
Geffrey
Geffron a diminutive of Geffrey
George
Gerard
Gilbert
Godefryd
Gregory
Gryffen
Guy
Gybon a diminutive of Gilbert, from the pet form Gibb (1 s.n. Gibben)
Gyles
Hamond
Henry
Hugh
Jacob
James
John
Laurence
Leonard
Lewis
Lewys
Lowis possibly a typo for Lewis
Lyell a pet form of Lyon or its diminutive Lionel (1 s.n. Lionel)
Mayew
Mayhew a form of Matthew, similar to Old French Mahieu (1 s.n. Mayhew)
Maykn a diminutive of May, which is a pet form of Mayhew or Matthew (1 s.n. May)
Miles
Morys
Nichasin A form of Nicholas, perhaps a typo. Perhaps it should be Nicholin (1 s.n. Nicholin)
Nicholas
Nicholl
Olyver
Owaine
Oweyn
Peter
Piers
Pires
Radus perhaps a scribal abbreviation for Radulfus
Randolf
Ranlyn perhaps a typo for Raulyn, a diminutive of Rauf (1 s.n. Rawlin)
Rauf
Raulf
Raulfe
Richard
Robert
Robyn
Roger
Rouland
Rys
Simon
Stemham typo, perhaps Stephain or Stephan
Stephain An unusual form of Stephan, perhaps a typo
Stremu probable typo, but we have no idea for what
Symond
Thomas
Triston
Walter
William

Or you can dig up some good Olde English names like Atholstein or Thaddeus.

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(05-29-2018 07:24 PM)Kish Wrote:  Just name your son Chad.

Do your son a favor and name him:

Chad Thundercock *Insert Family Name Here*

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Name your son Doctor. All of the cachet with none of the tuition.

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(05-29-2018 07:31 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Pick classic names from England that aren't so popular anymore.

Most of those names are fucking gay.

Bertram?

Davy?

Gilbert?

Edmund?

Robyn?

What male with a pair wants one of those names?

Sounds like a ship full of butt pirates.

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One thing I noticed with my neices and nephews is that all the kids at their schools that are retards or have autism or just slow have stupid names.

We went through all kinds of shit because they said my nephew was bullying Dilbert the autism kid. My nephew was protecting his cousin, and Coakley the bowlegged kid because a symptom of Dilbert's autism is biting. Dilbert can bite you, and you just gotta let him.

Then they got Swimmer the homeless kid, and Timmy who's got fetal alcohol syndrome who's dad a fired for drinking on the job. His name was even something stupid, and it followed him his whole life. I think its Walter Wallace and he goes by wally. Stupid.

Aloha!

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(05-29-2018 11:59 PM)rainy Wrote:  

(05-29-2018 07:31 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Pick classic names from England that aren't so popular anymore.

Most of those names are fucking gay.

Bertram?

Davy?

Gilbert?

Edmund?

Robyn?

What male with a pair wants one of those names?

Sounds like a ship full of butt pirates.

The WW1 memorial at my old school probably covers most of those - it's got a lot of names on it.

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It'd be interesting to have an ethnically ambiguous name.

Like "David Roman."

That name could be English or Spanish, you could travel through most of the Western Hemisphere without anyone ever asking you how to pronounce your name, even if it would be pronounced one way in North America, and another way in Latin America. If you were also fluently bilingual and looked a certain way (tall, lighter skin, but not too light/pale, dark hair, generically European facial features), you could blend in seamlessly almost anywhere in the hemisphere, from the shantytowns to the boardroom.

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Theres a few trends ive noticed. First, is the last-name-as-a-first-name trend. Mason, cooper, tyler, fletcher - yet none of these kids have ever carved stone, made a barrel or crafted arrows, so why they have these names is anyones guess.

The other trend i've noticed, is that they take a normal name and slightly tweak it, because they think its "original." Pity every other bogan did the same thing. This trend has been going on too long, and theyre just getting fucking stupid.

When i was a kid, Jason was a common, solid name. Then it was jaden. Then braden. Then kayden. Now theres a boy at my kids school named tayden. Fucking tayden. Ugh. How long until little xaydens are running around? That day has probably already arrived.

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(05-30-2018 01:02 AM)king bast Wrote:  Theres a few trends ive noticed. First, is the last-name-as-a-first-name trend. Mason, cooper, tyler, fletcher - yet none of these kids have ever carved stone, made a barrel or crafted arrows, so why they have these names is anyones guess.

British guy living in the US here - this seems really common and I fucking hate it. I also hate the name "Chase" for some reason. Another really common naming convention that Americans do that I really hate is the whole Jr thing - can the father think of another name?

You can tell somebody is from a lower class family if their real name is a nick name e.g. Tommy instead of Thomas, Ricky instead of Richard.

(05-30-2018 01:02 AM)king bast Wrote:  The other trend i've noticed, is that they take a normal name and slightly tweak it, because they think its "original." Pity every other bogan did the same thing. This trend has been going on too long, and theyre just getting fucking stupid.

Yes, Lesli instead of Lesley, Austen instead of Austin etc.

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In more than one country in Europe, if you try to register your sons birth with a ridiculous name, then you'll be told to go away and think again.

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(05-29-2018 11:59 PM)rainy Wrote:  

(05-29-2018 07:31 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Pick classic names from England that aren't so popular anymore.

Most of those names are fucking gay.

Bertram?

Davy?

Gilbert?

Edmund?

Robyn?

What male with a pair wants one of those names?

Sounds like a ship full of butt pirates.

Bert

Dave

Gil

Ed

& Rob

...all sound like some pretty decent trout-fishin', log-cabin-porch-sittin men to me.

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(05-30-2018 01:19 AM)Nordwand Wrote:  In more than one country in Europe, if you try to register your sons birth with a ridiculous name, then you'll be told to go away and think again.

I assume that means you won't see as many children named Khaleesi in EE.

In Iceland, there was a case a few years ago when a teenage girl with a traditionally male name had it changed by the government to the Icelandic (Old Norse) word for "female". There's also the famous Swedish case of Brfxxccxxllmnpccccllllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 - back in 1991, a boy was given this name as a protest of the Swedish naming laws. The court eventually fined them, so in protest of the fine, they changed his name to A. The court upheld it, so they ended up changing it to Albin (which they intended both Brfxxccxx...11116 and A to be pronounced).

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That Carlin bit was funny as hell. I wonder if he had been thinking of Todd Rundgren, one of the biggest wimps of the rock world.

Rundgren got most of his musical style from Laura Nyro -- a brilliant songwriter, but possibly the most female of any female performer. When your chord progressions and lyrical outlook come from a teenage girl who was known to make her (female) audience cry at concerts, well, it's not exactly the road to manhood, is it? (Full disclosure: I like both Nyro and Rundgren, but unlike most of their audience, don't see them as messiahs or geniuses.)

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Thorgal
Thor
Odin
Bruce
Martel
Raziel
Azrael
Lucifer
Kamui
Viktor
Kratos
Don
Cain
Duke
Drake

If that were a team of men, then you might see them fighting the Avengers.


My girl said that Cecil would be a nice name.

I said that Thorgal is going to take Cecil's lunch money and have him clean his shoes at school.

Those are not trends. The biggest trend in the Western world is Mohammed and the various spellings.

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Another good classic "frat man" name

Trent - lawyer major lol.

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(05-29-2018 07:31 PM)Tytalus Wrote:  Pick classic names from England that aren't so popular anymore.

Adam
Alan
Alexander
Aleyn
Andrew
Arthur
B'rtram either a scanning error or a scribal abbreviation in the source; it clearly represents Bertram
Bartholomew
Bernard
Bertram
Charles
Christopher
Conand from Old Breton Conan, apparently fairly common in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (1, s.n. Conan)
*Davis
Degare a form of Diggory (1 s.n. Diggery; 2 s.n. Diggory)
Denston The entry Stratton: Denston was mis-formatted; it may be an error, possibly a combination of two separate entries.
Ebull We can't identify this name.
Edmond
Edmund
Edward
Elis
Esmond a form of Eastmund (1 s.n. Eastman)
Filbert
Frederyk
Gawayn
Geffrey
Geffron a diminutive of Geffrey
George
Gerard
Gilbert
Godefryd
Gregory
Gryffen
Guy
Gybon a diminutive of Gilbert, from the pet form Gibb (1 s.n. Gibben)
Gyles
Hamond
Henry
Hugh
Jacob
James
John
Laurence
Leonard
Lewis
Lewys
Lowis possibly a typo for Lewis
Lyell a pet form of Lyon or its diminutive Lionel (1 s.n. Lionel)
Mayew
Mayhew a form of Matthew, similar to Old French Mahieu (1 s.n. Mayhew)
Maykn a diminutive of May, which is a pet form of Mayhew or Matthew (1 s.n. May)
Miles
Morys
Nichasin A form of Nicholas, perhaps a typo. Perhaps it should be Nicholin (1 s.n. Nicholin)
Nicholas
Nicholl
Olyver
Owaine
Oweyn
Peter
Piers
Pires
Radus perhaps a scribal abbreviation for Radulfus
Randolf
Ranlyn perhaps a typo for Raulyn, a diminutive of Rauf (1 s.n. Rawlin)
Rauf
Raulf
Raulfe
Richard
Robert
Robyn
Roger
Rouland
Rys
Simon
Stemham typo, perhaps Stephain or Stephan
Stephain An unusual form of Stephan, perhaps a typo
Stremu probable typo, but we have no idea for what
Symond
Thomas
Triston
Walter
William

Or you can dig up some good Olde English names like Atholstein or Thaddeus.

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What do you guys think names derived from english words? Most older names are simply words for other things, just in archaic languages.

For example, from wikipedia:

Quote:Given names most often derive from the following categories:

Aspirational personal traits (external and internal). For example, the name Clement means "merciful".[5][6] English examples include Faith, Prudence, and August.
Occupations, for example George means "earth-worker", i.e., "farmer".[7]
Circumstances of birth, for example Thomas meaning "twin" or the Latin name Quintus, which was traditionally given to the fifth male child.[8][9]
Objects, for example Peter means "rock" and Edgar means "rich spear".[10][11]
Physical characteristics, for example Calvin means "bald".[12]

Although we can all agree it would be ridiculous to name your child 'Bald,' but what about more masculine english words?

Some examples I can think of:
-Strength
-Courage
-Vigour
-Justice
-Providence
-Ocean
-River
-Mountain
-Tiger
-Wolf

I think some of these would be great boys names, with Tiger already used at least once.

It's already quite common for female names, like Faith, Prudence, Rose, May, Lily etc.
I actually know one african family that named their most recent child Happiness.