Unique VS Traditional

[Cherished]

unique vote here! My name isn't particularly unique but I still have to spell it and it's never bothered me. It's not like you have to tell new people your name every day and once you are in a new job or class room or any group and people know your name then that's it, people get to know you are remember your name kwim. The only time I have to spell my name is if I am verbally giving it to someone to fill in a form for me such as over the phone which realistically hardly ever happens.

[Feijoa Mum]

I am all for unique names here.

I have only ever met two other kids with the same names as my boys and I love it. Kees (pronounced Case, its dutch) is the only one who has ever said something to me about having a problem with his unusual name. He always gets called "keys" until they get told that how to say it properly.


My name has many variations and I get asked all the time how to spell it, its not an unusal name at all but lets face it even John, Jon, Jonn has different ways it can be spelt.
I dont think it matters how you spell it someone is always going to get it wrong.

It is a very personal choice naming your baby and something many couples think about for months.
You are never going to please everyone with your choice some will love it some will hate it but its what you think that matters

[~clover~]

I used to hate my name coz it was so different when I was a kid. Then someone went to my high school with the same name for a few months & I hated it! i liked being one of a kind, no matter what comments I got (ground, cloud, etc)
These days its more common (I have 5 on my FB friends list!!)

I wanted unique, but not hugely different for my kids. Something a little different, but not something they could get teased about. I'm happy with them Brianna was alot more common then I planned in the next few years, but there aren't too many.

Most people have to spell their names these days, no matter what they are. Sarah/Sara, Brianna/Breanna/Breeanna...

Its hard, but its only a decision you can make

[nickers]

lol i just found my name on that site spelt a very weird way Nikohl!!

[ladybird11]

hmmm, now I really know why it takes 40 wks to grow a baby - to give us parents time to pick names!!!

Ok - send me your best baby name sites?

[*Beema*]

Oh Leesa ~ found some pure gold for you
Love that page Onxy, the comments at the bottom are ever funnier

Notorious
Oii Niinjaa
Stealth Wolfe
Tequila-Sunrise
Waynette
Troylene
X (pronounced cross)

[ladybird11]

Did anyone read some of the comments to that site??

For twins - 'Benson and Hedges'!!! hahahaha!!!

BUT, my name is listed as a bogan name - just off to change my username on BB to bogan_leesa!

[*Beema*]

BUT, my name is listed as a bogan name - just off to change my username on BB to bogan_leesa!

The comments werer gold, and I checked to see if my DD's names were on the list
Benson and Hedges was a classic, add it to my list above

[Tiff+2]

For twins - 'Benson and Hedges'!!! hahahaha!!!

My goodness thats just terrible!!!

They had Harrison listed as a Bogan name...... I thought that was a traditional English name?!!!!

PS I am so happy that my girls names aren't on the list and mine is only on there with a bogan middle name!!!

[sconeonamission]

DS, I guess, has an unique name. I don't understand how people (including my dad) can spell it wrong. It's Jensen not Jenson. I swear when you say it you can hear both "e"'sounds. At the doctors, our surname gets called first. I do understand though, as our surname is a grandma kind of name. I'm sure he's not going to be the only one, but so far have not met another one! It's not unknown though - there's Jensen Ackles (actor - Supernatural), Jenson Button (Brittish F1 race driver), Jensen is make of Brittish car... None of these were the reason we picked it...

Baby number two will have a "traditional" name... If it's a boy, I haven't met another with that name (I'm not giving it away!) yet, but it seems to be on the rise as a new favourite, it's kind of a grandad name. If it's a girl, my friend just had her own little girl and named it the same! So, it could become popular too...

It's too hard to choose!

[Glamourcide]

They had Harrison listed as a Bogan name...... I thought that was a traditional English name?!!!!

It was... until the bogans got hold of it! It's like all those sorts of names - Spencer, Cooper, Bailey, Archer, Dakota, Madison, Indiana, Montana etc etc etc - 'traditional' names that just got *abused* by bogans a few years after the names first became popular with middle- and upper-class families... now these sorts of names are considered to be 'bogan'. Give it a few years, all the Amelias and Anguses will be the bogan names because they're currently popular with the 'toffs' - it's only a matter of time before they drift down into the bogan suburbs and get a bad rep!

[LimeSlice]

pmsl Isn't Angus already a bogan name? Or is that only because of Angus Young? ;p

Harrison was a traditional surname, not a first name.

[Feijoa Mum]

Phew, just checked and none of the kids names or mine or DH is on the list.

No bogans here

[ladybird11]

Righto - I'm going to do a poll on this - I don't think I can convince myself....

Gorgeous name 'now' - bogan name in the future!!! Lol!!!

[Cherished]

I must be living in a cave... I don't think lots of those names on that website are bogan names When I think bogan I think flanno shirts, moccasin, mullets, thongs and stubby shorts while the shielas sit around the camp fire or bbq in their mini skirts and singlet tops with no bra on, frizzy hair which is oily and thick eyeliner with some cheap perfume. Honestly I can't see any of those blokes being called Spenser?

[LionsandBears]

Cherished1 - i think the term bogan has expanded to include the kath & kim types. Cashed up bogans i think is the term. It's not very nice of us to denigrate people for their choice of baby names. There is, however, research into the effect of names on kids' futures. I'm sure Spencer wouldnt have as much trouble as Benson and Hedges for example.

Personally, i'm a spelling nazi so weird spelling sends me up the wall. Epponnee ffs! It's both made up and horrible spelling.

But each to their own.

[LimeSlice]

Cherished1 - i think the term bogan has expanded to include the kath & kim types. Cashed up bogans i think is the term. It's not very nice of us to denigrate people for their choice of baby names. There is, however, research into the effect of names on kids' futures. I'm sure Spencer wouldnt have as much trouble as Benson and Hedges for example.

Personally, i'm a spelling nazi so weird spelling sends me up the wall. Epponnee ffs! It's both made up and horrible spelling.

But each to their own.

Yes, the made up spelling gets under my skin!

[OceanPrincess]

Yes, the made up spelling gets under my skin!

Me too ack!