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SONNEYWOLFERINE JOINS STORM IN FAMILY'S NAME GAME
By Scott Macnab, Scottish Press Association
A mother who named her son Sonneywolferine said today she is happy that the youngster's unusual name will stand out.
Chauntelle Hart also has a five-year-old daughter called Storm Cristal Brandy Tanisha Linda Genevieve Saffron Bronwen Hart.
Mrs Hart, 35, and husband Joe, who live in Methilhill in Fife, have another two older sons Troy, six, and seven-year-old Joe.
They asked the three older children to help them come up with a name for Sonneywolferine, who recently turned one.
She said today: "I like the Sonney part of it and my son Joe came up with the Wolferine because he's a fan of the X-men. When you put the two of them together, I just think it sounds really nice.
"I'm happy that it's a bit unusual and I've always liked names that are different and stand out a bit."
She added that the decision to call her daughter Storm was not a connection to another of the X-men characters.
She said: "I've always loved the name Storm and ever since I was young myself, I knew that if I was ever going to have a daughter that I would call her Storm.
"People do find it a bit strange when we tell them the children's names.
"They usually go 'What?' and I have to tell them again. They get used to it though and seem to quite like it."
She added that if Sonneywolferine had been a girl, another unusual name had already been lined up - Talin Nitrate Titanium.

She added: "That was all down to my husband Joe. I've no idea how he came up with that name, it was just something he fancied."

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― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

Amber came up with Alice's name.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

And yet they called their first child Joe... after his dad. Did they think they had to make up for this early imagination bypass?

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:17 (twenty years ago)

Er, didn't anyone tell them how Wolverine is spelled?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

I'm reminded of the Simpsons epidsode where Skinner summons all the pupils to the Butthead Auditorium, then mutters to himself that he should "never have let the children name that building".

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)

> And yet they called their first child Joe

but he was the first - no siblings to name him.

> Storm Cristal Brandy Tanisha Linda Genevieve Saffron Bronwen Hart

that's not a name, that's the employee list for the local Spearmint Rhino.

i like this idea, or at least waiting to find out what the kid is like before naming him / her. alternatively maybe people grow into their names. i know a sharon who changed her name to elizabeth (her middle name) when she married someone posh and then shortened it to liz when she married someone less posh. very odd getting email from people with a different first and second name from when you knew them - so weird that i couldn't think of what to say and didn't reply 8(

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Well, we had Amber's name before she was born, and it completely suits her. (People tend to think she was named after her hair. Which is silly)

Oh, and Alice's name too.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)

This is ridiculous. Storm is a boy's name.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

At this year's Who day at Wookey Hole I heard a man saying to his daughter "Romana, come over here away from the cars". I couldn't decide whether it was awesome or not.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

Lenin, M and Sonneywolferine top list of most unusual baby names (which is a bit rich coming from a man called Murdo).

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

Murdo is quite a common name. It's the "unique" spellings like Kenydi and Rebekaah that get on my tits.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)

Did anyone tell you how Thomas is spelled?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

what about Jesssica?

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i like the idea of waiting to find out what the kid is like before naming him / her. or at least, like, for a middle name or something.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I wanted to name my little brother "charcoal". Our last name was pronounced, but not spelled, "broils".

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:43 (twenty years ago)

WOLFERINE!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps they wanted to match their spelling of "Sunny"/"Sonny".

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Would have been "Sony" if they could've gotten sponsorship...

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:52 (twenty years ago)

She added that the decision to call her daughter Storm was not a connection to another of the X-men characters.

so funny

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

when my grandmother was pregnant with one of my aunts, she asked my mother what they should name the baby. my mom had a book about some kittens, one of which was named muffie, and decided that would be perfect for the baby. they ended up naming her adrienne, but since birth, everyone's called her muffie anyway. i never thought it was a weird name until i was in college and my roommate would say, with a puzzled look on her face, 'um... your aunt... muffie? wans you to call her...?' i guess muffie is kind of odd for a 50something year old woman...

― tehresa (tehresa), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

I like the idea of kids with superhero names! "Allow me to introduce my children ... SILVERWAVE ... CAPTAIN FLASHMAN ... THUNDERGIRL ... THE BLACK BARON ... and JUSTICEBOT 3000!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I want to name my child The HypnoHustler, if I ever have one.

― KSTFUNS (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

giving bad names isn't exclusive to kids and my aunt is an example. she adopted to girls from china and named them Azzia and Chynna. worse, she lives in a very small, very rural town in Arkansas, notoriously known for being nativistic. but who knows, maybe these girls will grow to have the kind of talents necesary to change the town, rather than the other way around.

― origami snail (origami snail), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

We want to call our prospective daughter Tequila! Yes, with the exclamation mark.

― moley, Wednesday, 16 November 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

The not-superhero-connected Storm line might be plausible if we didn't know that Storm was a Marvel superheroine who can control the weather. The only other such I can think of is Crystal, which (allowing for their spelling weaknesses) is her second name! That's far too much of a coincidence, with the Wolverine follow-up.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Sonneywolferine. That is a fucking genius name. Genius. Beats the hell out of my hilarious name story "oh, my real name's Elizabeth but I'm called Patricia, and my mother's real name is Harriet, but she's called Jill. I was named after my granny, who was also named Elizabeth, but everyone called her Lily. Except my grandfather, who called her Di. We're so wacky."

Sonneywolferine! Brilliant.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Azzia and Chynna! This reminds me of when I worked for a small paper in Michigan, and I was sent to report on a guy who'd adopted two burros through some kind of livestock foreign-exchange program with Mexico (??), and I got there and he'd named them if I remember right TACO and FLAUTA. Like not even Jose or Juan or Pedro or something -- he went with FOOD.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

dem burros is good eats

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

TACO!? OMG :D

"Hi, I'm Koala Taco"

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

1) 5-yr-old daughter helping out with name: My wife did this back in 73; there was this guy who was always kind and friendly to her; she suggested his name to her parents on brother's birth and so it was (with hindsight she realised he = local junkie – but not a bad bone in him etc)

2) ?

3) How long before ilxor kid = "Roffles"?

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:47 (twenty years ago)

Or Omgwtf. It's a Welsh name.

― moley (moley), Thursday, 17 November 2005 00:50 (twenty years ago)

i had a friend in high school who's nickname was taco.
in fact, i don't know if i even remember his real name.
he's just... taco.

― tehresa (tehresa), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

We want to call our prospective daughter Tequila! Yes, with the exclamation mark.

I read this as you wanting to call her "Tequila! Yes", with Yes as the middle name, and her being born to the strains of "Owner of A Lonely Heart".

― MC Stylised Vadge (edwardo), Thursday, 17 November 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Stretch yourself
You got to birth your kid
Never thinking of the suture

― moley (moley), Thursday, 17 November 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00004DTRD.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― robert soon to be in SLC, Thursday, 17 November 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, I just realized I should have named my daughter Cymbaline.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 17 November 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

I met someone whose 3rd son was called Arnold Sylvester (or vice versa) because of this

― kinder, Sunday, 12 April 2015 11:29 (ten years ago)

named after Schwarzenegger + Stallone? Sylvester is a very nice name, though

― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 11:34 (ten years ago)

yeah!
I think it's quite nice tbh but also lol

― kinder, Sunday, 12 April 2015 11:36 (ten years ago)

if I have a son I might name him after Arnold Ridley and Sylvester McCoy

― let your hip go hippety pump pump (soref), Sunday, 12 April 2015 11:39 (ten years ago)

Or David Arnold and David Sylvester.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Sunday, 12 April 2015 12:35 (ten years ago)

Sonneywolferine should be about 10 now.

― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Sunday, 12 April 2015 13:15 (ten years ago)

I'd imagine hes called bob now tbh, by his new parents

― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Sunday, 12 April 2015 14:27 (ten years ago)

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