Things to call a child.

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I know of a young child called Bibsy. This is not a nickname or a truncation, it is his given name, the one on his birth certificate. Is this wrong? In light of this child called Bibsy, am I right to actually go ahead and call my children Rocky and Bullwinkle (should I ever have kids)? Considering that I want to call them Rocky (boy) and Bullwinkle (girl) should I be stopped from having kids?

What is the strangest name for a child you've come across, semi-discounting hippie names like Storm or Love or Absinthe?

― Nick Southall, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

New 'Moon-Unit Justin Fearnley-Whittingstall' anserws please.

― Nick Southall, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No overly amusing first names. but we do have a regular customer at the restaurant with the surname Spengler. He's getting really fed up of me reminding him not to cross the streams.

― Matt, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Satchel Allen/Farrow. can't remember whose surname he got, poor fella.

― nickie, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there is a woman in arsenal tube station whose name is Beverly Hills. i kid you not, she has a name tag and everything...

― gareth, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's the next ILE day out planned then.

― Graham, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Telling you all I know a Gene Poole never gets old.

― Ronan, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gary and Phil Neville (of Man Utd fame)'s dad is called Neville Neville. Did his parents think it was funny? Or were they that stupid that they simply did not notice what they had done?

― Nick Southall, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to know someone called Moss... fairly odd

― fran, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, come to think of it I did used to know a kid called Branch, whose surname was Drye, very frustrating order of names to an eleven year old.

― Matt, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Watermelon Millichamp, poor creature.

― Anna, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Crimson Boner to thread!!

― mark s, Saturday, 18 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or were they that stupid that they simply did not notice what they had done?

Nick, every parent wants their kid to be remembered (usually for doing something, but...)

And that name did stick in your brain....

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we've done this before. Anyway, one of my colleagues is Nicholas Crotch. You can see Mo saying "I wanna a Nicholas Crotch, people!" and Barney and Homer laughing.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Screaming Shit Machine

― Lynskey, Sunday, 19 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Previously, on this topic.

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i will name my children after the sitwells, namely Osbert,Edith and Sacheverell

― anthony, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know a Dixie Dick and a Glenda Glenn.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, you people can't win because you don't know poeple from Christchurch, New Zealand.
[I can't put the name here because I don't want it's parents to look up the name...okay well they named the kid M i r th p u z z le, but without the gaps].

― haloist, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the name Satchel is great. He's changed it now though. But I hope it took root as a name other people name their kids. I think it sounds good, and it's named after Louis Armstrong.

My cousin called her male kid Utopia.

― haloist, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently the unmentionable name was found by picking two words at random from a dictionary.

― hamish, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Using that method, my firstborn is named 'Escalloprelative'

― rainy, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

molybdenum

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Satchel, not Satchmo. Satchel was named after Satchel Paige, the great baseball pitcher.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kids should be called either SPROG or BRAT.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a doctor in Victoria whose name is Dr Slutzkin. I don't think it matters what your given name is if your surname is Slutzkin.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 22 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh, I just assumed it was connected to Satchmo, 'cause Woody's a big fan of his I think, and I don't know anything much about baseball because I am not from the US.

― haloist, Friday, 24 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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