Baby Names.. The best no doubt

[humpbackmaniac]

My very good friend has just christened his son Aston. . and yes his middle name is Martin, (it was going to be anyway) so now the very proud, you can tell, eight week old is named Aston Martin Adams. Or in most tense's simply Aston Adams.

Tell me that doesn't sound like a hero in the making!! Sounds better than James Bond to me.

Note this is not "Chav" at all his mum has no concept of the popular sports car brand. And after some persuasion just liked the name.

My pressure to call him Vanquish fell upon deaf ears.

[Lois-PIE]

Poor kid when he grows up!

I know of a woman who wasn't right in the head trying to call her new born "manchester utd"

[2 Smokin Barrels]

He'll also be AA...

[TDTH1975]

Know a couple who are alcoholics, called their sone Worthingtons and their daughter Gintonica.

[SpaceCowboy]

Mrs Space & I are in negotiations (i.e. she's saying "no", I'm saying "please".)

I can't see anything wrong with Michael Owen Space or Steven Gerrard Space.

(Space isn't our real surname - if it was I'd be wanting the name Lost In!)

[SiH]

What's the smallest size of Burberry cap that can be bought?
Just wondering, SiH

[whoateallthepies]

My surname's Walker

Wanted Luke Sky for a boy, or Annakin Skye for a girl

Missus shot me down in flames and suggested Charity FFS

I personally always fancied Morgan as well!!

PS Chloe-ann got none of the above, we found a compromise!!

[vixpy1]

whoateallthepies said:

I personally always fancied Morgan as well!!

Does your wife know?

Does Morgan?

[richie_few]

poor kid, Most kids names get shortened while they are at school, So what is short for Aston??????? It could be ASS!!!!!!!!! and then some clever kid will change it to ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!! poor kid!!!!!!

[docevi1]

At Ikea I see all manor of people and names but only some are readable (i.e. from Credit Cards). I have served an older gent whose name was Stirling, but I served an Aston this week

We both agreed that having a "different" name is a swine when you are young as you get teased and picked on by the other childers, but as you grow older the reverse is true where you can be remembered and known due to your "different" name. Plus it sounds exotic!

[humpbackmaniac]

CHARITY WALKER!!!

[Incorrigible]

TDTH1975 said:

Gintonica.

Classy, my daughter is called Stella

[JonRB]

Having a distinctive name is indeed a two-edged sword.

I remember coming home in floods of tears as a young lad demanding to know from my parents why the hadn't called me "John Smith" as I was getting teased for my name.

These days I find that it can help because it gets you remembered, but conversely it can work against you because it gets you remembered.

[whoateallthepies]

humpbackmaniac said:

CHARITY WALKER!!!

She never spotted that until I pointed it out FFS

[CedA4]

Marcus John Robert is the name of my little boy. A strong name including both grandfathers names.

Being Cedric Dale Barnard at school was a two fold name, distinctive and yet sometimes i felt like a boy named sue - if you get what i mean. It certainly toughened me up

[Don]

JonRB said:

Having a distinctive name is indeed a two-edged sword.

Tell me about it!

As a youngster I developed a few lines:

"I'll bet you think you're the first to say that."
"Oh how original."
"God I'm bored." etc.

Then my name shortened to "Don". Often "The Don".

I'm even a Godfather!

Life is good.

[docevi1]

what is Don short for?

[Don]

docevi1 said:

what is Don short for?

D -- O -- N -- A -- L -- D





You can imagine the full force of it being delivered by mother at volume after a particularly delinquent moment....

[docevi1]

not that obvious really. Is it?

I get Alexander when I was younger, Alexander been my middle name. I mean really, I name is Stefan Alexander Carlton, intials been SAC And you try saying that without sounding very posh, or a Geordie