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Waiting in an A & E a couple of weeks ago while a young boy was running round and round and generally being a nuisance. I couldn’t help laugh when his name was called as it was Benjamin Nevis……do you think they thought about it, or not?
I think there are plenty of boys names you could go for which are safe but not anything that can be ‘played’ with by their peers. I would have recommended you not though to call him after one of my relatives, who is called Wren. He will be 5 on Friday. I fear for him when he gets to ‘big school’.
You need to make sure it is in tune with the surname, which is something I forgot to mention !!!
We’ve got quite a short surname, so need a long christian name to balance it. I love the name Noah. Sat opposite a Norwegian family on a train a few years ago and they had an adorable little boy called Noah. Couldn’t use it, though. Mind you, even Ben isn’t without it’s problems. My daughter’s a teacher, so she’s been asking her pupils how they feel about their names. She asked one of the Bens how he felt and he said his name was fine and he was happy to be called it, to which his mate chipped in ‘yes, but remember we do call you Benjaminger’.
Ben’s nice and safe in that you can’t misspell it, but it’s so BORING! There will be at least six other Bens in any class/job he ever goes into.
I prefered names that were not weird, but uncommon when I named my kids. My first daughter was Fiona and she’s alwys been the only Fiona in her class, but my second I called Olivia, which at the time was unusual, but now there’s gazillions of them. Im still glad I didn’t go for the dull "Charlotte" which is a pretty name, but there’s about eight in every class.
What about Matthew? Or Nicholas?
Well, Ben it is, although reading up on the meaning of names and finding out that it was, in medieval times, the name given to boys whose mothers died in childbirth was a bit of an issue. On being asked by the midwife what the babies name was going to be, the reply from my daughter was ‘I’ll tell you later’, with a think bubble saying ‘when I’m not dead….’ Although he and his brother are going to sound like a couple of labradors, we hope that it’s not likely to be the next Wayne and Waynetta name. It’s been a somewhat fraught couple of days but at least I got to see The Oaks and The Derby, and, with him arriving early, I can now get tickets to see Spamalot at the Theatre Royal next week.
I can now get tickets to see Spamalot at the Theatre Royal next week.
Oooh, do, it’s splendid!
gc
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Tickets booked for the Wednesday matinee. Poor little Ben; how many people enter this world to be greeted with cries of ‘yes, I can now see Spamalot’….Having been walking round singing ‘lets all look on the bright side of life’ for a couple of days I thought, blimey..wrong film but, hurrah..it is in the musical [walks away whistling….]
Ive always thought Jason is one of those names for a boy that is absolutely neutral.
My middle name is alexander and have always liked that one as theres so many names that you can choose to abbreviate it too.
Alexander was very much on the short list, as we like names that can be shortened and, having a short surname, a long Christian name balances it. The middle name is a family surname
so there was never going to be a middle name that he could use. When I was little I thought that only posh people could have middle names, which was why I was only given one horrid name with no choice
. At least I can now stop accosting complete strangers with questions about their names and whether they like them. Without wishing to offend gc, I asked the poor insurance man who phoned up one day what it was like being called Jeremy [one of my favourites] and he said he hated it. Even the guy who came into work to fit a fire extinguisher one day got the Spanish inquisition.
I’d like to have been called Raoul or Raul. Sounds like a growl. You know, those kind of brief roars.. or maybe yawns, lions give.
Raul was also the name of the Cuban guerilla leader who became Jessica’s boyfriend for a while in that crazy skit on soaps about the Campbells and the Tates in the seventies.
Raul Castro is a shoulders-and-thighs four-square booming-bass name isn’t it Grimes?
Fidel isn’t bad either
I’d have liked to have been named Sacheverell
Actually, on Latin names I quite like Anderson as a first name, like Brazilian UFC star Anderson Silva.
I’d have liked to have been named Sacheverell
Aye. I have a feeling that would sit well with you.
gc
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Raul was also the name of the Cuban guerilla leader who became Jessica’s boyfriend for a while in that crazy skit on soaps about the Campbells and the Tates in the seventies.
Ah yes. Memories. Am just thinking about Billy Tate’s teacher . . .
Raul Castro is a shoulders-and-thighs four-square booming-bass name isn’t it Grimes?
Fidel isn’t bad either
I’d have liked to have been named Sacheverell
Yes, Fidel’s good too, but not as macho as Raoul/Raul. ‘Ralph’ isn’t as impressive, somehow.
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