A friend of mine came close to being named Maloika instead of Michelle. She said thank God he changed his mind so yes its terrible to live with a name you hate .

There are a lot of weird names out there now. Not like years ago when we had original ( more normal ) names.

Aren’t some names dreadful, feel so sorry for the kids. The worst culprits are the rich and famous. I’m all for unique, but not ridiculous

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  • • hopefullyheidi replied
    • 29 Oct 2015 , 7:27 pm

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  You are right – the worst culprits are the rich and famous. I often gasp at some of the names.

Have you seen Lara Bingle and Sam Worthingtons baby’s name Rocket Zot :0 How do they even come up with them?! I’m amazed

some names can be so out there especially the celeb’s babies

great to read this story

My name is not unusual in my parent’s country but I haven’t met anyone else here with my name. It is only tricky for me when I’m waiting to be called for my turn somewhere, and have to concentrate hard to try and figure out if that could be my name being called.

lol i laugh when i read the heading

For me, simple baby name but have beautiful meaning.

I love the range of different names from different cultures but I do agree that some names are just weird but maybe they mean something to the parents.

I love my name Bonnie or at times Bonnie Jean but my kids and grand kids are from oldest to youngest Candy, Jay, Tarlia, Curtis, Cloe, Ezrah, Cody, Lucas, Connor, Sienna, Telisha

My ex partner insisted we spell my son’s name the same way as it is in his culture. I tried to explain that Australians would naturally pronounce the silent “s” in his name. When you pronounce the “s” on the end of his name it turns from a boys name into a girls name. My ex got his way and we spelt it as per his culture. My little boy also has 2 silent letters in his surname, which is European and totally changes the way it’s pronounced. It is strange that even after you correct people they still pronounce it wrongly. I totally agree with the lady who commented that she would always wait for the inevitable silence as the teacher tried to work out how to pronounce her name as I feel that for my son as well. Don’t get me wrong my sons name isn’t weird it’s just the added French “s” at the end that confuses people and I totally understand. I wish I had put my foot down, but it can’t be helped now and it’s part of who my son is

The myriad of different spellings drives me up the wall especially for party invites! I had to get the office lady to spell them all out correctly for me, who knew there were five different ways of spelling Lachlan! lol

Some people use absolutely crazy names , they don’t think of how the kids will grow up, they have to live with that name forever, yes my kids have different names and spellings but all names that will grow with them, I changed letters to give them uniqueness so that they are individuals and you don’t see their names everywhere but am proud to have beautiful names without the that’s a weird crazy name. Use uniqueness without being silly.

I think the some names are OTT crazy but that seems to be the general trend now!

Yeah I picked names for my girls that are not common names different but not out there different

Named my children with names that meant something

some names are very weird.

you can name your child how you want

Both my boys have very different names. They arent made up or silly but we are getting some pronunciation issues which I expected. I wanted to keep them traditionally spelt though, doing it phonetically would have make them look silly.