I know I shouldn't laugh, but ....

[*pixachu*]

Angus & Alfred

No, not my grandad and his mate..... our friends' newborn twins.

I feel a bit horrid laughing to myself at their name choices. Just like when my friend named her daughter Nancy.

I just think some names do not suit babies 

ps -  they don't live in Scotland, where those names are probably very normal, they are Londoners.....

*feels like a reet meanie*

[**streety**]

Oh you meanie Pix..

...*Snigger

[merc1_clocks]

 Angus certainly very Scottish...we have loads, usually shortened to Gus

 Maybe I should say that it's comon where I live...before someone comes in & flicks me ear'ole.

I think Alfie's nice too...I'll get me coat

[chickengrandma-2008]

I have a friend with a young grandson called Alfie and another one with a new baby grandson called Stanley.  Alfie isn't too bad but Stan????  It doesn't go too well with their surname either.

I still can't get over learning a girl in my 8 year old granddaughter's class is called Maud.  

[captainbovine]

seems all the old fashioned names are making a comeback, Stanley? er, no...terrible name.

OH calls me "our Maud" when he's talking about me to people!

[**towery**]

I think laughings a bit mean

they are older names that we dont hear as much

names  go in cycles, when they arent heard beyond oap's homes they start to reappear with newborns

i wish some parents could b more  inventive with thier kids names

my 2 went to school with  so many  jamie, rebekahs lewis' that it was a pain as they seemed to spell them all slightly differently

i had a school year full of  lynn  tracey  wayne  martin john

[twishy123]

When we fisrt moved down here lots of people thought I was called Alice...

'cos OH used to call me 'Ah Lass' (Our Lass).....

[vamo48]

One of my grandsons has Stanley as a middle name, but that's because it was my dad's name.  I'm very interested in names, and have noticed a lot of the older names such as Lily and Alfie becoming popular again.  I just hope no-one thinks naming a baby Horace, Ethel or Gertrude is a good idea.....

[captainbovine]

Hiya Twishy, long time no post....whatya been up to these days?

[*pixachu*]

It is nice to have unusual names and not something everyone has, or the most popluar ones.....

I'm guessing the babies will be known as Alfie and Gus? 

I heard a little girl called Miley getting told off recently 🙂 

Someone else we know has an Ailsa   and there's a Martha and Nell - which when we heard the anouncement we thought said baby Neil  oh and I met someone last week who has a daughter called Takara 

I love quaint names and even the oldies revived.... sometimes 🙂 🙂

My chuckle at the names is in private and it's one opinion I think should be kept that way, so as not to cause offence.

On here is *private*  

[cookiecookuk]

a friend of mine has a grandson called issac.he is about 5. and i have a great niece called alphie.

[millielilac]

As a former nursery/ primary teacher I have come across lots of different names....some were names that were very unusual....some were unusual in that the parents could not spell them . I dont mean that the parents mispelled the name on the birth certificate but rather that they spelled it differently on different occasions.

Have had more than one Angus ....but never an Alfred ....but have had some Freddies.....

Many old names are having a resurgence ...my friends new grandaughter is called Alice ...they were considering Ivy....

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

There were 3 elderly maiden aunts in our family called Lily, Cis and Rose.

I had always assumed that they were named after 3 flowers with Cis being short for Narcissus!!  But actually I just googled Cis and it may have been Cecily.  I will still think of them like 3 flowers!  

I'm Alison and you dont get many babies these days called that.  I dont really like my name and would prefer something else...!  

I like old fashioned names though and often even if the names dont suit a baby the baby will 'grow' into their name.

I did shudder to hear 'Chanel' and 'Angel' being bellowed down a supermarket aisle at 2 little girls the other day - the latter had just wrecked a display of chocolates which somewhat amused me.  

[fishpieface]

There are some very strange names about these days, it seems as if people

think it's ok to call their little babies just about anything they wish, even if it's

ridiculous!  Sadly it doesn't seem to occur to them that the poor child is

lumbered with a name that will result in loads of teasing & grief later on in

school years.

I think the saddest must be the ones named after so-called celebrities

who are little known to the intelligent of the world at the time and will be

long forgotten probably by the time the baby starts school.

Each to their own I guess.

[fishpieface]

Our friends' scottie dog is called Angus and the cat at the house

at the back is Alfred.  I find it hard to associate those names with

people, let alone little teeny babies.

Someone my sister knows has just had a little boy and named him

Toby Percy!

[ilove2patch]

Cecily is a sweet herb.

[ed_blackadder_1]

A friend of a friend had twins about 10 years ago their names -  Albert and Ethel, family names apparantly, I shall say no more.

[alisonsvintagechicboutique]

ahh thank you Ilove2patch.  Cecily is a really lovely name actually.  As I wont ever have kids I might have to name my next rabbit that!

[chickengrandma-2008]

Some names are bad enough but ten times worse when spelled 'differently' such as the Alphie mentioned up there ^^^^  and Rebekah. Just my opinion but I think it's a bit chavvy.

My son was one of 6 Andrews in his class.  I didn't name him that because it was popular, I didn't even know of any others, I named him after my dad.

Two of my granddaughters have old fashioned names, Harriet and Lily.

[stan3502]

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@chickengrandma-2008 wrote:

I have a friend with a young grandson called Alfie and another one with a new baby grandson called Stanley.  Alfie isn't too bad but Stan????  

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