Traditional Kiwi boys' names face extinction

[Hitcher]

Quietly and without fuss, New Zealand's Kevins, Bruces, Trevors, Stephens, Andrews, Brians, and Donalds are evaporating from our language and school rolls, replaced by Jacks, Joshs and a whole raft of fashionable, made up and naff names.

There is probably a similar list of extinct girls' names too. Certainly there is an egregious selection of monikers being inflicted on the fairer sex as well as on the lads.

It is sad that some parents don't think about what they're inflicting on their offspring. I am a strong supporter of the French and Danish system of naming kids: you get to pick off the official list. Marvellous.

[Winston001]

Haven't bumped into an Agnes or a Tarquin for quite a while...:eek5:

[Unit]

Well gave my daughter the longest name I could, Anastasia Charlotte Van Tel Pauwels, then gave my son the shorted name I could, Jay Edge. Go figure :crazy:

[Magua]

What chu talkin' 'bout? I used to know seven Andrews when I was in intermediate and I'm not that old.

What are these fashionable naff names you speak of?

[FJRider]

My gran told my mum (a few months before I was born) to choose a name that you can stand at your back door and call as loud as you can... because thats what you'll be doing for the next 16 years. (she was wrong... it was the next 18 years...)

[Hitcher]

What are these fashionable naff names you speak of?

Read the "births" column in your newspaper tomorrow. This pursuit provides moments of mirth in our house each Saturday morning.

[T bone]

I rather like my name. I've only known of two other people with the same name & both times they were spelt different to mine. Most people either say it wrong or spell it wrong though, I'm kinda used to it after 20-something years though:whocares:

[McJim]

What have I done? :slap: I have given both my sons normal names. They will be the only kids at school with normal names. they will, alas, be laughing stocks.:rofl:

[Motu]

When we named our son Jack we were a bit concerned about using such an old fashioned name....the only people we knew called Jack were old or dead.Both John and Jack are traditional names in my family,and were considering naming him John,and calling him Jack,which is how it normally goes.

So we were somewhat pissed off a few years later when Jack becomes one of the most common ''new'' names.

[FJRider]

What have I done? :slap: I have given both my sons normal names. They will be the only kids at school with normal names. they will, alas, be laughing stocks.:rofl:

Fear not... by the end of high school, things will change...again... do they (as in the advertisment on TV) "only comes from Scotland" ???:rockon:

[98tls]

What have I done? :slap: I have given both my sons normal names. They will be the only kids at school with normal names. they will, alas, be laughing stocks.:rofl: Dunno Jimmy but am sure the feet thing wont help.

[turtleman]

I rather like my name. I've only known of two other people with the same name & both times they were spelt different to mine. Most people either say it wrong or spell it wrong though, I'm kinda used to it after 20-something years though:whocares:

Hmmmm, I'm intrigued to find out how the others spell the name T, Mr. Bone :laugh::laugh: :bleh:

[Mom]

Be alright if I had a fancy first name. My family have a long history of calling people by their second names. Name your child one thing, then call it something else. I was raised as Liz. Gained the nickname Charlie from my friends and was called that outside of home. Neither of them are my given name.

My son is named Timothy (Tim). I call him Buster :yes:

I had friends at school, they were identical twins. Parents named them Isobel Agnes and June Maud. Names are cool!

[Number One]

I knew a boy called Russell Russell growing up and I remember a girlfriend I had at school was petrified someone might find out her middle name was Bertha :rofl: Don't meet many Berthas' these days

[Motu]

We called our granddaughter Janola Moonbeam.







However,our daughter didn't think we were serious and called her something else.But she will always be Janola Moonbeam to us.

[FJRider]

I knew a boy called Russell Russell growing up and I remember a girlfriend I had at school was petrified someone might find out her middle name was Bertha :rofl: Don't meet many Berthas' these days

A guy in my class was called William Williams...

[Number One]

A guy in my class was called William Williams...
Just rude! Guess he had people call him Bill Williams?

[FJRider]

Just rude! Guess he had people call him Bill Williams?

Nah...we just called him ... little willy... :innocent:

[Number One]

Nah...we just called him ... little willy... :innocent:
Ha ha oh the shame! :lol:

[jonbuoy]

Those sound like traditional English names - wouldn't Rangi or simillar be a traditional kiwi name?

[Grub]

My music and Latin teacher was Hal Marriot ... he married Harriet. Kept us schoolboys amused for ages that did.

[Murray]

Sorry about Russell Russell and William William but probably the worst I know is Wayne King. But man was he tough and could he scrap mean-like. Suppose he had to with a name like that

[Number One]

My parents knew a lovely lady by the name of Echo Lillicrap. Mr Lillicrap was in the army so of course because known as Flowershit :lol:

[Highlander]

I never actually met a boy named Sue..

Even my parents no longer use the name on my birth certificate (and therefore any official documentation).
Confuses the pay lady sometimes too - that can't be a good thing!!

[SlashWylde]

Meh, traditional = BORING.

[James Deuce]

Wayne Kerr, and Theresa Green were the people I felt most sorry for at school. Until Mr Kerr proved that there was a measure of truth to the appellation bestowed upon him by his prescient parents, that is.

[McJim]

Wayne Kerr, and Theresa Green were the people I felt most sorry for at school. Until Mr Kerr proved that there was a measure of truth to the appellation bestowed upon him by his prescient parents, that is.

I knew a dude with a Scotish father and a Spanish mother. They weren't really thinking when they called him Juan Kerr. :rofl:

[Matt Bleck]

...the sky is falling henny penny......

[lb99]

I never actually met a boy named Sue..

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I went though highschool with a boy named sue (sieu) nice kid, vietnamese, the teachers used to give him arseholes. "how do you do"

[lb99]

Wayne Kerr, and Theresa Green were the people I felt most sorry for at school. Until Mr Kerr proved that there was a measure of truth to the appellation bestowed upon him by his prescient parents, that is.

i know both those names did you go to school in dunedin?

[chester]

My brother named one of his kids Thomas john. What a wanker eh

[Bren]

my folks gave me and my siblings traditional irish names....older Bro is Shaun, then my sister is Teresa, and I was named Brendan...

[Oscar]

my folks gave me and my siblings traditional irish names....older Bro is Shaun, then my sister is Teresa, and I was named Brendan...

Teresa is a greek name.

[Dooly]

Archie Bunker had a girls name.

[Oscar]

Archie Bunker had a girls name.

Names like Carol and Vivian were quite common boys names.
Clive James was originally called Vivian, but was allowed to change it as a child.

[jrandom]

My grandmother wanted to name me Mahershal-al-Hashbaz.

True story.

Fortunately, my parents compromised on Daniel, which is just as Middle-Eastern but a little more easily pronounced over the phone.

[Bren]

Teresa is a greek name.


oh well, originally yes...used in abundance in ireland though

[Number One]

I got landed with a crap name. Cheesy in the way it was picked + wrong in the spelling which kinda blew the point of the name = CRAP!

Not sure I would suit anything else though...

[jrandom]

Not sure I would suit anything else though...

'Brunnhilde' would probably work.

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[Number One]

'Brunnhilde' would probably work.
Yeah the door was wiiiiiiide open wasn't it...Count that opp as your freebie for the day

BTW I am Bulgarian NOT German :rofl:

[MisterD]

What have I done? :slap: I have given both my sons normal names. They will be the only kids at school with normal names. they will, alas, be laughing stocks.:rofl:

Mine has the same fate in front of him, I called the poor sod James. I got the parental wish to be different out of the way by giving him two middle names (Arthur Ross)...essential if he is to open the batting for England.

My (younger) sister, however is of the "different" school of naming, if her first child had been a boy, he would have been called "Felix". Uncle was not impressed and the following conversation took place with MrsD when we discovered this information.

Me: "I can't call my nephew "Felix" that's just stupid.
Wife:"Never mind, you'll just have to come up with a pet name for him"
Me:"He'll already have a pet's fucking name!" :laugh:

I can't tell you how much I love my two nieces...

[James Deuce]

My brother named one of his kids Thomas john. What a wanker eh
My wife's maternal grandfather was christened John Thomas.

Heh.

[Pussy]

My wife's maternal grandfather was christened John Thomas.

Heh.

Yeah, but your online name of "James" doesn't fool me, Plantagenate! :bleh:

[McDuck]

I am called Donald, dang

[FJRider]

I got landed with a crap name. Cheesy in the way it was picked + wrong in the spelling which kinda blew the point of the name = CRAP!

Not sure I would suit anything else though...

You will ALWAYS be Number One to us...

You wouldn't suit anything else... although I COULD suggest.... a few... :shifty:

[The Pastor]

Read the "births" column in your newspaper tomorrow. This pursuit provides moments of mirth in our house each Saturday morning.
I would reconmend getting out of the house more often aye

[phantom]

My parents named me Peter but always called me by my second name. There WAS a tradition of naming the first born after their father, but using their second name, presumably to avoid confusion. Sometime in my teenage years I decided to take my original name back and have been Peter ever since but whenever i ring Mum its always " Hi it's Tony " even though Mum calls me Peter now

[Oscar]

My parents named me Peter but always called me by my second name. There WAS a tradition of naming the first born after their father, but using their second name, presumably to avoid confusion. Sometime in my teenage years I decided to take my original name back and have been Peter ever since but whenever i ring Mum its always " Hi it's Tony " even though Mum calls me Peter now

Wow.
My parents named me Peter but always called me by my second name.

We had a tradition of giving the kid the mother's maiden name as second name.

I've never used my first name, and going by yer second name causes confusion at school and in later life. Not only that, my name could be spelled more than one way.

I must have spent a significant part of my life, wasting my ferkin' time, explaining which name to use, and/or giving the correct spelling, so as a consequence, when I named my kids, I made damn sure:


The name/surname combination wasn't stupid (Wayne Kerr etc).
The initials didn't spell anything stupid.
The name was a common spelling.
The name had an acceptable diminutive.
The name wasn't already a diminutive - if you call your kid "Jack" or "Charlie", most sensible people are gonna assume that the kids' actual name is "John" or "Charles"

[scumdog]

Sorry about Russell Russell and William William but probably the worst I know is Wayne King. But man was he tough and could he scrap mean-like. Suppose he had to with a name like that

Meh, worked with a Ewan Love, what were his parents thinking??:crazy:


Oh, and an Alistair Macalister.

[scumdog]

I would reconmend getting out of the house more often aye

Shit no!
You don't know what you're missing!

[FJRider]

You've heard of the two gay Irishmen... Michael Fitzspatrick and Pattrick Fitzsmichael...

[Ixion]

Some of us have more choices than others.

[James Deuce]

I got landed with a crap name. Cheesy in the way it was picked + wrong in the spelling which kinda blew the point of the name = CRAP!

Not sure I would suit anything else though...

You are from Upper hutt.

[FJRider]

You are from Upper hutt.

Thats not a crime.... anymore...:shit:

[Magua]

A guy in my class was called William Williams...

I know a Steven Stevenson.

[FJRider]

Some of us have more choices than others.

Number of choice's are the same... good taste is lacking in some... Common sense, and family tradition, are not always a good mix... Such is life...

[Number One]

You are from Upper hutt.

ahem! I spent some of my formative years in the Great Upper Hutt but I'm actually a nomad - having moved around for most of my life.


Thats not a crime.... anymore...:shit:

Actually I think it kinda still is :shutup: :laugh:

[Trudes]

Names like Carol and Vivian were quite common boys names.
Clive James was originally called Vivian, but was allowed to change it as a child.

My fathers name was Vivian.

One of my great grandmother's names was Fanny Hill..... poor lady!

[Ixion]

Number of choice's are the same... ,.

The number from which to chose may be the same, but some get more choice from the universe of names. And thus a wider ability to pick and choose and confuse.

[FJRider]

ahem! I spent some of my formative years in the Great Upper Hutt but I'm actually a nomad - having moved around for most of my life.



Actually I think it kinda still is :shutup: :laugh:

Does explain a lot...

the crime is admitting it...

[terbang]

Went to school with a girl named Gaye. It seemed a fitting name as she was a cheerful sort of a girl. Guess we don´t see that one in the birth columns much now either?