Traditional Kiwi boys' names face extinction

[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:

1. The name/surname combination wasn't stupid (Wayne Kerr etc).
2. The initials didn't spell anything stupid.
3. The name was a common spelling.
4. The name had an acceptable diminutive.
5. 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??


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...

[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...

Actually I think it kinda still is

[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

Does explain a lot...

the crime is admitting it...