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Help[Opinions] Re: Scottish stats for 2008
in reply to a message by Brightfield
thanks, I haven't seen the news today so missed it being announced.
Actually after skimming through the whole list, I think it's fairly good. There's definitely much fewer random letters than last year. There are still quite a few howlers though and plenty of y's.
There's still nobdy with my name lol, with all the unique spellings I can't understand why not. Obviously not unique enough.
Some that jumped out at me were
male:
Amen - is that not slightly blasphemous?
Aneurin - yay! Prefer Aneirin though, more user friendly
Blaen and Blaer - they were twins, I posted the ba and commented how horrible this was at the time lol
Blessing - poor boy
Buzby - spelled Busby this is a fairly unremarkable village outside Glasgow?
C (x4) - what, where?
Colin-Junior, David-Junior, Lennon-Junior, Oliver-Jnr. What's going on? It just looks silly.
Costin - me a fortune!
Dido - so much teasing potential never mind the gender confusion.
Dimosthenes - wow there's a name to live up to. Shame they couldn't spell it though.
Domanic - am I the only one who wants to put an extra a in there?
Dryden - v. cultured :)
Evicson - currently being brought up in a cardboard box
Fergus (56) Hamish (60) - yay!
Godsome - like fulsome, but godly?
Hawkai - *headdesk*
Kage - wild child
Law - high hopes
Le'on - arrgh the apostrophe's have arrived, take cover!
Man - hopefully he'll have no problems growing into it
Odhran (4) - on my pnl
Odin - cool
girls:
Alma x 3 - I thought it still had too dated an image here, is this the first signs of it coming back?
Amundsen - on a boy ok, on a girl?
Arden - they obviously don't live near Glasgow, it's a not very nice suburb.
Arwyn - help the y brigade have got hold of Tolkein
Brie - cheese connoisseurs
Caithlyn - Caitlin, Catherine, Kathleen or Carolyn? I know lets just combine all 3
Cassandra - just 1? count all the Cassies (21) and Cass- names in comparison, and yet just 1 girl called this lovely full, proper name.
Dagmara - I love this, surprised there's not more, I guess can't be that popular currently among Eastern Europeans.
Efeoghenetobore - ?!? it sounds like a Glasweigan drunk rambling. I even googled and nothing comes up. (p.s. I'm Glasweigan, and like Frankie Boyle I'm allowed to mock our own :p)
Enamyobot - they asked their toddler to name her (who was playing with his toy robot at the time)
Eyrlie - premature?
Fraesciante - conceived after a couple of bottles of cheap bubbly (her sibling, gender unknown, is Kiedis, I found mum's myspace)
Hannelore - I love this name!
Heilidh - lol, I bet they try and claim it is Gaelic
Ingrid - only 1?! :(
Lilias - just 1- I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this considering the amount of Lil- names there.
Mahoney - oh god it's bad on so many levels, if it was intended as My Honey that's bad enough, but the first thing a lot people will think of is Pogue Mahone!
Muireann (3) - love this name :)
Sissy - poor girl. what was wrong with the full Cecilia with a private nn that didn't impinge on her social life?
Actually after skimming through the whole list, I think it's fairly good. There's definitely much fewer random letters than last year. There are still quite a few howlers though and plenty of y's.
There's still nobdy with my name lol, with all the unique spellings I can't understand why not. Obviously not unique enough.
Some that jumped out at me were
male:
Amen - is that not slightly blasphemous?
Aneurin - yay! Prefer Aneirin though, more user friendly
Blaen and Blaer - they were twins, I posted the ba and commented how horrible this was at the time lol
Blessing - poor boy
Buzby - spelled Busby this is a fairly unremarkable village outside Glasgow?
C (x4) - what, where?
Colin-Junior, David-Junior, Lennon-Junior, Oliver-Jnr. What's going on? It just looks silly.
Costin - me a fortune!
Dido - so much teasing potential never mind the gender confusion.
Dimosthenes - wow there's a name to live up to. Shame they couldn't spell it though.
Domanic - am I the only one who wants to put an extra a in there?
Dryden - v. cultured :)
Evicson - currently being brought up in a cardboard box
Fergus (56) Hamish (60) - yay!
Godsome - like fulsome, but godly?
Hawkai - *headdesk*
Kage - wild child
Law - high hopes
Le'on - arrgh the apostrophe's have arrived, take cover!
Man - hopefully he'll have no problems growing into it
Odhran (4) - on my pnl
Odin - cool
girls:
Alma x 3 - I thought it still had too dated an image here, is this the first signs of it coming back?
Amundsen - on a boy ok, on a girl?
Arden - they obviously don't live near Glasgow, it's a not very nice suburb.
Arwyn - help the y brigade have got hold of Tolkein
Brie - cheese connoisseurs
Caithlyn - Caitlin, Catherine, Kathleen or Carolyn? I know lets just combine all 3
Cassandra - just 1? count all the Cassies (21) and Cass- names in comparison, and yet just 1 girl called this lovely full, proper name.
Dagmara - I love this, surprised there's not more, I guess can't be that popular currently among Eastern Europeans.
Efeoghenetobore - ?!? it sounds like a Glasweigan drunk rambling. I even googled and nothing comes up. (p.s. I'm Glasweigan, and like Frankie Boyle I'm allowed to mock our own :p)
Enamyobot - they asked their toddler to name her (who was playing with his toy robot at the time)
Eyrlie - premature?
Fraesciante - conceived after a couple of bottles of cheap bubbly (her sibling, gender unknown, is Kiedis, I found mum's myspace)
Hannelore - I love this name!
Heilidh - lol, I bet they try and claim it is Gaelic
Ingrid - only 1?! :(
Lilias - just 1- I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this considering the amount of Lil- names there.
Mahoney - oh god it's bad on so many levels, if it was intended as My Honey that's bad enough, but the first thing a lot people will think of is Pogue Mahone!
Muireann (3) - love this name :)
Sissy - poor girl. what was wrong with the full Cecilia with a private nn that didn't impinge on her social life?
This message was edited 12/17/2008, 3:46 PM
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Dido is a male name in Bulgaria. I would suspect that child has parents from the Balkans. See:
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dido-Kolev/1001197382
(among others)
And Dimosthenes seems to be a common way to spell this name in modern Greece, so I don't think it's "misspelled"
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dimosthenes-Alexakis/646167828
Efeoghenetobore is probably from a Nigerian language, as both Efeoghene and Tobore come up separately as names of Nigerians when you Google.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dido-Kolev/1001197382
(among others)
And Dimosthenes seems to be a common way to spell this name in modern Greece, so I don't think it's "misspelled"
http://www.facebook.com/people/Dimosthenes-Alexakis/646167828
Efeoghenetobore is probably from a Nigerian language, as both Efeoghene and Tobore come up separately as names of Nigerians when you Google.
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thanks I know I was being a bit facetious for many, but I didn't know about Dido and Dimosthenes. I kind of guessed about Efeoghenetobore because there's quite a few long African names in there but usually if you googled them it came up. I never thought to divide it. It still seems like a bit of a mouthful to decide to put the two names together :)
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You're welcome!
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