ozzieeagle

One of the main freedoms I felt in Australia, was letting go of the bounds of past and tradition, I found some aspects of those conventions stifiling. Most people here don't bat an eyelid at those first names that you have mentioned.

I can just imagine some of the comments we would have received in England with our kids names.
We gave them the following names, simply because we liked them, had a few picked out for each child, and felt at the time of the births (all homebirths, so we had plenty of time to contemplate) that this particular choice suited the bundle in front of us

Luan, Nyree, Shona, and Ethan.


Havn't seen many Luan's our oldest Daughters Name, but plenty of the younger 3.

Geordie George

Of course, the best spelling is the one with the 'h'.

GG

Pollyana

I still can't get used to adressing a girl named Megan as Meeeegan. And another popular one for boys is Jayden, which I'd never come across before.

Merlot

Dead right!!

M

Megalania

Christian Names Dictionary

MrsDagboy

I've got a niece in UK called Brianna, never knew it was considered weird LOL. Funny, I read some of the names mentioned eg Jarrah, Kayla, Shania, Tayla & just think "new" names, but others eg. Kayleen (got a cousin called that), Luke, Trent & Ethan, are just as common & not "new" I know people called all of them in their 30's or older .

I personally went for traditional (Christopher & Michael), but that was partly because having identical twin boys, the poor kids would have enough problems with people knowing which one was which without adding to the problem by not being able to remember the names as well .

ABCDiamond

We called our budgie Peta or Peter; we didnt know what sex it was, so decided we could sort out the spelling later It's now Peter

NickyC

Snap again, Mrs DB. My sons are Christopher and Jonathan. Though I wanted to name Jonathan, Alistair. I lost that one.

As far as all the Nicola's go - I bet I'm the oldest (and therefore the original)

ozzieeagle

Now thats a totally different mindset to ours, One of the reasons we went for what we considered were uncommon names, were so that people found them easier to remember ?

IE: whats that boys name, John, ron, tom etc etc


I wonder which is the easier to remember the common or not so common ?

MrsDagboy

LOL, no offence, but without scrolling up, I couldnt remember any of your first 3 kids names, not even if you told me the first letter .

Ethan I would remember, cos to me thats not an uncommon name, I have a nephew called Ethan .

MrsDagboy

Funny (or then again, knowing us, probably not ) I like Alistair as a name too. Not as keen on Jonathon though, don't dislike it, I just wouldnt pick it. Just out of curiosity, do you shorten Christopher to Chris or not?

NickyC

No, I still call him Christopher. He calls himself Chris, though!

ozzieeagle

I agree totally, Ethan is not uncommon, however It's not traditional either. Slightly digressing here, We found, that when naming our last born, the Boy, that it just didn't seem right to give him an unusual name, whereas with girls it seems quite easy and more acceptable to have a uncommon name. Just wonderd whether I'm alone in that view

MrsDagboy

Dunno about the girls vs boys thing, but I have 6 great nieces/nephews (3 sons/daughters each of 2 of my nieces) called Blake, Forbes & Lawson (all brothers) & Emma, Ethan & Imogen.

The first 3 are certainly unusual & are all boys .

MrsDagboy

I call mine Christopher too, not that I dislike Chris, just never shortened it . He doesnt like Chris very much (probably cos hes never been called it alot), although he does get called Chris at school now.

I even went traditional with second names, used James as C's middle name & Charles as Michael's. James was just cos I liked it so much (always said I would have a son called James, then I went & used it as a middle name *doh*) & Charles I used cos it was my dad's name.