anya4oz

I worked with a girl called Kylie in Sydney, who told me that she was named after her grandmother. I was suprised - I guess I'd thought of it as being a 'modern' name, so it was amusing to see her pic. of smiling, white-haired 'Granny-Kylie', taken on her 75th birthday.

Anya.

NickyC

And Lachlan is not a new, trendy name either. It's a solid, old, Scottish name that Australians have been using for centuries - blame Lachlan Macquarie who arrived here in 1810!

Pollyana

I think there seems to be more of a culture here of giving first names for the childs past - like Lachlan, which is not often used in the UK, and a lot of the names like Blake and Lawson are explained as being old family names.
I often wonder what its like having a "traditional" name but with odd spelling - like Trayzee or Meeshell. One of my niece's is Alicia, and my sister said every birthday card she gets from friends spells it differently, and every one is wrong, because there are now so many different spellings (like Aleecia" and Aleshya" that noone remembers the "usual" spelling.

NickyC

Yup, I call myself Nicky - which to me is the normal, basic, no-frills way of spelling it.

Yet I get people writing to me as:
Nicki
Nickie
Nickey
Nicci
Niccie
Nikky
and the loathesome Nikki

Even after they've seen how I spell it!

JayDeee

Kyla must be really common over here, I have been called many things in my life but as yet I have not come accross an Aussie who can understand Kala the 1st time, they all say ahh Kyla and I spend the next 10 mins trying to explain Kala Pronounced a bit like Carla but dont pronounce the R or my dad will get all hupety.

The only people who seem to ba able to pronounce my name properly are the Scots and the Irish, I dont even know if I pronounce it right. My dad always tells people that it is like Gala.

The Hubby is called Anthony and the TH is pronounced with the TH sound rather than just the T sound it took me ages to get that right.

Kala

NJJ

The RSL kicked up a fuss last year as some parents decided to name their child Anzac

The Bloke

At least we haven't started calling kids " Heavenly Hirane Tiger-Lily" (imagine having to write the signature for that) or "River" yet,I hope.

logan

The best kids name I ever heard was my ex (a cop) visiting a chave like member of the public. The woman shouted out for Pocohontas (spelling maybe incorrect!)..he expected a dog to come running and this poor little toddler came into the room..kid you not!!

I find once I've introduced myself, people often say, "oh I had a dog called Tara", even Mr Logan's nanny! I guess people think is a complement!!

Larissa

I found it amusing that there's an AFL player called "Shannon" which I always thought was a girl's name. Now I realise he's probably called after the place in Ireland or WA.
Poll - I was told off for calling someone Megan instead of Meegan today
There are loads of Larissas here, it was unusual when I was growing up.
Having a family with wierd names it's quite nice being here as they all have them!

Pollyana

Yeah, I've come across Shannon for boys, also Shane for girls. One thing I'm finding here is that you can often not tell whether the person is a male or female, just from their name - back in the UK there were occasions of that, but far less often.

MrsDagboy

I went to school with 2 guys called Kerry & Kelly.

BTW Polly, in my case, Blake, Forbes & Lawson arent old family names, but you're sort of right, she does like old & traditional stuff .

jad n rich

Like Beaudi, Beaudy, Jonte, Taylar, Turret, Ruby, Rudy, Denzil, Dexter, Shaquille, Tristan, Indiana, and Asher. All boys BTW.

The latest trend for girls seems to be old fashioned, names, lilly, grace, violet and cynthia have all been in the paper lately, knowing the love of royatly here Camilla might surface soon

jad n rich

Has someone else got a Lawson, weve only met one other one.

Pollyana

we have friends up in Rocky with a little boy called Lawson - first time I'd come across it.

MrsDagboy

Yeah, my great nephew, I've never met another one.

Never met another Forbes or Blake either come to think of it