Agreed.. and perhaps the pick was poor to start with. I rejected names if they made my kids sound like anyone I didn't like the look of! I can't work out the 'creative' behind it all.
Do they read celebrity magazines, does the family suggest it?

It's actually one of the only things that has me stumped. Many other things I can account for...

My girls have unusual names, (due to matriarchial heritage) but at least they are spelt correctly, and in fact they come out normal in the grand scheme of things.

Ok this is from our last two school newsletters ...

Shayla
Aleacea
Tawnie
Joh
Ky
Jaylen
Laine
Braden
Jye
Dayarni
Jarrod
Tyran
Amara
Rhoel

Not one normal name, even perhaps if you spelt them correctly! Except perhaps Jarrod sounds normal - for a bogan maybe.

Have to admit, most of ours on our list(s) squeeze past.

This has come up before but I'll chuck it in for good measure.

CHLORINE - I kid you not. They probably don't use any cleaning materials so wouldn't know the connection.

lol...

OK - fail for getting the spelling correct - it should be Chloreen.

I'd agree with you completely but this mob (local) actually do spell it chlorine. It would have been nice to see Chloreen though.

bloke I know has a first name of President!

And Erisky is "normal"? It's the name of Timmy McColl (missing sailor) and his wife's new baby.

I like that sort of a Chloe/Doreen hybrid.

Don't mind Chloe!

Let's be honest here folks - what's normal?

Just because a name is not in the Old/New Testament...

I mean we might get Jacob, Isiah, Esekiel...(sic)

And there are names which reek of the early 20th c....

You need to change to spelling to txt speak first.

I wonder if people give their children unusual names because they want to give something different, or because they don't know how to spell it.

Most of these names are no weirder then names given to English children that are virtually unheard of in Australia like : Edmund, Abigail, Florence, Eustace, Fanny ect.

I know a bogan family who named their son Calais.

As in the car.

Spot on - either f**ked-up middle-class names like Pandora, Prussia or Rupert, or Chavtastic names like Dwayne, Brooklyn or Chardonnay.

A subjest for another thread.