what was your stripper name again?

Constable Candy?

Oh and don't let them use any name of current singers/models/Kardashians. Or names the above people may have used for their children.

It's actually bloody hard giving children names which is why ours only have first names and why I can understand people making names up even if they are shite.

What? Abbyghaele and Jaxxsen don't work for you?

Oh and my personal two cents is to leave the boys names for the boys. In the past couple of months, I've read of girls being named Joshua, Maxwell, Elliott, and Wyatt. At this rate, there will be fewer and fewer options for parents who like a traditionally masculine name but don't want to give their son the same name as five girls in the school.

Tiddler knows a girl called Abbee. Looks like the keys got stuck on the typewriter.

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Springs

My son has two Isaac's in his class.

One is spelt "Izak" the other is "Issacc"

I can just picture the latter's parents thinking "now, I know there's a double letter in there somewhere so we'll hedge our bets and go with the s and c"

And they'll go through life having to spell it again and again and....... and if they're anything like the husband, they'll get forms back with a note telling them they've spelt their name wrong and to please correct it, initial the correction and return it.

Areola

Sergeant Sexpot, if you don't mind.

There's been a whole big research into name spelling in the US of A, back about 10 years ago. They concluded that ordinary names spelled in a weird manner occurred in minority groups way more often than with the w.a.s.p. folk, and went on to saying that it hurts employment chances - awkwardly spelled names are apparently a turn off and one of the reasons for a CV to hit the bin. PC shite in other words.

It pisses me off. His mother chose the name, it's not peculiar, I've met others but even his mother pronounces it wrong. He's nearly 52 for gods sake, you'd think she'd have got the hang of it by now, it's her fricking fault!

My son used to play with a kid named Trevaa. His parents said that's how it's pronounced (with the bogan Aussie twang) so that's how they thought it was spelled.

Thanks, Dyappaunikar.

I found being called Lesley, which sounds the same as Leslie - the boy's name, was quite good. There weren't many females in my line of work so I was often assumed to be male until I put in an appearance and assured people that I was not secretary and would not be getting the coffee.

I've only just realised that Miles Franklin (as in literary award) was a woman. Other confusing ones are Vivien, Valery, Lyndsey, Marilyn, Chris, Francis, Peter/Peta, Charlie, Rowan....

Have you noticed that apart from Rowan only girls are named for plants - Ivy, Rose, Daisy, Fern, Rosemary, Willow, Lettuce.

I think Leslie/Lesley traditionally is one of the unisex names. Similar to Terry, Kelly, and the like. And it's true that the trend of formerly masculine names becoming popular for girls is nothing new...thinking of Lyndsey, Ashley, Evelyn etc.

I do think there's a difference between names that could go either way, like Rowan or Reece and really traditional masculine names that are either way ahead of a curve (who knows, maybe Maxwell, Jack, Noah, Cooper etc. will be the go-to girl names a decade from now) or just out there.

Plants...I do know a male Sage. He's ten. I'd only met girls with the name before, but there's a first time for everything.

Edited to add: Lettuce, really? Wow. Haven't heard that one before. I could add Marigold, Lavender, Hyacinth, Lily, Violet, etc. to the list.

I think it was originally Lettice but parents turned it into Lettuce and it's now in published name lists. They probably have brothers called Tommy.