Disappearing names

Maybe they adopted the Beckham method of naming ... Place of conception

 

Slight tangent ... OK big tangent ... I like real life examples of "nominative determinism" ... seems rife in the local medical profession:

Mr Bristol the, ahem, chest cancer specialist.

Mr Butcher the Orthopaedic Surgeon.

Mr Brown the Gastro-enterology Consultant.

Back on topic ... There are a few "Old Testament" type names that were still knocking about a century ago but are now only to be heard in the aisles of any North London Waitrose ...

Uriel
Gideon
Balthazar
Carpathia ......

 

Now who on here do we know that could have called their brood:-
Back of cab
Dark Alley
Gents toilets of the local
Need I go on?

 

Sad thing is ... we ALL know to whom you are not-so-obliquely referring

 

I actually know of a couple of kids of aquaintances who are called Rex and Cyril.
Poor buggers.

 

.... as my sister would say, try living with it .... everyone presumes that they misheard and call her Gayle... another disappearing name.

 

My old dentist's surname was D'eath .... shame he wasn't a doctor.

 

Heard on the radio about a girl named victoria after she was conceived on the forecourt of victoria car sales in Ruislip

 

We was going to call our youngest

Up against a tree on Ashdown forest

but opted for Holly instead

 

I like to keep family names. My (20yr) son's middle name is Stanley (Stan) from Grandad. My daughter (18yr) is Elizabeth (Lizzie) from Grandmother.
But I have to admit Nigel would have been a challenge Sorry to any Nigels...

 

Ronald
Reginald …

 

Are these Rees Moggs kids?

 

No
They are

Victor
Gwendoline
Bunty

 

Our former next door neighbours have an 18 month old that they named Elton....


Obviously I immediately started calling him Reg

 

... Poor Lou then.
I met a builder once with three kids.
Celia, Rufus and Anna.
When I pointed out that Anna should have been called Flora he went a bit pale... Had no idea he'd hidden bits of a building in there

 

My dads name was Reginald ….it’s my middle one

 

Were those your exes?