hughina!!!!!!

[joko]

I mentioned on a thread a while ago that i didn't like names that were merely a boys name with an 'ina', 'ette' or 'a' on the end, and especially ones like nigella and thomasina - but the other day i heard the above monstrosity!

what do others think of these kind of names?

(no offence to all the georginas, albertines and robertas out there)

[n00dles]

Sounds similar to Hyena!!

fancy saddling your daughter with that monicker!!

[enigma]

That's awful but I also hate hyphened names which just don't go. I'm not a lover of those names anyway (I don't see the need for two names to be used simultaneously) but accept that there are people who favour names like Ann-Marie or Sarah -Jane but the worst ones which I have heard include :
Briony-Caitlin
Theresa-Bridget and wait for it ......... without a word of a lie .......... Mary-Jane-Jennifer. I thought that the girl's mother was calling out to three separate girls ! Dreadful.

[joko]

hehe enigma ... a popular one round liverpool is chantelle-marie.

i notice it doesn't happen with blokes names - otherwise they end up sounding like the waltons!

night jim-bob

i'll bet in posh places it would be pronounced hyena dahling, don't you know....

[campbellking]

Hells-Bells, have a real name that is in enigma's hate list !
Will go away and cover my head in shame, and never let myself out in daylight again....

[picklepants]

Where I work, there is a person (presumably female!) with the name Colinette........Not Collette!! God, her parents must really hate her!

[Ethel]

Your mother named you Hells-Bells?


How odd.

[kick3m0n]

Davidina is one that always gets me...so awkward sounding, like you say joko, as if they've just plonked "ina" on the end and hey presto, feminine name (not!).

[YvonneM]

Following the made up names I can't stand the way americans make up words. You don't go into hospital you are hospitalised are these words entering the english dictionary I hope not. They also have a habit of using too many words when one will do 'at this moment in time' whats wrong with 'now '

[Robinia]

wait for me campbellking I'll hide with you, one of my middle names is an 'ina' ...... I love it now, although I wasn't keen when I was younger.

[Octavius]

The example you give is pretty harsh to the eyes and the ears, whether the �g� is silent or not.

We can blame the French (ette) and Italians (ina/etta) for the dimunitive usage in English names. �ette and �ina etc mean �small� as in Pauline being a small Paul! You can also find this in other words such as cigar and cigarette. The opposite are names that are masculine and mean �big� and end with �us or -el, such as Magnus or Miguel.

There are of course lots of examples of this, and, lots of dimunitive terms, but I think it is only fair to blame the French & Italians!

[mimififi]

sounds a bit like Euginie/Eugina.

I have to say, I think all names should be judged on their own merits: I have a little girl called Ernestine. She was named after my husbands grandpa who died shortly before she was born and we were very close to him.

She likes her name abbreviated to 'Nesta, but I normally just call her Ernestine (because that's what I named her, strangely.)

I kind of think it is ok as it has been around int he femenine form for many years and is very common on the continent, esp Germany. Her middle name is Rose, but it is not hyphenated.

Some of her friends call her Ernie, and I think it's quite cute as she is only 3.

[enigma]

I knew a Colin - female - who pronounced it Colleen. Her father was called Colin and so she was named after him but her parents were pronouncing it Colleen. Yes , so now she has to go through life saying 'My name is Colin but i'm really Colleen'. Poor girl.

Joko - Chantelle-Marie ? How chavlicious lol !

Sorry Campbellking - no offence. Don't don a pair of dark glasses , big hat and fake moustache during daylight hours on my account. I mean , what's in a name ? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. Ahh , I love Romeo and Juliet. (Quietly humming song to myself)

I know a woman who called her daughter after one hit wonder Shanice. Which was all very well at the time but as no-one has heard of the singer now , it's a bit out of place in a small Scottish town. Talking of which , as a Scottish woman I hate to hear exotic first names followed by a really Scottish surname like McGregor or your run of the mill kind of names. ie Stefano McTaggart. (When I gave birth to my first child in 1997 , a girl in the hospital called her son Stefano. Her boyfriend was called Steven but she felt that it was 'too common' The worst though had to be little Echo Jordanna Sleeman. My god that's sooooooooo bad. I think that hospital staff should be conducting experiments into the after effects of gas and air. I know that I was gibbering rubbish at the time but it wore off(or did it ?) I mean what else could explain for parents calling their kids such stupid names ???
Anyway I digress. Sorry Joko - went off at a bit of a tangent but there are just so many bad names out there it beggars belief. Each to their own though.

ps I'm just waiting for the age gap couple with differing musical taste according to their era calling their child Whitney-Britney ! Or is that even quite normal by today's standard ?

[Ferg]

A friend of mine is a children's nurse and she has seen some horrors!

Prada, Gucci, Chanel, Huxley, and one who's full name was Sonny Day!

[Hellion]

Hughina - oh dear it sounds like someone being poorly. I don't mind the traditional feminised names but the ones I loathe are the ones when people of taken a normal name and spelled it 'interestingly' or just plain wrong, poor child at my son's school is Channel prounounced Chanelle! I've also come across a Pheyona (Fiona).

[jiggy-gb]

Hughina! I know for a fact that I've uttered that name many a time when I've been hurling my guts up!

I heard a rather common Manc chav calling for her daughter in an accent very similar to those in Shameless and had to chuckle, Armani, or rather aaaaarmaaaaani. A snotty nosed little waif with a huge knot of hair appeared, quite made my day so it did! lol!

[Octavius]

It is starting to sound rather snobbish, but I have to agree with enigma�s first post, the double/tripled barrelled naming thing. I don�t mind that a child has 3 names and then a middle name and surname, but I find it most annoying when parents have to shout out every single name as if it is one.

Chantelle-Louise-Chardonnay come over here! Would you like a drink Chantelle-Louise-Chardonnay? Oh, Chantelle-Louise-Chardonnay you are naughty! A friend of mine has just had a baby, which they have given 3 (first) names. And although she is called La de da (whatever), they have to aggravate me by using all the names at once, every bloody time they phone, text, email or converse.

I still blame the French though.

[ktlou]

Ferg, my mum has a kid at her school called Sonny Day - must be the same one!!! I can't believe there would be 2!! I have to say that Hughina has to be the worst - how could a parent do that to a child!! I think there are some names with ina or ette at the end that are quite cute (I love Ernestine, thats a gorgeous name mimififi!!). Others are just plain awful!!

[mimififi]

Ahh, thank you Ktlou, that's very sweet of you to say so. I like it too but would draw the line at Hughina.

p.s do you pronounce the g or not?

[joko]

i don't really know mimi, i saw it written down, but i would have thought that you don't pronounce it... mind you it can't make it sound any worse..