My Grandad wanted my Mum to call me Cynthia

[dot.hawkes]

Now no offence to anyone called Cynthia or with a Cynthia in their life, but which Cynthia in 1955 would he have been thinking of to have come up with that name? Was there a famous Cynthia ever?? He was a hill farmer near Todmorden and there were no Cynthias in the family, i have proved that for sure.
What should you have been called???? lol

[MONTCRIEFF49]

damian as
my mam thought i was a boy

so i called my son it instead

i know a cynthia in b/pool

[~max~]

Oh dear! Dot, don't get me started on inappropriate first names...lol
If I had been a boy, they were going to call me Valery....like the president who was on a the time....Thank the gods I wasn't born a boy!!!
Although....My name Morgan is from Brittany. Nobody had planned on me actually going back there....Turns out that nam, without an "e" at the end is a male name. Guess how much I was bullied at school???? lol

[dot.hawkes]

oh is morgan forn Brittany I alw3ays thought it was a Welsh name maximo, I don't know why!!! even tho i know the French Connection lol

[Louisa 69]

The name i have is the only name that was chosen before i was born, but if i had been a boy i was to be called Kirk after captain Kirk...my father was a huge star trek fan lol.

[messyjessy12]

my mum was gunna call me prudence!! luckily she called me jessica :o)

[~max~]

It's a celtic name, so I guess they will have it in wales too! My mum - bless her! - keeps telling me it's a girl's name, and they didn't make any mistake...lol

[raysparx1]

What about the lovely cynthia "SINthia" Payne, lol. anybody want some luncheon vouchers, pop in for a poke pie, lol


http://www.normanphillips.co.uk/cynthia_payne_ bio.htm

[~max~]

It's actually a very good thing I decided to live in the UK, because not only is that name fine here, it is actually quite original, and believe me! I can do with all the help I can get...lol

[bigmamma]

My parents named all of us catholic saints names , is it any wonder I entered a convent at the age of 17 !!!

[raysparx1]

I was named after an acor, Ray Milland, my mummy thought he was so handsome, glad she never fancied, fatty arbuckle, lol.

[raysparx1]

er I meant Actor.sorry. i always get it done to quick so my wife says !!

[bigmamma]

Lol @ ray :-D

[dot.hawkes]

I think she was a little later wasn't she ray? In the early 60s? I know Cynthia lennon, she was about 20 years older than me, wonder where she got her name? Can't see where that name must have come to him from, no tele then, only the cinema and newspapers and the radio

[shaneystar2]

Lol ...Dot this has made me laugh...I am adopted and on my original birth cerificate my name is Cynthia Helga ..boy am I glad my Mum and Dad picked me out and changed it !!!
And...I was born well before 1955 ! Not too well..but enough !
I remember though as child growing up lots of older people being called Cynthia . More my sisters comtempories and she was much older than me. .Although even looking at Wiki there are not many famous Cynthias .

[dot.hawkes]

shaney what an unusual combination of first names!!! They sound quite continental when you put them both together!!!

[raysparx1]

Hello dot, yep she was born 1932, what a character she was,

[.steg.]

i was ment to be called Steven, but being born in the middle of bleeding December the nurses told my mother that i should be Stephen because its more Christmasy (feast of Stephen and all that)

[Jillius]

My mum wished that she'd called me Lucy but my granny told her I would go through life being called Lucy Lastic so she called me something else.
When I had my daughter I called her Lucy and no one has ever called her Lucy Lastic !

[dot.hawkes]

wasn't cynthis the really tall thin woman who never spoke???? Yes i remember her on the tele