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Ta @HLD. I'd sort of wondered about that.

I don't have any children, not yet at least. With the typically Swedish surname I share with my husband, the choice of suitable names is unfortunately limited, but if didn't have to think about the poor kids being traumatised forever, I'd name them:

Lavinia
Gwendolyn
Vyatechlav (I can't spell Russian names in English!)
Alexander
Oscar

The two last are the only ones that would work in Swedish.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I've always wondered about people who give their children one name, but call them something different. To me it doesn't make a lot of sense. For instance, a woman in my office just had a baby and named her Megan Abigail, but they're calling her Abby. Why not name her Abby?

Interesting. We chose the name Alexandra (wink @ Weasel ) for our youngest daughter specifically because she would have so many optional names. We call her Allie, but her sister often calls her Al. As she grows up (she's only 1.5 right now!), she'll be able to refer to herself in different ways under different circumstances. I think teenagers are often fond of re-defining themselves, so she may choose to go by Sandy, Alex, Sandra, Lexie, -- what ever.

My younger brother was always called by his middle name, until he went to college. Now all his friends call him by his first, but his family still calls him by his middle. I think he is rather fond of the distinction.

@Gwalchmai:
I think that your naming of your daughter Alexandra is the exception rather than the rule when folks name their kids. I think many people choose names not because they like them or because they want their kids have their own unique name, but rather because his father was named that or it's in honour of her great-aunt Matilda. That kind of thing makes me sick. Why can't your kid be his own person instead of starting life with his grandfather's name?

I think that many parents consciously name their kids one thing with the express intention of calling them something else. This is what baffles me. Why name your daughter Lauren only to call her Brooke? Or why name your kid Kevin Archibald McMichael IV and call him Scott? Why not name your kids Brooke and Scott and save everyone a lot of confusion?

I think versatility in names is often a good thing, especially since kids periodically want to reinvent themselves at different points in their lives. For instance, I went to college with a girl named Melissa who was very smart and pretty. However, when one of her old high school friends came to visit her one weekend, she called Melissa "Missy" and was telling us stories about how wild and airheaded she used to be. For Melissa, abandoning the name she had used all through school was part of leaving her past behind and becoming someone else.

Originally posted by HighLordDave
I've always wondered about people who give their children one name, but call them something different. To me it doesn't make a lot of sense. For instance, a woman in my office just had a baby and named her Megan Abigail, but they're calling her Abby. Why not name her Abby?.

LOL! My son's registered name is Jon, but we call him Jack. Jack is a pet name for Jon/John

My daughter is Rachael, I call her Rae but right now she insists we call her Dana. Kids!

Originally posted by Yshania
My daughter is Rachael, I call her Rae but right now she insists we call her Dana. Kids!

I had a friend whose sister was named Andrea but she was obsessed with Little House on the Praire, so she insisted that everyone call her "Laura". I still called her Andrea; it drove her nuts.

No kids for now, if I ever have a female I'd love to name
her DIANA (with the italian pronunciation, hmm, see,
as you should read "Deeana")
How I love this name!!
For a male, I don't know yet...

Originally posted by Gruntboy
Frogus, those kids are gonna catch hell at school.

It will do them good .

Lavinia
Vyatechlav

@CE, these are both excellent names. I love Russian names, and have convinced one of my friends (he unfortunately dropped history last year) to name his kids Trotsky and Gorky. Fingers crossed!

Originally posted by frogus
to name his kids Trotsky and Gorky. Fingers crossed!

LOL Well then you are lucky that he dropped history, otherwise he would know better.

Originally posted by Minerva
That reminds me, there's a boom in Japan that parents give children English (or other European)names with Chinese characters...

erm, but won't the names then mean really odd things? when there were some Japanese exchange students at our school we were talking about what our names could mean if they were in Chinese characters. One of my friends had his translated as 'rich, intelligent doctor', while mine could essentially be interpreted as 'hot water bottle'.

Originally posted by frogus
@CE, these are both excellent names. I love Russian names, and have convinced one of my friends (he unfortunately dropped history last year) to name his kids Trotsky and Gorky. Fingers crossed!

ROFL He doesn't feel Trotsky have somewhat...bad connotations?

I also love Russian names, especially male names...Vassiliev, Dmiitry, Maxim...

Lavinia is my favorite women's name, it is fairly common in Romania, but not anywhere else that I know of...and unfortunately it would sound really stupid together with our common surname (I have double surnames, one is more neutral, but the one I share with my husband is typically Swedish and difficult to match any foreign name to.)

What's wrong with Trotsky, CE?

*Nippy is rapidly overwraught by Stalinist's and crushed into factory.*

Originally posted by Nippy
What's wrong with Trotsky, CE?

*Nippy is rapidly overwraught by Stalinist's and crushed into factory.*

LOL, I am not well read enough into different communist/socialist theory to be able to differentiate Trotskism from other forms, I was more thinking about his grisly ending.

Originally posted by C Elegans


LOL, I am not well read enough into different communist/socialist theory to be able to differentiate Trotskism from other forms, I was more thinking about his grisly ending.

Big group of assassins with an icepick to the head, right? Yeah. I would consider that a grisly ending.

Indeed so, but what about the death of Rasputin? Now that must've hurt.

Originally posted by Nippy
Indeed so, but what about the death of Rasputin? Now that must've hurt.

Multiple times, Im sure. He just refused to die.

LMAO, true,

"Right, shoot him!"
*Bang*
"Ow, you shot me! That really hurt!"
"Drown him!"
*Glub, glub, glub*
"Goddammit, get the icepick!"

Originally posted by Nippy
LMAO, true,

"Right, shoot him!"
*Bang*
"Ow, you shot me! That really hurt!"
"Drown him!"
*Glub, glub, glub*
"Goddammit, get the icepick!"

ROFL
You forgot about the stabbing! And wasnt there something else, too? I mean this guy was a tank!

@Nippy:
Didn't they try and poison Rasputin, too?

You forgot the poison Rasputin was initially fed arsenic laced cakes but didn't die, then he was shot, then he was drowned The ice pick Trotsky kept for himself