Silly names not just the forte of dazzling urbanites?

[Scipio]

Thankfully, my religious convictions require using a saint's name.  So we've got the boys picked out.  But girls is more difficult.  Female saints have a very limited naming palette.

[Barrister]

Thankfully, my religious convictions require using a saint's name.  So we've got the boys picked out.  But girls is more difficult.  Female saints have a very limited naming palette.

It wasn't a religious necessity, but I do like that the boys have Bible names.

[jimmy olsen]

The Kinks are really ultra-British from an American standpoint; no good entry point like the Who.

Why?

[dps]

Apparently no-one in America is.  NBC cut Ray Davies singing Waterloo Sunset from the closing ceremony

The Kinks are really ultra-British from an American standpoint; no good entry point like the Who.

I don't know;  they invented the power cord.  That's not exactly esoteric.  And a lot of their early-to-mid 80s stuff was more popular here than back in the UK. 

OTOH, something like "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"--yeah, that sounds really British.

By the way I despise the trend of taking last names and making it into a first name.

My grandfather had a brother with the first name "Smith".  I've never heard of anybody else with that as a first name.

[Scipio]

Apparently no-one in America is.  NBC cut Ray Davies singing Waterloo Sunset from the closing ceremony

The Kinks are really ultra-British from an American standpoint; no good entry point like the Who.

I don't know;  they invented the power cord.  That's not exactly esoteric.  And a lot of their early-to-mid 80s stuff was more popular here than back in the UK. 

OTOH, something like "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"--yeah, that sounds really British.

By the way I despise the trend of taking last names and making it into a first name.

My grandfather had a brother with the first name "Smith".  I've never heard of anybody else with that as a first name.

A buddy of mine in grade school was named Smith.  Good guy.

[chipwich]

Mart-do you understand that there was a president named Grover? Also that the entire world is not Poland and therefore does not use naming conventions you might be familiar with?

[Scipio]

Mart-do you understand that there was a president named Grover? Also that the entire world is not Poland and therefore does not use naming conventions you might be familiar with?

He lives in a country, like Wales, which is bereft of vowels. 

[Eddie Teach]

Apparently no-one in America is.  NBC cut Ray Davies singing Waterloo Sunset from the closing ceremony

The Kinks are really ultra-British from an American standpoint; no good entry point like the Who.

I don't know;  they invented the power cord.  That's not exactly esoteric.  And a lot of their early-to-mid 80s stuff was more popular here than back in the UK. 

OTOH, something like "Dedicated Follower of Fashion"--yeah, that sounds really British.

By the way I despise the trend of taking last names and making it into a first name.

My grandfather had a brother with the first name "Smith".  I've never heard of anybody else with that as a first name.

A buddy of mine in grade school was named Smith.  Good guy.

You went to school with dps's great-uncle? 

[Caliga]

These fashions are weird. For example I was born during an "ordinary names" trend, when people would name their kids normal names like Marcin (Martin), Piotr (Peter) or Andrzej (Andrew) - there were several of each in my class.

Then came the fashion for weird (from a Polish perspective) names inspired by tv shows and Western culture - so we had Olivias and Olivers, Blakes and the like.

Now there seems to be a fashion for old fashioned Polish named such as Stanislas or Wladyslaw.

I have a co-worker named Wojciech.

[PDH]

I worked with a guy called Bert.

[katmai]

You don't see enough Bruce's any more.

[Ed Anger]

I don't associate with polacks.

[Razgovory]

My grandfather had a brother with the first name "Smith".  I've never heard of anybody else with that as a first name.

I think it was popular in the early 20th century to give children a common last name as a first name.  You read a lot of names like that in the 1920's and 1910's.

[Caliga]

I don't associate with polacks.

Every Polack-American I've ever known has been pretty cool.

Actually, every one of them except for Martha Labinoski that is, or as I called her Martha Blab-a-lot-ski 

[Caliga]

I think it was popular in the early 20th century to give children a common last name as a first name.  You read a lot of names like that in the 1920's and 1910's.

Princesca's great grandfather was named Shade Wilder.