[Opinions] Re: Scottish stats for 2008
thanks, I haven't seen the news today so missed it being announced.Actually after skimming through the whole list, I think it's fairly good. There's definitely much fewer random letters than last year. There are still quite a few howlers though and plenty of y's.There's still nobdy with my name lol, with all the unique spellings I can't understand why not. Obviously not unique enough. Some that jumped out at me weremale:
Amen - is that not slightly blasphemous?
Aneurin - yay! Prefer Aneirin though, more user friendly
Blaen and Blaer - they were twins, I posted the ba and commented how horrible this was at the time lol
Blessing - poor boy
Buzby - spelled Busby this is a fairly unremarkable village outside Glasgow?
C (x4) - what, where?
Colin-Junior, David-Junior, Lennon-Junior, Oliver-Jnr. What's going on? It just looks silly.
Costin - me a fortune!
Dido - so much teasing potential never mind the gender confusion.
Dimosthenes - wow there's a name to live up to. Shame they couldn't spell it though.
Domanic - am I the only one who wants to put an extra a in there?
Dryden - v. cultured :)
Evicson - currently being brought up in a cardboard box
Fergus (56) Hamish (60) - yay!
Godsome - like fulsome, but godly?
Hawkai - *headdesk*
Kage - wild child
Law - high hopes
Le'on - arrgh the apostrophe's have arrived, take cover!
Man - hopefully he'll have no problems growing into it
Odhran (4) - on my pnl
Odin - cool girls:
Alma x 3 - I thought it still had too dated an image here, is this the first signs of it coming back?
Amundsen - on a boy ok, on a girl?
Arden - they obviously don't live near Glasgow, it's a not very nice suburb.
Arwyn - help the y brigade have got hold of Tolkein
Brie - cheese connoisseurs
Caithlyn - Caitlin, Catherine, Kathleen or Carolyn? I know lets just combine all 3
Cassandra - just 1? count all the Cassies (21) and Cass- names in comparison, and yet just 1 girl called this lovely full, proper name.
Dagmara - I love this, surprised there's not more, I guess can't be that popular currently among Eastern Europeans.
Efeoghenetobore - ?!? it sounds like a Glasweigan drunk rambling. I even googled and nothing comes up. (p.s. I'm Glasweigan, and like Frankie Boyle I'm allowed to mock our own :p)
Enamyobot - they asked their toddler to name her (who was playing with his toy robot at the time)
Eyrlie - premature?
Fraesciante - conceived after a couple of bottles of cheap bubbly (her sibling, gender unknown, is Kiedis, I found mum's myspace)
Hannelore - I love this name!
Heilidh - lol, I bet they try and claim it is Gaelic
Ingrid - only 1?! :(
Lilias - just 1- I'm surprised more people haven't picked up on this considering the amount of Lil- names there.
Mahoney - oh god it's bad on so many levels, if it was intended as My Honey that's bad enough, but the first thing a lot people will think of is Pogue Mahone!
Muireann (3) - love this name :)
Sissy - poor girl. what was wrong with the full Cecilia with a private nn that didn't impinge on her social life?

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Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Brightfield  ·  12/17/2008, 7:54 AM
Aimee?  ·  Pie  ·  12/17/2008, 3:10 PM
Re: Aimee?  ·  Lethe  ·  12/17/2008, 4:17 PM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Lethe  ·  12/17/2008, 2:55 PM
Re: Dido and Dimosthenes  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  12/18/2008, 3:11 PM
Re: Dido and Dimosthenes  ·  Lethe  ·  12/18/2008, 3:34 PM
You're welcome! (nt)  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  12/18/2008, 6:54 PM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Rose-Berry  ·  12/18/2008, 1:31 AM
Thank you!  ·  Blythe  ·  12/17/2008, 2:11 PM
Question about Lewis and Louis  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  12/17/2008, 1:27 PM
Re: Question about Lewis and Louis  ·  Brightfield  ·  12/17/2008, 1:36 PM
I agree (m)  ·  Lethe  ·  12/17/2008, 3:01 PM
thank you! (m)  ·  Cleveland Kent Evans  ·  12/18/2008, 2:51 PM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Rose-Berry  ·  12/17/2008, 11:52 AM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Lily8  ·  12/17/2008, 11:44 AM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Caledonia  ·  12/17/2008, 9:03 AM
Scotland, I'm disappointed...  ·  Caledonia  ·  12/17/2008, 11:53 AM
Re: Scotland, I'm disappointed...  ·  Andromache  ·  12/17/2008, 12:08 PM
Re: Scotland, I'm disappointed...  ·  Caledonia  ·  12/17/2008, 12:29 PM
Wow..  ·  Andromache  ·  12/17/2008, 8:47 AM
Re: Scottish stats for 2008  ·  Rachel Shay  ·  12/17/2008, 8:47 AM