I hate

I've nothing against giving a whacky name or two, but dropping a more conventional one into the mix might be useful if, having pissed away their inheritance, one of them needs to be taken seriously at some point.

Both sets of parents claim this has nothing to do with Game of Thrones

Or Knight Rider?

Ha, yeah!

we're having our second kind in 8 weeks and I hate all the names on the list.

That's not quite true, but every time I picture myself calling the kid by one of them across the park I see myself through eyes of a disgusted onlooker thinking "what kind of middle class wanker calls their child that?"

I’ve always been of the opinion if you give your child an “interesting” first name they should get a solid conventional second, and vice versa so they can swap them round if they desire in adulthood.
Also because I had two pretty normal names and desired a more exotic one.
@fatberg with the shortened names, I’m with you on the give them a long name and then they can shorten it or have friends/family/strangers shorten it in due course.

i used to joke to my wife about naming our child ‘Ptolemy’ or ‘Hieronymous’ if we’d had a boy. I’m overjoyed someone actually beat me to it.

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just don't call your kids "Russell" - it's a proper fucking shit name.

Oh Russy, Rudy, Russety Russ come back darling.

Then all the obligatory Russi etc misspellings

It is a thing if the child is red haired. Every Russell I have met is ginger.

i used to joke to my wife about naming our child ‘Ptolemy’ or ‘Hieronymous’ if we’d had a boy. I’m overjoyed someone actually beat me to it.

At least Heironymous could (and probably would) be called Harry.

I feel the same way about Kevins

Brussel sprout, rusty nail, love muscle, what do you call a man in a crisp packet, and my personal least favorite: Russel.

Utter cunt of a name.

What have you got against Russell, did a school friend with that name "forget" to invite you to his 6th birthday party even tho he remembered the whole of the rest of the class? And to make up for it did your patents let you have jelly and ice-cream at dinner, did they even put a party hat on the cat and let him sit next to you at the table, but it just wasn't the same.

I WAS that cat!

And gingers are easily riled.

Nah, his name’s Russel and he hates his parents for it since he got bullied so much at school.

Fiery by mane, fiery by nature.

People with weird names creep me out.

Like Burt?

Or Ernie?

Ptolemy

The only one I've met was of Egyptian extraction, so I always thought it was an Egyptian thing.

Also thought Kit was either short for Christmas or given to a Xmas baby.

100% with @fatberg on shortened names. Although Mrs H said it was retarded if you're never going to use the full version, and just me being old fashioned... which is hard to argue against.

My darling wife would love to give our first born son (theoretical at the moment) a traditional Jewish name, Ira.

Which is nice, until you try and spell it to anyone from my home nation, particularly my Orangewoman grandmother. May as well give them the middle name UVF, for balance.

If you have a girl you could call her Inla.

Mrs H should be more concerned about calling things retarded than people using shortened names.

In fairness it was my word. I totally accept its not nice to call people retarded, but it seems a reasonable choice for the backwards and old fashioned notion of wanting to use a long version of a name when you'll never use it.

Made me think of

https://youtu.be/OcLOKQOpj7U