Apparently names like Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Jordon, Chevaughn, Liam & Ryan strike fear into the hearts of schoolteachers and may lead them to make snap judgements about their likely behavior.

The names that teachers accociate with good pupils include: Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph.

Story Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4274318.stm

Also on the bad list is the name Gyaike! Eh? Is it a real British name?

Imagine a 75 year old K'tee. Or your doctor being called Jordon.

what about jacqueline????:)

Aaaaaaww my little boy's called Charlie! :( Though he is very naughty indeed .......

Originally posted by Norbert
Chevaughn

My god, you'd think if you were going to call your child something vaguely 'exotic' you'd learn how to spell it. Thats so embarrassing, Siobahn indeed.

Did they learn to spell using "Hooked on Phonics?"

Wilf

Hmm... in my teaching experience. Daniel's are naughty and usually ginger... Kyle's look a bit thuggish, Kayleigh's and all spelling variations are a bit gobby and Paige's and Shelly's aren't particularly great - Gemma is a bit iffy. Liam's, Ryan's and Reece's are naughty too... I'm going off my Jade's aswell...

I wouldn't say I jumped to conclusions but its funny how behaviour seems to link to names... well behaved children are called Ben or Rachel.

Originally posted by absynthfairy
Hmm... in my teaching experience. Daniel's are naughty and usually ginger... Kyle's look a bit thuggish, Kayleigh's and all spelling variations are a bit gobby and Paige's and Shelly's aren't particularly great - Gemma is a bit iffy. Liam's, Ryan's and Reece's are naughty too... I'm going off my Jade's aswell...

I wouldn't say I jumped to conclusions but its funny how behaviour seems to link to names... well behaved children are called Ben or Rachel.


Great, lovely, super.

Could you define which bracket I come into please? Go on! Am I 'economical with the truth'?. Do I look sincere yet underneath can you discern that I'm quite a tough fella?

Do I give it away with my 'Hey, now look, come on'?

Do you reckon I'm quite a card when it comes to revenue and taxation? And, remember 'there ain't no such thing as English!'.

Did you get it? That's right!

My name?

Why, Tony.

Tony Blair.

Originally posted by BrainThrust
My god, you'd think if you were going to call your child something vaguely 'exotic' you'd learn how to spell it. Thats so embarrassing, Siobahn indeed.

Did they learn to spell using "Hooked on Phonics?"

Wilf

It Chavaughn - Shirley? :hihi:

so where do jayden's rank on this list then?

Originally posted by Don_Kiddick
It Chavaughn - Shirley? :hihi:

First thing I thought when I saw it :D

It has to be said that attention to detail has dropped of late, with all kinds of bizarre misspellings for 'exotic' (read: strange) sounding names, some of which aren't even phonetic spellings!?!

well my names actually bobby-joe
and i cant say i struck fear into the teachers, mainly cos i wernt there like but still..
my bro is called daniel and he int ginger, infact hes wot ya could call a boffin. :suspect:

Liam
Scott
Andrew
Alan
Matthew
Gareth
Josh
David
To name but a few. Girls are Danni, Lisa, Becky, Melissa, Jade. I don't think it has anything to do with names but the way they are brought up.

Kristopher!?!? Kristopher is the name of a bad child?!?! since WHEN!?

that happens to be MY name and I've always been a star pupil... thats just a load of bull**** :P a name has nothing at all to do with a person's attitude, intelligence or behavior!

what a load of twoddle, Kristopher isn't even a particulally common name :P I wish it was then I wouldn't have to spend half an hour trying to spell it to people on the phone and end with letters addressed to Khristopher! :?

to be fair is the children have certain names popular with Sun readers and the moden chavs then you know you are in for trouble.

When I was at school all the dicey ones were caled Michael, Kev, Brian, Darren, Danny and Adam,

Originally posted by missb
The 'naughty' ones in our school are called:
...Andrew...

Surely some mistake? :suspect:

interesting....... Our newborn is called Daniel, if he had been a girl it would have been Lucy, and he was almost called Sam.

All on the goody goody list......:suspect: :D

'siobahn'

Ummm.... Right back at you, indeed

Siobhan, surely?

Originally posted by Pete1024
Ummm.... Right back at you, indeed

Siobhan, surely?

Perhaps :D

Then again, I've no plans to name any children of mine it. Planned names cause arguments, I've found... prefer to be much more carefree.

Wilf

Well I already know what I want my kids to be called if I have them. I guess I'm in for a hell of a lot of arguments there then huh?
I have alot of my life readily planned out. Everyone else seems to have the role of stepping back and letting me through.
The bad kids in our school have the names on the good list.

What about the Sheffield bloke who called named his kids after cars.
Porche, Carrera and Beuick (however it's spelt).

mine will have odd and obscure names so they will have a reason to hate me and for their teenage angst

Fellow Sheffielders:

Is it really so surprising that children with stupid names end up misbehaving?

It's because THEIR PARENTS ARE CHAVS!!

Think about it - Chav and Chavette drop a sprog. Chav does a runner, Chavette calls sprog Kyle-Craig-Tyler-Jordan. After all, one of the Chavs she met 9 months ago is the father, right?

Anyway, fast forward on a couple of years, and by the time Kyle-Craig-Tyler-Jordan starts school, he's been joined by Chardonnay-Craig-Tyler-Jordan, Kloe-Craig-Tyler-Jordan and Charlie-Craig-Tyler-Jordan.

In the absence of any father figure, Kyle, Chardonnay, Kloe and Charlie go off the rails and up the walls, causing trouble at school, then repeat the drop-sprog-and-do-a-runner cycle ad infinitum as soon as they start puberty.

<thinks for a minute> Right I'm off to buy shares in Kappa clothing...

Originally posted by mrchinnery
What about the Sheffield bloke who called named his kids after cars.
Porche, Carrera and Beuick (however it's spelt).

... i know them... hehe. the lad used to be in my sisters class at school....!

Satan in heels. please tell. are they chavs

Not really too sure if they are exactly chavs... it has been a few years since i saw any of them (though i do believe they still live round the corner) however i dont remeber what the parents are like anyways, certainly not your averave 'chav' but i wouldnt know what they are actually like as people. (my mum may know if they are chavs though.. must research this)

from my experience of teaching, Liams and Chantelles were usually a real pain to teach, Rachels and Roberts were well behaved, although there were noticeable exceptions obviously!
I also once had a Year 9 called Labyrinth, fancy that! Well done mummy and daddy!

To give you an insight of what it's like in France, where i'm from, chavs and chavettes are called Dylan, Brendon/a, Jennifer or Jason..all of them named after some c*** US series and usually born to parents who cannot even pronounce these properly, honestly these frogs..:P

Originally posted by mrchinnery
What about the Sheffield bloke who called named his kids after cars.
Porche, Carrera and Beuick (however it's spelt).

this is a joke surely ?!!!! how can this be allowed ?!!!!!!

*goes to phone NSPCC*

Originally posted by sugarnspice
Aaaaaaww my little boy's called Charlie! :( Though he is very naughty indeed .......
Bad parenting! :P

Originally posted by Lee1979
this is a joke surely ?!!!! how can this be allowed ?!!!!!!

*goes to phone NSPCC*

Agree with you totally, Lee1979.

Some of these names are verging on child cruelty :rant:

StarSparkle

Originally posted by mrchinnery
What about the Sheffield bloke who called named his kids after cars.
Porche, Carrera and Beuick (however it's spelt).
I read an article in the newspaper a few years ago about a country (Guatemala, perhaps? Somewhere in Central/South America anyway) where they passed a law restricting parents to government-approved names only because so many parents were naming their kids after bizarre objects, particularly car parts. So there were kids running around with names like fan-belt, seat-belt, alternator and Carburettor :loopy:

For the record, I'm another Daniel who's not ginger and was a well-behaved boffin (except in Physics & Chemistry, when I was a bit of a tearaway), but I'm not Litha's brother.

I have 4 kids, william, Christopher, Bertie(robert) and Isabelle, and I've seen a few kids living up their name reputations. I know that when I named my kids, I dismissed certain names because of name associations of people i didn't like.

Cheers

vanessa

Also worth thinking about how your kids' names will be said, what they will be shortened to etc. My wife was lucky that her grandma talked her parents out of calling her Helen, because in Sheffield that would make her 'Elen 'Oward.

And my sister was always quite happy as Hannah Sumption until she moved to Liverpool, where every other person she met would say "An Assumption? Your parents were 'avin a laff!"

I still wonder what on earth my friend David Lemon's grandparents can have been thinking of when they named their son Arthur.

... i'm called Helen, and I dont notice that anybody says it.. 'Ellen!

Apparently names like Bobbi-Jo, Kloe, K'tee, Kristopher, Jayne, Wayne, Charlie, Jordon, Chevaughn, Liam & Ryan strike fear into the hearts of schoolteachers and may lead them to make snap judgements about their likely behavior.

The names that teachers accociate with good pupils include: Kate, Gregory, Sean, Charlotte, Jamie, Daniel, Lucy, Isobel, Ben, Sam, Harpreet, Imran, Asam, Alice and Joseph.

Story Here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4274318.stm

Also on the bad list is the name Gyaike! Eh? Is it a real British name?

Imagine a 75 year old K'tee. Or your doctor being called Jordon.

My doctor is Richard Jordon Md and he is a goodun

I almost changed my named to Ian Stien a few years ago...

I read an article in the newspaper a few years ago about a country (Guatemala, perhaps? Somewhere in Central/South America anyway) where they passed a law restricting parents to government-approved names only because so many parents were naming their kids after bizarre objects, particularly car parts.

Many countries have a law that the government can reject your child's name when you apply for a birth certificate. Sweden and France are two that I know of in Europe. (France is currently in the news for the reverse reason - the parents of a child called Zoe Renault are suing to prevent Renault from calling their new car model the "Zoe.")

And of course, American parents had their children taken away on child cruelty matters, for calling one of them "Adolf Hitler <surname>" and the other something along similar lines.


I have also read once, but have no links to official reports, of an American couple who called their child Le_a. Apparently, they said it was pronounced "Ledasha" because the dash is not silent.

I have also read once, but have no links to official reports, of an American couple who called their child Le_a. Apparently, they said it was pronounced "Ledasha" because the dash is not silent.

Was her brother called /a ?:hihi:

Was her brother called /a ?:hihi:

Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp) has failed to confirm the existence of the girl in question. That's not conclusive proof that the story is a hoax, but it makes it probable.

I don't, at this point, remember on what forum I first read about it.

Was her brother called /a ?:hihi:
:hihi::hihi::hihi: I like it!

Aaaaaaww my little boy's called Charlie! :( Though he is very naughty indeed .......

My cat is called Charlie, and he is also naughty :hihi: