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imin
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Dec 2 2012, 12:37am
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the child would be bullied for those names.
Brooklyn is the name of Beckham's kid and people laugh about that name now.
I think its a difficult thing picking a name. No one wants to be boring or unimaginative but at the same time it cant be so weird that the kid is going to suffer from having the name.
Here is a clip which i think is exactly about what we are discussing. Its by David Mitchell a comedian from the UK and its his online series called Soapbox where he has little humourous rants. I tend to agree with what he says here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xblh12XgQ4o
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Dec 3 2012, 4:14pm
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Well, having an unusual name myself, I wouldn't pick one that is too "out there".
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I wouldn't be opposed to Elanor, though. It sounds normal enough, but special due to its spelling.
My neighbor's sister's daughter is named Savannah Arwen, though. Not sure it goes together, but, hey, not my kid I have to yell at. 
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JWPlatt
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Dec 3 2012, 4:50pm
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No.
But we named our two sibling cats Sam and Frodo.
Sam turned out to be the adventurous one.
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Lacrimae Rerum
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Dec 3 2012, 5:18pm
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Not that it works in the conetext of this thread, but that was voted the best joke at the Edinburgh Festival
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You know who gives kids a bad name?
The Beckhams.
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Kassandros
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Dec 3 2012, 5:23pm
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I wouldn't think a kid would be bullied for "Suri" or "Brooklyn". They seem pretty normal to me.
I mean, bullies can use pretty much anything to bully people over. Doesn't mean we have to rename everyone John Smith and cover them in white paint and forbid them from having any hobbies and interests other than playing football and harassing girls. Yeah, some names should be avoided, but at the end of the day, if someone is bullying bases on names like those, the blame lies with the bully.
Hell, in middle school, other kids made up a name to call me based on a music video that contained a kid they thought looked like me. So even with a "normal" name like I have, that didn't really change anything. Hell, later on I got called a name of a sitcom character too. So yeah. Any name is fine, I think, unless it's something like "Poopoohead" or the like.
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CuriousG
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Dec 3 2012, 6:58pm
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There can be a lack of bullying
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I didn't go to school with exceptionally enlightened people, so there was bullying, but very little when it came to names. There were two boys (different families) who moved into our district, Utah and Ford, so an American state and a car, and that was unusual in a school full of kids named Mike, Debbie, Susan, and Rick. But other than gossiping behind their backs when they were new that they had funny names, they fit in, and their names became a non-issue.
As you point out, there can be surprises with common names. One new guy was named Stephen, and he spelled it that way instead of as Steven (we had several of those). Some people picked on him for that more classical spelling, calling him "Stephanie." Anything can be used against you.
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zarabia
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Dec 4 2012, 7:10am
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I just remembered the name I had once thought would be nice for a girl
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Melian, which translates as beloved, is really pretty and has a wonderful meaning. I would definitely consider Melian if I were to have a baby.
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imin
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Dec 4 2012, 4:41pm
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I see no reason to pick a really random name just for the sake of being different - kinda like the link i pasted, but as i didnt link it properly i doubt many watched it, lol.
To me Suri and Brooklyn are most definitely odd names for people.
I have found from living in the US compared to the UK, that names are much more 'random' in USA or should i say many names that i had never heard of before i came to America. Lots of names are given to boys when they are girls names and vice versa which i thought was really odd as its just confusing things.
At the end of the day a bully will find a reason to bully someone if they are that way but i do think there is a certain responsibility not to saddle a child with a completely unique name - some names are even illegal/banned for this very reason - they dont have to all be offensive either its just if they are too random.
I think in Germany they cant use names which are too androgynous as it causes confusion.
I think it just comes down to if one is comfortable giving a name which perhaps is more widely known or if you want the child to have literally a one of name.
From having family members who hate their completely individual name it makes me biased towards more regular names - mine is regular and i really like it :)
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 5:25pm
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I wish I had used that for my daughter. I wasn't as into Tolkien when I had her as I am now so I didn't even think along those lines. But I've always liked that name & it's unusual spelling.
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 5:33pm
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She's a puggle & when I rescued her her name was Poquito. I wanted to keep the P at the beginning & wanted a hobbit name but my husband didn't like any of the female ones I was considering like Pansy, Poppy, Pearl, Pimpernel, Pervinca or Primula but he did like Pippin. I'm kind of glad we picked the more common name because people often recognize it.
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 5:54pm
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Varda & Arwen but I'm not sure I'd want to saddle a child with any thing so unusual. The more common names like Sam or Elanor would be ok, though.
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 6:01pm
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When I was pregnant & people asked us about
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names my husband would reply "If it's a boy we'll name him Dump-truck & a girl we'll name her Latrina. He was joking, of course, but he was always so deadpan that some people didn't get the joke.
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 6:10pm
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Moon Unit & Dweezil but not the others. My husband was a big Frank Zappa fan-me, not so much!
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Alassëa Eruvande
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Dec 4 2012, 6:21pm
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the lady who worked on our loan was named Latrina. She was really grouchy and unhelpful and I attributed it to her being named after a toilet. 
My brother in law always said if they had a boy he would have been named Bucket.  
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 6:21pm
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And isn't there someone with a son named
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Faramir?
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sherlock
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Dec 4 2012, 6:26pm
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I wish my husband was alive so I could tell him about Latrina. We once saw a guy on the local news named LaTroll. He was naturally up to no good, We cracked up over that one. My husband died in 2010 & of the many things I miss about him his sense of humor is right up there.
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Ardamírë
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Dec 4 2012, 6:27pm
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whose last name was Lee. He said he was going to name his son Ug... 
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DanielLB
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Dec 4 2012, 6:34pm
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I have a family member called ...
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John Johnson ...
Not exactly original, is it?
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CuriousG
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Dec 4 2012, 7:03pm
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Well, I hope his dad was named John so the surname will be true.//
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Ardamírë
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Dec 4 2012, 7:05pm
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people do that. Do they think it's funny? or just don't care?
I'm not trying to be rude, I'm just wondering why someone would do that to a kid. 
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CuriousG
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Dec 4 2012, 7:06pm
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You'd think that maybe some of the later generations of the Tolkien family would pick up these names.
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Faramir Tolkien. That would really work.
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Ardamírë
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Dec 4 2012, 7:10pm
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There have been 17 new topics and over 400 posts since I last was on the Hobbit forum. It's killing me not being there!   
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DanielLB
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Dec 4 2012, 7:12pm
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They're not close family - we all think its weird!
I used to know someone with a name similar to this, but I'm having trouble remembering what their name is!
Edit:
Hugh Hughes! That's it.
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