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This post has been edited by Buy Me A Pony !: 12/04/2012, 01:47 PM

[rosiebird]

I think we need examples! Unique as in "Sunday" or "lettuce" (properly spelt of course)?

[MakeLoveNotBacon]

Yes examples please.

[Guest_Buy Me A Pony !_*]

Uneek as in Sunday and Lettuce but not copying celebrity names (that would be lame), more making names from nouns (as in your eg RB) which include proper nouns (planets, asteroids or stars anyone?), fruit, days and months, words taken from foreign languages (that have zero connection to the parental ancestry) etc.

[la di dah]

I would have counted planets/asteroids/stars as being more a mythology nerd than a made-up name? Orion, Andromeda, etc. if that's what we're talking about.

[Guest_Buy Me A Pony !_*]

Well none of these names are made up according your criteria LDD. Answer my question!

[la di dah]

I assumed I have the sort of taste that gets panned as "so American," BMAP.

I MAY have once asked my husband if I could use Peacemaker as a middle name, but no one can prove anything.

[Guest_Buy Me A Pony !_*]

I think I'm a w**king bogan howls considering I've transplanted myself to bogan central but still have w**ky tendencies But isn't that an entirely subjective construct anyway?

Why is no one answering my question? Is it really this unimportant in the mind of others? I'm hoping to not miss the trend in terms of naming my own offspring and my desire to pass on a traditional moniker could well socially isolate this poor sprog of mine.

[la di dah]

It's not a trend I've noticed here, as in my suburb. Better have an -ayden or -ayley name instead.

[Magnus]

Have you seen the Freakonomics documentary where they discuss people from lower classes using names aspirationally? I can't remember all the names, but they were saying names went through cycles where they became popular amongst the upper classes and then were adopted by lower classes as a symbol of their status aspirations for their children. One example they used was the name Samantha, which was almost exclusively upper class at one point in time and then when they looked at the data from about ten years later was almost exclusively lower class.

Samantha is NMS anyway, as it really reminds me of 'salamander'.

I guess that could explain why bogans are using w*nker names, but not the other way around. Maybe the w*nkers have to be a bit more creative because lower classes keep adopting their names aspirationally?