According to my friend who works in a primary school back home, most kids have “unique” names now. Same with all the people I know who’ve had kids. I really don’t know what’s wrong with calling your kid Paul or Jessica.
Funnily enough the kids at the school I work at have normal names for the most part. The weirdest one I can think of is named after a fruit.
Is it Apple? Gotta be Apple.
Nah Mango. I think he likes mangoes. Fair enough!
Now that’s a new one. I’ve met about a hundred Apples, but no Mango(e)s.
Silly names are not a new thing,
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-J.-Hunt/e/B0034OZQW6
I can verify this is his given name, i was good friends with his son. (you can guess why he always used his full name)
Here I was thinking it was some author’s name we couldn’t see.
An empty onebox is like a dogwhistle to me. Now you know my weakness.
You say that like you only got the one.
Yeah. There’s also salt!
The link works ok for me, but I am posting from my phone.
Added a screenshot
What’s wrong with Michael J. Hunt?
It would be worst if it was J. Walk…
Damn you dumb…
Mike Hunt, is a perfectly good name.
I see what you mean about Mike Walk.
Whoa…that’s my parrot’s name.
It actually made me a little misty. He passed away recently.
Zain Dean had a parrot.
Just sayin
Name?