Hopefully the boys’ names are chosen from the books a little better. I’d love to see an adorable little Victarion running around, or maybe a Tywin.
Best of all would be tykes named Crowsfood or Whoresbane.
(Me? My sons are named Matthew and Benjamin, so I’m no fun.)
I’ll be surprised if “Tyrion” doesn’t start trending soon.
Now I’m picturing some moron naming their kid Unique, pronounced “you-ni-KWAY” :p:D:smack:
What if the same parents had another kid and named it Intelligent
– pronounced in-tuh-LYGE-unt –
so as to rhyme (almost) with Kawliga.
Better than “Uneek”, I suppose.
I saw this name recently at the local high school- Thailyr. I’m assuming it’s Tyler spelled phonetically VERY badly.
Kaleesi is becoming a thing, I’ve read.
That’s what purplehorseshoe was responding to. BUT!
Going to the Social Security Database of names, choosing the last available year (2013) and the longest list they provide (1000 most popular names) doesn’t show a single Khaleesi, under any spelling I can think of (who the fuck names his kid Kadence? Apparently, several people!).
I’d heard the same rumor about Spain. Again, going to INE’s database of names, last year available is 2013, checking both the national list and the regional ones (which have much lower cutoffs than the national one) doesn’t show a single Khaleesi, Kaleesi, Kalisi, Calisi… the list isn’t complete but still, where did the people reporting this “trend” get their data?
Either they’ve been born in the last year and a half, or it’s not true at this point in time.
Ugh, I missed the edit window, and I didn’t see that had already been mentioned.
My favourite are my great grandparents, Cecil and … Cecil. I really wished I had the chance to meet them (well, according to a 4 generations picture that was taken shortly after I was born, I did meet my great-grandfather at least once, but he died when I was less than a month old). The fact that a Cecil wound up meeting another Cecil and marrying them just tickles me to no end. And that a woman was named Cecil! With no “e” at the end or anything!
The coincidence as to where I’m posting this is also not lost on me in the least.
From UK data, apparently. That seems to be the original source.
Oh, lord, I encountered one in the wild today. Went to the grocery store, and a little terror of a boy was leaving a path of destruction in his wake - tossing a big pile of veggies into the scales in the produce department, and just leaving it (along with a head of cauliflower on the floor;) dragging toys out of the bins onto the floor in one aisle; knocking boxes and bags off of shelves in other aisles; playing with toy dinosaurs (from that first aisle) next to one of the end caps, where I nearly ran over him*.
Mom - wearing a mint-green chevron-print halter dress, too tan, teased streaked hair that did her prominent nose no favors, and far too much makeup - was walking ahead with her older daughter. Daughter (age 9 or so) seemed reasonably civilized (maybe adopted?) but every time Mom would get an aisle away from her little crotch dropping, I’d hear “Canyon?! We’re going to leave you!”** Canyon, ferfuck’ssake! Except that it was probably spelled “Kanyon” or something. (Even money, the girl’s name is KayeLeigh.)
*I was just a little too slow. I tried, though.
**The teenage stockers and the front-end manager agreed with me: No way in hell did that woman drive a fast-enough car to make good on that threat. Little Red Chief would’ve been back in the bosom of his family toot sweet!
I’ve known a girl named Andromeda Dawn, and one named Sunshine. I used to work with a girl who swore that her brothers were named - named, not nicknamed - Woody and Stony. And I have a g’g’niece named Ily (as in I love you) and a g’g’nephew named Kaydenleigh.
I haven’t found anything that looks official, but the first five sources I find do not have any variations of Khaleesi either. You’d think an article in The Independent would have pounced on such a name if they’d found it.
There may be one someplace. But it still looks to me like we’re talking about La-a.
How do you pronounce Ily? I’m thinking Eye-lee but I’m not sure.
I know a family where both boys were given a different highly elaborate form of their father’s given name as a first name, which seems kinda creepy to me. . . Little too invested in tying your kids to you. More oddly, the second boy has a letter randomly doubled in a place and way that makes no phonetic or aesthetic sense so that his bame has the same number of letters as his brother.
Baby Name Voyager is a fun site to play with tracking the rise and fall of different names and spellings.
Jaylen for example is already past its tiny peak. It began coming up, mostly among males, in the 90s, and started dropping off 10 years ago.
OTOH Allison was in those numbers (roughly 500/million) in the 60s and was even less in the 40s and 50s. It really popped in the 70s and peaked in the 90s and is now dropping.
Aaron pretty much the same. Under 500/million from the 1880s through the 60s. It also popped in the 70s and 80s and has been dropping back down since. Most Aarons are about 40 now; baby Aarons? Not so many.
If you know an Amy as the given name she was likely born between 1960 and 1980. Okay, Amelia was U-shaped around it.
Tiffanys are almost all early middle aged now. Basically none older and new baby Tiffanys? Rarer than Kais. Debbies almost all are 50 to late 60s at this point, virtually none in the past 30 years. Later middle aged also for Robin (and the somewhat less common alternate, Robyn) as a female name, peaked in the 50s; as a male name Robin peaked in a decade sooner. (Part of a trend for traditionally male names to become female ones, sometimes modifying the spelling.)
Brittany is the more recent equal to some of those. Almost ALL Brittanys were born around the 90s. Nearly none before the 70s (when someone would have said “you named her what?”) and nearly none now. Sorry HipGnosis but that was a fad name that came and went.
Snopes recently did an article on Le-a/Ledasha.
It could be worse.
Ditto – number ten in the decade.
At least my parents didn’t name me Mary. It would’ve been me and fifty-seven other girls in my graduating class.