After such an interesting chat on surnames, what about first names.
I was taken aback when doing the weekly shop last week to hear a very young
mum (about 17) calling out to her toddler of about 2 years old "Britney!
Britney!" Didn't know whether to laugh or feel sorry for the little girl.
It's not unusual for people to name their children after their idol?????
My parents decided to name us so that they couldn't be shortened. So Jean
for me and John for my older brother. At the time they couldn't think of
anything for my unplanned younger brother and he is Roger, so non-shortening
didn't work and he was called Rodge or Podge.
It was the custom in the family for the first-born eldest of each sex to
take the first name of the appropriate parent as their second name. So my
grandmother was Caroline Maude (but know as Maude), my mother Elsie Maude
and I'm Jean Elsie (hate that name). I have no children, but both my brother
broke with that tradition and just picked names they liked for their
children. Now the son of one has decided to go back to older names from his
ancestors. His twin girls are named Georgiana (my great-grandmother's name
on my mother's side, so that would be his daughter's
great-great-great-grandmother) and Charlotte (Charles being the name of
first-born male children for as far back as we can go on my father's side).
Obviously they'll be known as Georgie and Charlie.
I suppose thst one day Britney will be the name of someone's ancestor too.
Jean in Poole, Dorset, UK
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