Crazy names: yay or nay?

Laurence Payg is all the rayg at the moment - he's the name mystic who came up with "Agyness Deyn". From his website: "Certain letters can also reveal specific things happening at definite points in your life, depending where they are in your name. For example, in basic terms, an N shows love, romance and loving conditions. A G brings gains and a U brings losses for three years."

Which all sounds fairly ludicrous, but weirdy ancient magick aside, clearly the name you're landed with does have some affect on how you turn out. Look at me, would I be this bitter and miserable if I was called Sarah? Are you for or against the wacky name trend? Bring it on.

Crazy names: yay or nay? - Comments

  • Keira Vallejo

    Laurence Payg is talking rubbish. He wasn't asked by Agyness Deyn about the most fortuitous way to spell "Agnes" - because he real name wasn't Agnes! It was Laura Hollins!

  • kevie

    I feel qualified to comment on this. My parents tagged me with the name of Kevon, way back in the era of Debbies and Cathies. It added maybe another mild layer of difficulty to growing up to be quite an ordinary adult. Only side effect is I am comfortable standing out in a crowd.



    However, I do have a violent allergy to those pretentious, pseudo-aristo surnames-as-Christian-names people started giving their daughters in the 80s. I don't think it will pose any problems for the girls, though. Madison, Blake, Ashley et. al. are the new Linda and Patty. Their bourgeois parents' unimaginative attempt at uniqueness backfired. And I still haven't met any little Kevons.

  • leila

    thanks alex- I've never known any others and got sick of having to have a conversation about it with everyone I met - even at uni! it's not so bad now tho... More unusual names around now than there were 20 years ago. It's more that I feel a bit of a fraud as a white britsh person with no interesting exotic blood in my family at all. Could be worse tho, I could be apple.

  • Leila's an unusual name? I knew at least two growing up and always thought it was rather pretty. I also assumed that it was spelled "Leila" unless told otherwise (using the same assumption/principle for Jacqueline, Katherine, Alison and Abigail).



    Try living with a surname everyone sticks a prosthetic 'h' in with a mother whose name rhymes with a common piece of stationery... *beats head against wall*



    And people ask me why I'm changing my name when I get married...

  • Oklahoma

    I love my crazy name! I wouldn't want to give one to my child though...

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