Posted by Caryn
on 6/26/2008, 11:28 pm, in reply to "names in the UK"
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Brits are crazy when it comes to their chitlins... Poppy and Honey... and Sissy...
--Previous Message--
: I found a place where you can download a
: spreadsheet of the most popular names in the
: UK for 2007. For some odd reason, I was
: always under the impression that British
: people were far less tacky than Americans
: when it came to names... but I found some
: real shockers!
:
: 14 different ways to spell
: "Alisha" (the most common
: spelling)
:
: Amiee (as if Amy isn't bad enough! Believe
: me, I know )
:
: Bracken ?!?! For a girl (and I thought
: Nettle was bad)
:
: A bunch of names I consider distinctly
: "American" seem to have infected
: the UK:
: Montana, Savanna(h), Demi + 3 different
: spellings of Demi-Lee, Nevaeh, Tatum, Lexus
:
: And some cool stuff:
:
: Cosima (#1838)
: Elektra (#1327)
: Elodie (#453)
: Bryony/Briony (#446/#785)
: Lavinia (#1146)
: Livvy (#1795)
: Lorna (#700)
: Zoya (#472)
: Una (#1773)
: Celyn (#1201)
: Leonie/Leoni (#442/#789)
:
: And some puzzling things:
: Kornelia #1423 (but no Cornelia)
: Beca #1360 (but no Becca)
: Devon & Jersey - is this like naming
: American kids Austin and Dallas?
: Beau and Bo for a girl...
:
: And while I'm at it... in the UK, people use
: a lot more pet names as full names (Ellie,
: Millie, Maisie, Tilly, Emmy, Nell), whereas
: in the USA, people tend to make up
: long-forms of names that are already short,
: like Brandisha, Aliana, etc.
:
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