Chavtastic!

A more light hearted topic today – chavvy names people name their kids. I’ve been collecting the worst ones I’ve come across over the last few months, and some are truly awful! I have no idea where the parents find the names, or why they even think they are nice.

I think the easiest thing to do is list them and let you decide if you like them or not! Apologies to anyone whose kids’ names appear!

Lily-Maii

Emmie-Olivia

Morgan-Paige

Chelsea-May

Lo-Andri

Braedigh (Brady)

Destiny

Cayce (Casey)

Kaitelyn

D’Andre (pronounced dee-andray)

Precious

Braydon

Acer

Acerjoe (I think a few people love their computers far too much!)

Chance

Raggana

Evian

Ptolomy (maybe not chavvy but terrible anyway!)

Rubii (Ruby)

Lechelle

Keegan

Nevaeh (Heaven backwards!)

Tyreece

Acea

Jazmine (not too bad as a rule, but never with a Z!)

Kealan

Chanise

Kai

Brie

Tanicha

Tyrese

Kade

Tyrone

Andrewina

Tayen

Krystal

Carlene

Nimoy (maybe they didn’t like Spock?!)

Breock

Dememe

Daffodil

Amoy (Stirfry anyone?!)

Emaleigh

Abygayle

Talissa

Dilano

Prestella

Lemise

Antonesha

Neev (liked the name obviously but couldn’t spell it – it’s Niamh dimwits!)

Thomasina

Rio

Peaches

Jacy

Calice

L’Mel

Zakari

De’Kai

Blisse

And, of course, the old standbys…

Kayden and Jayden

What I can’t get over is the fact that some people like to name their kids perfectly nice, normal names, but for that little bit of “individuality” they muck about with the spelling – eg Emaleigh, Abygayle and Zakari - it's unique innit – what’s that all about? Perfectly good names until you mangled them! And adding “ii” onto the end of a name – unfortunately we have Jordan to thank for that with her Princess Tiaamii! Some of the names are clearly made up too.

I can’t understand why people would want to saddle their kids with appalling names. For example, how is Brie going to get on when she decides she wants to become a doctor or a solicitor? She’ll never be taken seriously! Dr Cheesey anyone? Or the Reverend Kayden? Or Destiny QC? Unfortunately, there is a section of our society that, in all probability, won’t get far in life, thanks to the names they have been saddled with by their parents. Thanks Mum and Dad, you ruined my dreams of becoming Prime Minister by naming me L’Mel!

I have looked at the top 100 baby names of 2010 for boys and for girls, and the vast majority of them are pretty normal. Some owe their origins to our multi-cultural society which is fair enough. And some are just simply awful.

What’s your opinion?