When my mum back in 1975 decided to name her newborn
daughter after her father’s favourite female singer she could only see it as
the beautiful name it was.
Nina, a name meaning little girl in Hebrew, strong and
mighty in Native American, mother in Swahili and beautiful eyes in Hindi .
It’s a lovely list of things for a name to mean and almost worth
the years of being teased by people doing emergency services vehicle
impressions , not to mention asking where my 99 red balloons were ,for the sake
of having a name that’s a little bit different to everyone else’s.
However, after reading that due his popularity in various
reality shows last year that some parents are not only naming their children
after Joey Essex but also some of his dubious vocabulary I do wonder if little
Reem or Creepysick are really going to thank mum and dad some 18 years or so
down the line as they fill in job application forms with their “of the moment
“moniker.
MEDWAY MESSENGER GIRL FROM THE NECK DOWN COLUMN 13TH JAN 2014
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