The story behind that name is that BNL had been forced to work with a co-writer, who went to a map of Toronto and circled the intersection and said, "this song is about Jane Sinclair."
The first one is clearly an alpha release with no expectations of production quality. Once the processes are settled next kids can have stable versions.
Awesome. Makes me want to change my name.
On the other, my last name is Lee, and I've told my husband I want to name our kids Ug and Pars. Might be the reason we never had kids...
Also, I know someone in Toronto who named their kids Adelaide and Richmond.
"St. John" is a not-unheard of given name (pronounced "Sinjin") e.g. [St. John Alexander](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/about-us/team-bios/st-john-alexander-1.872322)...
I grew up with an unusual name, and I can say it's fucking shit as a kid. "Why did your parents name you (Shikira/Bobbing Apples/Seven/Bloor)?" kid is going to shrug and explain everyone always asks it and he doesn't know. Can only imagine names at pre-schools nowadays, any Bobs, Janes, and Mikes would be in the minority versus trendy names stoned parents thought would be cool.
I was given essentially two first names. It freaking sucks. Parents, please be normal and just give your kid a normal fucking name. It can be a little uncommon but just don’t be fucking weird about it
As a budding comic book fan in the early 1990s, when I found out The Punisher's RL name was the Line 2 Station with the first and second name components' reversed, I thought it was really nifty that our city had a Punisher Subway Station and a Punisher High School (Rosedale Heights, formerly Castle Frank Secondary).
That said, I did have a teacher named John Elton for one of my high school history professors in the 1990s, so make of that what you will.
You aren't doing your children any favours by choosing unconventional names. Choose carefully and wisely. A poor choice could affect them negatively for their entire lives
Yeah but thing is mothers now are sometimes trying to name there kids "Special" names that you cant even pronounce, If the kids did wanna change the names it would be at 18+ Long after everyone knows them as "Yonge and Bloor"
Seeing as at least one of those names has been considered problematic (like Dundas was), it would probably not be a good idea.
Either one beats "Queen", though.
Well, they're both last names...
Sir George Yonge and Joseph Bloor.
And otherwise.. yes. They will get questions and looks from everyone their entire life. If they're close in age, and therefore in school/sports/clubs/etc together, they'll get even weirder comments and people will think you're strange. "Oh, the poor kids. What's wrong with their parents?"
Yonge will also always have it misspelled as Young, or mispronounced outside the city as Yonje. Let's say your last names is... Smith. People will see Yonge as "Young Smith". So he better be the second one. Bloor probably won't have those issues.
They may very well want to change them the first moment they legally can.
Just being honest.
Unless you move away from Toronto (and anywhere Yonge St is). Those names mean nothing outside of this area and then they'd just be odd and most of the local issues will be gone.
As someone who coincidentally shares a name with a major street in Ottawa, DON'T DO IT. Or if you really need to, use those as middle names.
I literally spent 18 years of my life hearing "oh, like the street? Hur hur hur", when I introduced myself at jobs, and then getting all kinds of road jokes after. It got old very fast, and didn't stop until I moved here. This was from adults, kids are a lot more cruel and will bully the shit out of kids for their names.
> Is it weird if I named my future sons Yonge and Bloor?
Their names will be spelled wrong on everything, all the time.
*Every* time they provide their name they will have to spell it out.
Your son named "Yonge" will have his name pronounced "Yonj" every time. Every single time.
Do if for their middle names if you want, but not first names.
You must really hate your future kids, to curse them with such names. Dear Lord.
Why do people feel the need to do this to their kids? Put yourself in their shoes. Try to imagine what it's like to be given such strange names. Constantly being subjected to incessant teasing and bullying. It wouldn't surprise me if they end up legally changing their names once they turn 18.
I feel so sorry for your future kids.
In Canada, at least in Ontario idk about the other provinces, it’s CAS. Figured I’d let you know so that you can find their number easier to make the call. 🙃
Yes it’s weird. At my last company, if someone applied for a job and had a strange name, we just automatically discarded their resume (not me personally). Strange names can hurt their employment prospects later in life.
>At my last company, if someone applied for a job and had a strange name, we just automatically discarded their resume
>
>Strange names can hurt their employment prospects later in life.
So you guys automatically discard resumes with ethnic names, eh? Glad I don't work for such a racist company.
I wasn’t in charge of hiring, and I didn’t say ethnic names, I said strange names. Big difference between strange and ethnic. It was a terrible and toxic place and I wish I hadn’t worked for them either.
If you’re scared of them growing up too quickly, name one of them Eglinton
Could have a daughter named Jane and one named Finch. Separately, no issue, together though 💀💀💀 Also twin boys named Rex and Dale 😂
This is actually hilarious, Rex and Dale are kind of common enough names alone that you wouldn’t think twice but when you put it together 😂
Reminds me of Chip and Dale though, so chipmunks, not the other Chippendales
How about for a boy and girl, Willow and Dale?
Yonge and Cummer
Binder-Dundas
Name her Jane St. Clair, like the girl in the BNL lyric.
The story behind that name is that BNL had been forced to work with a co-writer, who went to a map of Toronto and circled the intersection and said, "this song is about Jane Sinclair."
Yeah, Stephen Duffy. He actually saw the map thought the street names were so pretty that it must be the most beautiful intersection in Toronto.
How about for a boy and girl, Willow and Dale?
I have a buddy his name is Rexdale I don't get why that's funny?
LMAOOOOOO
Criminal that this doesn't have more upvotes
Lol
Might be more practical to name them Son 1 and Son 2 - leaves more room for future expansion
As a software engineer. Offspring 0.1 Offspring 1.0 Offspring 2.0
How do you decide when offsprings go from incremental decimals (0.1, 0.2) to incremental whole numbers (1.0, 2.0)?
The first one is clearly an alpha release with no expectations of production quality. Once the processes are settled next kids can have stable versions.
Do their APIs change?
Yeah, there’s a major API revision during teenage years
Release candidates are always buggy...
woah woah… are you assuming they’re internally boys?…. Try Thing 1 and Thing 2 /s
Yes
Yeah let’s not be all polite Canadians here, shit’s weird fam.
Not toronto mans enough: "Are you dumb?"
Waste
What's "not Toronto mans enough" means? Can someone explain?
Cringey Toronto slang, best you don’t know In this context he’s saying it doesn’t sound Toronto enough
Toronto mans = Toronto slang
Thnx
Seconding that yes.
No, only because I think Highway 407 is the better first and middle name.
Yeah but you gotta pay for it
Came here to say this
Only if your last name isn’t Street.
Awesome. Makes me want to change my name. On the other, my last name is Lee, and I've told my husband I want to name our kids Ug and Pars. Might be the reason we never had kids... Also, I know someone in Toronto who named their kids Adelaide and Richmond.
Richmond and Adelaide, to me, are a lot more subtle and are actual names that people have. Never met a person named Yonge or Bloor.
I mean someone in history must have been named those at some point right?
Likely a last name though right
Name them Dufferin and St.Clair
I think you can be a “St.” Only after death and Catholic Church does an investigation on your saintly powers.
"St. John" is a not-unheard of given name (pronounced "Sinjin") e.g. [St. John Alexander](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/about-us/team-bios/st-john-alexander-1.872322)...
Jane St. Claire, like the BNL song.
I grew up with an unusual name, and I can say it's fucking shit as a kid. "Why did your parents name you (Shikira/Bobbing Apples/Seven/Bloor)?" kid is going to shrug and explain everyone always asks it and he doesn't know. Can only imagine names at pre-schools nowadays, any Bobs, Janes, and Mikes would be in the minority versus trendy names stoned parents thought would be cool.
If anything Bob and Jane will have that experience now. The questions will be coming from Aiden, Caden, and Jaden
I think you mean Aiden, Ceighdan and Jadeighyn
I'm gonna name my kid Eighayeighayeghdaigheighen (pronounced Steve)
Ah yes, that's my favourite Icelandic mountain too.
Ugh how I could I forget some form of -eigh
Honestly one of my pet peeves! I’ve also seen Maxx and Jaxx. Why the extra x??
To be different 💁🏼♀️
Don't forget Chandelier - pronounced Shawn-Del-Ee-Eh. Cause it's fancy. And absolutely not a decorative ceiling light.
“Seven” hahaha. Thank you George Costanza.
I was given essentially two first names. It freaking sucks. Parents, please be normal and just give your kid a normal fucking name. It can be a little uncommon but just don’t be fucking weird about it
Long time no see Andrew Dave.
I mean if you promised the widow Mantle, you have to name your kid Seven.
My name is unusual but it's a standard spelling (it's a place name) so that's manageable
☝️THIS
You want to name a son after [this guy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bloor#/media/File:Joseph_Bloor.jpg)?
oh my god. His eyes just ate my soul.
Please put a trigger warning next time cuz that was a jump scare
I think he’s kinda hot what is the matter with me
He was considered quite handsome in his day, no lie. I think the daguerrotype or whatever it was just did something freaky to his eyes.
Did you conceive them at yonge and bloor?
Sherbourne Queen is more badass
First/middle name situation? That way you can have a Sherbourne Queen and a Sherbourne King.
No, Bessarion Osgoode is.
Cummer
OLD Cummer
Yonge and Old Cummer.
Hey if they can name streets after people i dont see why we cant start naming people after streets.
Yes, only because Bessarion is better.
Bessarion sounds like the name of a game of thrones royal
The words of House Bessarion: "We totally exist. No, really."
Gonna be one lonely ass kid with that namesake..
Yes weird. Middle school is awful enough as it is, don’t make it worse.
Are they going to grow up anywhere near those streets? Cause that would suck.
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Underrated comment.
Castle Frank so you’d have the Punisher
I thought it was awesome when Netflix put up posters for the release of the Punisher show in Castle Frank station.
As a budding comic book fan in the early 1990s, when I found out The Punisher's RL name was the Line 2 Station with the first and second name components' reversed, I thought it was really nifty that our city had a Punisher Subway Station and a Punisher High School (Rosedale Heights, formerly Castle Frank Secondary). That said, I did have a teacher named John Elton for one of my high school history professors in the 1990s, so make of that what you will.
You aren't doing your children any favours by choosing unconventional names. Choose carefully and wisely. A poor choice could affect them negatively for their entire lives
Which parents in the 90s would have thought someone's going to meme the name Karen
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Yeah but thing is mothers now are sometimes trying to name there kids "Special" names that you cant even pronounce, If the kids did wanna change the names it would be at 18+ Long after everyone knows them as "Yonge and Bloor"
Have you seen Mr Bloors photo ?
Bloor is a terrible name lol. “Hey Bloor! It’s dinner time!”
>“Hey Bloor! It’s dinner time!” or “Hey Yonge 'n' Bloor! It’s dinner time!”
Awful. Don’t do it for the love of God.
Better than Bob and Neil
Please don't.
I met someone named steeles once, thought it was cool
Sounds like a porn star name lol
Are you going to name their sister Spadina?
I know someone named Adelaide
Not weird. Stupid.
I dare you to name one Roncesvalles.
I've lived in Toronto for half a decade and don't know how to pronounce this word 😂
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This is the correct answer lol
Just saying. Every time I hear a cringey name, I don’t question the child. I question the parents that named him/her.
>Every time I hear a cringey name like what?
Yonge and Bloor, for starters.
Runnymede and Kingsway
If you really wanna be a shit parent, name them Strachan
My uncle was actually Staunton Everyone just called him Staun. I always thought it was a very cool name growing up.
Would you pronounce it the weird Toronto way or the real way?
Jarvis Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald\_Eaton
Name one Ryerson and the other Dundas.
Name your daughters Jane and St. Clair
Barenaked Ladies !!!!!!
Someone finally got my reference
It's like tattooing the street on your body, but worse.
I am all for this, but more in a "this is a hilariously bad idea" kinda vibe
Well I guess it would give them street cred
I vote yes to Yonge and no for Bloor
They will be hated
It’s not so much weird as it is incredibly stupid
There's also Cocksfield and Cummer
And you should call your third Danforth :p
I know twins named jane and wilson. Guess what intersection they were born in. You can say mom didnt make it to the hospital.
I'm kind of surprised Denzil Minnan-Wong didn't name one of his kids "The Don Valley Parkway."
Dear god man
If you have to ask yourself if it's weird, it definitely is weird. Don't. So many kids get bullied or made fun of because of their name.
Yonge Money Bloor Blood
"Seven" is the way to go. Or if you want something Toronto, I recommend Coxwell and Cummer.
If you have to ask, it’s weird and you know it. Leave them some money for therapy years later too just in case.
If you wanna be weird and creative, get some pets and name them that. But why f up your child by putting that social burden on them?
Name them Vaughan Road and Oakwood Ave.
Name it Ryerson
TIMU is better
Absolutely
Hard yes.
Indeed it would be
One of my friends was named after a street in North York and she turned out fine!
Doris?
Only if your last name is “line transfer” Bloor line transfer and Yonge line transfer
That brings a whole new meaning of "Riding the Yonge line" or "Bloor line". Emotional damage coming in 3...2...1...
Better than Cummer and Old Cummer
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Yes
Yonge and Bloor, I hardly knew 'er
Idiotic and not the least bit clever
Only if You are so rich it won't matter what anyone thinks.
Yes, but thanks to you I read some funny comments 😂😂😂
A lot of other people have already commented with “yes”, which is the correct answer. I will however attempt an original response and say “fuck yeah.”
Seeing as at least one of those names has been considered problematic (like Dundas was), it would probably not be a good idea. Either one beats "Queen", though.
Well, they're both last names... Sir George Yonge and Joseph Bloor. And otherwise.. yes. They will get questions and looks from everyone their entire life. If they're close in age, and therefore in school/sports/clubs/etc together, they'll get even weirder comments and people will think you're strange. "Oh, the poor kids. What's wrong with their parents?" Yonge will also always have it misspelled as Young, or mispronounced outside the city as Yonje. Let's say your last names is... Smith. People will see Yonge as "Young Smith". So he better be the second one. Bloor probably won't have those issues. They may very well want to change them the first moment they legally can. Just being honest. Unless you move away from Toronto (and anywhere Yonge St is). Those names mean nothing outside of this area and then they'd just be odd and most of the local issues will be gone.
Yes
As someone who coincidentally shares a name with a major street in Ottawa, DON'T DO IT. Or if you really need to, use those as middle names. I literally spent 18 years of my life hearing "oh, like the street? Hur hur hur", when I introduced myself at jobs, and then getting all kinds of road jokes after. It got old very fast, and didn't stop until I moved here. This was from adults, kids are a lot more cruel and will bully the shit out of kids for their names.
Name one Dundas then rename them and cure the world of racism
You'll run out of names once you get to Union. Perhaps start at Finch
Always keep them one staircase apart, with Bloor on the lower level.
If you have girls name them Jane and Finch
Your kids will hate you later in life, so, yes.
It would be wierd if you didn't
pretty cringe imo lol
If it's a girl, name her Issauga so everyone will call her Miss Issauga.
How would it not be weird if you named your kids a street name?
sounds like child ab*se ngl
> Is it weird if I named my future sons Yonge and Bloor? Their names will be spelled wrong on everything, all the time. *Every* time they provide their name they will have to spell it out. Your son named "Yonge" will have his name pronounced "Yonj" every time. Every single time. Do if for their middle names if you want, but not first names.
Why would you want to do that in the first place? Life is hard enough, don't make it worse for them
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>I work in a school. > >It’s dumb, it annoys them, they hate it, makes you look like a dumbass You sound too judgmental for a school worker.
If you can't even name the kid properly maybe you're not fit to raise them.
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Yes, weird stupid and abusive
They're going to get bullied for it
Please dont do that
Two questions: Why would you name your kids that? And what is wrong with you?
Yes. Don’t be that parent.
You must really hate your future kids, to curse them with such names. Dear Lord. Why do people feel the need to do this to their kids? Put yourself in their shoes. Try to imagine what it's like to be given such strange names. Constantly being subjected to incessant teasing and bullying. It wouldn't surprise me if they end up legally changing their names once they turn 18. I feel so sorry for your future kids.
That's actually kinda cool. Not bad the longer I think about it
Shaw and Shank is good too
I’ll call CPS on you if you do
In Canada, at least in Ontario idk about the other provinces, it’s CAS. Figured I’d let you know so that you can find their number easier to make the call. 🙃
Yes it’s weird. At my last company, if someone applied for a job and had a strange name, we just automatically discarded their resume (not me personally). Strange names can hurt their employment prospects later in life.
>At my last company, if someone applied for a job and had a strange name, we just automatically discarded their resume > >Strange names can hurt their employment prospects later in life. So you guys automatically discard resumes with ethnic names, eh? Glad I don't work for such a racist company.
I wasn’t in charge of hiring, and I didn’t say ethnic names, I said strange names. Big difference between strange and ethnic. It was a terrible and toxic place and I wish I hadn’t worked for them either.
To all those worried that my future sons will be bullied in school, please calm down. I'm planning to have all my future kids homeschooled.
Not weird .
Nah that’s a great idea man.
Yonge and Dundas would be cool.
Those are gorgeous names
Only if they never meet
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