Baby name challenge

[seeker]

Just to prove you don't have to go "made-up" to give your child a name that no one else in the school has, I challenge you all to come up with names that are real, proper people names (not the names of geographical features, cars, wines or plants) that nobody on here knows anyone under 10 called.

I'll start.

Barbara, Monica, Sharon, Agnes, Alan, Grant, Trevor, Jeffrey and Malcolm.

[hana]

oh you're right!
and I"m a teacher!

[Dragonbutter]

but those names are a bit rubbish seeker?
except maybe agnes which is quite nice.

[hana]

I love Malcolm

( I do teach 3 Colm's though, that's an awful name....)

[LynetteScavo]

My cousins 1yo is called Alan.

[seeker]

But that's just fashion, dragonbutter. My mother wanted to call me Emily a lot of years ago and was persuaded not to because it was so weird and dull and old fashioned and old ladyish!

[Dragonbutter]

DS's middle names are John and Richard.
Haven't seen many of those around.

But middle names are different I suppose.

[singersgirl]

I know an Agnes and an Alan (both under 10) and a Malcolm who is 13.

[Turniphead1]

Colm is totally unrelated, as a name, to Malcolm.

It's a lovely Irish name. Not a shortened version of a now nerdy Scottish name.

[choccypig]

I know a rl Barbara (aged 4)

[LadyJogsAlot]

op, i taught a barbara, she would be 7 now!!

[choccypig]

Janet, I've never met anyone younger than older than me..

[choccypig]

Didn't want to say "younger than me" cos you'd think it's my name.

[TheFallenMadonna]

I know an Alan aged 4.

[frazzledoldbag34]

My friend's DH wanted to call their baby Roy (if it had been a boy).

Thankfully it was a girl.

[frazzledoldbag34]

Oh and actually we met a 6 year old Monica on holiday last year. It suited her.

[frazzledoldbag34]

Oh yes and a friend has a baby called Stanley.
Which I really like but she gets loads of negative comments about his name.
Boo

[TheFallenMadonna]

I know three Stanleys under the age of 10. V popular around here.

[nobodysfool]

Nobody would call a baby Sharon or Tracey here is Essex!

[hw2004]

I'm called Hilary and I have not met anyone under the age of 30 to be called that. Not surprised - i hate it!! DH says it's a librarian's name (no offence to librarians!!)

[silverfrog]

Caroline
Deborah
Colin
Sheila
Patricia
Wendy

[iarel]

betty, harriet, archibald?

[hw2004]

Iarel - I know at least 3 harriets at ds' nursery. in fact if this baby had been a girl it was on my final 3 list.

[frazzledoldbag34]

Humphrey?
Hermione?
Vera?
Vincent
Kenneth
Keith
Can't imagine it somehow.....

I know a baby Harriet actually.
And doesn't Jonathan Ross have a Betty?

I also know a baby Reggie.....presume his full name must be Reginald?!!!!