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Original poster

Does anyone really call their child Jocasta?

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keSnowBi · 06/01/2012 17:30

I ask because it's always the MN name people trot out to describe unbearably entitled children with pushy parents and I've never, ever met one or (to my eternal sadness) heard it being called out in the playground.

Am I missing out?

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Eglu · 06/01/2012 22:19

DH wanted to call DD Jocasta. He had no idea it was super posh.

openyerlugholes · 06/01/2012 22:19

Love the name Jocasta but don't know any. It was on my shortlist of ?unbearably entitled children with pushy parents" names

motherinferior · 06/01/2012 22:18

Rather a tough thing to wish on one's potential grandson, innit?

Mind you I had to be dissuaded from calling DD1 Delilah. Though even I have shrunk from names such as Jezebel.

startail · 06/01/2012 22:15

DH has a cook book called the "paupers cookbook" by Jocasta Innes.
His mum gave it him to go to university.

Elfontheedge · 06/01/2012 21:58

Northern we named our cat Ptolemy! What a horrible thing to do to a child Sad

JestersHat · 06/01/2012 21:47

I'm afraid many of the names mentioned on the MN baby names section could very easily be used for "unbearably entitled children with pushy parents". Unless you come from an area where that's not unusual, in which case the names seem familiar and normal.

TheChristmasTreeSurgeonsMate · 06/01/2012 21:22

greenmoo how funny! This name was continually coming up in our babyname discussions (we were very inclusive and let all our friends participate!) but I just knew it wasn't a flyer.

greenmoo · 06/01/2012 21:19

Can confirm not one single baby was named Jocasta in England and Wales in 2010.

rachel234 · 06/01/2012 18:21

I actually do know a Jocasta, she's about 15 now and her parents are American. Her nickame is Josie I think.

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keSnowBi · 06/01/2012 17:35

I know a Tristan and it doesn't count as he's actually Cornish. It's not good enough.

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feelingratheroverwhelmed · 06/01/2012 17:35

Isn't that the name of the aunt in " The Pobble Who Has No Toes"? I love that poem!

Northernlurker · 06/01/2012 17:33

Not met a Jocasta but I have met a Ptolemy - in the NCT sale queue - of course!

Also a Walter and a Tulip.................

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