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What are the hip Londoners & jet set calling their 2012 babies?

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YummyMummybee · 09/01/2012 14:02

Just wondering what the posh Londoners & jet setters are calling their new babies as these are always the names that trickle into the main stream in a few months. A friend of mine is a midwife in a private London hospital & she said the following are really gaining popularity

Boy

  • Arlo
-Otto -Casper

Girls
-Fleur
-Ottolie(never heard this before!!!)
-Florence

She said in the upper class William, Edward still used commonly for boys as middle names. Charlotte, Isabella, Poppy for girls

Can you add anymore up & coming names?I'm sure there are plenty of threads like this I'm just too lazy to look!!!) Find it fascinating & I love the way high society types get away with names the majority of us find somewhat bizarre!!!

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ViviPru · 16/01/2012 13:20

Pantone
Homunculus
Rook

LineRunner · 16/01/2012 12:30

Cornucopia
Sanskrit
Dandini
Crinkle
Juvenal

ViviPru · 16/01/2012 12:01

Colonel Blimp. Just Colonel Blimp. Haha.

JestersHat · 16/01/2012 11:35

Karaoke
Sleet
Ingot
Pretzel
Memoranda
Axis
Embargo
Symposium
Cactus

TheCrunchUnderfoot · 16/01/2012 00:41

Hogrot
Pulsor
Fendi
Whump
Colonel Blimp

Pause
Slumpenne
Figroll
Tidy
Limpton

PaigeTurner · 15/01/2012 18:45

Hendrix, Tabitha, Chester, Coco, Cassius.

PercyFilth · 15/01/2012 16:56

Thay-lo. The Ph is silent. No need to phthank me :o

LineRunner · 15/01/2012 16:48

How do you pronounce Phthalo, Percy? Is is like a facial muscle exercise?

PercyFilth · 15/01/2012 16:45

Sepia
Sienna
Cobalt
Alizarin
Magenta
Gamboge
Viridian
Rosedoré
Umber
Carmine
Phthalo

LineRunner · 15/01/2012 16:29

Deranged Roman emperors:

Commodus
Caligula
Nero
Tiberius

Merely quite troubled and pensive Roman emperors:

Claudius
Marcus Aurelius
Galba

Couldn't stop building shit Roman emperors:

Vespasian
Augustus
Hadrian
Antoninus

All their wives were called Julia.

JuliaScurr · 15/01/2012 11:39

Love Satsuma alternative to Clementine
Criteria
Scalene
Aquafer

Nancy66 · 15/01/2012 11:17

Coronation street type names seem to be popular.

DP mixes with trendy/arty Hoxton types and recently there's been

Girls:
Jean x 2
Agnes
Elsie
Beatrix

boys:
Norman
Stan
Raymond

EssentialFattyAcid · 15/01/2012 08:12

Olympic names excellent. I add
Stratford

Mi4 · 14/01/2012 11:55

Pro. like Nadia

Mi4 · 14/01/2012 11:55

Quite like Stadia Blush

ahhhhhpushit · 14/01/2012 11:32

Mi4 - fab idea! Olympic themes names!

How about -

Ringo
Torch
Track
Podium
Medal
Javelin
Ceremony
Gold
Stadium/Stadia
Hurdle
Discus
Record
Arena

???!!!

ahhhhhpushit · 14/01/2012 11:27

Mi4 - fab idea! Olympic themes names!

How about -

Ringo
Torch
Track
Podium
Medal
Javelin
Ceremony
Gold
Stadium/Stadia
Hurdle
Discus
Record
Arena

???!!!

Mi4 · 14/01/2012 10:58

I am predicting a surge in girls called Olympia.

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guinealady · 14/01/2012 10:51

I'd love to use Nancy as Nancy Mitford is just to die for, but a friend has already used the name. JK Rowling called her daughter Jessica after Jessica Mitford, but it's such a popular name now, I would have to avoid it.

Don't forget the other Mitford sister, Deborah (Debo) - the only one still alive - I reckon Deborah is due a revival at some point.

Anyone considering the name Unity probably needs their heads looked at, though - not someone you'd want to be named after, a very tragic and misguided life.

LineRunner · 13/01/2012 23:52

fairies are you are fan also of

Unity
Nancy
Jessica
Diana

Marrying fascists apart, they sound quite capable.

fairieswearboots · 13/01/2012 23:21

Exactly linerunner.

Heswall · 13/01/2012 23:06

Slyvia has become the next big thing here.

LineRunner · 13/01/2012 22:29

Pamela
Cynthia

are also very sensible girls.

humblehippo · 13/01/2012 22:07

Hmm @ Orla being a well known euphemism for oral sex Confused No it isn't!

BeattieBow · 13/01/2012 18:23

there's a Hester at my ds2's (London) nursery.

I quire like Elspeth actually which is a similar kind of name I think.

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