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Baby name challenge

91 replies

seeker · 28/07/2008 18:11

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.

OP posts:
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cafebistro · 29/07/2008 13:07

keith
gladys
olive
trevor
peggy
deidre
maud
madge
bert
brenda
doreen

silverfrog · 29/07/2008 12:57

Margaret
gordon
Jeremy
Geoff(rey)

CantSleepWontSleep · 29/07/2008 12:56

frazzled - I know of someone with a baby Keith.
iarel - I know a 2 yr old Eliza.
Also know several Harriets under 10.
Ds will be Duncan, and my thread on here showed that there are some under 10.
NSF - dd is Philippa
Cosmo - know at least 2 young Ethans.

LadyThompson · 29/07/2008 12:41

I know a teenage Betty and a teenage Humphrey

And Lisa is still in the top 100 names (ninety something) so someone is still using it....

2point4kids · 29/07/2008 12:22

Phyllis
Percy
Vera
Lesley
Ursula
Douglas

(grandparents names, plus my step mums thrown in for good measure!)

silverfrog · 29/07/2008 12:17

Karen
Angela
Darren
Gary
Craig

gladders · 29/07/2008 12:14

know a caroline, an adam and a stephen - all under 5....

bet there are no:-
simon
jennifer
samantha
jason
justin
michael
barry's

out there!

MrsJohnCusack · 29/07/2008 03:36

and I know Caroline and Gregory

I LOVE Myrtle and has a nice family connection for me too

MrsJohnCusack · 29/07/2008 03:31

ok from OP, Ulrika's new babyt is called Malcolm (prob already been said) oh ytes butterfly has said it

and someone on here has an Alan, I'm srue

and there are stacks of Agnes' about - quite a popular name for a certain breed of upper middle class parent

I know a 3 year old John too

Cosmo74 · 29/07/2008 02:33

eimear and ethan are my favs - my DD is eimear would have been ethan if boy - not having any more but still love ethan and Deirbhile, pro-nounced "dare-villa". i love naming kids!

ButterflyMcQueen · 29/07/2008 02:24

seeker i know a Monica and ulrika has malcolm

zaphod · 29/07/2008 00:58

Myrtle
Mildred
Carmel
Assumpta
Concepta
Goretti
Marcella

EyeballsintheSky · 29/07/2008 00:39

Well dd's first and middle names are on this list. And so is the possible name of any future dd

katiepotatie · 29/07/2008 00:07

I know a five year old Miriam.
Our best man was Clive, he says his name has caused him no end of grief

Capital · 29/07/2008 00:00

Christine
Virginia
Sarah
Marilyn
Miriam
Marion
Rachel
Susannah
Gavin
Derek
Peter
Russell

Fimbo · 28/07/2008 23:51

Lynn
Jackie
Denise
Jinty
Nicola
Dawn
Donna
Marie
Sally
Janine
Maxine

NormaStanleyFletcher · 28/07/2008 23:45

nigel
rodney
sharon
karen
tracey
wendy
clive
martin

lynda
Jill(Y)
phillipa
barbara

TheDuchessOfNorksBride · 28/07/2008 23:39

Julie, Joanne, Caroline, Judy, Lisa, Nicola, Christine, Sarah, Amanda.

Adam, Steven, Adrian, Anthony, Rupert, Martin, Andrew, Ian.

OK, so I'm just reeling off the names of my 40 year old friends...!

thumbwitch · 28/07/2008 23:29

Doris
Muriel
Gladys
Gwen
Mavis

Ronald
Harold (not Harry)
Engelbert
Ethelred
Brian

My DH's cousin is called Ivan but he is half Croatian so fair enough.

BiancaCastafiore · 28/07/2008 23:19

I met a four year old Terry a few months ago. His full name was Terry-Junior !

NormaStanleyFletcher · 28/07/2008 23:17

Dennis
Leonard

singersgirl · 28/07/2008 23:16

OK, I know at least one of each of these under 10:
Archibald (though called Archie)
loads of Fredericks (though mostly known as Fred or Freddie)
Mark
Helen
Jane
Paul
Herbert (called Herbie by family)
Eliza
Harriet
Hermione
Mary
Richard

I met a baby Victor the other day. I also know an Edith and an Eric.

herbietea · 28/07/2008 23:15

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snice · 28/07/2008 23:14

I've met a 6yr old Monica and whoever put Frederick -I don't know where you live but there's loads of Freds and Freddies out there.

How about Pauline, Lesley, Gillian, Kim, Kenneth, Wayne, Quentin, Neil

Madlentileater · 28/07/2008 23:11

I know a Malcom and a Stanley under 1o

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