has anyone ever told you their dearest newborns name and you've had to choke back a giggle?

Oooh...my name is #38!! My poor dd is only #289, although it is up from last year.

Persephone

ah, thanks! It's ok. I'm sure the ones I like are not popular, but the ones DH AND me like probably are! It doesn't help that my son's name is on ghettobabynames.com or some such..

Oh, and there are

3 Prairies

but no Tundra or Rainforests yet!

(And there is an Angel Buffy out there: is it really fair for diehard fans to do this to their kids? And I speak as the proud provider of services to two animal companions called Xena and Gabby...)

Gemzooks, my stats come from the Register of Births, through Ancestry.co.uk - I have a subscription, if you'd like me to check any names in particular...

There was a lady in Pregnancy and Birth mag recently (?) who had an older son Flash and triplets Blue, Moss and Wolf.

I would never name my child anything like that but I do kinda like them!

rofl- i have just checked dds name on the popularity list to find she is listed as having dropped 34850 past year-

then i realised i had put that she was a BOY!!!

Now, had i been introduced to A (male) Millicent last year, i would have laughed!!

Needless to say Millie is in the top 50!!

I already posted weird names on another thread, but I just remembered what a dear friend's cousin named his son----

JUBIL WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, I am not taking the piss- that's really the poor little boy's name. But the lad is growing up in Boulder, Colorado so I don't imagine that many people will raise an eyebrow.

Also, in my hometown a couple moved in from LA and opened up a bar/restaurant called PANGEA.

Guess who they named it after?

Their daughter, Pangea!!!

When lecturing I did look slightly askance at a tutorial list that included Omar Sharif, and Elvis Goodluck

Well a friend of mine's sister is a midwife and she tells me hundreds of weird names including:

Pocahontas Britney Larsson O'Neill (O'neill isn't the person's surname!)

Misty Dew

These names are no joke I couldn't help but laugh when I heard the first one!

LOL at Tundra and Permafrost. I bet someone, somewhere knows a Prairie. And a Rainforest.

OMG just checked DCs'names popularrity.
DD1 down 39000 from last year
DS3 down 300+ from last year
DD4 down 600= from last year

HOW AM I GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO THEM????????

on the other hand, DS2's unusual name up 40000!

I will wait to see next years results before I bring up the subject

Lovin' Jammy! There is a Boris at my dd's nursery. I expected his parents to be slightly unconventional types but they aren't!

still sniggering at child in DS year called Beckham.

Love the name Spike.

My dad is called Douglas and he hates it. He is 63, you think he would have got used to it by now.

I know of a Jolie as a girls first name. thats strangely unusual

I used to teach a Song. She'll be in her early thirties now I reckon. I thought it was quite nice though.

A few weeks ago I met a local mum I have seen at baby clinic in the street. She asked me what DS was called and I said "Name, but known as Very Common Abbreviation...." to which she replied in a very haughty tone "Oh you've shortened it already!". I asked what her DS was called and she said "Most Common Name Around Here of Which I know of at least 6 born in Aug/Sept this year in this and neighbouring villages" and I really had to bit my tongue not to say "Not another one!".

Also Savannah. I know it is an established name, and I know some people love it, but I can't stand it. I even know a baby one, and she is sweet. Tundra and Permafrost don't seem to have the same appeal.

In the last week I have met a Jonquil (sp?), a Tarquin and an Inigo.......and yep, I had to hold back the snigger....BUT ONLY because of Mumsnet ......BM (Before Munsnet) I would have just thought "what unusual names these officers call their kids" now I think Bunting Cupcake, Yummie Mummies and Johnny Boden

........see what you have done to me

Bounty has a popularity checker...

Urquhart - or possibly Erkel, I can't remember was trying to snigger

subtlemouse, do you have a link to those stats? would like to check some of my own faves for upcoming DC2..

Between 1984 and 2005 there were (admittedly not all as first names, but all as forenames)

787 Spikes
64 Jezebels
8157 Rogers
8876 Barbaras
1084 Ravens
29 Crows
12 Otters
505 Huberts
989 Mimis
75 Buffys
598 Cherishes
394 Sunshines

My particular favourite stat is the 13 children (all born 1997-8) who rejoice in the name Hale-Bopp. Anyone for passing comets???

There is a little boy called Jamiroquai in my DS's nursery group. He is called 'Jammy' for short..

I also know a 3 yr old Derek.

There is also a Randall in Ds's pre school - reminds me of the jewelers!!

I used to teach a lovely teenage Basil but it does seem a strange name to saddle a little boy with.

I know of a little girl called Dale which I've always thought wasn't the nicest name in the book, although not enough to raise eyebrows or snigger at.

Also a Brett - which sounds straight from Adrian Mole and whilst being polite at the time, I did have a quiet snigger later.