I am usually quite nice, I promise aka
I remembered an article I read in the Times just before DD was born a couple of years ago on the subject of baby names. I have dug it out, it is quite worth a read when you're thinking of baby names - which incidently I am as I'm pregnant (Cassius is a winner for us at the moment, but we have plenty of time to change our minds as baby not due til March).
Article is here
A small part of the article actually covered the name Fox:
?Is Fox cool or weird?? one British expectant mother wants to know. ?Cool!? chorus most of the assembled bloggers (wasn't MN btw).
?Weird,? says Mehrabian. He applies his foolproof rule of thumb to the name in question. ?Imagine you?re going to meet somebody for the first time and all you know about them is that they?re male and that they?re called Fox.? He lets this thought dangle in the air while I imagine what incarnation a prospective Fox might take. In my mind?s eye I am about to meet a casualty of the Summer of Love who plays the tambourine. Isn?t it obvious that John is, in fact, the only name to call your son in 2007?
When I ask Satran about Fox she says that again parents are following the trend for ?word?, ?nature? and ?animal? baby names. ?I don?t think there is a line any more,? she says. ?I think there should be.?