The new Sharon and Kevin?

I can't believe I've wasted my time reading this thread, all a bit snobbish and insulting really.

(countrybump flounces off to round up Archie, Alfie, Evie, Ellie and Kayden to go and do a suitably posh activity.)

Liam is quite a popular name in my area. I know 7 of them, aged between 1 and 6. Also, Owen and Alfie are equally "common". My 3 ds' have names that are probably boring in the eyes of MN'es, but I don't give a hooping funt about it. Someone's Sebastian is another womans Jack.

PS - but I suppose it is an object lesson in the dangers of calling your child after a movie character you admire.

Balloon - I know! That and the smart Diana Rigg character in the mid-sixties Bond with wotsisname the unsexy Aussie. I was only trying to point out that names that are subsequently sniggered at have perfectly good origins.

it is snobby and a bit insulting really

"I have a cousin Tracy thus named because her mother thought High Society was really classy."

• that's why the name Tracy became popular, bellisima, because of "High Society." The character Tracy Lord (?) was beautiful, rich, well bred and ice-cool. The name was the epitome of class at the time.

Tis actually a nice name, IMO.

It's not snobbery, I like to look on it as communtiy service.

If one hideous name can be forever consigned to the Kevin and Sharon bin, my work here is done.

"How can some people be so defensive about other people's opinions of the names they have chosen. It's fucking ridiculous"

i quite like StJohn

Well according to MN or some MNers

DD1 has a common boring name

DD2 chav

DD3 is a slang teenage term for fanjo

Will soon be asking for "advice" re naming DB4 or maybe not!

As long as YOU love the name sod everyone else

can't believe people get so snobby about other peoples kids names. Fucking ridiculous

x-posts Get Orf! And what's wrong with Lee-Jay? Or Pee-Jay? Dee-Jay? LL-Cool-Jay?

Well my son is called Floyd StJohn Algernon Simpus and we're ever so posh.

And who the frick calls their son Lee-Jay (sorry if I have offended anyone, but seriously you deserve it anyway).

My dd is called Sophia and I am ever so posh fnar fnar.

I think this thread will be OK as long as people don't start with "well my son is called and we're ever so posh"

Anything hypenated or kre8iv is the answer to the question, with the -ie names of both sexes in second place.

The absolute ne plus ultra however would be
I think Kaden and Ellie-Mae.

Just out of curiosity what are everyones DC's names then? so we can slag them off

In DD2's small nursery class there are 2 Evie's, one Eve and one Eva, very confusing.

I think anything that smacks of trying too hard, made up names, different spellings etc

I have an Alfie and an Evie and I still love the names so big raspberry from me!!! Evie isn't that common where I live (and my DS is nearly 11 and Alfie wasn't so popular then so there!! he will probably grow up to be a cockney barrow boy because er we live in the East End and are cockney

Names that have have become very popular in a short period of time, I think, will date much more than more classic names.

I'd have to agree with Alfie, Archie, Ellie, Evie - they just sound so 'now','trendy' and have become so, so popular recently.

PS - I'd rather have a barrow boy son than an estate agent!

By all means seek a name that is lovely and unusual mama - but don't then get upset if lots of other people (inevitably) go for the same name.

I suppose, tbh I notice this because one nursery mum was actually a bit cold towards me for weeks and then later admitted it was because my DD's (not the Ellie!)'s name was somehow an even more unusual variant of her DD's name, which had obviously been picked to be 'different' but, as these things inevitably go, had become slightly fashionable. My DD is actually named after her (foreign) godmother. I suspect that there is, in the striving for a unique and distinctive name, a certain 'look at my distinctive child' egoism which tells you far more about the parents of course than the innocent child and, equally, which leads to a certain resentment when that feeling of distinctiveness is dashed. Obviously if a major criteria for choosing a name is that it is 'unusual' one is going to be rather bitter when it isn't.

The world will always need cheeky cockney East-End barrow boys, PetrusPoo.

Belissima, why do you think it is ridiculous to seek a name that is lovely and unusual?

Agree LoremIpsum - but then, equally, the constant search (as seen on this forum amongst others) for a name that is both 'lovely' and - above all - 'unusual' is equally ridiculous. And it is those parents above all, I believe, who become annoyed when their 'unique' choice turns out to be not so distinctive. It's very easy to snigger at the Jaydens and Tyrones of this world but then don't turn around and get mortally offended if someone says that Oscar or Amelie are 'common' in the sense of being ubiquitous.

And I have an Ellie too. It (or rather Eleanor) is my grandmother's and indeed great-grandmother's name (she obviously ran out of inspiration for her youngest daughter!). That's just the way it goes with names that come in and out of fashion. I still love it.