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Celebrity baby names.

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LouisaPipSqueak · 27/11/2019 12:43

I absolutely love celebrity baby names, few recent ones that I feel us ‘normal’ folks could use as well..

Mexx
Colby
Rox
Ace
Sunday etc

But where/how do they find/think of these names without putting random letters together and making up a name?

I mustn’t have much of an imagination but no matter where I look these names don’t even come up, especially on rare/unique baby name sites, I wouldn’t never even thought of them! What gets you thinking?

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KurriKurri · 27/11/2019 13:27

Those names aren;t really my cup of tea - I'm rather traditional and old fashioned I expect ! But if you like them, go for it.
Sunday is obviously just a day - so any other weekdays or months or seasons would probably fit your bill. Or names to do with weather etc.

I'm not keen on Mexx - it sounds like a construction toy ! Grin And Ace is like Ace Ventura pet detective.

What about Pax ? - It means peace.

I think all names tend to come around and go around, some names might seem unusual when the first person picks them, but then others use them too and you get whole classes full of Jaylins or Pagans or Apples Grin

I've taught children names Elvis and Blue and Emerson (quite like that last one)

Dowser · 27/11/2019 13:41

I’m not a lover of surnames used as first names for girls
Thinking of piper
Harper
Taylor
Cameron

This probably goes right against the grain of PC thinking but that my opinion
I like traditional names too.

thunderandsunshine01 · 27/11/2019 13:52

I love them too! I guess they've just heard a nice sounding word and thought, hey, could pass that off!!

I love Sunday, I definitely think this could be passed off as a regular name.

I've always said if I was a celeb I like Waterloo & Midnight as girl names. Just came to me one day

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Sparklingbrook · 27/11/2019 13:57

Those names aren't my cup of tea at all. Didn't Nicole Kidman call her child Sunday Rose (all you can think is Sunday Roast).
Mexx sounds like an engineering company to me and 'Ace' is what we used to say growing up in the Birmingham suburbs to describe something being great. Grin

LouisaPipSqueak · 27/11/2019 18:18

Gosh hadn’t thought of any of that. Glad you’ve all said it. I think I just like the fact I’ve never heard them before and are very different and sound like a proper name unlike Apple or Sunday Roast! 😂
I just don’t know how these people think of these names in the first place.

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Zaphodsotherhead · 27/11/2019 18:23

thunderandsun - Waterloo and Midnight are all right. What you'd end up with, though, is a Loo and a Midders.

People never think of how their kids' names are going to be abbreviated and yelled by their mates across the shopping centre!

KurriKurri · 27/11/2019 18:29

So true Zaphod - someone I knew years ago had a Nicola and a Bridget - and yes they were known as Knickers and Britches Grin

KindergartenKop · 27/11/2019 19:45

I like Pox.

MikeUniformMike · 27/11/2019 19:49

Mexx is a clothing company
Sunday Rose will never be the same again Grin I can smell a roast dinner just looking at it.

Pox is the best ever

SleepingStandingUp · 27/11/2019 19:52

Mexx
"Mexx means 'the largest,' or 'best. ... Pregnology also had some information on the name, claiming it was name used for both boys and girls and that the meaning behind it was 'greatest,' and, as far as they know, is a name given primarily to Dutch boys"
Colby
Dude off Home and Away
Origin of the name Colby:
"Transferred use of the English surname, which is of Scandinavian origin and has the definition “from Colby, from Kol's settlement.” It is derived from the Old Norse elements kol (coal-black) and byr (settlement)."
Rox
"Rox Origin and Meaning
The name Rox is a girl's name meaning "dawn". Likely derived from the Greek name Roxanne, Rox was a short form popular in America in the mid-19th Century."
Ace
As in brilliant
" The name Ace is an English Baby Names baby name. In English Baby Names the meaning of the name Ace is: Unity; a nickname given to one who excels; also an English surname meaning noble"
Sunday
"Sunny. Sun. Meanings and history of the name Sunday. Sunday is the first day of the traditional week, named for the sun. It may be used for a child born on that day."

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