To wish I'd had the bottle to ask woman at park what her 3rd dc was called?

[Mrsgilbertgrape]

one of these small things that will bug me all night :)

She had three beautiful boys (I was there with my 3 beautiful girls ;)) and I heard her calling two of the sons by names I had picked out when pregnant, now I really want to know if the 3rd name would have been as lovely or totally spoiled my opinion of how fab she was at picking boys names!

If you stay in bath and know any siblings called Oscar and Jacob can you please let me know what the other brother is called?

er what's wrong with Beatrice? We're thinking about it (well its either that or Catherine or Charlotte or Erin at the moment!)

spooks I don't think the names are drivel, why would I start a thread saying how much i like them if I did, I was referring to a comment another poster made.

Oscar was the oldest child and Jacob the youngest so it's the middle child I don't know about.

Overheard a mum in thepark calling her DD the other week. Gretel. Because I am mature I sniggered wildly and thought about gingerbread houses and asking where Hansel had gotten to.

my niece is Beatrice - it's a nice name, particularly when said with the French pronunciation Bay a Trees.
Both my DDs would have been James if male, and by the time DS1 came along my sister had used james for my DN so we had to rethink! Cow

Andrew - Beatrice is very popular these days - no idea why!

MightyQuim - in your opinion it's much better to blend in. There will be plenty of people who hated being Sarah A, B or C at school. Oh, and popular names date - people like them while they're fashionable; not so much once they've fallen out of favour. Tracey, Sharon and Kevin, anyone?!

Oh, and the third kid's name was Lucas.

I have and Elijah but I do find it hard to say out loud in public it can sound a bit pretentious even to my ears.

I love Lucas as well come to think of it ;)

Wonder if I could convince dh to try for a boy, or do you think little Jacob Noah Lucas Oscar grape might find his name a bit of a mouthful?

I recon it was Samuel

My cat is called Oscar.

I reckon Theo.

ah think this is a bit mean! so what totally crazy and unpredictable names did you choose then?

Probably John

It is better to have a predictable/popular name than an original/unique one. Children are far more likely to want to be friends with children with familiar names than with children with unusual ones. (I wrote an essay on this for uni last year).

rachiroo who is being mean?

I find that theory very interesting, Oakmaiden. If I think back to my friends in primary school, it wasn't until I was about eleven at least that I started thinking about their names and uniqueness or lack thereof. Of course, there may well be subconscious prejudice there but of the five or six kids who I more or less stuck with throughout primary, four of them were the only people I'd ever heard of with that name until I got into my teens. Even now, two of them are the only people I know with that spelling.

I reckon Max as well.

Give me predictable and correctly spelled over Eunyk any day.

My two have very old fashioned and common names, which everyone can spell.

I think there's a difference between a classic name and a recently popular one too. For example I would say Oliver is a classic and will continue to have times that it becomes very popular and times that it goes out of favour, but should remain a classic through that. I would say names like Caden are more of a fashion that will likely not become classic. Having said that I don't think there's anything wrong with either type of name and calling them drivel makes you sound smug about your own choices.

OP, I think a couple of us are referring to Spook's post who called popular names 'drivel'.

Actually DontGoCurly was the first to reply with the 'predictable drivel' comment, - most unnecessarily rude response.

Maybe the third boy was Ruben? That would work.

I'm imagining them all with beautifully scruffy long hair, dressed in check baggies and birkenstocks leather sandals with no socks of course.

I would have asked her!I'd have said,'Oh I do like the names Oscar and Jacob what did you choose for the the other boy?They seem such lovely children.'

Jacob/Jake is as common here as Jack is there, so it's a bit overdone to me but a nice name. Really like it with Oscar, actually!

Oscar, Leo, and Jacob?

Oscar, Sam, and Jacob? Nah, probably not that one.

Sigh...I wish my DS could have beautifully scruffy long hair. It's curly but not enough to go into actual curls, so it just gets all puffy and odd looking. if that's what the kids actually had.

My dcs have the most predictable and boring drivelly names you could imagine but I love them. Everyone knows how to spell them and everyone can say them. Nowt wrong with that.

Oscar, Jacob and Samuel is my guess.

You have my son Yank. If I try to let his hair grow he just looks like a giant microphone

To go back to the popularity of Horatio (up-thread), I wonder if their parents are CSI Miami fans? Horatio Caine - aka H

OP, I think you're going to have to go back to the park to see if you can bump into them again.

Hahaha gilbonzo, yup.

I also went for Sam(uel) as a guess, because that's my microphone-headed little boy's name. :)