To think people just make up insane names on the 'baby names' thread (or are tripping hormonally)

[LaurieFairyCake]

Seriously, I've seen some right stinkers on there.

Know a Swallow (boy) and a Sailor (boy). I thought heavy drinking when you're pg was a no-no?!

Umm suppose I woud have to go with Timothy as it's DH's name. Mind you he hates it so perhaps Simon...

So now I can go to bed.

See, awesome.

I searched my name. Its quite popular. Am going to go over and read the threads now. Am going to search my dcs names. :)

I worked briefly in a kindergarten in Germany and there was a little boy called Duda (pronounced doo dah obviously)... Bad enough but in German it means 'you there' - most strange!

The most [cough] interesting/unique names I have come across in real life are "Gandalf" (small boy in local Waitrose, whose mother was yelling at him) and "Aubergine" (granddaughter of a friend's work colleague whose mother wanted to use "Apple", but didn't want to be seen to be copying Gwyneth Paltrow)

I've posted loads of daft babyname lists, just to amuse myself.

Eagle
Renegade
Harding
Lendle

It's totally addictive.

The ones I really love are the ones where they ask "we can't decide between [name A] or [name B], which do you prefer?" and they are wildly different names - it doesn't make sense that one person loves both, so it's clear one is the OP's choice, the other is the OP's DP's - then when it's 50/50 on preferences, they say "Clearly name A is the most popular!" and you know that's their choice...

Spindle
Derchang
Lingard
Carolingia

"Nicholaus"

Is a derived spelling from mainly ancient greek, but is across other cultures, that's when the scoffing breaks down, through those making fun, lack of knowledge.

It amuses me to post every now and again on baby names exhorting posters to name their sons 'Hawthorne'.

I haven't managed to sway anyone yet but I live in hope.

Maybe the rest of you could go on every now and again and say what a fabulous name it is.

SwedishEdith and 'Timon'!! Nearly wet myself!

Remus 'Simon with Timothy as a nn is lovely'

Actually having trouble typing for laughing.

I think naming children after vegetables and salad items is the way forwards.

Spinach
Radish
Beetroot
Mayonnaise
Squash

I would like to think YANBU but people get so upset that I think they're being serious.

Most tedious are the posters who evidently trawl the board looking for their own DCs' hideous names so that they can react with outrage when they see them being criticised.

Do not even mention whispers Cuthbert

Oh Linerunner. Were you on the hopelessly addictive Farrow and Ball paint name thread a while back? I seem to remember you...!

I'm not sure, NowThenWreck.

I've been on plenty, though, from minor classical goddesses to lesser known names favoured in Michael Wood's histories of Britain.

Io and Cuthbert for twins.

YANBU. And you're meant to keep a straight face when the most horribly pretentious names are suggested. This is usually from those in small sections of North London who don't realise what's normal there doesn't apply to everywhere else. They actually attribute their local fashions to London being soooooooo cosmopolitan and open-minded, not realising other cities are equally cosmopolitan yet inexplicably every other person isn't named something pretentious, or that you can be open-minded yet still dislike a certain style of name.

I'm addicted to that section but today I posted a thread about my baby cousin's name wondering what people thought of it - it's very 'normal' so I wanted to see and first I got told off for talking about someone else's baby (my aunt and uncle openly discussed their name choices with us and asked us for our input so I really don't think they'd mind!) and now I'm being bitched at for describing the Republic of Ireland as 'down South' because I'm from Northern Ireland and that's what I've always said! The only reason it came up was because there was an issue with the pronunciation of the name and someone said that their friend in Dublin said it x way whilst I responded with 'people in the South might pronounce it differently'....JEEZ! Who are these people?!

I wouldn't want to be pregnant and posting a list of names I liked to be judged if this is how they are all the time! I've noticed that a lot of the name suggestions are relatively normal and they're almost always met with 'it's too common, call it zyclopsmonkey instead'...

I never feel able to offer this advice direct on the threads, it seems a bit rude, but seriously peeps, DON'T GIVE YOUR BABY A NAME YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO PRONOUNCE.

I am really trying not to be drawn in linerunner. It's way past my bedtime.
I will just leave you with:

Brassica and Ashram.

linerunner what's so amusing about harding that's dds surname!!!!
I did try and convince dp I wanted to call our baby "bryn" if it was a boy "to keep with my scottish heritage" as we made a deal that if it was a boy I'd name him and a girl he could pick the name. He looked a bit horrified, but said okay, not actually realising I was taking the mick and its actually welsh for hill ( a joke re: my baby bump) I actually would have called a boy oliver john, (but seeing as we had dd a dd, dp chose the name).... Dp then went through an annoying phase of telling everyone who asked that he was going to call dd "optimus prime"

I like Optimus.

but seriously peeps, DON'T GIVE YOUR BABY A NAME YOU ARE UNSURE HOW TO PRONOUNCE

and don't give your baby a name which is naff in the local accent or dialect - people seem to be oblivious of this possibility.

My name seems quite popular on baby names the only fly in the ointment was some posters rejecting it on the basis that it sounds like a kind of alcohol.

If names didn't develop and evolve in the same way langue does,

we would all be called Ugg.