Tbh I don't care If I am, some parents need to get a grip

[WildThongIWannaKnowForSure]

I give you A-Jay, Charlidh, Ameiliah, Blaiyre, Boudicca, Blu-rayne, Foozy, Deztany-Rose, Madison-Bluebell

My favourite is Wyntrr. They could at least have added an h to the end though.

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Are you serious? Really! OMG....

Not to mention Anuoluwapojojo.l

YABU about Boudicca - at least it is a proper name, although not one I would consider.

In a house last week, kids called, and I kid you not, Ashanti and Jay-z. Both parents white.

My MIL tells the story of when she was a registrar, a girl came in and was registering little Enrique, and when MIL was checking the spelling, the girl got out a CD to double check she had written it right. :o

tbf I am pissed off that your link downloaded straight to my laptop without asking if I wanted to, thanks for that

do you have a link that doesn't do that, for other folks, please?

Oh dear. That list is sad.

It asked me if I wanted to save it, 5318008. Perhaps it's your browser settings?

Anuoluwapojojo will be a name from a particular culture or country and probably has a prefix part to it which it very common (I've taught a lot of Olu........ long 4,5 or 6 syllable names (eg Oluwakorede, Oluwatoni), the Olu bit means something and all those names are, I think, Nigerian in origin)

And I actually quite like Madison-Bluebell. I doubt she's ever called anything but Madison, the hyphen's just a bit superfluos.

I'm all for creative name choices. Creative spelling makes me twitch a bit but the odd seeming ones are valid more often than you'd think.

Thingsthatmakeyougo - i know two kids with names like that with white parents. The kids are adopted from a very troubled background with severe neglect and abuse - they probably get loads of folk sneering as well.

Five baby Barbaras. Five??

btw - where did you get that link? The ONS only includes name that were given to 3 or more babies for privacy reasons doesn't it? This link has all the names given to only 1 child. And I've never seen it highlight dead children before, that's really sad somehow, even just seeing him/her as a name on a spreadsheet :(

I thought a child was Ellie at nursery. But it was spelled LA.

Charlidh could be the Gaelic version. I get a lot of digs for having an Eilidh!

There are some ridiculous spellings there. It's just not necessary. S is a perfectly nice letter and does not need be randomly replaced by Z!

Never seen it highlight dead babies before but the Scottish stats have gone down to single names for years.

It's the Scotgov stats for 2012, public records manic

ok, thanks. I didn't realise Scotland had a separate list.

Anuoluwapo is a Nigerian name (yoruba) meaning 'God's mercy is great'. Its actually my cousin's name and we call her Anu for short. I think it's a beautiful name, actually!!

think i have told this before

i once worked as a medical receptionist and someone came in with their 2 toddlers, a "T-Jay" (spelt exactly like that,) and his brother "Migell" (said exactly how it reads) and i am sure its cos his mum didnt know how to spell "Miguel " :o

I encountered a 'Maddysyn' on Friday. I was speechless.

and a mate of mine SWEARS she once heard of a child called "Silloumeh" or "Silloumie"

she was in asda a shop and the mum shouted to said child "SILLOUMEHHH!!! GET THE FUCK OFF THEM BISCUITS!! NAHHHHH!!"

:o

Are you telling me that there are two baby boys in Scotland called A? Really? A?

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