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Tribunal in France has refused permission for the names for 2 babies Nutella & Fraise (strawberry) & have renamed Fraisine (19C name) & Ella...
What goes on in the minds of some parents?

Near where I live are two workmen whose vans I see regularly. Their names are Mr Tickel and Mr Jelley - always makes me smile. I wish they would go into partnership!

I think it is, on balance, a good thing that they have laws about stupid names in some European countries. A child being called after a chocolate nut spread is unkind in the extreme. Might as well have called it Marmalade. Or Confiture. And I don't think Strawberry is any better either.

Re. Clementine - which came first, the name or the name of the fruit?
(Apple is also a dozy name).

A girl who lives near my mum has a baby girl called America, and her son is called Boston.

Ah, just looked it up. Clementine, named in 1902 after Father Clement, who discovered it. The girls' name is the feminine form of Clement and has been around a lot longer.

I was at primary school with a boy called Sam, sister Ella
Sam n' Ella.....

Sorry, unclear - Fr. Clement discovered the fruit clementine. Not a girl.

Candida is an established girl's name I think. Also know as thrush

I used to work with an Emma - surname Royds. Married name.

Names I have seen (used to work in an American maternity unit)

Lemonjello (with the long stress on the first "o") - obviously taken from the day's menu.
Henrietta Jelly
Nicholas Topliss
Neil Down
Lancelot Kidney

There are lots more.
I think that if you have a slightly odd surname you should pick an ordinary, plain first name.
Poor kids.

Dickon Hairs

(Really not making it up!)

I know a Canderelle, I really really do. Do I win a prize?

If there's anything in nominative determinism Nicholas Topliss is going to be one helluva stripper.....

Honey Bee and Truly Scrumptious.... They used to belong to a club DD went to. They had a ridiculously named sister too whose name escapes me...

This thread made me think of Waynetta Slob and Frogmella.

Remembered it. Dolly Molly was the third sister

There was a guy called Richard Head in one of my training sessions last year. We weren't allowed shorten his name.

My sister went to school with a Richard Cheeseman. AKA Dick Cheese to his friends

My exbf knew a Dawn Atack - fabulous name. Used to know Jenny Taylor. Poor grl.

My Pops used to work with barrister called Rupert Bear and my husband's grandfather's best friend was called Stan Still.

These are funny.
I know someone who called her first son Jamie and then the next son Oliver.
I also know a Norma Stitts...... Just kidding on that one. :-)

Just remember taking a phone message from a man who spelled out his name.
Mr G l a s s c o c k! I kid you not!

A friend of mine swears on his life that there was a Wendy House at his first school (child, not plaything). I have met Jack Potts.
A couple of years ago I got a quote prepared by Euan Kerr, but I thought it was probably someone who was fed up with their job having a laugh. If not, though, poor bloke.

I knew 3 brothers, Ivor, Terence and William Payne

Ivor terry bill Payne

MIL went to school with a Mary Christmas

I posted on here before about meeting a lady who planned on calling her unborn dd Candida, was told I was bu to be as it was a lovely name!