To have told her got names are very common at the moment

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I bumped into a old workmate yesterday, was catching up with her as we haven't seen each other since I left the job.

She told me about her last year, she had a child and moved house. All lovley, then she said the name of her child. First thing I said is "is that a got name", she replied yes and I said " nice, they are really common at the moment". She looked devastated, checked her phone and said she had to get her train.

I keep replaying it in my head and wonder if I really offended her. I didn't mean common as a derogatory term, just as in popular.

Did I say something wrong? She must of known some character from the biggest TV show at the moment is not going to be unique?

Only on Mumsnet could a name given to 244 baby girls out of over 300,000 born last year be describes as "popular"!!!!!!!

It was arya, I be met a handful of aryas, one khaleesi and one tyrion. So maybe I didn't even meen popular, more just I've heard of a few people.

Wow...Khaleesi and Tyrion. Do you have a lot of Thronee friends who frequent Comic Con?

"I've just read that peanut is one of the top names in Ireland for a boy."

That's not what the article says- it says that a child in Ireland has been called Peanut!

Pink, that report doesn't say 'Peanut' is one of the top boys' names in Ireland, it just says that it has been used in the most recent year for which stats are in existence! Possibly only used once! NI is not overrun with Baby Peanuts.

X-post with Bertrand.

This thread has to be made up. Someone who is a big game of thrones fan

a) Has a friend

and

b) Has found a sexual partner.

Pull the other one op it has got bells on it. I've read some far fetched shite on here but this takes the biscuit.

Joking aside, I think the key bit is 'at the moment'. It should have been clear that with those words added on the end it was a comment on the popularity of the name, rather than its social cachet.

I think because you were thinking - "how fucking awful" - you were worried they'd interpret you comment in that light.

Just texted my DS, Aragorn, to get his opinion

You're basically saying she's made an unoriginal, faddy choice.

She has, though. Truth hurts!

I agree "popular" would have been a better word to use, but she still could have been precious about it. It's ridiculous of her to think she's the first / only person to use a name from GOT. It's like all the Bella / Renesmee babies that popped up a few years ago. So yoonique.

UnderCracker I know of a Thorin and an Aslan. People really do call their children these names. Once you get used to it it's no different to John or Bob.

UnderCrackers5 - YABU for not calling your DS Strider.

Popular would have been fine although some may interpret as a dig about lack of imagination purely because of the snobs on here about daring to call your child a normal name rather than something made up or ancient in a attempt to be different, common is offensive. Both my DCs have top 5 names, I don't give a shit as it was the names I love, and one had been picked up years before it became popular, but if someone told me they were common I'd be quite about it, popular I'd agree.

River - Aslan is a very popular name in a lot of countries. It means lion (unsurprisingly) in Turkish, Kazakh, Azerbaijani, Chechen.

Look up Reza Aslan, the Iranian scholar on Jesus who totally showed up a crazy Fox News presenter objecting to a Muslim writing a book on Christianity and Jesus.

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UnderCracker I know of a Thorin and an Aslan. People really do call their children these names. Once you get used to it it's no different to John or Bob."

Yes it is!

Aslan seems to average about 8 a year. Thorin went from nil to 10 last year................

I worked with the Aslan I knew (not British but from an English-speaking country) and yes, it was just his name, just like other colleagues were Simon or Lee or Will. He was just an ordinary guy.

Thorin was a child at DD's nursery, cute as a button. Never met his parents. Whilst I love The Hobbit I couldn't call my child Thorin as to me Thorin is a very sexy dwarf that I would do very bad things to.

You beat me to it leelu! Aslan is a 'proper' name I think and it has nothing to do with Narnia!

I would have presumed Arya was from Eragon, not GoT, so I'd probably have offended her by mentioning completely the wrong fantasy world...

I've never read/seen Game of Thrones so would have just thought that Khaleesi was a normal name in some middle eastern or Asian countries. Same for Aslan.

Sorry CakeFail. Sometimes I win some

Sorry Leelu and CakeFail but the Aslan I knew was definitely named after the Narnia character.

Ah fair enough tam.

I know someone with a dog called Kahleesi...
Now I know where they got the name from

DS2 has 3 Millie-Mae's and 2 Lilly-Mae's in his class. Or the other way around.

At least its Arya, and not something ridiculous like Drogo.

I'm still staggered at 'got' name.