To wonder where all the kids from the baby names are?

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Was browsing the baby names forum doing a bit of daydreaming about a future not yet existant tiny squishy baby, as you do..
Algernon.
I have never in my life met a baby algie

I know a Persephone and a Ptolemy. Both very lovely children with fab parents (they aren't related).
Also know of a couple of Wilfred's and Alberts.

I know someone called Phil Collins :)

I know someone called Dick Whittington. He could have chosen to be a Richard or a Rich or Rick etc, but no. Dick.

I hadn't actually heard of Neil Innes until I read this thread and googled him, although I was familiar with his work.

I know sisters called Luella and Xanthe. I also know Hugo, Ottilie, Olya, Ludovic, Learmont, Esme, Cassius, two Wilfred's and DS was at nursery with a Dionysus

I know a Frances Drake :)

I know a Freya Skye Walker.

I know sisters called Luella and Xanthe. I also know Hugo, Ottilie, Olya, Hector, Ludovic, Verity, Ophelia, Florian, Learmont, Esme, Cassius, two Wilfred's and DS was at nursery with a Dionysus

I met an Anakin once. Lovely kid and (unsurprisingly) a huge Star Wars geek to the point of knowing every weapon name and number.
Couldn't help but wonder how it was going to look on his CV when he was older though. He was definitely of an era, I suspect much like the GOT names now.

I went to school in the 80s with a Hermione who hated her name but I thought it was cool. On another note my daughter is called Phaedra and we have never met another one yet. She likes her name and gets lots of comments on it.

Loki that's awesome! I toyed with the idea of Anakin if I have another DS but as my DS has a normal but uncommon name I thought it would be weird to have an Ernest* and Anakin...

*not that name, but something that everyone knows you just don't hear that many of.

Would be tedious if you were called Anakin but didn't have any interest whatsoever in Star Wars. Every geek in the world would try to initiate Star Wars conversations with you.

Blimey Mrsk have you not seen the threads about parents who put their kids in band teeshirts?

A heinous crime, HEINOUS.

Wait what? Does this extend to other things? I have superhero babygrows, Star Wars T shirts, Star Trek and video games ones.

Would be tedious if you were called Anakin but didn't have any interest whatsoever in Star Wars.

Ha, having to repeatedly say "no I hate star wars. It's my parents who loved it..."

MrsDeVere - I've never heard of Neil Innes. That name means nothing to me, even after googling it. So I can imagine someone else innocently naming twins Neil and Innes just because they liked the names.

I wanted to call DS Edmund when I was pregnant. Unfortunately it didn't come up in the list of acceptable names that DH noted from the baby name book he was handed. All his choices were Scottish for some reason

Instead DS got a much more mainstream name. But somehow I still hanker after Edmund...

Those Anakin/Gandalf/Bilbo names are a big no no in my book. It's fine to be an uber geek about a book or film franchise but don't assume your child will have the same appreciation.

I detest star wars with a passion and I would be soo annoyed if I was called laya or some shit..

My daughter is called Autumn. I remember putting a post up about it in the names section a couple of years ago
Awaits abuse on how chav/american/seasonal it is

I know an Autumn. I think it is lovely.

Autumn is not American. Fall is.

gets coat.

Incidentally, I think that Men and Women's preferences for names must be somehow different in nature.

I have lost count of the number of times I've been asked or DH has been asked, how he managed to get me to agree to DS's name.

Its somehow assumed that it must have been DH's choice and I had little involvement in it.

I do sometimes wonder if names would be a lot more different if we employed similar 'rules' and preferences to our partners. From experienced it seems that its women who tend to be more conservative in their choices than men and men tend to not fear the opinions of others quite so much. (This did not apply to me, so I know this is a generalisation).

It would be interesting to see, if other agree that this is a pattern and if it is, whether that reflects a general thing in our culture where men are encouraged to be more individualistic and this is more frowned on by women with this pressure to conform more.

It wasn't the case with us, i don't think - we were both fairly 'out there' from others/families perspectives even if we didn't think so ourselves. I thought dh's choices really outlandish and mine fairly 'normal'. But he thought the opposite. His were lots of characters from obscure sci fi novels and ancient warrior god type names and mine were classical or effeminate. So he thought my suggestion of Jocelyn and Valentine for a boy outrageous and i thought the same of Ender and Tyr.

Everyone we asked thought both were ridiculous and neither of us can see why. (i'm still lobbying for Joss for the next one but DH is having none of it)

I think my husband is the opposite. We knew we both liked Autumn, but he thought it was too unusual. He opted for Elizabeth for her middle name and agreed that Autumn Elizabeth was a nice balance of different with traditional.
He liked really traditional horrible names. He liked Daryl for a boy and Samantha for a girl. Not my cup of tea at all.
I was far more up for "different" names.

I'm not sure I agree that men are less conservative when it comes to baby namingRedToothBrush In my experience lots of men when choosing a girl's name for example will favour the (slightly old fashioned) names of the pretty and popular girls they went to school with such as Amanda and Ashley.