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

Or Samantha! As favoured by badfurday's husband

I bet he fancied a Samantha at school.

How do you pronounce Tyr?

Is it like Tier or Tyre?

I do like Valentine. Although I prefer Constantine. DH wasn't having any of that though.

Ty-r.

DH suggested no girls names at all but said he didn't like pretty much everyone i suggested other than Persephone. We didn't really think much about girls names tho as we just knew we were having boys (despite not finding out at the scan we just knew). I can't imagine us ever having girls.

I still wish I'd called DS Constantine. We didn't pick a name until after he was born, and I didn't think of Constantine until it was too late and he already had a name. When I mentioned this to DS, he said that he thought Constantine wouldn't suit him and he preferred the name he was actually given.

One thing we did take into consideration was how names would travel to north America. DH often works there and it's likely we may move back that way again in the future. So while Hector is just a classical name to us it is quite popular in the Hispanic community, which we thought may look like cultural appropriation. What we didn't think about was accents tho and when we lived in Canada when Lysander was a baby no one could say his name. Everyone called him Zaaander or Ly-Zaaaaander, like it was 2 names. the zzzzz sound was really prominent and it bugged me i must say as it most definitely is an ssss sound. (he is my PFB after all i'm allowed some neuroses )

a mother wants to call her daughter 'Remedios'....

So what? It's a normal (if rather old-fashioned) Spanish name. It really gets my goat when people start going "har har har" at names that are perfectly normal, just not British. Like about a million people on a recent thread going "Renzo? What sort of a stupid made-up name is that?" It's Italian, you eejits.

ValiantMouse Reinette means tree frog in French , perhaps not the image the parents were striving for?

I've met a good half dozen Lily-May variants (with some spellings so yooneek that it took me a while to work out what it was!). And one library rhymetime featured five Isla/Ella near homophones, out of 10 kids!

It's mainly Alfie, Esme and other Victorian names around here. DD has one, but is one of only two in the last 30 years in our town

And it's easy to know that many kids if you help out at a children's centre/breastfeeding group/playgroup. I must know at least 80 kids slightly!

I know a lot of the more unusual names on here - either from school myself or from DD's friends. I know (in their 30s now) a Beau, Jemima, Ignatz, Felix, Merlin and a Gabriel. I also know younger children called Gabriel, Persephone, Aurelia, Amelie, Seraphina, Hugo, Milo, etc.

Personally I prefer more traditional names. DH and I have quite classic names and it has stood us in good stead. We're having problems naming DD2 though and we only have a few more weeks to go!

I don't see how calling your child Gandalf or something is any different from Persephone...your child might not be interested in Ancient Greek either!

Time is the difference in my opinion.

Persephone has had centuries to become a name in its own right outside of its Greek mythology origins. Gandalf doesn't really exist as a name outside of LOTR.

I suspect that Reinette's mum may be a Doctor Who fan.

Arwen is a Tolkien name tho, and no one bats an eyelid at that any more.

That's true. Maybe it's because Arwen sounds quite Welsh?

I suppose if Gandalf, Bilbo or Frodo took off as names in a big way they might lose some of the LOTR connections. But it would take a long time.

It's nice when a name sparks a conversation but I'd imagine the kinds of conversations that a name like Gandalf sparks could get a bit dull.

My parents have a baby names book that includes Scholastica - now that's a brave choice! (I am currently pregnant with DD2, Scholastica is not on the list...)

Scholastica is the ultimate nuns name!

Arwen is an old welsh name, I know several of granny age!

Persephone has had centuries to become a name in its own right outside of its Greek mythology origins. Gandalf doesn't really exist as a name outside of LOTR.

I suppose if Gandalf, Bilbo or Frodo took off as names in a big way they might lose some of the LOTR connections. But it would take a long time.

Peter Pan was published in 1911.
The Hobbit was published in 1937.
Lord of the Rings was published in 1954.

Wendy peaked in popularity in 1967.

Just saying like.

I don't know why people think of Xanthe and Persephone as unusual or "out there" names, they're just Greek names.

Tyr rhymes with beer.

I always think of Tyr as a swimwear company.

YY to Arwen being an old Welsh name. My DD has a very similar old Welsh name that people think is Tolkein. More than once, a conversation has gone from children's name to LOTR and it's taken me a while to figure out why (I'm not particularly a Tolkein fan).

Scholastika is a saint, isn't she?

I'm going to have re-read this thread very thoroughly for ideas now, as i've just found out i'm pregnant. Which is a bit of a surprise. This is what happens when you are alone with no children for 20 minutes at Center Parcs!

Congratulations!