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

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Abbinob · 09/02/2016 16:24

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

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originalmavis · 09/02/2016 16:54

Interesting fractoid - Cesarion wasn't born by caesarean.

ollieplimsoles · 09/02/2016 16:54

I don't think I could do Zebedee tbh..

SaucyJack · 09/02/2016 16:55

My Persephone is sat on the sofa next to me....

Loves you too Worra Wink

MrsDeVere · 09/02/2016 16:55

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ollieplimsoles · 09/02/2016 16:55

I thought caesarean was named after Julius Caesar- who was successfully born that way?

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 09/02/2016 16:55

I read a book when I was younger and I was convinced the main character was called Percy-phone Blush

SansaClegane · 09/02/2016 16:57

Koala
whispers Cassandra...?

MrsDeVere · 09/02/2016 16:59

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SansaClegane · 09/02/2016 16:59

FWIW, I really liked Jupiter and Antigone when hormonal pregnant, DH vetoed both though! I think maybe lots of people end up chickening out with that sort of names?

WutheringFrights · 09/02/2016 17:00

Sorry OP was Algernon my fault? Someone was asking about a brother for Ernest - Algernon was the other male lead character in the Importance of Being Ernest...was the first thing that popped into my head...

originalmavis · 09/02/2016 17:02

The mum would have been very unlikely to survive a caesarian birth in those days as it was done on mothers who were dead/very close to try to get a live baby if at all possible. (You're right, it was supposedly named after Julius - I got my Caesar s muddled). Old Julius' mum was around.

MrsKoala · 09/02/2016 17:02

I don't think no one bats an eye lid MrsDV in fact i think it's the acceptable face of MN inverted snobbery. Lots of sniggering about pretentious prat parents. i have lost count of how many times these threads go on laughing at posh and stupid names when if people were saying it about Kayden or some other perceived 'chav' name then it would rightly be called for what it is. Class bashing.

And that's exactly how it's pronounced OhForFrig. Just like Ceaserian. Altho perhaps a bit more ARRRR in the middle. Sess - arrrr- ee- on. Altho one i knew at college was Spanish so that pronounciation might be more my bad spanish accent Grin and one is British (but not white) and it's said the 'normal' way.

HermioneJeanGranger · 09/02/2016 17:03

When I first read Harry Potter I thought Hermione was Her-mee-own.

Snappingcrayons · 09/02/2016 17:05

I know someone who recently named their baby boy "Braxton" like Braxton hicks. She's not very bright.

ollieplimsoles · 09/02/2016 17:05

Same for me with Hermione!

BabyGanoush · 09/02/2016 17:06

Also an important Sci-fi book: Flowers for Algernon (a classic!)

x2boys · 09/02/2016 17:08

I knew an hermione and a st john in primary school this was late 70,s early 80,s

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 09/02/2016 17:10

Bit of a mouthful MrsD !
It is a challenge to decide on a baby name if you want something unusual or original but some of the names in these books are very odd. I think it's a burden to have a name that you will always have to pronounce for people or spell out.

Laquila · 09/02/2016 17:10

Agree with you MrsKoala about posters being more likely to be slated for Persephone than Jayne, and it being the acceptable face of MN inverted snobbery. I know a Persephone, nn Sephy, and it really suits her. Cesarion is a bit GoT, but I like it!

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 09/02/2016 17:10

I don't think Persephone is that much more out there than Hermione, Penelope or Cassandra. Antigone would be a bit of a stretch though.

DinosaursRoar · 09/02/2016 17:12

Persephone was on my list for DD, but DH wasn't keen and chose another name off my shortlist. Have since met another one.

I've met an adult Algernon, he was rather posh.

SansaClegane · 09/02/2016 17:12

Don't say that LadyIsabella, I still love the name! Shock
good thing I had all boys maybe

ScrambledSmegs · 09/02/2016 17:14

There were some seriously creative names in the playground where I used to live.

All very normal in my new hometown Sad. I miss hearing Aeneas, Bede and Raphaella shrieked at marauding toddlers by their despairing nannies. It used to brighten my day when a particularly feral one was called something marvellous like Odette or Aloysius.

MrsKoala · 09/02/2016 17:14

I can't see how it is 'out there' either really. Pronunciation wise it is very similar to Stephanie just with a short Puh sound at the front.

LadyIsabellaWrotham · 09/02/2016 17:19

Yes but Stephanie is spelled according to English phonetic conventions, whereas Persephone/Penelope/Hermione use conventions based on transliterated Ancient Greek which is why everyone gets so confused. I think Hermione Granger (and Penelope Cruz and the various other famous Penelopes) may pull Persephone's pronouncability along in their wake.