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

There's a Persephone on hollyoaks so i know one

Snappingcrayons braxton is a real name though? It's quite popular apparently. I've only heard it on tv shows, but seems popular abroad.

Hugo, Esme, Sylvie, Atticus and Tate are/becoming popular in WC Liverpool were I am.

Some of the thought of as MC names, suggested on here by people 'down South', are the Norths equivalent to Kayden/Jayden.

My dh teaches in a mutlicultultural school and teaches a shaquisha who goes by "squish" which I love. Apparently it suits her down to the ground. ☺

I'm having a DS but our top DD name was Sephy. Not Persephone though, I don't hold with this MN idea of having to have the 'proper' name on the birth certificate.

Sylvie is my daughter's name. I know an Elliot, an Esme, a Liberty and a couple of Margots'. I'm in Scotland

Thanks Felix. I had some great 'huh' faces when I say it but meh. It's suits her, we love it and we literally couldn't find another name we both loved in the same way.

I know some kids with 'unusual' names but it's just theirs. They own it after a while.

Sylvie is beautiful. I love Phineas and Castiel for a boy.

Algernon means "with whiskers" so it seems a bit odd on a baby.

I know a Beau. I also know a Phoenix, Ocean, and River. Two families. The names Really suit them, all boys.

I've not met anyone in real life called Persephone, Ptomley, Cesarion, Artemis, or Octavion. I always forget how to pronounce Persephone. I did once know a girl called Octavia but her parents were from another country.

Algernon I know from the play but have never met one. I think it's quite cool though.

Zephaniah - well I know of the poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Not sure if his name is spelt like that though.

I have known a Jayden and Hayden. I don't understand why mumsnet (in general, not the individuals) looks down on those names.

Oh and I also used to think Hermione was Her-me-own. I thought it was great how JK wrote out the pronunciation in book 4.

Loved Clarice and would have used it if ds had been a girl.

I have been called some vile things on here and some posters have told me i am cruel and abusive to my children. They are both ignorant class based insults and assumptions. I see a lot more inverted snobbery and anti MC comments get under the radar and be dismissed as good natured hilariousness than anything i have seen against WC people, which pretty much gets pounced upon immediately.

I'm certainly not saying either are right, I think saying anything nasty about a child's name is pretty low and i certainly wouldn't slag any off either.

Clarice I would have assumed was a boys name. I think because it looks similar to Maurice.

I loved the names Melisande and Nerissa but hubby said no.

Every school year when we get the new list of Year 7 names, there's always a few that make me go, "Really? Really?! Oh my god, how insufferably middle-class of them..." We call them the "Hogwarts names" as they do sound like something Rowling would use to people the wizarding world.

Then you meet the kids, and teach them, and go, "Actually, yes, that is a great kid with a great name, and they own that name."

My favourite new names this year are Cordelia (whose friends call her "Cordy" which I find utterly adorable), Conrad (he is definitely as cool as that name) and Arwen (she looks like she could be an elfin beauty, suits her perfectly).

Oh, and Vita! Another favourite of mine, classy and sophisticated, and the child is too... As much as a year 7 can be!

I know a Persephone, a Seraphina, a Hugo, an Octavia, an Arwen and a Tarquin

I don't hold with this MN idea of having to have the 'proper' name on the birth certificate.

but if you do you give the kid a choice and I think people forget they are naming a future adult not (just) a baby. The cute name that suits a week-old baby doesn't sound so good when they are 15, 30, 50, 80...

I had a friend called Michael, called Mike, and he said he liked being Michael because if he'd been a lawyer he could have called himself Michael, as a engineer he was Mike, and if he's been a bricklayer he'd have called himself Mick. Similar with Nicholas for an accountant, Nick for another engineer and Nicky for a footballer :)

Mustard my DH would have liked Conrad for our son :)

Melisande was a snobby character in one of the Enid Blyton books - Mistletoe Farm?

Baby I'm having this weekend would have been Persephone (Sephie) if he'd been a girl. And I keep suggesting Algernon to DH as its a family name on my Dad's side - DH is firmly saying no to this though as he thinks Algie sounds too much like algae.

I think they're both nice, solid names. There are a trillion George/William/Henry's so I want something a bit different but not outlandish.

Name change I don't agree, DP is Nicholas and he hates it, would rather have Nick on the BC. Have friends called Jacob , Thomas and Maximilian and they only go by Jake, Tom and Max, hate their full names. They all have fairly high profile, professional jobs and it doesn't make a jot of difference. I don't think any of the above names are unsuitable for grown men.

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

I know someone who has this in mind if her baby is a boy, but it's from Home and Away for her.

I love name threads because I'm pregnant and we're trying to decide. I love Esme for a girl, but two friends that we see a lot already have Esme's.

I changed my name to my middle name because my parents gave me a ridiculous name so I always get paranoid choosing one for someone else!

My daughter is called Persephonie, Sephie for short sometimes - we still get weird looks about her name! All my children & I have unusual names & I love it!