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

[Abbinob]

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

And
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HFeSEgbYLlo

We live rurally in the back end of nowhere and there is a majority of 'mn mc names' for want of a better term (we're incomers). Not a lot of eyebrow raising goes on in babynaming here so I find a lot of the threads quite educational and fascinating.

Often names that, to a boring rural like me, sounds made up turn out to be a classic name from another country. Plus I now know how to pronounce some Irish names. I did comment on the girls name 'Bellen' though. Sometimes a bit of local input can be useful.

I have met two baby Tarquin. Remember one of them saying to me in complete indignation, "When I sent the email around the office saying he'd arrived, I said this was his name, and got emails back laughing and asking what his real name was"

what I don't get is when folk say, oh I know 23 Olivias, 5 Jacks and the last 14 babies were called Bob, Poppy, Sam, Lucy, Percy and Dick etc.

How on the earth do you know so many children? I have 2 DC which obv means contact with all the children at school, and I still don't know 23 Olivias

I don't even know one Olivia

My name is Loki.
My mum smoked a lot of pot.

I've come across a Sylvia, Phineas, Cassius, Ophelia, Nerissa, Lennox & Montgomery

Esme is common as muck round here at the moment. Its like a rash.

Not North London. And I don't get out much either.

DS has a unusual name too. Given the above, I'm not terribly worried about the 'but he'll get bullied' brigade.

i wanted Hector for DS2 but with Lysander it would look like we unimaginatively chose our children's names from the British Grenadiers song. DS2 is Lucian but everyone calls him Lulu. It suits him so much. He is a huge bruiser of a baby.

I like names purely based on sound usually, and the way the word feels in my mouth. Once it passes that test i think about meanings.

Hector and Lysander would definitely get a lot of people singing to them.

I wondered if there were more Rudy songs MrsDV. I knew I should have written "at least two".

I never get the "they'll spend their life having to spell out their name" thing either.

I have a really normal name, but there's about 5 different ways of spelling it, so I have to spell it every time. No problem, always done it. DH has a normal name that can spelled 2 different ways, so he has the same.

Rudy is a great name, and a great song.

I know a Persephone, Antigone, Otto, Ottilie....

I know a little Leopold

I would love to meet a Lillith. Not sure how many letter 'l's' should be in it. I love the name and think it's beautiful.

The meaning is tricky to live up to though. For some it's a strong feminist name, a woman who refused go obey her husband. For others, she is the sinful first wife of Adam (or something similar, I can't remember the specifics).

My sister named my niece Lenya and ive never met another one. I do know a persephone and a hugo

SnappingCrayons we may have met the same person. The one I know told me proudly that she called her child Braxton after being told about Braxton Hicks by the midwife and thinking it would make a great name.

I've met à Beau, à Greyson, Teddie, Jaycub, 5 Amelies, 6 Daisy's & 2 Delilah's

Another Rudi song

I love all the names I come across at the school I work at. Some sound unusual or 'out there' at first, but you soon get used to them and they just become normal names. We have Moby, Danté, Honey, Destiny, Shakeil, Paris (one boy, one girl) Flynn, Thor, Oswald, Robeye, Latrell, Neo, among others. At least two of these are 'extremely' bright, and all are a nice mixture of social backgrounds. I feel embarrassed by my DSs' top ten (boring) names, these days.

I used to work with a Xanthe who would have been in her 40's.

I was also in Sainsburys and some shouted 'Phoenix don't touch the....'

There has just been a long and hilarious thread in baby names - a mother wants to call her daughter 'Remedios'....

I know an Elliot, Esme and Hugo and Evangeline. Not North London either. Cannot see what is wrong with any of them. If I had another dd, Genevieve would be my choice of name. Think it is beautiful.

I love Genevieve!

My brothers name is Cassius,

I really do like Ottilie I think it sounds really pretty