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

How do you say Nevaeh?!

I've taught a Nevah. It was pronounced Na-vay-ah

I like most of the names on this thread. I know an Esme, a Hugo and a Bentley all in their 30s and all the only ones in their peer group. They're not hugely unusual for babies i think. I love the name Rudy!

I find it really weird when people say "oh they'll be bullied for that name", usually said with a nice tone of victim blaming pleasure. So nice this thread is mostly positive! Generally people chose from a wider pool of names now (so the number 3 name today is less used by far the the number 3 name in 1980 for example). So children will be more used to people not having a "normal" name.

Oh and there's an Algie at DS' nursery along with an Archie, an Albie and an Alfie. They should form a band!

I cringe when I hear the name Persephone because in my language perse=arse so for me the name actualy sounds like arse-phone. Sorry

My pets get all the names I am not brave enough to give children. I had a splendidly overbred rabbit called Mungo once. My boy's hamster (RIP) was Cosmo.

Maybe all the baby Jupiters now live in Rotastaks?

Haha cauliflower I would do that too!

This is a nice thread, lots of great names. As a non englisher, I really don't get the criticism of calling someone a name that's 'too posh' or as a pp said that sounds like 'aping your betters' - there are no betters! And no one wanders around going 'Lucian Freud, I mean what WAS his mother thinking'.

On another note, has anyone had the classic friend-names-their-child-after-yours issue? We are as I say not English but live here, north London I'm afraid to say you can simply IMAGINE the possibilities. I am v v v pregnant so not rational btw, be kind.

Sorry, posted too soon! Friend has emailed to say they'd like to call their dc, impending, same name as our dc1. Very unusual name, chosen to reflect our mixed heritage, not unheard of here, but in the 300s. I KNOW the correct answer is ' no one owns a name! Go ahead!' But I weirdly do feel a bit grrr about it - is that just hormones?

Has nobody else read the Noughts and Crosses books by Malorie Blackman? The main character was Persephone, Sephy for short. I've always loved the name

I don't like the name Persephone and have never met one! (I've also been saying it wrong)

I'm the proud owner of a Cosmo. He rocks his name. If he'd been a girl first choice would have been Persephone, followed by Ophelia and Aurelia. Clearly I'm that sort of parent (but he's half Italian so is actually named after his grandfather Cosimo).

Cosmo was on my shortlist. I have an Italian sister in law and was hoping they might use it!

One of my cousin's babies is a Tallulah, really cool little girl.

I know an adult Boudicca. I also know children called Django and Wolfie.

To be honest, with the kids I was at first a bit but now I don't even think about it. They both really suit their names.

DD is Dorothea. I did get some " Dorothy? " reactions when I introduced her

I sooooo want to name my next baby Bathsheba but DH says no. Bash for short! It would be so cute!

Also love Artemis, Octavia.

DS2s middle name is Aurelius. I would like Tristan for the next one, but DH (altho he likes it) prefers Gabriel. Which i do like, but i love Tristan more.

I'm a bit jealous about all of you with big families to name. I'm completely happy we're stopping at one except I have a huge pent up desire to use lots of these names.

I'd better get some hamsters.

I bloody love the name Cosmo. Just to clarify. I know a human one and wish I'd have been brave enough to give it my son, not his hamster.

If my son was a girl he would have been Tallulah. Love that name. When I knew he was going to be a boy I really liked Gabriel and Azriel as well - DH said no. In fact my DS' name was the ONLY one we agreed on.

I know a Xanthe, Hugo, Fergus, Eliza, Ryder, Skylar, Ptolomy, a few Orlas, Tabitha, Mathilde, Bluebell, Martha, Raven, Mona, Aaliyah, Isla, Phoenix, Kai, Levi, Amia, Riley, Mason, Gabriel... oh and a Marley (my DS). My daughter also has Laroux as one of her middle names, well before any singer...

Much nicer than when I was at school when there were no less than four Jennifers in my class, and lots of usual names. Apart from good old Toly of course: Ptolomy's parents were quite hippie like mine.

I wonder when names like Derek, Keith and Kevin will come back into fashion. And girl's names like Wendy, Jennifer, Susan, Bunty - my gran had two friends called Bunty!

ooh and I forgot Sheherazade, known as Zadie.

I love persephone! it was on my list too but got vetoed. I have a Gisele, which for some reason no one can spell or pronounce, we get everything from Gazelle to Jesse. the name comes up on baby boards but I've never met another one yet.

Also know Otto's,Mungo, Django, Esme, Amelia, Raffy(girl and boy) Matilda, Harley, Asher, Missy, Honey, Teddy, Jack-Daniel and a Krystyl.

I love out there names, but called my children classic, short names that are currently out of fashion. I guess my bias is against Fashionable names, so 5 yrs ago I was meh about the JaydenKaydenHayden set of names because every other baby I met seemed to be one of them. Or Isabella. Right now, I feel like that about George, Charlie and hyphenMay. And for the 70s/80s, Tracey and Lisa. But I actually like the names, IYSWIM, just not when they're everywhere...

It's strange how we perceive different names. I have a DD with a name that lots of people think of as pretentious, but I just don't see it and rejected some other names for exactly that reason!

The name of a baby that had stood out for me the most in recent years (besides a Sherlock - too much for me!) is Karen. Everyone knows it but no one uses it.