After all these years, to still wonder why you'd call your child...

[stellenbosch]

Romeo? 🤔

(TBH, Apple is just as bad...)

But, seriously, celebrity names are stupid!

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Lakie

Emil Jellinek who created the trademark, named it after his own daughter.

[ankasi]

I thought Germany was quite strict re names insofar as the name of the child had to (accurately) reflect their sex?

They are but if you can prove that this has been used before as a female name or show that the name has been used in literature, for example, the name is usually allowed.

[mailfuckoff]

I love the name Apple, named after the doll in Tottie, the story of a dolls house a book I loved as a child. In the book apple was a boy doll but I always thought it was a girls name. My child have slightly odd but proper names but then dh and I have very popular and dull names.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

That’s interesting ankasi. Bit of a shame that loophole exists in the case of the two children you mentioned though!

[HotelEuphoria]

I know someone (not a friend!) that after having 4 daughters called their son Sir. Yes "Sir" as his first name. He said he had done it so that all the teachers at school had to call the boy Sir instead of the other way round.

Yes, he was that kind of guy.

[dustarr73]

I think people on here should post their own kids names.See what we think of them.

[ineedamoreadultieradult]

The pp who overheard Adonis, it's possible the name is actually Adonis which apparently is a perfectly reasonable Lithuanian name. One of.my son's friends is Adomis and I mispronounced it for many years before I saw it written down.

[KungFuPandaWorksOut16]

I think Laurel from Emmerdale when's an award for the names her 3 children have.

Sunnie (born 2004)
Herbie (born 2007)

And in 2009 she welcomed her first daughter named...
Teddie Boo Florence

[ARealWoman]

I thought you were going to say Adolf

[lalalalyra]

At least the children of celebrities have money and the likes behind them. Plus they are likely to be around other children with unusual names. Stormi is in good company with her cousins.

It's not like being a kid called Starlight and going to school in Glasgow in the late 80's/early 90's. That was just a recipe for being bullied.

[MsP0b]

I've taught siblings Indigo and Zephyr, and Ptolemy nicknamed Tolly. Also Eppernine. All in really normal comprehensive schools, nowhere posh.

[IMightMentionGriddlebone]

HollyBayTree

Tybalt is Juliets brother in Romeo and Juliet.

Cousin, actually, and that was the joke. Quite a few people were making Shakespearian jokes at the start of the thread. Mine was the least funny, but it still counts as a joke.

[NewYearNiki]

I dont understand why so many kids were called Sophie, Sophia, Isabelle, Isabel, Isabella, etc

The most dull unimaginative names possible.

Apple is stupid but there is a middle ground

[WhooooAmI24601]

Eppernine But this is what confuses me; Eponine is a pretty name as they go, fairly harmless sowhy change the spelling? You're unlikely to ever go to school with another Eponine so it's not as though you need your child to have an 'edge'.

We have friends whose DCs have unusual names. Their kids have been bullied mercilessly at school for their names. Both DCs have said to their Parents over the years "why did you call me that...?" If my DCs stand out I want it to be for something they've achieved or something they are, not because of their name.

[Yorkshirebetty]

Reading threads like this, I'm reminded of an article I read by the late, troubled Peaches Geldof. She said that she felt she could never be anonymous or ordinary and her name was always an issue. She had problems with kids at school and then later booking tables, ordering things over the phone etc she felt too identifiable and self conscious. It was poignant. Not her only problem of course, but it gave me pause for thought.

[BlooperReel]

There are far worse names that Romeo! Especially when you look atthe bizarre world of schleb babies:

North
Chicago
Kyd
Moon Unit
Moxie Crimefighter
Audio Science
Bronx
Cricket
Buddy Bear

I mean, seriously, wtf are these people on?

[LoginLogan]

Yorkshire - But was that her firstname or her surname that was the problem? Surely she would have been 'Geldof' whatever her first name was or was she complaining about both names? RIP.

[noeffingidea]

Yorkshirebetty Can't have been that much of a problem. It would have been easy enough for Peaches to have changed either or both of her names if she'd wanted to.

[Yorkshirebetty]

That's true, Logan and others. I think she was referring to the 'Peaches' part. The type of first name that is so unusual and identifying. She didn't say why she didn't change it.

[lessthanBeau]

mail used to love tottie in the doll house, however I was quite traumatised with the premeditated murder of birdie, burned to death on a candle saving apple because she was made of celluloid! Yes on a children's show!
Love the name ptolemy would have had that or Lucian for a ds. Dd has something equally strange but We like it.
It makes me laugh to see the rush of other kids getting the celeb names after the announcements. Toddler Harpers all over the place at the moment.

[sayanythingelse]

Someone I know just called their daughter Bramble. I think I'd take alot of these names over that, poor kid.

[cooliebrown]

could never understand why people named their daughters Roxanne following the success of the Police song about a suicidal prostitute

[NotASingleFuckToGive]

DD2 goes to school with a Felatia.
I asked DD if she means Felicia, she said no
I know some daft people name their kids after their favourite things, like a football team/celebrity/city etc.
I'm guessing her dad named her.

[LoginLogan]

I think she was referring to the 'Peaches' part. The type of first name that is so unusual and identifying. She didn't say why she didn't change it.

Yorkshire - But not half as identifying as 'Geldof'

Sorry to keep picking at this, but the whole irony of that is just hilarious. Surely if it was Peaches Smith phoning up, no one would have batted an eyelid.

[yolofish]

I actually think Ladasha is a really pretty name (not obvs written phonetically). Also Eponine as above, and a french girls name I heard yesterday: Perrine (winner of ladies mogul). My DDs have unusual names by MN standards but they both love them....