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

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Romeo? 🤔

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

But, seriously, celebrity names are stupid!

I like Romeo - he was the drummer in Showaddywaddy!! However, my name has been described as ugly so what would I know.........

I also know a La-A it’s a real thing. She’s 3

I know a child of 4 called Sherlock (second name isn’t Holmes in case anybody asks)

Squarecorners Guilty as charged! But I swear I didn't look at a list of the top ten most popular names at any time. I just liked the name,her Dd liked it too,it wasn't too common (as in the number of girls with that name,not common in the chavvy sense ) but wasn't so unusual as to attract comments. She seems to like it thankfully.

there is a mark at dd's school.

also know of a jonty,

I find it interesting that the names I know as old ladies/gents names are coming back in fashion with parents who are a good ten years younger than me., (arthur, iris, elsie, etc)

I am also wathcing some of the popular names leave the school and be replaced by something else.

I also know a La-A it’s a real thing. She’s 3

Do you also know a Shithead (pron. sha-theed) and twins named Oranjello and Lemonjello?

LaContessaDiPlump there's a Jonty on the TV, does some of the antiques shows

I know a Jonty. Short for Jonathan.
There's nothing wrong with Mark. I'm sure Marcus isn't considered boring.

AlwaysSpellingMyName La-A is just sick

Chocywockydodahhhhhh I know a Warwick, too

Showaddywaddy's drummer is called Romeo!

Yes, my name really is Juliet! (name changed from my normal nom-de-keyboard). So I object.
Every boyfriend I ever had in my teens had an 'o' put at the end of his name because it was "funny".
I dated a lad called Gerome once. Just once, neither of us could handle the ribbing.

I met, (professionally) 2 chaps called Bigbrain and Big boy. I found it very hard to use those names, also a number of people who had clearly just made up names, ie Jaydee. I just think it must be tedious to have to keep spelling or explaining your name.

To be fair Romeo had been around for hundreds of years, it fell out of fashion like many names do.

I know a Jonty and a Warwick, DS2 has a Cruz in his class. The worst rl name I've ever heard was a girl called Armani (this was back in the 90s) although she was Marni for short, and I saw someone on a FB group call their son Gatsby.

Snopes says Le-a or La-a is an urban legend and they've not found ny evidence of it used.

I hated my name growing up, and I hated the common diminutive that most people used. It was an old-fashioned, boring, dull name. My DB's SIL had a name I really liked. One day when I was about 28 a friend mentioned a new colleague who had the coveted name. I said: 'Oh, I've always wished I was called that.' Friend said. ok why not call yourself that? So I changed my name. All I did was tell everyone I knew that I was now called New Name, and then told the various official bodies about the name change. I've been New Name longer than I was original name.
Oh, and this may be an urban myth, but there is supposed to be a little girl in an adjacent town to me called Pocahontas, who has a baby brother called Versace.

There must be at least one, somewhere in the world, by now. The urban myth has been going so long now that someone must have thought: ‘La-a. That’s a lovely name for my baby daughter. And what a great spelling’.

Heard one at the local primary called Isis

Oranjello and lemojello unfortunately not no, but alas La-A is a fully functioning human, cousins are called Ocean-Marie & Skye-Alyssa brother Michael. They're from Fflint. I know Ocean and Skye's mother personally, it was not her sisters idea to name the baby La-A it was the father also they were 17 when she was pregnant so falls under the comment I seen about young mothers and the names such as Chardonnay etc..

sprot - a colleague's relative is called Isis. She's an older teen though so was named before its current main meaning. Still uses the name.

I have also taught a child called Jihad - would be about 7 now I guess.

I know a Belcher, Radley and Romeo (boys), Miracle, Harmony and Jazz (girls). Liked the name Jazz so much I gave it to our kitten a few years back!

Belcher hahahahahaha what???

Knew a child from Reading called Penny Lane many years ago ( they might be in Mumsnet now

Romeo is unspeakably naff, but the other Beckham boys' names are worse.