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!

At a trampoline place the other week someone called Juniper was having a birthday party. I didn't see if it was a boy or girl but I thought it was quite unusual.

I like Romeo when it is pronounced correctly (the Italian way) which is Ro-may-o

I thought Stormy was the brother of Pusheen, the internet kitten??

sprot
Isis means Jesus apparently

Or sorry - think ISA means Jesus

raspberrysuicide - I have taught a Juniper - a girl.

ISIS is an Egyptian goddess I think.

It was Jason Lee, JanetStWalker.

Bertrand
Its Duncan Jones!

I don't mind it. I still wonder why people pick names from the top 10.

Because often the top 10 names are lovely.
Some names grow on you when you hear them a lot.
Some names are popular without you knowing. They might seem a bit out when the baby is named there but when Noah or Elodie starts school and they are one of many.

That should have read
They might seem a bit out there when the baby is named
not
They might seem a bit out when the baby is named there

Tighnabruaich would that be Versace McClatchy? Think I've heard about them too.

Also, in Glasgow once, I've heard a mother screeching "FABIO! Get here NOW!" At a chubby wee ginger lad with freckles.

Once on a campsite, heard camping neighbours call their kids. ...."Tiger and Tuscany its time for your tea!"

Latreen/Latrine is a bit unfortunate, though not unusual in our neck of the woods,as is Sid Timothy. Jesus is just asking for trouble.

Blimey. DS is stoked because he's met a boy with the massively unusual name of

Bernard.

I love my weird middle name more than my normal first name sometimes, they grow on you

Hanuta - my ds is Lysander. What's wrong with that? It's an actual name which happened to be used by Shakespeare. He didn't make it up. The original Lysander was a Spartan general who fought Athens and freed slaves. The name means Freer of men/liberator.

I taught sisters, Angel and Tuppence (seriously) horse riding years ago. Angel I suppose is just about ok for a pretty little girl but Tuppence... poor child... they came to us for horse riding lessons with their more normally named friend, Lucy!

When i grew up Jonty was just a standard abbreviation for Jonathan. Has something changed? Is it now suddenly some kind of uber posh name?

Always wondered what happened to the poor girl called Wendy ....... Ankers at my Primary School. Hope she married/changed her name for something better!!

Lysander is a great name. And Leander.

The worst I know is Castiel, I privately said noooooooo when I heard it.

I am a long-suffering West Ham supporter. Our player with a man-bun, Andy Carroll, has recently named his son: Wolf Nine

Poor child.

Lysander and Tybalt are great names.

Wolf is fairly common in Germany.