to feel sorry for this little girl

[Kariba29]

Whilst shopping in town yesterday a woman and her little girl about 4/5 were walking in front of us when the girl got distracted and got left behind the woman called out Chardonnay, Chardonnay come here now, i looked at DH with a did i hear right look and he just smiled at me and nodded

Seriously, i thought it was an urban myth, do people actually call their children this?(shocked)

I hope she had had one to many when she thought of this name otherwise there is no excuse really!!

Tbh i like old fashioned names and weird names. But to me nowadays Chardonnay is a girly name to me.

Plus with some of the names out there Chardonnay seems rather normal these days.

I mean look at Gwyneth Paltrows daughters name = Apple??? You can take any word these days and use it to name your child with.

I have to say i like the name River-Moon it was a name i had seen on a website and i loved it.

When we were choosing names for our Second (our first was always a Jack) but with our second we didnt know what we was having and chose loads of girls names but none for boys as we couldnt agree on any. For a girl we had Mollie. For a boy the only name we liked was Oliver, i liked Thomas but DH didn't.

In the end he named him after DHs grandad Alfred but Alfie for short and now people think he is named after Alfie Moon from EastEnders. lol

Then of course you have to wonder at the sanity of michael jackson when he called his second born son 'Blanket'

I mean, wtf is THAT about?

Sanity and Michael Jackson were never heard in the same sentence!

Wonder what the 'poor' childs surname was, coming from N Ireland there are so many trendy names that sound even worse eg Keanu O'Reilly and Demi McBratney

ps these are purely fictional any similarity to RL is purely coincidence etc etc

There are millions of bablies and children out in the world dying of hunger, thirst, HIV, other diseases, and millions more being abused, mis-treated, abandoned or being forced to grow up faster than they should....

At least little Chardonnay had a mum her cared enough about her to notce she was falling behind.

GGrow up and find something important to get passionate about!

Ps. My Children have good ol' proper English names that have been in the top 10 names for decades. ;)

mumbar, Tomas is not the Welsh spelling- That's Tomos. So you can tell everyone to sod right off

I have a cousin called Mercedes (fairly unremarkable in Spain) I also have a colleague whose real name is Tracey. She has renamed herself and goes utterly mental if the T word is mentioned. Don't know whether that says more about her or names/professions, really. Tricky to work in some fields with a 'flamboyant' name, perhaps?

It's 'of the moment' though innit.
In the '80's there were a load of Crystals from Dallas running around.

Indeed.

Kylie was an exclusively Asutralian name until they showed 'Neighbours' on UK TV in the early 80's, thers now lots of 30 year old Kylies walking about the UK.