noooo!! ive just registered my babys birth and...

[SkyeplusArlo]

theres a new character on bloody HOLLYOAKS who's totally nicked my name,am compleatley gutted...i want to cry.

Nobody really watches Hollyoaks.

Arlo is a lovely name :)

Change it to Arnaud.

Is it off Eastenders Muddled?

I wanted an Arlo 15yrs ago & husband didn´t like it.

After Arlo Guthrie-he´s in his 60´s!

Funny how people think it´s a new name!

It's ok, we named our kid Felix despite having a next door neighbour with a FEMALE cat called Felix.

If it's your first kid. get used to this. I had to. I know a 5 year old Arlo and while it's not common, you will come across other people with this name!

If its a character on Hollyoaks they'll probably be killed off within the next couple of months or disappear into the ether - wouldnt worry about it too much.

I found out a week after DS was born that he shared his name with a neighbours dog! Five years later he is best friends with the dd of the dogs owner, so has regular contact with the dog too

I was a bit miffed when Myleene Klass called her DD Ava as it is my DD's name. Irrational I know, but miffed all the same.

Bandgeek, snap! my Ava is a little older than Myleenes....I also called my boy a name that a well known soap character has, tis fine, nobody has said anything, at least not to my face...Arlo is gorgeous and nobody watches hollyoaks anyway

Solution - stop watching Hollyoakes, its really not good TV.

lanismum, same here! My Ava is 4.6. 'Tis a fab name

I know how you feel. I called one son Myles with the firm intention of always calling him Mylo after reading that name in a book.

However, a few weeks after his birth the Tweenies came onto BBC with the characters Jake and Milo. Stopped calling my son that almost immediately.
(Did find myself calling him Smiley Miley for a while though - anyone else old enough to remember him on the Radio1 Summer Roadshow?!)

Your feelings are understandable but the character will not be known by most people - thank heavens it was Hollyoaks not Eastenders or Corrie!

Failing to see what you all dislike about Hollyoaks, I watch it every day before DD's bath

Arlo is a nice name and the Hollyoaks character is apparently not a permanent fixture so I wouldn't worry :)

Muddledmum-pretty sure our ds's have the same name and are the same age because exactly the same thing happened to me. But no, we didn't name him after a soap character either (although slightly more keen on a certain character in monarch of the glen...)

Arlo is a character in the Twilight series...more popular than Hollyoakes!

uhhh sorry actually that'll be aro!!!

It's a lovely name, don't worry.

David Cameron stole DD's first AND middle name. (and I have reason to believe he might actually have stolen it). :(

thanks guys,im feeling much better now

as for dc we went through endellion recently and it tiny! about four houses!

Arlo is a lovely name, and it's very unlikely there will still be a character called Arlo in Hollyoaks by the time your DS is old enough to understand, or care!

I recommend simply not watching Hollyoaks