Harper Seven Beckham!!!!!! ...dear me, no!!!

[MelinaM]

It would appear that this is the chosen name for their longer for darling daughter!!!!!

It just reminds me of the girl on Disney's Wizards of Waverley Place, who wears fruit on her dresses and other stuff.

Sounds like a call-sign: "Come in Harper Seven, are you receiving me?"

I love it. I would have had it for dd but dh wasn't brave enough. Think it's particularly unfair to assume that neither Beckham would have read Mockingbird (and perhaps for those who have, one of the primary points of the book has been missed ...).

Sure he didn't mean Sven?

I love Harper, but wtf is seven about?

VB can't win can she
If she had gone for a 'boring' name everybody would be slating her.
If she had gone for a really way out name everybody would be slating her.

I don't mind Harper, I prefer it for a boy, but it works well for a girl too.

However, it doesn't seem like it's them somehow, it almost seems a bit mainstream for them.

Surprise surprise, another celebrity child stuck with a stupid name. Why don't the break the mould and call their children something nice for a change that they may not be ashamed of when they are older. [hhmm]

Was she born at Harper Seven in the morning?

Well, maybe they think it's nice? Harper is a lovely name. Obviously seven is going to get some raised eyebrows, but so what!

They were always going to get slated for the name choice whatever it was.

Good luck to them.

I think that Harper is nice enough. I'm suprised that its not more girly but its name thats unusual but not too out there. The middle name is a bit odd. Iirc her brothers have quite normal middle names, I think one has David and another Joseph. Then again middle names are an opportunity to give a name that has meaning to you but that you wouldn't be brave enough to use as a first name.

It's the surname of a close friend, so it just sounds odd to me as a girl's name. Also I always tend to think it suggests moaning, like 'harping on' about something. Could have been worse, though. I am surprised they didn't either try to be unique, or surprise the world with a quite traditional, pretty name to do with flowers or something.

Isn't a harper someone who plays the harp?

Doesn't sound very feminine to me, so wouldn't choose it personally for a dd.

No a harpist plays the harp I think.

Oh, yes a harpist .

Absolutely horrible ! Very harsh.

A Harper Seven sounds like it could have been the name of a type of WW2 bomber. I can just hear the Discovery Channel voiceover:

"...but they had reckoned without Bomber Command's newly commissioned squadron of Harper Sevens, which swept down from the north before the rising storm. Nearly 10,000 homes were destroyed in that attack."

Harper? Really don't like it at all, I'm afraid. Sounds harsh, masculine and certainly won't travel well into other languages.

Yeuk!!

FREE THE HARPER SEVEN !!!

I thought 7 was the number of the hotle room she was concieved in.

Oh, I like it a lot!

Just makes me think of head in box
(LoL half past seven, Greatandwondrous)

It's dull.

Harper sounds like a department store name.

I imagined Vicky would go for something much more girlie and snazzy. Harper is quite hard and androgynous and immediately makes me think of Harpic toilet cleaner.

I think it fits in with her other children's names (not a good thing IMO), but thought she would go for something more feminine... We know a 7 year old little boy called Harper... Much better on a boy I think but even then it's not to my taste.

"reflects her American 'heritage' in choosing a name no-one in this country would think of "

???

Blimey, I think quite a few people have thought of Harper in the UK.

We did for our teenage daughter, but wanted a feminine name.