Does anyone really call their child Jocasta?

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I ask because it's always the MN name people trot out to describe unbearably entitled children with pushy parents and I've never, ever met one or (to my eternal sadness) heard it being called out in the playground.

Am I missing out?

Not met a Jocasta but I have met a Ptolemy - in the NCT sale queue - of course!

Also a Walter and a Tulip.................

Isn't that the name of the aunt in " The Pobble Who Has No Toes"? I love that poem!

I know a Tristan and it doesn't count as he's actually Cornish. It's not good enough.

I actually do know a Jocasta, she's about 15 now and her parents are American. Her nickame is Josie I think.

Can confirm not one single baby was named Jocasta in England and Wales in 2010.

greenmoo how funny! This name was continually coming up in our babyname discussions (we were very inclusive and let all our friends participate!) but I just knew it wasn't a flyer.

I'm afraid many of the names mentioned on the MN baby names section could very easily be used for "unbearably entitled children with pushy parents". Unless you come from an area where that's not unusual, in which case the names seem familiar and normal.

Northern we named our cat Ptolemy! What a horrible thing to do to a child

DH has a cook book called the "paupers cookbook" by Jocasta Innes.
His mum gave it him to go to university.

Rather a tough thing to wish on one's potential grandson, innit?

Mind you I had to be dissuaded from calling DD1 Delilah. Though even I have shrunk from names such as Jezebel.

Love the name Jocasta but don't know any. It was on my shortlist of ?unbearably entitled children with pushy parents" names

DH wanted to call DD Jocasta. He had no idea it was super posh.

Incest associations perhaps a bit offputting . . .

Re the Pobble, it was Aunt Jobiska

Jocasta is good name and meaning of this names pretty more than name.
More detail is is here
www.babynology.com/meaning-jocasta-f27.html

Went to school with one - utter cunt.

I knew a Jocasta at secondary school...she was a couple of years older than me, and I didn't know her well, but she used to ride our bus and she seemed very nice.

jocasta innes is a designer isn't she, i remember her from home front tv show

Why are some of you so 'judgey'? Many people, espcially outside the UK, choose names because they love them and without knowing that some Brits find them poncy/chav. There is therefore no need to judge a person based on their name, especially if their parents genuinely had no idea that a name has these associations.

One of my second cousins is called Jocasta. Never thought to dislike it TBH as she's a family member. I quite like it.

Only three in Scotland between 2000-2009, and only two between 1990-2000. In fact, only eleven between 1900-2009, and none between 1855-1900.

So, eleven between 1855-2009, of whom three were in the last decade; it's clearly gaining in popularity!

Aberdeen funnily enough our family are Scottish!

I knew a Jacintha, but never met a Jocasta. Or a Tarquin.

I know a Ptolemy too he is about 3 and isat preschool with dgs