How do you test out a baby name?

[EmilyRoo]

Besides the obvious, I mean. Do you imagine yourself shouting it out across the supermarket or hearing it at their wedding? How do you get used to a name, when it's not attatched to a baby yet?

Stellan In my experience, working in an inner London primary, a large amount of the children who have the more "unique" names - Taniffia, Princess, Kyza, Leporche - are from non-white backgrounds. There seems to be a culture (at least in our locale) for Black British/Afro-Caribbean parents to choose very quirky and unusual sounding names: Shaniqua anyone? Are they unlikely to get into med school?

Interestingly, I also know a VER VER posh family whose youngest boy is named Scipio. After the Roman Scipio Africanus. Yup. They call him Skip. I wonder whether the potential of this name holding him back even crossed his parents' mind (from their position of privilege). He is grown up now, and attends a very prestigious music conservatoire.

Woah, Scipio rocks! :)

That is in a different class altogether from Beyoncé all those silly made-up names.

PercyFilth pregnant with a boy? I DARE you.

I might, if I had my time again

Haha! We're finding out the sex in about 2 weeks. Whatever it is in there, it won't be a Scipio!

Now I have to get pregnant again because I really want a child called JavenRavenKai-Kaven. :o

I have a Jayden, but I know it's an ok name in the future because I got it from Star Trek.

Boo brilliant! Maybe I should call this baby I'm cooking, Data? Our cat is already called Tybalt Tiberius Tacitus Spock...

Great idea! (Actually it was Data that was called Jayden when he was on some planet with amnesia and some girl named him!)