Parents warned to stop calling their children Lily or Jack

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From the Daily Mash:

www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/parents-warned-to-stop-calling-their-children-lily-or-jack-2013120481701

Finley, Milly and Jessica seem popular around here.

At work it's Thomas, Jayden and Madison.

I have siblings with those names

Where are all these jacks?

Ihave a jack and he has been through nursery and 3 schools and only met one other jack.

I don't know of any other jacks personally but 2 people from work have a jack. I know loads of children.

Never met a baby Lily either. The only one I know is 80+

That said i love the daily mash. Very funny

Well, that solidifies it - you can't believe everything you read.

“If we have another child we’ll probably have to give them a different name though. Maybe Lily-Jack.”

I'm pretty sure both Ian and Jack are variations of John, so Ian isn't a complete unJack!!

Lily-Jack is ok, and for the younger brother Lil' Jack is an option.
But people should just get brave and start calling their kids Jackass, Hijack and Carjack

And for girls there's always Tigerlily, Waterlily or, at a push, Lilyofthevalley.

Most classes have a jack or lily. Eve and its variants the most popular here at one stage one third of the girls in dds class named eve or a variant of eve. When names become so popular they lose all charm sadly. There are so many great names out there why do people all pick the same ones!?

kerala

probably because they like them. or it's a family name.

I'd ratherca few Jacks and Lilys than Cinnamon & Vanilla (twins), Fox or Leaf. just no

Meh. We also have an Alexandra (not that popular) and a Charlie (Charles). We chose them because we didn't want them to face a lifetime of ridicule for having names that we chose for the sake of them being different. And it was all we could agree on

In dd's class their are 4 Lily's. Two spelt like Lily, one spelt like Lilly and another spelt Lillie and she's in year 9!

"I'd rather a few Jacks and Lilys than Cinnamon & Vanilla,Fox or Leaf"

There is a middle ground - lots and lots of beautiful classic underused names that are outside the top 100!

There are 3 Lilys in my dd's class as well as 2 Ellies and 2 Harrys. It can be a pain, especially if they share the same surname initial!

There are SO many names - let's all be a little more encouraging of name diversity!!

That is one of the daftest articles I have seen.

[wry smile emoticon] Both my DDs have two other children with the same name in their year group. And we thought we were sooooo original .

Not Lily though

That is one of the daftest articles I have seen.

You do get that it was a joke don't you...?

We have lily's living on both sides of us....there are now 6....6!!!!! In ds class at nursery. (0-3 room)

8 girls I went to school with had babies this year.....there are two jacks, 3 lily or lily maes. Then an angel, navaeh and loki.

All the same around here. I like the names but so so overused. Article is hilarious. :)

When DD1 we chose a name we agreed on - not too common but not 'out there' - and got lots of comments about how unusual and lovely it was. Fast forward to nursery and school and we soon discovered there were a few variants of the name in her year, and several more in the years below.

You don't have control over the names others pick, and it's hard to predict a name rising from low 50s in the popularity charts to top 10 in a short few years.

It isn't Lily by the way (or Jack!) but my comment is directed at the people pleading for the underused names to be chosen to improve variety....

Nope

I posted this on FB convinced I had no FB friends with a Lily or a Jack.

Turns out I was wrong - luckily they have a sense of humour.

I know a lot of Jacks but not many Lilies - Isabellas however...

Gorgeous names - I blame Johnny Depp for popularising them

I don't know any Lilies and only one Jack. I do know 2 Raffertys, 3 Raphaels, 6 Isabella/Isabel's and thousands of Sophie's.

All the Raphaels and Raffertyz went UK the same baby group. The parents were very disappointed that their originality um wasn't.

It's Ben and Olivia that are v popular around here. Although there are 2 Lily's and 2 jacks in dd's class.

"You don't have control over the names others pick, and it's hard to predict a name rising from low 50s in the popularity charts to top 10 in a short few years."

No, but when a name like Jack/Harry or Lily/Evie is ALREADY very fashionable and in the top10 you could avoid it in favour of a less trendy name.

This did make me laugh. I have a very common name for my generation and in the antenatal clinic the other day- which seems to have a first names only policy- they called it out and six of us stood up!

Also, if we all chose more varied names then no name would ever end up being used by 8000 girls/boys in one year alone!

All the Raphaels and Raffertyz went UK the same baby group. The parents were very disappointed that their originality um wasn't.

You must live in a similar area to me - I know loads of Raphaels and a couple of Raffertys. There are loads of regional differences - my DSis (rural area) thought it so quaint and unusual there was a Stanley at DS's party. It's a fairly common name in north London.

golddigger you do know that the Daily Mash is a current affairs spoof!

I love the mash and have feeds on my FB. Really funny.