Parents warned to stop calling their children Lily or Jack

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

From the Daily Mash:

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

Our puppy is called Lily . I hope at seven months we aren't too late to change her name, I don't want to call for her in the park and be trampled by a horde of little girls

Nope! Never heard of it before.

golddigger google it sometime. It's a bit silly but always topical and funny.

Will do.

I'm a lily - and growing up I knew NONE so who knows in 30 years it could be Juno and Rupert that there are loads of... Worrying too much about the popularity of a childs ne is pointless - trends change anyway

Best names are underused classics. I adore Mary and john they would stand out from all the lily jacks

I wanted Rafferty. DH said if I wanted to use a cat's name we could adopt one. Raphael and Stanley were also ones I liked, but DH said mutant turtles and flat children were poor role models. Eric and Gabriel were ruled out, too. DH was like this at every suggestion: But his was worse than any of mine!

I have a Lilian/Lily, called after her very working class grandmother, so I do challenge the idea that Jack/Lily are particularly working class, but it is slightly strange how they have become so popular and stayed that way for quite so long.

My dd is 13, so not in the current batch, but we have still met a few. She uses Lilian at school which is much more unusual. ds has a name that became super popular a couple of years after he was born (I think it's also been top ten for ten years), but where we live now it's so unusual that it's frequently misspelled.

Where are all the Jacks? I've never met one, ever. I know a few Lilys but would love to meet a Jack

DS2 aged 5 has a Lily, a Leela, and a Leila in his class

where are all the Jack's? I've never met one.

Come to the Ribble Valley, you will be spoilt for choice!