Doris and Ernest

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One of the One Direction boys has become the older sibling to boy/girl twins named Doris and Ernest.

Thoughts?

Even worse the poor girl is called 'Doris Poppet'. As a middle name.

Poppet? Oh. There's not much I can add to that.

Clearly their mum isn't a mnetter!

I love them too. I have a friend with a daughter named Doris (now 22), a very cool girl.

Poppet is a very silly name to give a child, even if it is the middle name.

At least Doris is established as a real name, even if it's not to everyone's taste.

How old is his mother?

Doris and Ernest are bloody awful names. The other names in his family are rather nice, but Doris and Ernest...

I actually feel quite indignant of behalf of poor, ugly named Doris & Ernest.

What hideous names to be burdened with.

She's around 40 I think.

Not sure about Doris but I do like Ernest - was my Grandads name :)

This is what I imagine when I picture an Ernest and a Doris.

Might out myself here but my ds, 7, is named Ernest. The only negative reaction we have had was from fil. Apparently he had fallen out with someone named Ernest many years earlier and therefore it was a terrible choice of name for his grandson.
Our ds really suits his name and so far we have never met another Ernest under the age of seventy!

It's the two names together that make me , it sounds as though she named a married pensioner couple rather than babies.

As said somewhere upthread, I quite like Ernest. Not in an "I will use it one day" but it's not a million miles removed from say, Arthur which I would like to use one day.

Hi Whippets I also have a 2year old Ernest, who is gorgeous and it really suits him (even as a baby - to whoever up thread said that!) I think the name is actually becoming popular, heard of a few little Ernies round us.

So all you grumpy (& judgy pants) people - the world would be very boring if we all liked the same names. Live & let live and concentrate on the name that you are calling your own child and not what other people call theirs!

I like Ernest because I like Ernie for short. As a child my 80+ year old next door neighbour was called Ernie. My six year old has a friend called Ernie and when I first heard my son mention him, the name did make me do a double turn and think awww! But it loses that aww when they turn 17 and turns into a snigger by the girls. I am not keen on Doris, think Ernest and Doris together seem so try hard.

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My MIL is Doris, and hates her name. She is in her 80s and feels its old fashioned.

I do like Ernest, though. Ernie, as a nickname.

everlong We do call him Ernie and his sister calls him Ern when they are playing. Mostly he does get called Ernest though.

Nice to hear of another little Ernie too roweena.

Simon Cowell appears to have called his baby Eric... Maybe he'll claim he was being ironic?

They sounds like names of people in their eighties.

Wouldn't be my personal choice.

Horrendous.

Wasn't his dad called Eric (for Simon Cowell)?

Ernest is the coolest name.

A brilliant writer, the bravest polar explorer, a revolutionary, a leading physicist....a fab comedian and a fast milkman all Ernest.

What's not to like?

Well we are Doris Day fans in our house so Doris sounds a lot of fun! I'm sure they are fashion-forward as Josie, Jean, Joan and Ethel were thought unthinkable not so long ago.