Ancient baby names becoming more popular

[TerrierandJune96]

I saw this and thought it was for real at first. Very funny.
eveningharold.com/2014/04/24/batchcock-and-marzipan-among-ancient-names-returning-to-popularity/

I was wondering what is strangest old name you've come across. I used to work with a guy called Peregrine.

Futuristically, I work with an Anakin.

Star Wars, I take it - not the headache cure. Cool!

Have you read that article? "Hamlet is well known thanks to playwrite J K ROWLING" ......

and the child at the and is dribbling and Smelly....

did anyone proof read that thing?

Did you proof read the OP, sneaky?

When I was a kid, my mother had a friend called Marge. I was convinced it was short for Margarine.

No because otherwise I would have written end instead of and wouldnt I.

Having said that I dont publish factual articles :-)

Sneaky, I think the point is that the article in question is not "a factual article"....

Read the OP, sneaky.

I think the article is tongue-in-cheek, spoof, funny. Not to be taken seriously! Anyway, I love Shakespearean names but never had the guts to use them! Ophelia? Perdita? Lysander? maybe not!

Missing the point I know, but Anakin should count as an old name, not a futuristic one. Star Wars is set in the past:

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Batchcock and Marzipan! Love it

There was a similar - albeit serious - article on Mail Online yesterday about medieval names becoming popular because of Game of Thrones, although the only name mentioned with any relevance to GoT was Ned! Think Millicent, Alfred, Winnie, Wyatt...

And Monkey - we were at the Shakespeare birthplace museum at the weekend and I did mention Ophelia as a possibility to DH, which got the thumbs up! Then again, his top girls' name is Arya - maybe there's something in that GoT name theory after all!

I went to school with an Ophelia. She had tiny dreads and was as far away from Shakespeare's version as you can imagine...

True Trapper. I stand corrected. I don't have quite the froth of knowledge of SW as 5 yo ds!

Go for Ophelia Amyrose !