This must be a joke, surely?

[babynamelol]

I was looking through the Telegraph birth announcements for name inspiration and to try and gauge popularity of names etc. I came across a recent announcement of the birth of a baby with a perfectly normal name with siblings named Maggot and Compost . Surely nobody could name their children Maggot and Compost?

I would imagine they're either pets, or kids nicknames.

Their last name is also nature related!

I didn't think that they could be pets, makes sense I suppose.

Family nicknames for Margot and Conor?

Haven't we had this thread before?

They've been noticed here before:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3064808-Really-hoping-these-are-nicknames

It's not unusual. My DC are called cowpat and flea.

I actually really like flea as a name.

Mystery solved

I really want to know what the new baby's nickname is now.

It'll be Margot and Cosmo, and an in joke!

Posh people are allowed have these in jokes. Plebs wouldn't be indulged to the same degree.

Jago known as Compost and Margot known as Maggot...

Urgh.

Tossers.

And little Ivo will presumably be known as Pustule? Dry rot? Woodlouse?

Strange people. It's almost as though the aristocracy is inbred and eccentric

Why would they need to mention nick names in the birth announcement?

How do you pronounce Jago? I'm imagining it as Iago but maybe the j is hard?

YAR-go

I think it's Jay-go

Jago, Margot and Ivo?

Okay, then.

God OP, how could you been such a nam-ist??

You're upsetting my little Absess