Today I met a woman who wants to call her baby...

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...Cedar or Cameo.

Whether it's a boy or a girl

Now that's two of the most unusual names I've heard for a while. Whaddya think?

I always think of this when I hear the word Cameo. It would be very cruel to call a child after Larry whathisname.

Cedar is quite nice, actually, although I wouldn't be brave enough.

i know a Cedar!

April fool surely?

wat a weird name poor child lol

I still like Cedar this morning. My favourite names are the nature inspired ones, and I'd never heard of Cedar but think it's nice.
If you want nature names it's difficult to find boys names. Girls can have flower names easily.
Cameo I don't like however.

Seeker, my name is perfectly dull and i always have to introduce myself twice. I don't know why this is, maybe my accent, but i've never been bothered by it.

my sister had a doll called Excema when she was little.....

she'd heard the word and thought it would be nice name

brilliant

My neice called her kitten System because she liked the word. But there is a big difference between a kitten and a baby......!

I know a Cedar. It's a family name. It sounds a bit odd, but you get used to names, don't you.

Is their surname Wood or Part?

Well, last week I met a baby called Pluto

Or Withrosie?

How about Camay?

Camay and her brother Lux

Depends where you live, I guess. As a teacher in Hackney, I wouldn't bat an eyelid if I saw Cedar (might think ooh nice name) or Cameo on a register.

But then my daughter has a very unusual name and I am about to call my little boy something strange too...

cedar quite sweet for a girl (who lives in an eco house with long red hair) otherwise they are horrible esp cameo

PLEASE don't Umlella, or I'll have to tell the story of my db's stepchildren again!

do it umlellala, it's worth it just for the silence on the end of the phone when you tell the grandparents.

go on seeker, tell us the story, i haven't heard it yet.

Oh we have already decided and agreed, it's a definite- even with Seeker's scary story threat!

MiL loves the name (she is a bit of a bohemian hippy).
My mum hates it. Yes, we got the silence down the phone. Just as she hated dd's name (Aphra) but has now obviously got used to it .

Name is Skyler btw . Its pretty popular in America I think but quite unheard of here. We like Sky as a nickname too.

I find Cameo the more ridiculous of the two. Plenty of names are nature-inspired, so Cedar, although it wouldn't be my own choice is in theory no more strange a choice than Lily...

But Cameo. That makes me think of a bit part. My name is bit part.

If you're thinking of Skyler, you have to go the whole hog and spell it Schuyler. Skyler looks like a proprietary name for lifts or escalators.

Hmmm... Schuyler/Skyler, I keep going one way or another. we were gonna go with the anglicised ('made-up' ) version as I am pretty good with pronouncing names and even I wouldn't be able to do Schuyler on first look. I have a feeling Schuyler is pronounced more Dutch-ly anyway...

LOL at lifts or escalators. That's his company sorted then!

Umlellala, well done, lovely names.
I wasn't brave enough with DS1 and he has a fairly common name. I was too worried about what people would say and regret being influenced by others opinions.
DS2 is named after a beer. Well not really but the nature inspired meaning.

Woman at the hairdressers at the weekend was saying she is calling her baby son Love'elle (she took care to spell it out and point out where the apostrophe is going).

Poor poor boy.

dd2 has a little friend called Cameo girl). You do get used to it after a while!