Unusual but not poncey. Go on then.

[GreenElizabeth]

Unusual just means outside the top 100...

erm... Jethro?

Sparky

pmsl @ slubber

Stop giving my name away Slubber!

well if Elizabeth and haribo go for it then it's the start of a trend

I'll get it in the top 100 - you'll see. Once the story of the cat it was named after hits the evening news, hormonal mums everywhere will be using it...

MN is always ahead of the meeja anyway.

sorry Elizabeth for Sparky hijack

Roscoe

I like these names but I want to see what kind of a pasting they get, so I'm throwing them out there

Valerie, Melanie, Jillian

Roscoe is nice, like that. Richie, Glen, Gordon??

Victor

Heathcliff
Linton
Hareton
(Wuthering Heights fan)

rufus and clara

OK... just did a quick search on some of my fave names and can suggest

Ellen
Joy
Cressida (that may count as a tad poncey in some quarters, though)
Gregory

(dd2's name is there; dd1's is in the top 100 but in the 80s)

No that's poncey. If they were from a Danielle Steele novel that would not be poncey.

Peter is a non-poncey but unusual name.

Good list Ellbell, apart from Cressida. The arm flies off the ponce scale with Cressida I'm afraid.

Ellen, Joy, Gregory, Victor, Peter, Jillian, Valerie, Melanie, Richie.

I'm compiling a list of approved-non-poncey names for mumsnetters.

(I've gone off Gordon in the last 2 minutes)

Hatrick, I'm sorry but your names do not make it on to my list either. Miranda is Ponce Personified.

Gail is pretty actually. Gael less like part of Abigail.

Jennifer
Tamsin
Rosamund
Rosalind (both of those can be shortened to something more popular but less poncey - Rose, Rosie - but you can have the long version for 'best'!)
Corbin (probably a bit poncey, but sounds 'solid' not airy-fairy)

Hmm... Cressida could be poncey, I know. I knew one when I was little and she was lovely (and quite ordinary) so it doesn't 'feel' quite so ponce-tastic to me.

Reuben is my fave name although DH said we couldn't call DS that because it was too Jewish!

Elliot is nice too as is Harriet for a girl.

but Gael is like Gaol

What about anything anyone was named in the 70's, you know, normal names!

Reuben is a great name. No more Jewish than Ben or Nathan. Anyway, Jewish names means names from the (Old) Testament. Tell your husband!!

Reuben definitely makes it on to my non-poncey-pre-approved names list.

Jennifer if totally non-poncey but it's non-interesting too. I hope nobody has a baby Jennifer. Unlikely, but sorry to anybody who does.

What are everyone's friends' mums called? (To avoid naming your own mum and causing identity discovery...)

Beatrice, Gloria and Hyacinth. ONE of those names is my mum's.

My friends' mums are called Margaret, Helen, Carmel, Noreen, Patricia,