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Baby name challenge

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seeker · 28/07/2008 18:11

Just to prove you don't have to go "made-up" to give your child a name that no one else in the school has, I challenge you all to come up with names that are real, proper people names (not the names of geographical features, cars, wines or plants) that nobody on here knows anyone under 10 called.

I'll start.

Barbara, Monica, Sharon, Agnes, Alan, Grant, Trevor, Jeffrey and Malcolm.

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hana · 28/07/2008 18:11

oh you're right!
and I"m a teacher!

Dragonbutter · 28/07/2008 18:12

but those names are a bit rubbish seeker?
except maybe agnes which is quite nice.

hana · 28/07/2008 18:14

I love Malcolm

( I do teach 3 Colm's though, that's an awful name....)

LynetteScavo · 28/07/2008 18:14

My cousins 1yo is called Alan.

seeker · 28/07/2008 18:16

But that's just fashion, dragonbutter. My mother wanted to call me Emily a lot of years ago and was persuaded not to because it was so weird and dull and old fashioned and old ladyish!

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Dragonbutter · 28/07/2008 18:19

DS's middle names are John and Richard.
Haven't seen many of those around.

But middle names are different I suppose.

singersgirl · 28/07/2008 18:21

I know an Agnes and an Alan (both under 10) and a Malcolm who is 13.

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choccypig · 28/07/2008 18:41

I know a rl Barbara (aged 4)

LadyJogsAlot · 28/07/2008 18:42

op, i taught a barbara, she would be 7 now!!

choccypig · 28/07/2008 18:42

Janet, I've never met anyone younger than older than me..

choccypig · 28/07/2008 18:43

Didn't want to say "younger than me" cos you'd think it's my name.

TheFallenMadonna · 28/07/2008 18:46

I know an Alan aged 4.

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frazzledoldbag34 · 28/07/2008 18:49

My friend's DH wanted to call their baby Roy (if it had been a boy).

Thankfully it was a girl.

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frazzledoldbag34 · 28/07/2008 18:50

Oh and actually we met a 6 year old Monica on holiday last year. It suited her.

frazzledoldbag34 · 28/07/2008 18:52

Oh yes and a friend has a baby called Stanley.
Which I really like but she gets loads of negative comments about his name.
Boo

TheFallenMadonna · 28/07/2008 18:54

I know three Stanleys under the age of 10. V popular around here.

nobodysfool · 28/07/2008 18:56

Nobody would call a baby Sharon or Tracey here is Essex!

hw2004 · 28/07/2008 18:57

I'm called Hilary and I have not met anyone under the age of 30 to be called that. Not surprised - i hate it!! DH says it's a librarian's name (no offence to librarians!!)

silverfrog · 28/07/2008 18:57

Caroline
Deborah
Colin
Sheila
Patricia
Wendy

iarel · 28/07/2008 18:58

betty, harriet, archibald?

hw2004 · 28/07/2008 19:01

Iarel - I know at least 3 harriets at ds' nursery. in fact if this baby had been a girl it was on my final 3 list.

frazzledoldbag34 · 28/07/2008 19:05

Humphrey?
Hermione?
Vera?
Vincent
Kenneth
Keith
Can't imagine it somehow.....

I know a baby Harriet actually.
And doesn't Jonathan Ross have a Betty?

I also know a baby Reggie.....presume his full name must be Reginald?!!!!

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