has anyone ever told you their dearest newborns name and you've had to choke back a giggle?

[peacelily]

prob offend some people this but can't please everyone.

For me it was when uber competitive Mum at baby massage introduced me to Hubert.

Apols to any mummies of Huberts out there

still sniggering at child in DS year called Beckham.

Lovin' Jammy! There is a Boris at my dd's nursery. I expected his parents to be slightly unconventional types but they aren't!

OMG just checked DCs'names popularrity.
DD1 down 39000 from last year
DS3 down 300+ from last year
DD4 down 600= from last year

HOW AM I GOING TO EXPLAIN THAT TO THEM????????

on the other hand, DS2's unusual name up 40000!

I will wait to see next years results before I bring up the subject

LOL at Tundra and Permafrost. I bet someone, somewhere knows a Prairie. And a Rainforest.

Well a friend of mine's sister is a midwife and she tells me hundreds of weird names including:

Pocahontas Britney Larsson O'Neill (O'neill isn't the person's surname!)

Misty Dew

These names are no joke I couldn't help but laugh when I heard the first one!

When lecturing I did look slightly askance at a tutorial list that included Omar Sharif, and Elvis Goodluck

I already posted weird names on another thread, but I just remembered what a dear friend's cousin named his son----

JUBIL WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No, I am not taking the piss- that's really the poor little boy's name. But the lad is growing up in Boulder, Colorado so I don't imagine that many people will raise an eyebrow.

Also, in my hometown a couple moved in from LA and opened up a bar/restaurant called PANGEA.

Guess who they named it after?

Their daughter, Pangea!!!

rofl- i have just checked dds name on the popularity list to find she is listed as having dropped 34850 past year-

then i realised i had put that she was a BOY!!!

Now, had i been introduced to A (male) Millicent last year, i would have laughed!!

Needless to say Millie is in the top 50!!

There was a lady in Pregnancy and Birth mag recently (?) who had an older son Flash and triplets Blue, Moss and Wolf.

I would never name my child anything like that but I do kinda like them!

Gemzooks, my stats come from the Register of Births, through Ancestry.co.uk - I have a subscription, if you'd like me to check any names in particular...

Oh, and there are

3 Prairies

but no Tundra or Rainforests yet!

(And there is an Angel Buffy out there: is it really fair for diehard fans to do this to their kids? And I speak as the proud provider of services to two animal companions called Xena and Gabby...)

ah, thanks! It's ok. I'm sure the ones I like are not popular, but the ones DH AND me like probably are! It doesn't help that my son's name is on ghettobabynames.com or some such..

Persephone

Oooh...my name is #38!! My poor dd is only #289, although it is up from last year.

ariel and belle for twin girls.

Ralph (as in Lauren) and Christian (as in Dior) for twin boys....

I know a Phoenix (boy) which I actually quite like, he suits it, also know a Beowulf, not sure about that one.

Elvisa. Yes really.

lockets

our receptionist - yes employed by us- yes we pay her wages - yes we are sweet to her - said ' Nope dont like either of them' when we told her DS5 's names

she added that she had not liked ds3 or 4 names but they had grown on her

Teddy

And Dude

Love the name Teddy, its short for Edward.

Jabez is fab. He's a character in the novel The Manchester Man by G L Banks and also name of a pub near Manchester University - a bit of a meatmarket.

dds name has gone up 7010 places since last year!

A girl in dh's nursery is called Je'taime. I couldn't laugh about it though... too