today's birth announcements in the Telegraph- what do you think of the names?

[IwishIwereonthebeach]

Jake a brother for Oliver

Evelyn Grace

Edward James a brother for George

Alice

Eliza Isobel Sophie

Albert Morgan William a brother for Iris

Lily (mother's name; Barley Moss (cool!))

Charles Douglas

William Henry

Amelia Lily a sister for Elodie and Eva

Eliza Honor

Pretty okay.
Standard middle class names.

I generally prefer the names in the deaths column

Well, some of them are upper middle, but it's the Torygraph, innit?

Why?

Nowt out of the ordinary that I can see.

Lol at CHippy Minton.

Dh always reads out the births in the Times and laughs at the ridiculous names. It's his current obssession!

Love Albert and Iris together.
Eliza is OK
the rest are quite dull / run of the mill, spot them everywhere names - but they are fine.

Hmmm. So the Movers and Shakers aren't calling their children Dez'rey or Sequoia. I wonder what that tells us?

Deaths column better for trend-spotting. Can you give us the deaths, so we can see what might make a comeback?

Just for the hell of it. Ok dead people:

Isaiah Samuel

Michael

Mark

Donald

Richard

Ron

Jean

Joan

John Hugo

Alastair

Christine

Pam

Thomas

Yvonne

Bernard

Ian

Elizabeth

Peter

Diana

Oliver

Brian

Eileen

Dolores

Arthur

Ann

Rosemary

Olive (nn Babs)

Beryl

There are some really nice names here.

Adore Eliza. Always have.

From the deaths I'd tip:
Michael
Richard
Diana
Rosemary
for a comeback. Any takers?

apparently Rose is the new Sharon/Tracey... And I love Charles as a name (nothing to do with the fact that 7 week old Charles is smiling at me)

I love the obits.

wow, way more deaths than births!

Does anyone wonder why it is considered correct to say 'X, a brother/sister for Y' - as if X was a particularly expensive heirloom from Selfridges.

suppose it's so no one gets left out..

For some reason, I'm quite taken with the name Isaiah. Apparently, he was nearly 99 and had been devoted to the Cruickshank family for 75 years and 4 generations.

One of them was also a Dowager Lady.

On the births, Eliza seems to be getting more popular, but I still think it sounds old.

how do you pronounce Elodie? Is it like Melody?

I love Yvonne, Beryl and - strangely - john hugo

I like Donald. Baby Don. Well finding out sex tomorrow so will know which way to go.

I missed the local paper's baby competition this year, so can't find any silly names to torture my parents with.

LOL, shall we guess which one was the Dowager? I'm guessing it's Babs

chippy minton. My son is a Richie/Richard. I liked Archie but thought it was too predictably of the moment.

From that list in the torygraph I like Eliza Honor. Donald is very cool. Love that.

I love Olive - it is DD's name (she's not nicknamed Babs though!)