Petal Blossom Rainbow...

[Fayecorgasm]

is what Jools Oliver has called her new baby! Baby got a baaaad name !!

thanks kitty - that was really interesting......i'm slightly disturbed by how much i now love the name Molli Malou tho....ha ha.

Germany has rules on names...there was some hoohaa about people wanting to call their child Pumuckl (a german Kids TV character) and parents were very put out that they weren't allowed to do it....

Pumuckl?!

IIRRC in Germany we had to hand in our application to register the birth and get the birth certificate and they then check whether the name is acceptable or not. You cannot have just any name you like. We didn't have a problem because dd's names are all regular established names so I don't know how stringent they are. I didn't encounter any dc in Germany with totally made up sounding names come to think of it

for those that are clueless about Pumuckl look here

I've been away for the weekend so am late on this one but I have to say: YUCK.

What will the next one be called

My money is on Maple Syrup Fluffy Cloud-a-belle

Belgo - really. Only other place I've come across it is in a Peanuts cartoon. Wish I'd met the fella. DH isn't quite as eccentric as his grandad but not far off.

Not keen on this at all. Of the three names I think Blossom is the better one and makes a better first name. My little sister went to nursery with a Rainbow and even then, back in early 80s I wasn't keen!

But their other little girls names, although still flower names, are normal names. I like Poppy and Daisy as names, Petal Blossom Rainbow I don't.

What was wrong with real names wth flower lins - Lily, Rose, Willow, Iris etc.

actually I'm wondering if name giving shouldn't be a bit more monitored by the state. On the whole I'm allergic to "state interference" but not sure about dc's names.

I have just been reading in a German magazine about an American couple who named their ds Adolf Hitler Campbell. Can you believe it?

Their dd is called Joyce-Lynn Aryan Nation Campbell and I suppose this one has a neo-nazi theme to it to but I don't see it: Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.

Compared to that Petal Blossom Rainbow sounds kind of nice

Seems social services have taken the dc away from the dp for the moment

i agree with hulababy. they shoudl have used another " proper" flower name - there are plenty lovely ones

i guess they will now HAVE to grow up to be slebs and not normal people. you cant be a maths teacher, sales rep or engineers called Petal

its a stupid name...but she won't end up CEO of a company will she? She'll end up in OK mag as a celeb that doesn't do anything.

Petal???? Why??? I keep hearing "aw'ryy pe'awl" - it don't sound no good.

zzz...shudder a those names....

I'm sorry but Petal is not a name!! Petula would have been better!!

Petal Blossom Rainbow is too much ! But its pretty. I love the name Blossom though, i want to call my daughter blossom, not alot of people like it though