Baby Name website - BEST EVER!

[CaveMum]

Greetings all

I've been lurking on this site for a while now and thought it was about time I initiated myself fully and posted something.

I thought I would share with you lovely ladies (and gents) one of the best websites EVER created: www.notwithoutmyhandbag.com/babynames/

I often turn to it when I need cheering up as it is just hilarious and helps to remind me that there are some real fruit loops in this world.

"Unique" baby names are one of my pet hates - why does a name make a child unique? Surely they are unique already, unless they are a clone?!

Before you ask, no I don't have children yet - dh and I are in the "getting ready to TTC" phase at the moment, but rest assured I will NOT be naming my children D'Artagnen, Ceindrych or Aemezolina as some of the people on the Bad Baby Name website have/want to!

Enjoy

Not even Braynt? Bretlyn?

I have laughed at this site in the past, but the section on Welsh names is interesting - a long list of fairly standard traditional Welsh names, followed by these well-informed words:

"BOMB WALES NOW! Seriously, take any one of these words, put "Marie Johnson" behind it and try not to laugh. Now imagine the kindergarten teacher trying to say Fflur on the first day of school. That's right. We need to bomb Wales now.

Actually, I take that back. Having been to Wales, and having met no one with any of the above crimes...I mean, names...I think we should restrict bombing to this woman's house."

Because no one in Wales is called Arwen or Fflur. And she should know. She's been there.

The thing you have to remember with this site is that 99% of the posters, including the site owner, are in the USA. I think she has a point about the Welsh names (I'm half welsh myself): they have simply become "trendy" because of films pike Lord of The Rings.

Can you really see a kindergarten teacher in some backwater town in Akansas knowing how to spell/pronounce Fflur?!

The site is just a bit of fun.

I am in Boston, jet lagged(hence awake at crack of dawn), should be SWI(BDing or whatever acronym you prefer) as TTC but dh is across the pond (or should I say I am as we live in UK) and this has brightened my morning no end. Thank you

On unique names, I was on a train the other day with a little girl who appeared to be called 'Unique'... and her twin sister.