Apple?????

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Gwyneth and Chris have delivered a Granny Smith!!!!!

Anna Ryder Richardson - oh please !!!

Whjat was Richard Gere on when he added the name JIGME!? I can cope with all the others, but FFS!

Dd1's diminutive name comes out as 'Apple' in predictive text - maybe Gwynny and Chris announced the news to the media by mobile phone, and it's all a cruel mistake!!

Maybe they've got a sponsorship deal with Apple Mac's? If the next one's a boy, he's going to be Ipod!

I guess they were trying to be unique and ended up just being silly.

I have heard of a few girls called Plum though, which is worse. Of all the things they tell you to think about when naming a child as well. Apple Martin actually is a bit close to Apple Mac!

I quite like it.

Someone on here once said that a child's name should pass the Sainsbury's Test ... IE. You should be able to shout it in the middle of Sainsbury's (when your toddler has wandered off) without feeling silly ...
Picture the scene: Gwynnied doing her weekly grocery shop in Sainsbury's. Standing in the Fruit & Veg section, she notices that her little darling has disappeared ....
Wot a larf

What were they thinking? - they were just asking for the headline "Gwyneth gives birth to apple".

could it be a windup???

Just followed the link, can I put insome mitagation for Catherine Zeta Jones' choices?

Dylan and Carys are both Welsh names, and she is Welsh. Carys mean, iirc, loved one.

Some of the names on the first link were fairly normal, like the person who named their son Liam (Calista Flockhart?).

Our local paper held a baby contest and one of the entrants was a little girl called Jezebel. Presumably no one had dared to tell the mother that this has certain connotations....

Lou33- FYI-Richard Gere is a tibetan buddhist and Jigme is a tibetan name. He is a student of the Dalai Lama. Most Tibetan Buddhist children are given names by the local Lama(my older daughter's buddhist name is Thuptan Dolkar, but most people have no idea of this name it is just her spritual name given by my Lama whose first name is Thuptan)

It's like helena christianson who called her ds mingus. I'm sure it has some resonance in her native country and means 'warrior' or some such but over her it just sounds like a horrible name kids would call one another ('you big fat mingus'

Apple..... hmmm
Least it's original. I did read at one point that they were going to call the baby Bruce, after her father - whatever the sex! I wonder if she'll grow into it and be quite sweet and round? I once taught a girl called Bambi who was, thank the lord, very delicate-looking with huge eyes. Imagine if she'd been a real heffer...

Pilot Inspektor is my erm, 'favourite' from Janh's link. What about Ticket Inspektor? Or Skool Inspektor for siblings?

Moomin, Mingus isn't Danish - it's a tribute to the jazzman Charles Mingus. However, I think Charlie would have been nicer and just as much as a tribute.

I quite like it too, to be honest, at least for a little girl. It makes me think of a rosy-cheeked toddler with chubby legs in red tights and a little triangular dress

aloha - Ofsted Inspektor - sounds more exotic, don't you think?

Tax Inspektor has a certain ring to it too

It may well be Tibetan, but most people will think he's just being rude! Still awful, MUCH worse than Apple.

Blimey, 9lb 11oz, ouch, that made me cross my legs when I read it in the paper this morning - dd was 9lb 8 and that was bad enough, poor Gwyneth. Any news on how the birth went? She was aiming for water wasn't she? Apple though? Weird, even by celeb standards.

I'm beginning to like it actually. At least it's a nice word, unlike Moon Unit or Blanket. It's kind of up there with River Phoenix and his siblings.

www, the baby was early apparently (good job too at that size!) the original reports of the pg said the baby was due "in the summer".

According to the press today it was a long labour. No other details.

I don't know how it is rude, but I'm not English. My point though(even though it was not clear) was the name was most likely given to the baby from Richard Gere's lama(The Dalai Lama) and there is no room for negotiation!

I missed her by two weeks! Maybe she's lying in my old room right now. www - both the main birthing rooms at John and Lizzies have huge pools surrounded by scented candles and dim lights, so I'm sure she would have made use of it at some point during the labour at least

www - with you on the ouch factor - ds was 9lb 13oz and I have a somewhat, ahem, larger frame that gwyneth.