What did your friends call their kids and you had to stop the snort..

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At the park the other day was a little girl called 'Vanilla'!!

I can't think of any names friends have given their children that I have found funny, but I must have really embarrassed a friend when I was pregnant with dd and had already chosen her name. We were talking about "awful" names and she picked out the name I had already chosen (unbeknownst to her) for my dd. I said nothing then, but when dd was born and I told her the name we had chosen, even though we were speaking over the phone, I could feel her go hot with embarrassment!

Also, the first thing my mum and dad said to me (separately) on the birth of ds3 was "Can you change the name?"!!!

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I love Tiger.

I love lots of uncommon names and have scanned the thread to see if any of my kids' names are on it.
Not yet.

My name is so common. There are always two or three of us in a waiting room or classroom at any given time. I hate that.

Don't mind saying: dd is Hayley (which I must admit, I regret calling her, but I didn't think it merited my friend's reaction) and ds3, following his brothers' Irish names, is called Finbar.

a little girl called Ethel!

and a boy called Launcelot!!!!!

Lockets excuse me if I don't say on here. As someone said they're so personal and I'm already scared of this thread.

I'm intrigued as to your choices too though.

But there will never be a consensus-whatever the name! Some will ove it,some will hate it.

My criteria (as well as liking the names)were that the names of my children were unusual enough for them to be remembered and that they were culturally relevant-am a very patriotic Welsh woman.

LM, that is so bloody rude (parents' comments).
That would have enraged me.

I like lots of these names! Wouldn't necessarily choose them, but still.

Not Addy-Blue, perhaps.
Or Oral.

But I like Digby!

I love Aneurin too! I wanted to call ds Nye but dh wasn't having any of it.

After 40 years MD, you become philosophical

Must say though, their reaction only made me more determined!

I don't think there is anything intrinsically wrong with my choice of names for my boys except that my link to Ireland is very tenuous (dh is Australian of Irish descent) and like ghoulgrrl said about Hamish, it seems odd to people that we call our boys Irish names.

LonelyMum - I love Finbar too!!!

Merlin and Boudicca.

I didn't know you knew him Zippy!

I know a Merlin in his 30s. He has got hair down to his waist but he doesn't wear a pointy hat.
Perhaps when the hair goes grey ...

My baby is Aneirin after the 10C poet.
Decided that Aneurin written down looked too much like 'aneurysm'.

Think Boudicca is (or on cusp of being) very trendy...

I know a female Merlin. Gorgeous name, I always thought.

I like Finbar too but I would end up calling him Fin.

The only Finbar I know is Finbar Saunders and his Double Entendres. (Viz)

All my children have their names shortened and lengthened according to my mood so Finbar is sometimes called Fin and also Finnibarus.

I think merlin sounds more like an adopted name than a given name, too druggy for me

Boidacea and Maximus... try and keep a straight face when you meet them!!

Mancmum, now they are funny! At least Maximus can be shortened to Max though, which is quite common and trendy.

i once knew a girl whose middle name was kafkaesque. that made me splurt. more recently i know a little boy whose middle name is naomi.

i love tiger as well - would like it for a girl but the only thing putting me off is the yukky "easy tiger" / sex "growl" connotations.