Met a baby with a brilliant name ..... [grin]

[ghosty]

The other day I met a lady with a 3 month old baby boy with a great name ....

Wait for it ....

Spike

Hands up if you would ..... (pmsl)

What is it with parents when they start spouting the "he/she will never get a job with a name like that" - what fecking century are they living in? Been on the receiving end of this after naming my DS.

I love unusual names and it's nice to break the mould. Heck everyone in my family has the same two male names if boys or same two female names if girls, alternating down the generations - how fecking boring is that!!!

frod? they name d their kid after a f hobbit?????? madness, madness i tell you!

Spike Milligan, Spike lee......

Spike: bloody marvelous name.

Like Elmo too!!

Frodo is a hobbit! Talk about terrible taunting at school! Hope he is tall that poor boy, and hope his feet aren't hairy....

I quite like Spike too, don't know if I'd choose it myself tho....

When my sister had her dd there was a baby in the same ward called Lettuce Louise Don't know what her surname was

I have a friend called Princess

Spidermama - I like your RL name - don't think it's common or boring at all.

I think it's nice that everyone has different tastes in names - when I was a teenager all the boys I knew had nicknames because their real names were all either John or Kevin (and nothing wrong with those btw) and it was too confusing!

Actually I quite like some of the names that were very common when i was a child (like Mary) and then fell out of use because they were too common

Aw thanks KTP.

i do quite like Spike though..

met a little boy in the park once and he came over after taking a liking to my dd's . his mum came and sat near us . i asked her waht her ds name was and when she told me i burst out laughing . she wasnt impressed.

he was called

MOLE !!!!!!!!!!

lockets - ds1's middle name is Stanley. I love the name and it would have been a first name if I didn't have a stupid hang up about people in the same family having the same initials!

All this hearing odd names in the park - I call my dss by the most bizarre names, and I probably do it in public without realising. So maybe there are threads out there saying "OMG I heard a mum calling out "sausage roll" in the park today - whoever named their child that?"

The 'best' name I ever came across was that of a girl in primary school. Everyone called her by her nickname, Candy, but, for some unknown reason, when I met her again in our teens (we were going somewhere with a whole group of people), I addressed her by her full name: Candida. No wonder she never spoke to me again!

Dd has a child coming to her birthday party called 'Heavenlée'.

i know a Candida. She's posh.

I've known a few Candida's. Not for me, but it's a name that's been around for ages.

I met a Storm today, little girl.

I actually like Spike, but agree is better as a nickname rather than registered birth name. Contrary to others, I think it works very well as a name for a Captain of Industry - suggests balls, a spiky personality and the leader of the gang.

LOL at Mole. Why????

i do love the name Candida. but ruled it out of my list of "possibles".

the Spike i knew is very quiet and shy not really leader of the gang type. not very spikey at all. sweet and gentle.

that's the problem with certain names I think - they may fit a certain type of personality well, but can be a reason to mock if they don't fit. Spike is great if child is cheeky, but doesn't really go with sweet and gentle.

and when I say reason to mock, I mean something for kids to latch onto in the playground and use to tease.

I know a Spud

The other day I was at a toddler group the other day and I heard an irrate mother bellow across the room to a rather sweet, cheeky looking 4 yr old .........

BERNARD!!!!!!!

PMSL

Fabulous!

I always imagined all Bernards to have beards. Dunno why, but this is the 1st exception to the rule I've met!!

I once went to coffee morning with a lady called Delight Box - No word of a lie. Her three adorable children were called Olive (6), Stanley (4) and Fisher (1) Bless!

Unusual names are cool - went for very bog standard sort of names myself though.

Lol, my dh is Bernard and he hasn't got a beard! (he knows he wouldn't get near me if he did, yuk!)

I always think bernards have a beard too and this is from playing lots of Guess who? as a child!

Oh and his son from his first marriage is Bernard as well, so there's another 'exception' for you .

I was looking at 'horses for sale' the other day and there was a horse called Bernard. Now he did have a beard!

even though i've jsut looked and bernard doesn't have a beard maybe it was from the fake guess who game which is called "Who is it?"