The baby's called WHAT?

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Entertaining piece on baby names in The Times. the baby's called what

is that really the name of their child?

Piece inspired by Jordan, interviews with branding experts and people who make a living out of advising parents on names. Money for old rope, if you ask me.

am PMSL at 'heading to Oxbridge' names
Alcott & Graydon? WTF

oh ROFL at Maryanna Korwitts, the professional nameologist, who charges $150 to name your child. I tell you what, change the first syllable of her surname and you have a description of anyone feeble enough to take advantage of her 'services'

lol at tis line:

I tell him that Princess Tiáamii is the barely month-old offspring of a famous novelist, Jordan

since when was she a famous novelist ffs

Humphrey is about to become a hot name.

Wonder what Mdme Cushion will say about that!

I think the novelist comment was tongue-in-cheek. And in order to avoid any pre-conceived ideas.

Am thinking of changing my name to Maryanna and setting up my own business - five minute's effort for £75? Can't be bad!

LOLOLOL at there being two 'Uniques' in one class in a school in London

PMSL

What a lot of guff that Maryana woman talks. You may as well get an astrologer instead

rofl at "Through some universal law of irony, two eight-year-old Uniques are in the same class at a London prep school."

Lovely stripey kaftan down the page, pricey though

at Jordan now being described as a famous novelist.
How times have changed!

Oooh, Nadine!
I knew my time was nigh!

yes I really like that kaftan too

keep misreading Satran as Satan. Perhaps that's an unfortunate name then...

American actress and fake blonde Jenna Elfman just named her son 'Story'.

farking crazy.

I thought that too MrsJC

btw having trouble logging into FB today so I'm not stuck or anything

here are some good alternative names, from my office.

Uplighter
PinBoard (or you can use the more unusual pynborde if you prefer)
printer
Ipod (or go for Eyepode if you'd rather)

4real

Nadine, have been having problems too - seem to be in now though

I'm not

no me neither - it's died again

PMSL at the article. Especially love the comment from the Finnish person about wanting to meet a child called Egham.
I used to work in Egham - is is so well know that even Finnish people know it or is there indeed a person called Egham?

I am glad we named our children as we did, but when, the morning after delivery, I met up with 3 other mums on the postnatal ward who all named their dd the same as my dd I did get a bit worried!

But so far we have not met any other child with dd's name in her yeargroup at school. There is one in every yeargroup, but amongst her peers dd is the only one. Phew!

Ditto ds, it is a popular name, and there are plenty about, but he seems to be the only one in his yeargroup. In fact, I think there are only 2 with his name in the entire school of 300 pupils.

Not that it matters, but I would not like my child to be one of say 5 with that name. (There are a lot of duplicate names at our school, we have 3 Mia's, 5 Hannah's, 4 Thomas's, 2 Sam's, 2 Ellie's, 2 Ethan's, 2 Lea's, 2 Amelia's etc.
So I can see where the desire to have a 'different' name comes from. But I am too conventional (or is that boring?) to give my dc outlandish names. I would worry they would not live up to their name.