I would sooner poke my eyes out with a sharp stick than name my child....

[binker]

Kyle
Ellie
Jaden/Jayden
Chanelle
etc etc... and apologies if you have called your child any of the above
I put Ellie because a squillion little girls are called that.
Freya is a nice name but there are so many now - it really turns me against such names,no matter whether they are nice

no dont know her..dont want to

Ranvier and Golgi for twins, or Dendron and Axon

Or Bicuspid and tricuspid

Names are like anything else, they start off with the upper classes and filter down through to the working classes a few decades later, eg. I had a friend called Chelsea when I was living in London in the early 70's. She was born and brought up there. Now its as common as anything (in both senses of the word)

so if you don't know her,what's your 'exactly say no more' comment about then?

err, wasnt she a coke addict who had to have her septum sorted out with surgery?!

AGGH! Taylorsmummy, please!

Would you just chill out!

actually its me you should be telling to shut up!!

oh right, ok so cos her ds is called kye that makes it a no go, does it? pmsl

what has being a coke addict got to do with what she named her child?

think about it.

Shame we don't as a matter of course have one really cute name when we are little then rename for school and rename for beginning of adulthood. Then you could choose with you mood. I know plenty of people who use their middle names because they hate their first names so much.

My mums family took it to the other extreme her dad and uncles (about 8 of them i think) were all called william with different middle names but after three of four different middle names they just repeated. So, for example, there was little william joseph and big william joseph. But i spose when you have like 13 kids it probably gets a bit dull having to think of names.

There is some advantage to having a common name. At primary school in a class of 18 there were 5 of us called Catherine (apparently there was a series on Henry VIII on telly that year). It was great for claiming mistaken identity when you'd been naughty

God I love the name Inigo, and Hector too - the latter not uncommon when I was growing up in the highlands, not an upper-middle class name by any means.
My ds's name is on this thread but - I can think of lots of things to get waaaaay more angry about than whether or not his name is amusing!

think Hector is lovely, had it down for ds but dh refused point blank!

I like Inigo

inigo? what's that about? is it for a boy or girl?

er boy i think

inigo pipkins
hector's house

ahh sweet memories

Inigo - as in Inigo Jones the very famous C18th architect

Have you not heard of Inigo Jones?

no

she should have called him Charlie, of course.

BROGAN ???? wtf kind of name is that? it sounds like a shoe.

pmsl califrau!