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

[redhotdiva]

ww do you really know 2 felicity's??? the oly fliss i know is a 50yr old and felicity kendall!!!

[GibbonInARibbon]

I have an unusual name for this country

was hell growing up but like it now

[snowleopard]

Yes I like it too - am really annoyed that I got round to procreating so late and everyone else got in first.

[Inigo]

I think you'll find I am Inigo Montoya. Now, you killed my father. Prepare to die.

[AnneJones]

Well, who am I then?

[mrsmalumbas]

I agree about the Ellie - loads of them! I live in a very small village and we have an Ella, an Ellie, and an Ellen. At the playgroup we go to there are three Ellie's.

The Ellen is mine. In my defence it is a family name (my Nanna's) and we lived abroad when she was born and had no idea how popular this name was!

Naming is a tricky business.

[ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands]

Erm.. I think your apology must be a little insincere to be honest binker, because if you were worried about offending people you wouldn't start a thread featuring names that, to be a fair, quite a lot of perfectly "normal" families choose.

They may not be your choice, but so what? The world would be a boring place if we all called our children by names only you deemed acceptable.

And besides, there are plenty of "worse" names than those you have chosen to pick on. For instance, there is a "Beckham" at my friend's DS's nursery!

[AnneJones]

There was a Wave of Sarahs when I was at school - four in my class, let alone the rest of the year. Classic names are becoming increasingly rare, so there'll be a wave of those in a few years again no doubt. I can't wait for the Linda/Pamela/Keith wave to start (I think of these as 70s names but then I grew up then and these were parents' age peoples names so I guess more 50s)

[allgonebellyup]

i know 2 felicitys.

these names are just asking for trouble imo:

chantelle
kyle (again)
jordan
jayden (again)
melody
mitchell
twirpy names like sapphire

[GinGirl]

Oh oh oh.....!

(GinGirl jumps up and down excitedly realising that other people have heard of/seen 'The Princess Bride' favourite film of all time)

Can I be the woman married to Miracle Max! (wanders off screeching Liiiar, Liiiiarrr!)

[AnneJones]

Witch!

[bozza]

I was born early 70s and there were lots of Joanne/Clare/Sharon/Rachel/Sarah etc. But the parents names were things like Denise/Linda/Valerie/Christine/Brenda etc.

[lailasmum]

hate the name colin but two of my friends have named there new babies it and its just hideous. There are not many other names I truly hate.

[haarpsichordcarrier]

I have never even heard of Jayden

[GinGirl]

Watch who you're calling a witch, I'll have those ROUS's on you before you can blink.

('Rodents of unusual size, I don't think they exist.'.......Ahhhhhh)

[haarpsichordcarrier]

colin are you sure??
nigel, that's due for a revival I think

[alex8]

really? 2 babies named Colin!

[haarpsichordcarrier]

"as you wish"
god I thought that soooooooo sexy when I first saw that film

[harleyd]

my uncle is colin, he is in his 40's! its awful for a new baby.

[TaylorsMummy]

you'd rather poke your eyes out with a sharp stick? really? i think your talking crap.if you don't like a name,fine,don't use it,but don't slag off other people's choices.it's not nice and there's no need for it

what are your kids called, Hugo and Clementine?

[GinGirl]

Is it sad, that I still think it's a lovely thing to say/have said to you! Though obviously not terribly good for one, unless as pure and wonderful as Buttercup... now if only I can persuade DH....

[Blandmum]

I know a smashing little boy of 7 called Hugo. And a real 'boys boy' as my mother would have said, a real tyke, lovley lad!

[CountessDracula]

dh wanted dd's middle name to be Melody after some Rolling Stones song (melody, it was her second name)

Then I found out it was about a prozzer or something so vetoed it

[allgonebellyup]

has any one here got a child named Jordan?