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

BooBoo, yes that is what it means. The name Jordan is hebrew for "flowing down" or "descending like the river...".

Oh yes - I used to hate it too - apols for being London-centric. Please feel free to insert name of leafy middle-class area of whichever conurbation you prefer.

What are the Wandsworth Rules?

Taylorsmummy and Lailasmummy, guessing your kids are Taylor and Laila. I love both names. Not that it means anything, just thougth I should say so.

Taylorsmummy! Calm down. I fear for your blood pressure

not the Wandsworth rules!!

Califrau - "Butterkist Butterkist ra ra ra"

i like Laila, not that my opinion matters..

thank you unquietdad for your amazingly perceptive, intelligent post, i will take that as a compliment.

thanks milkchocolate i love taylor too!

why should i calm down tho? would you calm down if you and yours were so blatently insulted?

Laila makes me want to go [air guitar] "daddle-daddle-addle OWww, nyow, nyow, nyow." Which is good.

Thanks. She is only called laila because my husband wanted to call her leela after a dr who assistant which i refused to go along with and I love lilah so we met in the middle. Have since learnt its arabic.

i know a taylor too, he is the cutest thing ever

please feel free to insult/praise my childrens names.

Tabitha (11)Murdo (9) & Hamish (7)

i will agree wholeheartedly with the praise and ignore the insults, because other peoples opinions of what i choose to name my children are really neither here nor there, unless they agree with me!

Are they not from Katie Morag books?

hellish - which one? I've made so many, you see.

Martha is getting quite popular again I think.

taylorsmummy,i love the name taylor but wasnt allowed it as i had budgie called taylorone day.....

Gorgeous names, i love 'em!

I wanted to call my daugther Linnea. After the Swedish botanic Carl Von Linnee. Husband not keen, but "she" turned out to be a "he".

noodle, i think one of the big boy cousins was called Murdo! well spotted!

we were going to move back to england when the boys were very small and I wanted them to have some of their scottish heritage. I'm still in poxy Glasgow though! ;)

Tabithas middle name is mhairi for the same reason.

I have a step-daughter whose name is on the list, which isn't quite the same thing, I appreciate, but I'm not offended in the slightest.

Do you know it's a girl Fio???! [jumps up and down excitedly] DD will aprove.. she and I love Dr Who

I would quite like to make DH have a vasectomy reversal and have a boy and a girl called Fox (as in Mulder, naturally..) and Sky.. as in, er.. the sky. And I mean it too.. (but not about the vasectomy reversal.. ho no!!)