unusual names for children these days:

Gally was your mum at school with my mum..she claimed a Pearl Button too in her class!

But my brother did go to school with Neil Down..I met him!! I knew Henrietta Bullock too!

I love the name Imogen, Gally.

My DD3 is named Imogen - last born daughter which was quite appropriate, if somewhat 'archaic'!
My Mum was at school with a Pearl Button and my MIL went under the delightful moniker of Gladys Edith

I know someone whose middle name is Finalia, because she was definitely the last child.

maybe she'd been on a trip to the US? Though it's less 'rude' a term in US than in UK.. though said more! e.g Fanny bag

Wonder why she suddenly decided to change her name at that age!

I had a great aunt Fanny who in her 80s decided to change her name to Margaret.
She also always cooked with a hat on

It is not uncommon among some Spanish-speaking countries for boys to be christened Jesus. Even as an atheist, I sometimes found this one a bit difficult, especially, for some unknown reason, on the telephone.

Forzanonna, I used to have an Auntie Fanny, she had a fish and chip shop.

In our school in Kenya there was a girl called Census. Luckily she also had a much prettier African name.

What about the post Civil War (in America) when lots of children of ex-slaves were called names such as Emancipation. Equally, a number of posh girls were christened Diamond when their births coincided with Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. However, it's difficult to understand quite why a child my late father met in Africa in the 1950s was called Kodak.

My had an aunt called Ethel and I think there may have been another Aunt Ethel as well who was a very formidable person apparently. My godmother's best friend was called Ida.
I once worked with someone who christened her oldest son Aragorn (all the other children had quite ordinary names). I found him recently on Facebook and he's still using the name.

Yes - there was an Auntie Ethel of a similar age to my Gran as well.

My granny was also Ida; her sister was Ethel as was my mother. I'd like to say that the names stopped there but my cousin is also Ida.

My granny was Fanny (known as Ida, her middle name) - thankfully I wasn't named after her!

My niece has just produced her fifth child. A girl at last. She may stop now. She has called her Ezri, which I gather is Hebrew for helper? If she's hoping that shell take after her name, I just hope she's lucky!

I used to work with atruly beautiful girl called Crystal and YES she did marrya man with the surname Waters.

Prior to having children I made an effort to use up all my favourite names on family pets so's I couldn't use them on any unfortunate offspring, although most of them were quite inoffensive and would possibly be quite normal now.

When I was young(er) my favourite names were Tutankhamen and Nefertiti!
My kids don't know how luck they are!

When I was expecting DS2, I was into all things Arthurian and seriously considered Gawain and Galahad. Luckily exOH had other ideas.

When my mother was expecting me she asked my brother, then aged 4, what names he liked, my father was reading him stories about King Arthur and after thinking about it said if I was a boy he wanted Galahad and if a girl Guinevere! Fortunately, by the time I was born he had forgotten about it and my parents settled on Sheila

I worked with a Thor , Woden , twig and Branch, that were all new traveller children, a poor child called Ocean, whose surname was White, so sounded like a paint colour, and dear little thing called Champagne, who really wasn't

David Bowie called his son Zowie, but changed his name to Duncan in later life...

I can't understand anyone calling their child Satchel (Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's daughter).

1920's & 30's names are having a resurgence:I know of several under 5s called Ivy, Stanley, Bertie,Mabel, Connie,Elsie and Esme

my pals at school were Jacqueline, Janice, Carol, Helen, Mary, Jeanne, Josephine Kathleen and Dorothy. Close friends now & of similar age to me: Patricia, Lyndsay, Angela, Corinne, Jill, Maggie, Janet, Jennifer(Jenny) and Peter,Paul, Hugh, Brian , David, John for the men!,

I believe that both of Frank Zappa's kids changed their names when they grew up - don't blame them!