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I like uncommon names for boys and girls. Celebrities choose weird names for their baby which creates unique identity. My favorite website for baby names and parenting topics is :

Babynology.com

Babynology.com

I was in a supermarket behind a young mum with two small blonde girls, one was called Trinity [there were only 2 of them] and the other was called Ebony!! A bit like calling a black child Blanche. I hate the advent of surnames for first names, like Mackenzie, Delaney etc, also the Shannon, Cheyanne and Savannahs of this world.
Phyllis is popular with the over 80's, but recently met a baby called Audrey and another called Ivy. Some of the old names are coming back like Martha, Matilda, Grace etc. Names certainly date one, there are a lot of 20 year old Kylies around.

My family are obviously traditionalists when it comes to boy's names: six of the top ten are the names of my sons/grandsons/nephews. Similarly my granddaughter's names also appear, but my daughters have more unusual names. During their more difficult teenage years it was sometimes the one thing I was credited with getting right!

DH, as a magistrate, was questioning a woman and asked if she had children.

"Yes,"she said, "Two, one is Sue."
"And the other one?" asked DH.
"Cheyenne."

Best heard really!

I remember running home to tell my mother that I wanted to change my name to Sharon...this was circa 1947. She turned a horrid shade of puce and spluttered...'that's sooooo common.'
If I'd had a daughter, I would have named her Amelia. Had my miscarried son lived, he would have been Alexander. My three sons have traditional names and my youngest has Alexander as his second name.

Life might be a lot simpler if we were to follow the old naming patterns that were, for the most part, pretty strictly adhered to in times gone by (http://arms2armor.com/Genealogy/names1.htm). It would certainly make life easier for the genealogist of the future and would also relieve the poor parents of today who seem to be trying to outdo each other in their desire to give their offspring an unusual or unique name. It seems to take at least two generations for a name to come back in vogue, or be cool again. I have a Pierce and Seth in the US and a Samuel over here. Sam's soon to be born baby brother is currently nameless as it is proving too difficult to come up with a name that goes with Sam, sounds good on its own or in an abbreviated form, goes well with his surname and that both parents agree upon. Sam's choice (aged 2) is Ptolemy

When I was expecting DS2 I was into Arthurian legends and fancied an Arthurian name - Gawain, Geraint, Tristan were favourites but not with my ex. We had given DS1 a good Scottish name, so he chose Martin which was fine by me. When DS1 was in infant school, there were five Jasons in his class - named after a character in a TV programme.

My ex-SIL named her son Wayne, after Wayne Fontana! I don't think the poor lad ever lived it down, he was a slip of a boy and very shy....

My 5 month-old granddaughter is called Mabel. I always associated that name with my late great-aunt so think of it as an elderly lady's name. My grandson is called Charlie. Great-aunt Mabel had a brother called Charlie. My son did not know these names were old family names when he decided what to call his children.

There are three Florences in my GD's class.

My hairdresser gave birth yesterday to her second son Frank, the first boy is called George.
Her friend, also a hairdresser at the same salon, has a 3 week old Maisie, and Ruby.

My dgcs are Megan Ella, Amber, Roman Bo Ming and Savannah Mai Lan (sorry Dorsetpennt)

crossstitch I always think of Mabel as Mabel Lucy Atwell's chubby babes!

Just remembered, when I was in hospital after having DD the girl in the opposite bed had had a boy, who she named Harold, after his father! I suppose he would have been called 'Harry' eventually, but I often wondered how he got on....

Ella46, Mabel's middle name is Rose and I found an old postcard drawn by Mabel Rose which my DIL has framed and put up in the nursery.

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My mum was called Queenie but the vicar (1918) refused to christen her Queenie so she has Doris on her birth certificate.

I wonder what the miserable old devil would make of todays names?

being 'blessed' with the name Audrey (not Mollie - that is just a nom de plume) I have found it is far more common in N America (pronounced Oddrey) but very few of my vintage or younger share this name. Oh and I hate being 'Aud'
my son is a John, and my Grandson a 'Thomas' - so nice to use the old standard names.

I was born in 1947 and my mum wanted to call me Sharon but my dad wouldn't let her as he'd never heard of it and so I became Christine. Boring then as there were quite a few in my class but I'm not sorry now, especially as I come from Essex.

I had only met one other person with my name until my brother in law married soneone who already had a daughter with the same name. He eventually adopted the child so there are two people in one family with unusual names. Apart from our neice I have only ever met 4 other people with my name. I hated it until about 5 years ago and now tolerate it. My mother's maiden name was Tracy which my granny wanted her to use as my first name - luckily she, predictably, chose the more snobby route.

Doris, Gladys, Eunice, Hilda, Cyril, Cedric, Percy, Oswald - I can't imagine any of these names coming back. Which probably means they will be trendy next year! I used to know a Eunice who must now be 50-something. Were Cedric, Percy and Oswald characters from Walter Scott?

I once heard a child shout: Eyengell, you seen Precious?

I've often thought how difficult it must be being a celebrity and having to think up an unusual name for any offspring, which is obligatory if one is famous. But find Shiloh Pitt rather confusing [spoonerism ].....

crimson!

crimson never thought of that!!

Two of my nephews are Alfed and Albert named after my dad and grandad. Now there are lot's of Alfie's but 21 yrs ago it sounded very old fashioned!
My two grandsons have street names as their middle names! Hamilton ..the road where we lived next door to SiL & his family (DD & SiL were just 3 at the time!) and Hallam the road they live in now with the two boys!

I grew up with a lot of Margarets and the other names were Carol and Shirley, but I was glad when I moved to Germany to have name that was easy. I gave my daughters international names as well, as I suffered from an unusual surname and had to spell it out again and again. I wanted to spare them that.

Both my daughters have kept their own surnames after marriage and the children are called after the father in one household and after the mother in the other. Siblings have to have the same surname but apart from that the law leans towards Womens' emanzipation.