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The 3 girls called Deja - they weren't to the Vu family by any chance?
The boy called Lino, he's going to be a walkover.

I'll get my coat.
Sorry can't hold back, Yanky, Yin, & Yong. were they triplets?
Some of these would make great car names, "The new Nissan Maxima" oh, http://www.nissanusa.com/cars/maxima
Of all these, the name that disturbs me most is Jaxxon.
Cyan? Presumably Magenta is in there somewhere.

I hope most of the "3 baby" names are traditional or family names. I know a Zadok, and a Xanthe. But Baileigh? Or Skyy??
It's a mystery why anyone would name their daughter Toyah.

Someone please stop me.
You have to know how they are pronounced of course. Presumably Baileigh is pronounced Bailiff - parents work at the Old Bailey. :-)
Only three boys named Kim?

Speaking as an Alex, it's good to have a name that can be given to a girl or boy.

Names will fragment as internet searches will result in people wanting to come up with unique combinations of names.
Can I introduce my daughters Acer, and Excel, and my son Firefox.
You made me inquisitive enough to look up my son's name (born 2010, but close enough). 16 Malcolms in 2012. Ah, but Scotland's separate! Hmm.. 9 in 2012. I hadn't realised the name was quite that *un*popular. I just thought it was middle of the road not terribly popular.

Both those numbers are up slightly from 2010, so at least he's very unlikely to be confused with any other children of the same name!
Md. - did they really think that was better than calling the poor boy Maryland?
Some of these names must surely have been written by parents who simply can't spell.
I think Md. is an Indian/South Asian conventional abbreviation for Mohammed, but often used as a name in its own right.

"Abbiegail"???? I once worked with someone called "Lindsae", and she, quite seriously, said that she was so named because her mother of no idea how to spell her name.

I find the presence of "Alfie" in the most common male names really odd: it's an abbreviation, a diminutive, not a name in its own right! Is he in later life going to instruct people to call him Alfred to give the required air of formality? Or am just a tweed-jacketed reactionary or what?
Fifty Riley-James (is there a reason for that that I'm missing?) and only three Lavenders... Iolanthe is nice.

Do idiosyncratic spellings of relatively common names really count though?
Either some parents can't spell or they must really hate their kids. In the case of some of the girls, though, they seem to be concerned with giving them a head-start to a career as a stripper.
OMGWTFBBQ

"Rehab" ???!!!
I love how many are just mis-spellings, but "Cassiopeia" was a line of PDAs from the 90s.

Meet my son Psion and my daughter Journada.

(Yes, I know it's Greek)
"What's in a name?"

Quite a lot of potential stick for some poor kids from the look of things!
Isn't it true that Muhammad - in all its various spellings - is actually the most populous name for babies in the UK, certainly was a few years ago. Or maybe these results only show up in Daily Mail reports?
Antipodean...........ha ha! Excellent.

I don't agree with the giving of shortened names - indeed, why 'Alfie' but not 'Alfred, to be known familiarly as Alfie? Some friends have recently named a son 'Jack Terry'..... awful.

Some of these names must be simply made up. And many are just plain ugly.

I have a classic and uncommon(real) name which I am very glad of!
Thanks for the heads up on who the chavs will be 16 years out.
It was well planned by the parents of 2012 to have 183 Astons and also 183 Martins.
LOL notes my given name is in the less than 3 grouping. Ha ha ha.
OMG it's like watching a car crash :(

Meet my daughters Rhayanna and Eezijett

And my sons Jeremy and Kyle


Someday they'll be on TV
I shouldn't say this, it is politically incorrect, but did you hear about the triplets called Asda, Aldi and Asbo?
I can't help wondering if some of the derivations are as a result of parents who can't spell the traditional name they're actually intending to give. 'Christofer' and 'Camaron' are good examples.

I feel sorry for the children who'll have to spend the rest of their lives saying 'My name's Daniel... no, not that way... with a y' or similar.
A relative has just called her new baby boy Bailey, but I have no idea if that's the spelling, it could be Baileigh.
Either way, where I used to live it was a very common GIRLS name!!

Some of those are truly cringeworthy! Poor kids. Guess counselling and therepy could be the job markets to be in!
The silly names like Awesome and Excel are amusing, but they aren't what trouble me the most.

I just can't understand why somebody names their offspring according to *fashion*. Around my way, you simply cannot move for Harry, Alfie and Charlie. You'll rarely hear any other names, and I'm just bewildered by the thought process...

Parent 1: What shall we call our newborn bundle of joy? Something classic? Something with a personal meaning for us? Perhaps a name that pays tribute to a venerable family member?
Parent 2: Well, there are 14 Alfies in the street now, so I'm thinking probably Alfie.
Parent 1: Yes, a strong argument you've made there. Alfie it is.
Looking at the top names for a second, most popular girl name (by a country mile): Amelia. Third most popular: Jessica. Why do I get the impression there were a fair few Doctor Who fans seeking baby names in 2012...
With a bit of googling I've learned that Rehab is an Arabic name meaning "little piece of garden in heaven".
Names like Goodness, Happiness, Promise, are probably church going folk of recent African heritage, but Gwawr? To misquote, You'd have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.
@mclm - Welsh, apparently. Means 'Dawn' and not 'the sound a Brontosaurus makes', which was what I originally thought.

@ Great Aunt Annie - OK... I'd never have picked that, but given the popular cultural context I still think that the choice was ill-advised.
Although i agree with the sentiments for not using shortened names, in practical terms I don't have much of a problem with people giving names like Alfie. if everybody is going to call them that anyway, why not just do it anyway?

For example, my two god-daughters (7 & 8 years old) are called Jessica and Eleanor, but they were introduced straight away - and have been called as such by their parents from birth - as Jessie and Ellie. So why bother with the full version?

I am Richard, and became Rich at 5 (9 boys in primary school class, 5 called Richard. It just wasn't going to work,so we all got named something else). With the exception of my mum, everybody has called me Rich ever since and it is how i introduce myself. Now i often now genuinely don't realise they mean me when somebody calls out for "Richard"

But there are also some people using terrible spellings of names, and some names which might sound cool, but are just leaving the poor kids open to a life of problems
This problem some people have with the name Alfie, what's it all about.
I'm surprised that "Beckham" isn't in the list (unless it's one of the 1175 others"

I once actually heard a woman address her small son by this name.
Glad little Jakey was not born in Scotland. He would have had a hard time.
Alfie is no worse than Archie, Harry or Max.

Regarding M-ham-d and its variations: I think there are five versions with more than 100 each - Muhammad (3,161), Mohammed (2,853), Mohammad (1,125), Muhammed (533) and Mohamed (334) - plus another nine or so with less than 100 each, mostly around the 5 to 8 mark - as well as "Md." at 3, there is also "Md" without the stop at 43. The total is over 8,100.

But if you are allowing variations, Harry and Henry together are more than 10,000 (not to mention "Harri" and "Harrie" and "Arry"), and Oliver and Olly and Ollie are also more, nearly 8,200.

There are also multiple spellings of Alex/Alexander/Aleksander/Alec/Alessandro/Alexandru/Alexandros/Alexandre/Alejandro/Aleksandr/Aleks/Alexzander/ but not quite so popular...

There are 16 male babies called "Acer" in addition to the 3 female.
Oh, as well as Cassiopeia, there is also Carina and Lyra for the girls, Leo and Orion for the boys, and and Phoenix for both.

No Andromeda though, or Draco, or Perseus.
I Amelia'd my daughter back in 1997, when you could pay tribute to a female pilot without fear of tripping over infants with the same name (ps she loathes it.)

Am I the only person to have had a brother-in-law named Adolf?
Must be confusing when some calls out your name 'You'.

When everyone turns round you'll have to say 'No not you. I want You'

As there are 3 of them it'll be 'You,You and You'
"You" is (the first part of) a Chinese name. I also know a Korean girl called that. Pronounced yo, not yoo.
Cassiopaeia should have an extra A in it. There is a whole tranche of Grand Union narrow boats (sorry) built in the thirties and all vaguely named after heavenly bodies, of which Cassiopaeia is one of the more mellifluous, and Formalhaut arguably the least.

(and her less well known brother Cassiobridge, of course)
I'd like to think that at least one of the Rehabs was named as a tribute to Amy Winehouse, even if GA Annie's explanation makes more sense.

I really can't imagine something called Ocean-Blu being anything other than a toilet freshener.
If all you people really love this stuff, then this is the place for you: http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names
"But if you are allowing variations, Harry and Henry together are more than 10,000"

I don't think you can make the case for Harry being definitively Henry or Harold, and those two names have very different origins. (Anglo-Saxon vs. Norman) Interesting that in the States there's no confusion as Henry is always Hank!
Kim - I wish I could find the link, but I recall that at the time of the "Muhammed is the most popular name" stories, someone pointed out that if you grouped all the various variations of John or something [John, Jon, Jonathan, Jonno, whatever] they all added up to more than all the Muhammeds.

Basically the right wing press were being very selective in only grouping variations of one name, and not others.

But as I say, I can't find the link. But it should be possible to prove or disprove with the recent stats.
@Kim / Andrew Bowden - re: right-wing tabloid fear-mongering, try here:

http://tabloid-watch.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/baby%20names

(An excellent site in general, though sadly dormant for the last couple of months).
Muhammed is given to most Muslim boys as a matter of course - both my siblings have the name as their first name and are differentiated/known by their second names.
Oh deep joy! You just know it's going to be a good day when it starts with hearing of a lovely girl with the name of Pheonyx.
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