Baby names!

[gibbon]

We found it best not to discuss baby names too much before they are born. No one ever agrees so when you think you have a good one somebody always makes you doubt it.

 

We have 2 girls, but if either had been a boy we would have called him Sulley

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Archie

[corylus]

TCD......you reminded me of this..

 

 

A woman who described herself as “A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City” and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it’s a good name. Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.

 

 

From: Half Man Half Biscuit: Breaking News - lyrics Half Man Half Biscuit: Breaking News - lyrics

 

As an aside my moment of John Peel fame came when he dedicated 'Breaking News' to me once on his show, using my soubriquet of Edward-Ian Lampoon

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

TCD......you reminded me of this..

 

Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotation

 

Cheers!

[Shane]

Some great names here, just beware that your child will have to go to school and knowing what @@@@@@@ kids can be, they will have to live with their name.

 

I'm a bit wary because I was the only Shane in the 50s and 60s that anyone knew of. Then I had the mis-fortune of Shane Gould (a female Aussie swimmer) becoming famous - life got a bit tedious for a while but now it has become quite a common name.

 

My parents chose the name because of the cowboy film they saw just before I was born. Count myself lucky they didn't go and see Godzilla.

 

Go with what you like the sound of.

Good luck

 

Shane (not godzilla)

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Seemingly, the most popular / numerous name for baby boys in the UK is Mohammed.

[Joy Yeomans]

girls name i like is Hermione boys we have a jacob and a thomas

and another favourite girls name what we called our big dog - polly

[Paul Jenks]

I quite like Hermione too, but for other reasons.

[Sam Thompson]

I'm the 17th Samuel Thompson... in my very unimaginative family. I like Israel.

[NFG]

Great thread,

 

Our two are Natalie & Edward both in their mid twenties now but this thread takes me back to when I held them for the first time, such a wonderful event.

 

So my best wishes & good luck to all expectant Arb parents!