You Called It What?! Part 267

Usually to turn my nose up at the ‘quirky’ names people give their children I have to go to Asda ( as we’ve seen before here and here) but this week the newspaper delivered a whole batch to my doorstep.

This year’s top ten of favoured children’s name has been polled where Jack and Jessica atop the chart. But of course at the other end are the more inventive.

Now in fairness I will stick up for some of the names the newspaper put under ‘unusual’.

Mylo doesn’t strike me as hugely unusual. Yes the current spelling is the same as  the DJ and the Tweenie but given Milo is a long standing and my mind flits straight away to the wonderful actor Milo O’Shea, I don’t see it as peculiar.

Elsewhere on the list Spike and Blade make me think of butch dogs with studded collars. There again I am not adverse to the thought of children being kept on leads…at least in Asda.

Franco, I don’t see as unusual at all though I do hope the children named so don’t become dictators…unless as managers at Asda, where their megalomania could be kept in check by another on the list – the Kofis.

But the laurels must go to the parents who named their child Fds. No that isn’t a typo the name is spelt F..D..S. And it is pronounced…well I’m not sure how would you pronounce Fds?

Given the trend started by the Beckhams for naming a child after where it was conceived, I wonder if Fds was the result of an illicit liaison on a sofa in the Croydon branch of DFS between two dyslexics.

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Comments

[Stegbeetle]

Ooh, don't get me started (again)! If the trend for naming children after where they were conceived continues I expect school registers will be brimming with "Sainsbury's Car Park Smith" and "Back Seat Of Wayne's Metro Jones" soon.
And I thought I'd have been hard done by if Mum had got her way and had me Christened "Redmond". She didn't, for which I am eternally grateful to the rest of the family.

[Marjory]

I see from your link that Mylo went to Brasenose,just like Dr. Mitch. Which is bizarre, as said Dr. Mitch won't let me listen to 'Drop the Pressure' due to the inordinate number of mentions of the word 'motheerfucker', which he claims overexcites me.

Here, in Deutschland, kids tend to get Scandinavian names such as Björn and Sven or else the default is Mario. It doesn't make them any more exotic.

Anyhow, conception names would be more like 'Probably the night I got pissed and then threw up and then whatever happened took place in the Benni bed from IKEA' Armstrong.

Dr. Mitch was very nearly a Toby, but his dad objected on the grounds that his Nan's dog had that name.

Obviously I am pimping hére, but why are ppl called what they are called anyway...?

btw a child called 'Spike' should be reported to Social Services...

[Sharon J]

My daughter went to school with a lad called Jaguar, which I thought was a pretty weird name but better than Zebra. A friend wanted to call her daughter Pepsi but her other half insisted they either use the real thing or nothing and Coca-Cola just didn't have the same ring to it.

[lara Silverstone]

I would consider myself very un-pretentious on the name front-i certainly wouldn't drive myself to find an unconventional name, however, the name Milo (slightly different obviously from the spelling Mylo but same effect) remains my favourite boys name. If i ever have a son and it's very likely that i dont i would like to call him Milo after the boy in the Phantom Tollbooth which is my very favourite childrens book. That reminds me I should add that book to my own blog.