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Name Jamie Oliver's baby son is called .....Ocean River Oliver........What is wrong with a James or Robert or Thomas or Andrew.


Hate it when my laptop acts silly I cleaned it this morning stupid thing.
 
Nothing wrong with the comma key, apparently.

Not my business what people name their progeny.
There's enough weirdly named kids out there now for it not to result in a kicking when the kid gets to school.
 
I read last week of a case in Spain where officials refused for 10 days to register the name Lobo for a newborn because it was deemed "offensive to the child".
 
Nothing wrong with the comma key, apparently.

Not my business what people name their progeny.
There's enough weirdly named kids out there now for it not to result in a kicking when the kid gets to school.
The commas have all gone, its a friendly ghost, I didn't say why commas, the forward space was not working, but its being mended at the moment.
Pity Jamie didn't spell it Osian, a strong Welsh name.
 
After Fifi Trixibelle nothing surprises me.
 
Sometimes even ordinary Christian names can be unfortunate, my son went to Piggott school in Wargrave with a classmate whose parents had named him Richard; his surname was Head. :(
 
I have an acquaintance* (I use the term loosely who's eldest (by father number 1) is called Lacey, her next two (by father number 2) are called Diesel and River and her 3rd (by father number 3) is unsurprisingly called Meadow.


*Let me qualify "acquaintance"..... a friend of a friend who I did a family photoshoot for (had to seriously reduce the amount of orange in all the shots that contained adults) who I removed from facebook as she was spouting such nonsense about Muslims she was probably lucky no one reported her comments to the Police as they were borderline for hate crimes. This is also the same person who genuinely believes that the Taurine in redbull comes from bull semen
 
I do feel more sorry for boys with daft names than I do girls.
For instance, a toddler called Kai or Blaine (other daft names are available), doesn't sound too bad; but a 16 stone 40 year old builder? o_O
 
Reminds me of this story from a few years back.....

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Haven't the Beckhams named some of theirs after where they were conceived? Brooklyn, Cruz (well, they can't spell Cruise!)... I know a couple of Skips. I suppose I'm lucky not to be called St. Helier!
 
Haven't the Beckhams named some of theirs after where they were conceived? Brooklyn, Cruz (well, they can't spell Cruise!)... I know a couple of Skips. I suppose I'm lucky not to be called St. Helier!
Apparently (quick google search) Victoria has always liked the name Brooke and they were in Brooklyn when they found out she was pregnant, so settled on the name Brooklyn. Cruz was born in Madrid and Cruz is Spanish for cross. They just liked the name Romeo, so that one was simple enough. Harper got her name as it was a popular English name in America at the time, even though her brother Romeo wanted to call her Justin Beiber. Harpers middle name is Seven, for several reasons, David played as number 7 at Man U and for England plus she was supposedly born in the seventh hour, of the seventh day of the week, in the seventh month of the year and weighed just over seven pounds.
 
One thing that amuses/amazes me about baby names is how determined some people seem to be to condemn their child to a lifetime of having their name mis-spelt. I've had to put up with that, since Stuart has always been much more common than Stewart. But at least they were both reasonably common names back in the 60s. These days ... it seems to be the fashion to make up spellings. For example, why bother naming your daughter Casey when you could have Kacey, Kacie, Kasey, Kaci, Kaycie, Kaycee, Casi, Kacy, Kaysie, Kasie, Caisey, Caycee, Kacee, Kaicee, KC, Kaisey, ... ? (All variants recorded by the Office for National Statistics in 2014.)
 
Frank Zappa called his kids (this is from memory so could be slightly wrong) Dweezil and Moon Unit.

One of them was in the Arnie film about a futuristic deadly game, think one member of Fleetwood Mac was in it too, loads of useless information there
 
For example, why bother naming your daughter Casey when you could have Kacey, Kacie, Kasey, Kaci, Kaycie, Kaycee, Casi, Kacy, Kaysie, Kasie, Caisey, Caycee, Kacee, Kaicee, KC, Kaisey, ... ?

Be great if your last name was "And the Sunshine Band"
 
One thing that amuses/amazes me about baby names is how determined some people seem to be to condemn their child to a lifetime of having their name mis-spelt. I've had to put up with that, since Stuart has always been much more common than Stewart. But at least they were both reasonably common names back in the 60s.
I've had my name (Neil) misspelt many times, I get Neal or Niel from time to time, that is if people actually get my name right in the first place, in the past I've been called Ian, Mark and others for reasons I have yet to fathom. Sometimes I just give up and answer to anything.
 
Harper got her name as it was a popular English name in America at the time,
According to her parents, she is named (first name anyway) after Harper Lee.
 
Jamie Oliver's baby son is called .....Ocean River Oliver........
It doesn't surprise me in the slightest,
The couple have four other children:
Poppy Honey Rosie Oliver (born 18 March 2002),
Daisy Boo Pamela Oliver (born on 10 April 2003),
Petal Blossom Rainbow Oliver (born on 3 April 2009)
Buddy Bear Maurice Oliver (born on 15 September 2010).

I do feel more sorry for boys with daft names than I do girls.
Oh I dunno Johnny Cash's boy named Sue worked out OK in the end :D
 
Blimey this thead went well, my brother is called David, if your posh folk called you Dave. I called my brother David, somethimes a few other names, I won't say what.:p.
 
Haven't the Beckhams named some of theirs after where they were conceived? Brooklyn, Cruz (well, they can't spell Cruise!)... I know a couple of Skips. I suppose I'm lucky not to be called St. Helier!
Could be worse.... As Mr Imp Hillman might argue..... Real name too! I imagine the parents were contortionists....
 
Back when I lived in East London our next door neighbours dad when asked by the registrar how he was spelling her name said Roof

Accepted it when told it is normally spelt Ruth
 
Back when I lived in East London our next door neighbours dad when asked by the registrar how he was spelling her name said Roof
As long as her last name wasn't "Tiler" I don't see a problem :D
 
Friend called Eunan surname Jackson nicknamed flag. Think about it.
 
Friend of mine is actually called wayne king.........

What were his parents thinking or not as the case maybe.
 
Actually it's River Rocket Oliver. Still a bizarre name though

To be honest, none of his kids first names are that unusual.
Poppy, Daisy, very old names. Petal...OK I'll give you that one :LOL:
Buddy, well not that common here but not uncommon elsewhere, and hippy tree hugging types have been calling kids (girls and boys) River since the 60's.
Second and third names... Pretty irrelevant in real life.
 
I saw it on Facebook, I did, really. Weird or what and everything on Facebook is fact, isn't it.:confused:
 
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I think I've posted this in previous similar threads, but I used to work with a lady called Debbie Dubey (pronounced Doobie) which was rather unfortunate.
She was Debbie Smith prior to getting married (so we can't blame her parents for this one) but if I'd been in her position I think I would have stuck with my maiden name :LOL:
 
Americans are good at ridiculous kids' names. My nephew out there has called his first two kids Samwell and Hadleigh-Ann and their latest arrival is named Wrenn. Mind you some friends of ours over here have called their two Maverick and Velvet, so maybe it's not just an American thing. :confused:

Edit. I just remembered a guy on a rock band forum I used to frequent. His kids were called Larmer and Hendrix. Larmer was because he and his wife had conceived the baby at Larmer Tree Festival but you can imagine everyone will be thinking; why did you call your son after a South American animal? Poor kid.
 
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Hadleigh is also a very old, once popular name.
 
I quite like my name. It's just people in the UK that seem have a real problem pronouncing it generally. Always good to have a little fun with telesales when they start off their script calling me Jean or Paul. I tell them to get my name right sternly and then ask them what it is they want. 9 out of 10 hang up themselves:)

I don't mind unusual names, but phonetic spelling I find rather sad.
 
A friend of mine has a sister called Arwen.
Luckily for him, he's called Matt and not Gandalf or Frodo.
 
My nephew has a friend called Geronimo and my Cria's nursery briefly had an Apollo, who was the younger sibling of Aristotle.
We're soooo London.
 
Second and third names... Pretty irrelevant in real life.

Not necessarily. Dad was known to most of his family by his second name, having been named after his father and grandfather, both of which were known by their first name. Dad was known to most of the rest of the people he knew as Stan - NOT one of his given names!
 
Not necessarily. Dad was known to most of his family by his second name, having been named after his father and grandfather, both of which were known by their first name. Dad was known to most of the rest of the people he knew as Stan - NOT one of his given names!

That's why I said pretty instead of always.
 
A friend of mine has a sister called Arwen.
Luckily for him, he's called Matt and not Gandalf or Frodo.
Arwen is welsh, translated 'noble maid' true, not from facebook. Nice name. There are some beautiful welsh names.
 
Arwen is welsh, translated 'noble maid' true, not from facebook. Nice name. There are some beautiful welsh names.

And Irish names too :)
 
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