My friend named her little girl that and I thought she is going to have the mickey taken when older.

I like the traditional names for children, Charlotte, Rebecca and Molly for little girls and Andrew, Matthew and Thomas for little boys.  I would never inflict my first name on a child, I really do not like it at all.

meh, call ya kids what you like and sod everyone else. just remember that the kid has to grow up though....looking forward to my toddler finding out about his name ...

i know a little boy called bailey (and a dog too), he is 4 and does a mean MJ impression

also know a little girl (and a baby boy on baby ward) called riley....dont know any dogs called that lol.

I was going to say they do that at work with two girls called Amie!

My daughter is called Chloë - I vowed I wouldn't call her Clo but bugger it I do and she's only 3! Her nicknames are Clowster, Clogletts, Clogster and Chloe clogs...

Reason for her nickname... CBB 2007 with Shilpa Shetty when she was called Shilpa Poppadum for being of Indian descent... Chloë is called Clogs because she's quarter Dutch PMSL - We called her it before she was even born... When someone asks her her name she says Clogster hahaha!

My brother named his son Henry... We have a cat called Henry We were totally not expecting that!

Lastly I have the most ridiculous christian name... No one can spell it, pronounce it or remember it. I always end up having to tell the story attached to my name which is a long story and generally get called 'that girl with the funny name!'

My brothers name is Xander - pronounced Zander. I love it Maybe think about that name Jen? (someone once asked if my mum was a Buffy fan as there's a Xander in that... Not in 1966 you fool!!!!

Don't you just love that!

I have been asked if my Alfie is named after Alfie Moon...errr no...cos he's 11!

just told my Alfie about this thread... he has a boy in his class called Jody!

that was a girls name in my day!

he says there is a Merlin in his year too.    Oh and a couple of Gideons.!

Merlin

Haha no its from the bible, her parents named her and their first cat out of one passage of the bible- she thinks its the only part they have ever read.

That woman who has a lisp on the Wright Stuff occasionally has a son called Merlin and another son with an equally magic type name if my memory serves me right...

I have a china duck called Gideon

Gandalf?


oh... I want a baby called Gandalf now!

I just remembered their names... Lowri Turner and she's got two boys called Griffin and Merlin She's recently had a daughter with and Indian man but don't know the name as yet... As the boys names go this next name should be a goodun!

Lowri Turners daughter is called Ariel as in the Little Mermaid so that's Griffin Merlin and Ariel

Bluddy hell. Lowri Turner is a bad bad person

Gandalf was way way better!

I did toy with 'Arwen' instead of Aila

Arwen for the next one then!   I like Arwen... and it sounds good with Aila.

"the girls"... Aila & Arwen..  

The next one *faints*

I googled to find the name of her daughter, and found a rather disturbing article she had written about how she felt about the colour of her daughter's skin

ah shurrup, you know you want one

I don't! She so easy now , imagine having a baby again

Yes I read that too. Dreadful article by a dreadful woman it seems!

could just adjust it slightly to Alan if its a boy!

Ickle had just started primary school when I had Alf.   ...

Shurrup

my youngest is called that.....like your daughter she has an array of names.......clo......clothes pegs...peglets.....clothes horse.....chloe clothes pegs.....and most embarrasing for her.....chloe yum yums.........

as she's now 14 i like to call her yum yums infront of her mates!!

It made me feel so sad Imagine her daughter reading that The bit when she said it would have taken forsight to imagine what her and her Indian hubby's kids would look like... surely not? My bf is Arabic, and I'm aware that if we ever had kids they'd be mixed race... its bloody obvious surely?

Names I love are:

Boys
Caolan 
Diarmuid (dueer-mid)
Connaire (conor, but really like that spelling)
Aódhan (Aidan)
Eoghan
Seán (pronounced sh-an)


Girls 
Aoife (eefa)
Ciara 
Chloe
Aimee
Caitlín (pronounced catch-leen) 
Niamh..even tho it is my name I still do like it! (neeve)
Maria


Dammm I'm going to have to have a lot of kids!!lol 

chloe is a good name!

My brother is 5 years younger than me

My brother is 3 years younger Saz...  and we fought like cat & dog... 

I didn't expect a 5 year gap to make them close friends...  but it works for my two... they are incredibly close.

Plus.... 5 is old enough to give solidarity to the mum when the newborn goes into the third hour of screaming at the top of his lungs!

has to be done saz!!.......still her 16 yr old sister still gets called jodie bear!!

i'm proper nice to my kids...........................

My friends' son, Alexander, is shortened to Zander ... soooo much better than Alex

You liking any of the suggestions so far, Jen??

IP... 

I like loads of those names...  my first boyfriend was the youngest of 16 kids (Irish family)... all the boys names in your list were used!  as well as (oh... all these will be spelt wrong) Porag, dermot, declan & strangely there was one brother called Pigeon

I like Niamh - and I should imagine that most Irish people know how to pronounce it... do you get many people trying to say it as its spelt?  (or is that spelled? )

I like the english pronunciation of Caitlyn...

We were like that too

Spongey, you dont sound at all embarrassing

oh and for extra effect......when they were babies/toddlers i made up songs to incorporate their nicknames of yum yums and bear....which used to be boo boo bear......

so at inappropriate times....ie:when they have mates round.....i like to sing these songs at full volume..........

holy crap!

......shall i try harder??!!!

I have a friend who has two daughters called Henrietta and Ophelia! She's sooooooo posh and speaks soooooooo posh too hee hee

Offffeeeeliiiiaaarrrrr come to marrrrmmmeeeeee!

dpgt...

Alot of people put a 'p' in it for some reason!! People from down south pronunce it in 2 sylables for some reason!!

The 1st name you gave there was padráig, its a variation of patrick