Is It A Yewmaan Write To Name Your Child?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-mid-wales-36045987

[Peter Pedant]

freakonomics - a fun book much tongue in cheek
has a chapter on the social effect of names

- we dont have a princess sharon but do have a princess eugenie etc

[ummmm]

Piper and Willow are not uncommon in America and I don't think the other ones would stand out much either.

[naomi24]

There used to be an actress called Piper Laurie - and I know a little girl called Willow. Not that unusual. Can't say I know a Trig or a Track though.

[Togo]

// and the twins have been taken into care, along with her other kids.//

Digitalis and Nightshade.

[Peter Pedant]

o I think it is time to wheel out the thirties jokes

Mr Rose named his little girl Wilde as Wilde Rose sounded thweet
unfortunately she fell in love withand married a Mr Bull .....

[Jackdaw33]

You never miss a trick to get an anti republican dig in, do you Mikey.

[seadogg]

Don't Americans often choose names that some English folk find mildly barmy?

[mikey4444]

Ummm...yes, you are probably right....the fact that these names are not unusual in America doesn't surprise one little bit.

But I am 63 soon and I have never, ever, met anyone called any of those names, on this side of the Atlantic at least.

[seadogg]

Note that Bristol and Willow are adjacent.

[Svejk]

I think the judge had a stupid name- Mrs Justice King.

[mikey4444]

Seadog....Track ....only mildly barmy ?

Would Fence, Field, and Fingerpost be just as acceptable ?

[Jackdaw33]

Not as stupid as the judge who lost all his fingers in an accident; Mr justice thumbs.

[seadogg]

mikey old chap, I'm nearing 80 and long inured to the peccadillos of humans.

[Togo]

I once knew a girl, Emma, who refused to marry a chap with the surname Royd.

[EDDIE51]

jno, laughed out loud at the twins named Benson & Hedges in your link.
Hope they are Team Players!

[jno]

ah yes, the actress Tuesday Weld was going to marry Fredric March's son till she realised she'd be Tuesday March the Second.

[EDDIE51]

I have mentioned previously about my Mum a school teacher, who had the 3 Twigg sisters in her classes , Hazel, Holly and Ivy.

[Togo]

And if Whoopie Goldberg had married Gerard Depardieu. She would be Mrs Whoopi Depardieu!

[bibblebub]

Some genuine 19th century names:-

Leicester Railway Cope
Time Of Day
One Too Many Gouldstone
That's It Who'd Have Thought It

[Togo]

Beyoncé Knowles and Roy Castle would have resulted in Mrs Beyoncé Castle.