...unfair influence, let me open this up to Dogs and Cats also.
However, Mrs Path has also refused to allow Fairport as a respectable name for our tortoise.

My son is named George Evan Thomas - George after Van Morrison whose real name is George Ivan and Evan after Bruce Springsteen's son. I wanted to go the whole hog and call him George Ivan but we compromised. Thomas is after no one in particular but was a front runner for a first name so we just stuck it in the middle for good luck.

Lulu the German Shorthaired Pointer would have been called Lou after Mr Reed if she had been a boy. Lulu was as close as I could get for a bitch, and she gets called Lu most of the time anyway. I subsequently discovered that Ian Curtis named his dog Candy after the Velvet Underground's Candy Says which I really like but it's too late now.

can't I call child #2 Groover as in Groover Washington jr? Because I have a sensible wife.

on 6 Music named his son named Nat Strummer Coe. I'm sure he pondered over King as a middle name.
My husband wanted to call our first kid Cash. Given the wee lad's nappy activities I guess it would have been appropriate.

The registrar raised an eyebrow and queried the spelling but otherwise turned nary a hair...
The CEO was not taken with Donald or Walter as first names, strange chaps, these women!

whose nephew has the christian name Hendrix. Cool.

Animals are easier...they don't answer back in later life. Know of plenty of Irish Wolfhounds called Bono. Natch. Then there was the prog dog named after Pete Sinfield's solo album, Still.

Yes you guessed the punchline...SIT Still! True.

is not a bad name and I don't think he'll hate you to the grave for it.

Are you listening Mr. and Mrs. Phoenix?

Who called her child Leif but then every time she introduced him she had to add "with an 'i' not an 'a'".

Pop singer Ashlee Simpson has given birth to a baby boy, People magazine has reported.

Bronx Mowgli Wentz was born on Thursday night weighing 7lbs 11oz (3.5kg) and was 20.5 inches long.

"Ashlee, Pete and baby Bronx are all healthy and happy, and thank everyone for their well wishes!" a spokesperson told People.

It is the first child for the 24-year-old and her husband, Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz, who married in May.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7741176.stm

All parents have to accept the fact that their kids will end up despising them at some stage, but there's no need to give them a head start by christening them with some moniker referring to a rock poet from their Dad's generation, and (worse) a name they're going to have to spend their entire lives spelling out to people. This is the equivalent of my parents calling me "Englebert" or "Como" (seem like ancient history to you? So will Ulf Lundell to your kid).

But then again, some parents think they're doing their kid a favour, toughening them up, by making him the weird one in the corner.

I also have a sprog coming in March. Dylan has already been vetoed as has Jackson (although that's just a name I liked, I have no big obsession with Mr Browne, or indeed Mr Pollock). I also suggested Lemon after Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blake after Blind Blake but all I got was a snort of derision.
I was also overruled on Keir, Aneurin and Clement so it seems all historical Labour party figures and long dead bluesmen are out - what's a man to do?

...Meg, as in Meg White...not that anyone will really pick up on that in the future...

sorry, couldn't resist

drink has been taken

was given the unusual and pretty name of...Kyllie.

Yep, that's 2 x LLs and waaaay before the other one with 1 x L was thunk of as a soap star and pop singist. Nobody noticed.

Yeah right. She should be so lucky. Lucky lucky lucky.