Kayleigh?

Jude?

(As in Sunhillow?)

Your girl Roxanne's going to go off the rails, you mark my words.

;)

Ceceeeeeeeeelia?

When my son Sebastian was at Nursery he befriended a girl called Belle. I chit-chatted with the girls's mother : "Funny that... Belle and Sebastian... playing with each other...". Met with the po face that said 'What the f*ck are you talking about?'

Oh.. and no, he wasn't named after them...

would own up to having been called Layla.

Posted it before, but there's a kid round our way named Jovi.

...when you meet twin girls named Daphne and Celeste.
Still, who was ever called Britney in the last century?

I know a child called Real Soul Carty.
Not so cool when it's written as R. Soul Carty, eh?

I was once due to teach Elvis, but his family moved away before the start of term, to my chagrin.

I also know of a child called Pocahontas Smith. Not sure if the parents were Neil Young fans.

set a Fatwah on Karel Fialka - his 'Hey Matthew' made me change my name forevermore.

Mrs Twang vetoed "Lowell" as the name given for Twang junior without a moment's thought. :-(

I took my children to the park recently and whilst sitting on a bench, couldn't help noticing the name on the school sports bag the bloke sitting on the other end of the bench was looking after: Robert Dillon.

I take it this thread is referring to the marvellous John Shuttleworth ditty;

"Eggs & gammon,
Poor Rhiannon,
Ken's bad wind"

It is isn't it?

Try having the same surname as a particular Beatle who departed the world in 1980. Especially when you've just started a new school. I spent the next five years having people sing Imagine and Woman at me.

It's one of the reasons my choice will always be The Stones rather than The Beatles...

But at least I didn't get the first name to go with it. Why would anybody with the surname Dillon call their child Robert? It's not funny. Some kids are just marked for life by their parents thinking things like that are a good idea. You might as well just tattoo a big target on their forehead.

Meanwhile...I did know a David Watts.

...Richard Head. He don't like diminutives.......

Brian O´Brien , we just called him Bob.
There were two brothers when I was growing up, huge family 12 kids or so. One was called Elvis and another was Bruce. Some of their sisters were Dusty, Candy and Sandy.
I would have had their parents arrested.

I work in the NHS. There is many an old soul "blessed" with names later appropriated by "celebrities". The pleasure in hearing names such as Quincy Jones, Robbie Williams, Jack Nicholson etc etc etc called out over a telecom is childishly pleasurable. Especially when the inevitable old codger stands up and walks the all eyes on him pathway to the clinic room.
"Actually it's Robert"

... Kenton after another almighty veto was hurled in the direction of Fabian. So, lucky escape, really.

When my twins were still gender-non-discovered, I wanted to name one of them Declan, thinking that would be a sneaky way of paying tribute to Elvis Costello. Of course, I wanted to call the other one Hannon.

I think they're passing copies of High Fidelity out to girlfriends free as instruction manuals for musically-obsessed partners.

How many Gordon's hate the sound of that Jilted John song?

*Heads off into the lunch hour singing 'Gordon is a moron'.....

Three splendid '60s pop hits (Hollies, Casuals, Left Banke) and - with the possible exception of the first one - I'd happily name my child after either of the others. They'd get vetoed but I can dream can't I?

See your point about the first one. Imagine looking back at photos of her in a tent as a child, or later on a river trip during a gap year spent in India.
Carrie-Ann camping & Carrie Ann up the Khyber.

I've told this story before but prior to the last night of Dylan's three night stand at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle a few years back, my friend and I repaired to the bar about a block away and were waited on by a lovely young lady in her early twenties sporting a name tag with Sossity on it. Before I could finish my enquiry, "excuse me, but were your parents by any chance fans of...." she rolled her eyes skyward and said, "yes, Jethro Tull."

If I'd punched out the lights of everyone who smirked up to me, chirping Don Mclean's ditty, when it was in the charts, my knuckles would still be recovering now. I detest that song, "Vincent", to this day.

...I went to school with the Kohn brothers, Joel and Ethan. Now known as the Coens, I believe.

...I went to school with the Kohn brothers, Joel and Ethan. Now known as the Coens, I believe.

Non-musical - a friend of mine recently married (sadly, long story) and for ages I only new her partner's name as Michael - she eventually caved in and told me his surname was Hunt(very very true story)

.... my daughter is called Layla. My wife and I arrived at this name from different standpoints however - I chose it because of its musical connection and because I genuinely love that song - my wife chose it because she was reading Hello magazine or some other literary classic and there was an article about Paul Young who has a daughter called Layla.

Quite a musical family as my son is Alex Turner - the guy from Arctic Monkeys didnt ask my permission!!!!

... all those (including yours truly) with the moniker of Matthew.

God help any male offspring I may have.

I was an IT Manager for a big telecom firm a while ago and took on a young contractor by the name of Robert Smith. And yes, he 'cured' the issue we were having on the system at the time. Ahem...

Also, one of my oldest friends is a guy called James Mason. He regularly goes drinking with one of our old workmates, a lad called John Craven. He's unsurprisingly known as 'Newsround' to his fellows, but also sometimes less charitably as 'Countryfile'. At least I think that's what its meant to be. It gets better. They were both out in Washington DC a few years ago and were served in a restaurant by a waiter called Dean Martin.

and, apparently, brightened considerably the lives of others. It still happens - most recently a couple of weeks ago.