What's in a name?

North West

    

There has been a lot of talk about baby names lately - what with the arrival of Kimye's baby and all the speculation around names for the Royal baby. So here's an update of some of the good, the bad and the plain old ugly names people are choosing for their children.

According to Babycenter.com.au the 10 most popular girl's names of 2012 in Australia were:

  Amelia;  Lily;  Isabella;  Emily;  Chloe;  Charlotte;  Zoe;  Isabelle;  Olivia;  Sophie

And for boys:

  Oliver;  Lucas;  Ethan;  Thomas;  Noah;  Cooper;  James;  Jackson;  Liam;  Xavier

At the other end of the spectrum here are some of the weirdest over the last few years:

Celebrities:

·        North West (daughter of Kim Kardashian & Kanye West)

·        Breeze Beretta (yes, it's always classy to name a baby girl after a gun!)

·        Kal-el (Nicholas Cage was obviously expecting his little boy to be a super-man)

·        Pilot Inspektor (son of Jason Lee)

·        Moxie Crimefighter (son of Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller)

·        Egypt (son of Alicia Keys)

·        Poppy Honey; Daisy Boo; Petal Blossom Rainbow & Buddy Bear (Jamie Oliver's three daughters and son)

·        Sparrow (son of Nicole Richie & Joel Madden)

·        Zuma & Kingston (sons of Gwen Stefani)

·        Bear Blu (son of Alicia Silverstone)

Non-celebrities (but equally weird) as compiled by The Baby Centre:

Girls

·        Admire

·        Couture

·        Excel (as in the spreadsheet?)

·        Inny (surely this isn't referring to a belly button!)

·        Joshitha (too much of a tongue-twister for me)

·        Leeloo

·        Monalisa

·        Sanity (better than Insanity I suppose...)

·        Sesame

·        Yoga

Boys

·        Ball

·        Burger (seriously?!)

·        Espn

·        Google

·        Hippo

·        Jedi

·        Mango

·        Popeye

·        Thunder

·        Tron

Really what are people thinking? It's all very well to want an unusual name for your child - I can relate to that and for that very reason I named my daughter one of the most common and popular names - but surely those poor kids are going to resent their names when they're old enough to understand what they've been lumbered with. "Come on Hippo and Sanity, we need to hurry or we won't make it to Espn's house in time for Sesame's party!"

The team at nestling.