h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is hilarious - I LOLed, awkward, as we're in a library. I relate to several of those rules - mainly because of kids I knew at school. In the 3rd form, (=grade 9, I think - ) our form teacher was bemused to find she had 4 Catherines and 4 Margarets in a class of around 28. There were also pairs of Vickys, Barbaras and Nickys. Result, I vowed to give my children interesting names. There were also girls with boy's names (one Daryl Savage, and she got heaps.) A girl up the road named after the film 'National Velvet'("and not to damn long after", to quote a Benny Hill sketch.)Then there were Velvet's siblings, Wendy (Peter Pan) Tristine and Gregor McGregor! (Actually, I think Tristine is quite a cool name, though it presumably means 'sad', which isn't cool. If I'd had girls, I'd probably have been carried away : I planned to call my 3rd baby Peace but he came out a boy and I couldn't do that to a boy. His father wanted to call him after Joseph Conrad and Leon Russell. His brother wanted to call him after Diego Maradonna. I added his father's name and James T Kirk's name for good measure.. you can guess the result. (6 names in all)Now, he wants to be called Adric after the companion of the 4th and 5th Doctors Who...

We named our little girl Mazzy Quinn. Our next will either be a Lucas Jackson (cool hand luke) or a Clara Bow.

Clara Bow - how cute! (So is Mazzy Quinn) and neither will suffer the curse of commonness...

That was just it, I want my little girls to have special names, but nothing too far out there, you know? I always thought mine was rather boring, myself. little girls should have magical names....

My sisters surname is Lea. I've been trying to convince her to call her first child Elm if a boy or Rosie if a girl but sadly she isn't convinced

Rosie Lea... That's cruel. Funny, but cruel...

I actually have a very good friend who's named after Adric of Dr. Who, and his sister is called Nyssa. I couldn't stop laughing once I found out about Dr. Who.

Lioness, my son, whose user name on lots of boards is Adric, said "Oh no! Why would you do that to your kids?"

(not the reaction I expected from him, I admit, but then he is 17.)

when my daughters where born our family name was Hyland. I wanted to name them Treasure and Secret but my mum talked me out of it.

BTW as a Susan i once had a holiday with school friends, 6 of us in a caravan 5 susans and one Liz. Oh the fun.........

When I was at school, Susan was a common name. Then in the 1990s, I knew a woman called Emma, whose daughter was named Susan. The daughter was in my son's class at school, and she rejoiced in being the *only* Susan!

Treasure and Secret - nice names if you use them as middle names. Did you?

No, I didnt give them middle names so that they could pick then themselves. On thier 10th Birthday they were allowed to pick a middle name. Both went for family names and settled years of dark mumblings from grandparents.

That's a cool idea, Suet Pudding.

In the Army Cadets many years ago, I knew a Peter Niss.

The "initial plus surname" thing caused him much grief... his nickname, for obvious reasons really, was "Knob".

And I know she won't mind... one of the nicest, cleverest, gentlest people I know is called Fiona Luke.

Again, initial plus surname... I think she's been resigned since the age of five to knowing that to the vast majority of people, she's "Fluke".