Because they wanted to name him after someone brilliant? My friends' Django really fits his name very well.

I know someone who named a child Alouette, which would be a very sweet name if it weren't for the song about torturing small birds.

I've heard of a few; it seems quite a bit more listworthy than some of the totally ordinary ones on the actual list.

But a bunch of them aren't even slightly crazy!

It's such a nice name; I can't imagine anyone thinking it was even slightly weird.

Don't worry about that! I know Tillie's of all ages.

I know an excellent Otto, and it's another friend's middle name. I don't understand why it's supposed to be a "hipster name"; isn't it just old fashioned? (That goes for so much of that list, though.)

Why be ashamed? They're so nice. They're just old fashioned.

My friends' kid's named that, and it suits him SO MUCH.

My friend just married an Otto; all his family have quite old-school names like that.

Thanks! Essentially they're really restricted on what they can do on the NHS front, and then for cosmetic stuff my dentist says "Why would you do anything? Your teeth are totally fine if they don't hurt you" so I think I'd have to go somewhere else for anything cosmetic!

My friend and I got on the subject of names once (she thought her daughter's name wasn't massively common but of course then found out EVERYONE IS CALLED SOFIA NOW) and came up with the names we would pick if we somehow magically popped out kids right there and then… then we put our weird little choices into the Baby…

I've been thinking of sort of the opposite thing: my surname is now very Spanish, and I happen to just really like Spanish christian names too, so my dilemma for Imaginary Future Baby is that Spanish + Spanish = sounds really great, but Spanish + Spanish for a London kid who doesn't speak Spanish might seem really…

Yes, they are.

Alma's beautiful. I would definitely consider it for Imaginary Future Baby, but I'm really torn on Spanish christian names because my surname is very Spanish, too — on the one hand, an all-Spanish-all-the-time name would sound beautiful and reflect that part of the child's heritage, but at the same time the poor kid…

Yep, I know a Bear. His real name is something very old fashioned and royal and serious.

My friends had a Django a few years ago; they're musicians, and it really suits him and makes total sense with his life really.

Yep, Felix is so well established. And excellent! I like Felicity too.

I have a great aunt who we only know was called Minnie (massive Irish family, three parents, a zillion siblings, a hundred years ago, etc) and it's one of my missions in life to figure out what her name was. Minerva? Wilhelmina? Angela? (My family are not known for their nicknames making sense.) It's probably…

I thought "Kale? Ugh!" but somehow mentally followed that up with "Samphire, though…"