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Did you find one that meets those rules? My name is very ordinary and not unusual and 90% of people have no problem with it… but the other 10% have no clue, which makes me think that there will always be that 10%, no matter the name.

I love big names with little versions. I feel secretly a bit sorry for the Joe I know who's just Joe and not Joseph, because I feel like he got denied a second syllable that he could keep in reserve for two-syllable moments.

No one would discriminate against PJ James!

I really like it as a name, too.

I have a Golden in my family! Mr Golden Bridge! It's totally the name of a yoga place I used to go by on my way to work, too.

Is it perhaps just people using grandparents' names? I was thinking recently how much I like all my grandparents' and abuelos-in-laws' names for potential future kiddos.

It could be totally real. I bet they used some sort of clever computer thing to pull out all the names that only got given once during the year… and there's one unfortunate baby Pheonix out there.

Ream surely is the result of someone getting drunk while watching TOWIE?

Ironically inappropriate names are brilliant. I LOVE that my very, very, very dark-haired friend has the surname Rubio.

Yes! I love those. My mum knew a little Marvellous Victory once (first name Marvellous, middle name Victory).

I know a Valkyrie, too!

I don't know if I should tell you this… but I was in a public place surrounded by families recently and the only two kids being naughty enough to get shouted at THE WHOLE TIME were BOTH Harrisons. "Harrison! Stop doing that!" "Harrison! Please, please get down…" "Harrison! YOU'RE HURTING MUMMY! YOU'RE HURTING MUMMY!"

The first boy I ever fancied was named Magnus. Ah, Norwegians…

Hello! Yes! West Hampstead.

YES. I loved that feature (or series of features). And I totally started out going "Wait, like the water???" and then within about two minutes realised that actually there was nothing weird about that at all.

YES. In the past I've had super-duper mega anxiety about a few things… and if that meant I couldn't do something, I had to just deal with the consequences of that. I didn't try to make other people bend to my personal anxiety.

When I got to that part I laughed aloud!

<shudder> I agree. I really enjoyed Sherlock and am looking forward to the new episodes very much, but I seriously don't want to admit that publicly in case people think I'm some sort of obsessive lunatic.

I think I read something before about how Knightley being cast worried people that her role might be bigger than one might hope, but that could well be wrong. I hope so!

According to other reports, they're definitely not "straightening" Turing, which I hope is true.