We though of that first! It's really irritating when you give your child an obscure name, so they don't end up with the same name as three other kids in their class, only to find that the hoi polloi pick up the name a few years later: Freya was the highest new entry, up 10 places to 41.
Ah well, at least we spelt it authentically...
Posted to Parenting by Simon Brunning at January 07, 2004 11:50 AMThis happened to me, too. When I was a kid, Tracey was pretty obscure (especially spelled this way), and my cousin Kevin was also the only one of that name we knew. Now our names are to be found emblazoned on the sunshades of elderly Ford Cortinas everywhere...
Posted by: Tracey on January 8, 2004 08:38 AMYou don't have a friend called Sharon, do you? ;-)
Posted by: Simon Brunning on January 9, 2004 12:45 PMI am Icelandic, and Freyja is a very common name in my country. The correct spelling is Freyja, not Freya. Freyja is/was one of the nordic gods, I think she was married to Njörður. The male version of the name is Freyr.
Posted by: coward on January 9, 2004 05:56 PMI looked this up and Njörður (who was married to his sister) was the father of Freyja and Freyr. Initially Njörður was the god of the ocean and sailing, but in later times his son, Freyr, took over the job.
Posted by: coward on January 9, 2004 06:40 PMit's not just me then?
If I had a boy, I wanted to call him Josh or Joshua (this is a couple of years ago) JUST as it decided to be the most popular name that year. Second choice was Jake (which came second in th poll to Jack) D'oh!
We were discussing girls names a while back and decided Milly or Millicent and what happens? Another high climber.
I am going to stick my neck on the line and say (if it's a boy) Jasper. Watch it rocket!! :-)
Jez.
Posted by: Jez Stone on January 13, 2004 02:10 PMLuckily, I know not a single Sharon. Which is probably a good thing. Atleast I'm spelled a little bit differently to the norm : Tracey-with-an-e and Lynn-as-in-Kings.
Posted by: Tracey Annison on January 15, 2004 05:27 PM