Gone are the days when giving your kids ridiculous names was solely the preserve of royalty and stars of music and film (a la Eugenie, Peaches, Fifi Trixabelle, Satchel, Dweezil etc etc).
Nowadays, for which the Beckhams must take at least some of the credit, the common men and women of this great country have taken to naming their offspring in increasingly bizarre and badly spelled ways.
To give you some recent examples, many of which have been taken from the "Announcements" section of my local rag (and all are genuine!):
Chardonnay
Mercedes
Kai
Kaj
Kenzie
Nyle
Demi-Leigh (does that mean she's only half a normal Leigh?)
Shardae
Helayna
And the best one of all for doing a Beckham and naming your kid after the place of conception -
Clio!!!!!I'm not sure which is worse, the names that are just plain stupid, or the ones that have had the spelling changed, just to be different.
For the love of God, do people not realise that their little ones either face a constant barrage of piss-taking for the next 18 years of their lives (at least) or have been perfectly set up to become one of the Burberry/baseball cap/chunky gold jewellery wearing little darlings that we all love to see hanging around on street corners after dark drinking Lambrini??
You just know the gene pool is screwed up....
