Would You Name Your Child after a Fruit ?

My daughter in law is a teacher and can name all her class. Not one is a traditional British name but they all sound lovely names from a variety of ethnicities.

Why not... you could call a girl Sharon after a Sharon Fruit (a variety of persimmon) or William after a Williams Pear or possibly Charles after a Charles Eyre apple, etc.

What like Chris martin and gwenth paltrow kid called apple? No I wouldn't name them something. Like apple or banana but yeah thinks like Sharon as in Sharon fruit. There's some unique names out there not all good either

Pretty ridiculous but can just about tolerate Clementine

Each to their own or should I say Peach to their own. It’s your child and you should be free to name it what you want but think of the child having to carry the name through childhood.

I'm ever the traditionalist on this one.I love good solid old fashioned names like Jack,John,Joan and Jessie.

I registered twins once, mother called them Dolce and Gabbana, she said it just came to her whilst being wheeled to the delivery room. Can't remember any fruits though.

I like more uncommon names, I'd probably rather my child named after a fruit than alcohol.

We should be able to call our children whatever name we like, within reason. Those that say children will get bullied for their names, should teach their own children not to bully others. If more people named their children after fruits it would be normal and then people couldn't pick of them for being different. I mean I wouldn't choose to call my child melon as some people use that as a jokey insult. But sadly Karen is now used as an insult, so no way of getting around any name. You'll also find a lot of names may rhyme with insults or could be turned into one or shortened versions of their names could be. My sister loved the name Ruby and really wanted her first child to be called Ruby but then she said nope... Rubes pubes... really!! I would have never even thought of that. She has a daughter, her name is not Ruby though.

We had a Cherry is our class and I've heard and seen it quite a bit.

I might call an animal Mango, Kiwi or Peach so I wouldn't completely rule it out for a human name either.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11979235/I-named-baby-favorite-food-no-one-believe-real.html

(This is the link you shared without the unnecessary tracking through from Facebook at the end)

Honestly I think to many people have to much to say over what people name there child each to there own bigger things to worry about that a name

I suppose we are lucky in the UK L , some countries regulate you naming your child

I was surprised to read Denmark is one of the strictest

Here is a link to some others

www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2013/05/03/12-countries-where-the-government-regulates-what-you-can-name-your-child/

Denmark

[2] Denmark is known for having one of the strictest laws when it comes to naming children. [3] Danish parents must choose their child's name from a list of approximately 7,000 preapproved names or seek approval from both the government and their local church.11 Sept 2018

Only if they were melancholy

telmel - Famous parents have been doing this for years and recently "reality stars" for attention seeking.

I personally don't think any school will turn a blind eye to bully because of a child's unusual name.

I think it depends on the fruit as cherry is a lovely name. Also if your a celebrity or have lots of money it doesn’t really matter on the name as people with be nice because who your parent are and you have money.

erm yeah.. no chance. i think some parents are a little nuts if they think this is a ever a good idea.