- Hello, lovely people.
- Hello!
- Today, we're going to be reacting
to your suggested baby names for (gasps)
Mini Kellgren-Fozard.
You actually can't see.
'Cause we didn't think through this shot.
It's just your boobs.
- That have got bigger.
- So much bigger!
- Well, they're still gonna get bigger, darling.
- Well! - As is my belly.
- Your belly is so cute!
Go on.
Go on!
- [Claudia] Ta-da!
- What are you right now?
20 weeks? - Yeah.
We've done more than we have to go
for this pregnancy.
So we'd better come up with a name quick
'cause we've only got 19 weeks.
19 weeks to decide. (Jessica chuckles)
- Yes, so thank you very much for your suggestions.
So, in our baby Q and A, where we answered
some of the questions that you had
from our baby announcement video.
We also mentioned that we would love
some suggested baby names.
And you guys did an amazing job
suggesting so many wonderful, wonderful names.
And quite a few of them were actually
already on our baby list.
- We couldn't react to those
'cause that would be too obvious.
- Yeah, we couldn't really react to those,
we were like, yeah, no, we like them.
Great, they're already on the list.
So we had a friend go through and pick out
some that were not already on our list,
or we had not already talked about loving,
or we had not already named our dogs.
- Or are names that we probably can't pronounce.
- Yeah, some of you were very creative.
- I've never heard of a lot of these names.
- A plus plus, we had to Google some
and then be like, that's not a thing.
So we're going to be reacting
to just some of the excellent names
that you have suggested.
So, the rules that we have in place,
the kind of guidelines that we are looking for
when it comes to a name.
- I didn't know there were rules.
- Yes, you do!
Long, but can be shortened into various-
- That was not actually a rule
because I have liked some short names.
I've just realized, that's why my short names
have been vetoed now.
You put them on the list, you do that thing,
you're like, "We'll put it on the list."
And then you slowly cross it off the list.
(Jessica gasps quietly)
Theophania.
- Ooh!
- Not heard of that one before.
- I hadn't!
- Guessing it's a girl's name. - Theophania.
- Because it ends in an A.
And a lot of, like. - Indeed.
- Theophania, so, could be shortened to Theo.
- I like that.
- Which is a gender neutral name.
- It is.
- Quite nice, I've never heard of that name before.
- Theophania.
- I'm sure that's the on the top 100.
- Let's find out. - Okay.
- No names!
- No, Matt, no name?
Oh look, Nameberry, telling us about it now.
It just says, what were you on? Okay.
Gone up 2% this week.
- (gasps) This week? - And it's a girl's name,
meaning "Of Divine Manifestation".
- This ancient name, belonging to a Byzantine empress,
may be difficult to wear.
The English variation, Tiffany may be more wearable.
- I did not know that Tiffany
was an English variation of Theophania.
Well, learn something every day.
- You really do!
- I hate the name Tiffany.
- Fair.
- Yeah.
- Oliver.
- I think as a name, it's quite nice,
but way too common.
- It does work with the Jessica, Claudia,
but it is also the number one baby name
for a boy in Britain, so no.
- It has been for years.
- Tarquin!
- Oh, I like Tarquin.
- Oh, my parents would kill me.
- Why?
- They would actually stop talking to me
if I named our son Tarquin. - Why, who do you know
who's called Tarquin?
- No one.
- What's wrong with Tarquin?
- It's just a name they've always made fun of.
- I think it's really sweet.
- I think it's really cute as well.
- What could we, we could call them Tarky?
- I think you'd go for Quin
before you'd go for Tarky.
- Tarky! Yeah, that doesn't sound very nice.
Let's look it up on Nameberry.
It is a boy's name, one of the few
ancient Roman names that doesn't end in us.
The rarely heard Tarquin
has a decidedly creative, even dramatic flair
which could appeal to the parents looking
for a strikingly original name.
- Ooh! - Sounds like us.
Well, and it's number 577!
- What?
Tarquin is a pretty good name though
because I'm pretty sure most people-
- Have heard of it.
- In the English language world
would be able to look at Tarquin
and be like, "This is Tarquin."
- Yeah.
Although we do like a name with a meaning,
and it doesn't apparently have much of a meaning,
they say it's got an unknown Roman meaning
which is very vague.
- Your name means lame.
(record scratches) (Jessica laughs)
Do you really wanna put too much weight
on the meaning of a name?
Thomas.
- So overused.
- So done. We know so many Toms.
- Millicent.
- Millicent!
- I mean, this name- - Wait,
isn't your friend Millie called Millicent?
- No. - Oh.
- Millicent, yes, you could call them Millie.
- Mhm. - Or cent?
Penny.
- Oh, that's so cute!
- But then why wouldn't you just call them Penny?
It's like, "Oh, your name is Penny!"
"No, it's actually Millicent."
That'd be even weirder,
you think Madeline to Millie's weird.
I don't like the name though.
- Alright.
- It makes me think of a millipede.
An old lady.
- Millicent is your strident feminist aunt.
- Yes. It's a bit of a busy body.
What do you think of it?
- I don't know, I think Millicent could be,
yeah, to be fair, it means, it's a German name
meaning strong in work.
It's a strong name, I do like that.
- Lily.
Oh, I like the name Lily.
- Lily is very, very cute.
We do know a wonderful Lily.
- I like flower names.
- It's a bit too cutesy though.
I like Lily as a nickname
taken from a much longer name.
I like long names, I just have a thing for long names.
- Catriona.
- Katrina. Catriona?
- Catriona.
- It means Gaelic form of Katherine.
Which means pure.
- Well, I stand corrected.
I would have guessed that was in some way Spanish.
- Ah.
This Catherine variation used through Ireland
and Scotland is pronounced Katrina.
- Catriona, oh yeah. Catriona. - Catriona.
Apparently it became popular after the crusaders
brought home stories about the colorful
fourth century martyr, Catherine of Alexandria.
- There is a massive hurdle with this name,
in that apparently it's Katrina.
- And we can't pronounce it.
- We didn't get it.
- Cat-ree-own-a, people will say.
- Other people aren't gonna get it.
- No.
- I'm afraid that's a no.
- That's an out.
- Mark.
- What? No!
This is my baby, Mark.
- Can you imagine us naming our child Mark?
I don't, yeah, I don't think it's funny,
I just think it's not-
- Jessica, Claudia and baby Mark!
- It's like a straightforward name.
Very manly.
- Everyone's got a friend
with a boyfriend called Mark.
- No, not us.
Genevieve.
- Ooh, Genevieve!
- Genevieve is a nice name.
- That's cute.
- I like the Eve.
You can abbreviate it to Genie.
- Ah!
- My mum's name was Jeannie, but with a J,
E-A double N I-E.
You can spell it Genie, like genie in a bottle.
You could say Jenny, you could say Eve.
Evie.
- V. - V.
There's lots of names you could abbreviate.
- Vivi, Vivi's quite cute.
- Vivi is cute, yeah.
- I love those kinds of names.
- And also that wouldn't be weird, like,
"Oh, Vivi, oh, what's your full name?",
"Genevieve.", that kind of makes sense.
- That makes perfect sense.
No one is gonna be like, what?
Penny? (laughs)
Millicent?
Your name by the way, does not in any way
have any connotations about how strong your feminism is.
- I love how Jessica is so like,
"I must not offend anyone."
It's like this whole video is about
basically dissing people's names.
- It's just us offending people about their names.
Yes, sorry, must try harder to offend people.
- I mean, you told me my name means lame,
I didn't like, punch you or anything, did I?
It's fine.
- I mean, I don't think you should punch anyone.
- A name is a name.
The whole point is you can nickname yourself
something different, or you can use your middle name,
or if you really don't like it,
you change your name legally.
- Indeed.
Edmund.
- Edmund.
- I quite like this.
- Yeah.
- To me, this is like the Hereward type of name.
Oldie, Englishy kind of names
that people know.
- Edgard.
(they laugh)
- That was more out there, I think, sure.
- But I don't like Ed.
- No.
- Ooh, Raphael.
- Oh yeah, that's nice.
- That is nice. That's cute.
We can have a Raphael.
Can you imagine that for us?
- Raph. Raffie?
- Rara! Aw.
Adorable. - Let's see
how popular it is on Nameberry.
- Probably massively.
- It's Hebrew name for "God has healed".
It's a romantic archangel name
that sounds artistic and powerful.
Apparently it's a cross cultural choice
with significance for people
from both Latin and Jewish roots.
Plus plenty of grounding in the English speaking world.
Oh, and it's number 124.
- Hmm.
- What do you mean, hmm?
- Well, I'm just saying, you know, it's popular.
He'll go to nursery, there'll be another one.
They'll call him Raphael K-F.
- I think 124 is okay, darling.
Rosemary.
- Aw.
It's cute, it's cute, Rosemary's cute.
You get the Rose, you get the Rosie.
- I don't like the name Mary.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
I like Rose as a name, and even Rosie.
But Mary? No.
Abernathy.
- Abernathy?
- Isn't that a place in Wales?
- I really feel like it is.
I was unaware that was a name.
- Yeah!
Okay, we're gonna have to look it up.
- Abe sounds very-
- Ape. - Oldy worldy...
But like, oldy worldy American.
- No names.
- I don't feel like we have a lot of Abes.
It's a place, Abernathy, Alabama, Abernathy, Texas.
- Apparently it's a surname
with links to Scottish clan.
- It is Peregrine.
- Jessica has actually thrown this
out there before, haven't you?
- No, I'm pretty sure I threw out Algernon
and you were like, "No."
- Yes.
Peregrine, no. No.
- Good name for an animal, though.
- Yes, it makes me think of a bird, like a pelican.
Doesn't it? Like a big pelican.
Like some kind of sea bird. - If I had an owl.
- Yeah, exactly, an owl! - I would name it Peregrine.
- Maybe it's the name of Harry Potter's owl.
- No, that's Hedwig.
- Oh, yeah.
- Elizabeth!
- No, too common.
- Too done, sorry.
- Lizzie.
How many people know Lizzies,
like Libbys, Elizas, Beth.
Magdalena.
- Magdalena?
- Magdalena, Magdalena.
Shorten it to Magda, Lena.
- Or Lena. - Lena.
Maggie.
- What kind of roots are we getting from this?
- Middle Eastern?
No, no, Eastern European?
- Yeah, I was feeling like Eastern European,
but then I'm also getting a bit of Spanish.
- Spanish. I don't know, let's have a look.
Oh, apparently it is a girl's name from Greek.
But the Czech origin meaning "from Magdala".
Yes. - Ah.
- Oh, it's also often heard in the Hispanic community.
- Okay, yeah. - And it is
number 553 on Nameberry.
- Okay, so it's not super popular, so that's good.
But we we're definitely getting some Hispanic
and Czech origins, which neither of us have.
- Yeah.
- Clarence.
- I like Clarence.
- Oh you do? - Yeah!
- I actually had this, I quite like Clarence.
I float it around occasionally.
I think it's really nice.
- You can't really abbreviate it to anything.
- Okay, I guess not.
- Anastasia.
- Ooh.
Well, I think I can claim that one.
- Yeah, 'cause that's got Russian links, obviously,
and Jessica's got Russian links.
- It ends in the nice family way
we have going right now, - In an I-A.
- Which is nice.
I'd quite like to keep that up.
- You can just call her Stasia.
- We can!
I know a Stasia, she's a delight.
- Or Ana. I like the name Ana, that's cute.
- That is nice.
- And also it's quite princessy,
but a strong princess name.
- Yes.
She's a princess,
but she's one that gets stuff done.
- Yeah.
But also it does make me think of
that very alto sounding singer.
God, you must know who Anast-
- God, from the 90s?
- Yes, darling, look.
Oh my gosh, how do you not know Anastasia?
- I know who Anastasia is, but, sorry,
that was a while ago, hon.
- Doesn't have the best fashion sense.
- Who had good fashion sense in the 90s?!
- Look at her!
- No one. Oh, that is unfortunate.
Get your face behind- - Oh!
- What're you doing? (laughs)
- Yeah, it's not a good look, anyway.
- Yeah, that's, okay, fine,
we can't name our child Anastasia.
- Oh my God that's a good one. Despite it being
a wonderful name.
- Stewart.
- No. No, no, no.
No, no, no.
- No.
I mean there's some questionable,
questionable baby names flying out there at the moment.
- There are all also names going out of fashion, though.
Like, last year there was no one named Ivonne born.
- I've never heard of that name.
What? Devonbon?
- (laughs) There was no one named Ivonne born.
- Oh!
There was no one named Devonbon, I was like, well, no.
What name is that?
Cassiopeia. Cassiopeia.
I think a lot of people
wouldn't know how to say that.
'Cause I looked at it and was like, whoa.
I'm pretty sure that's not high on the Nameberry list.
- [Both] C-O-P...
- Girl's name of Greek origin meaning-
- The name of a mythological mother
who became a stellar constellation.
- And it's number 200 on Nameberry.
That's high up there.
And in England it's number 883.
Wow. Who knew?
- Mind absolutely blown.
- Samantha.
- No.
It just makes me think of "Sex in the City".
- Oh yeah!
No, it's just, it's not really us again, is it?
- Jessica, Claudia and Samantha.
- Does end in an A.
- No, now I've said it, I've made Samantha cute.
Still not happening, but I feel it could be cute.
- Desideria.
- Desideria?
I'm massively dyslexic, so.
- And I can't say names if I've never heard them before.
Like Hermy-one.
- Yeah.
- If anyone's unsure what that is,
I thought Hermione was Hermy-one
for about the first three-
- Until the movie came out.
- Until the movie came out, pretty much, yeah.
I don't like the actual name as well,
like the sound of it, Desideria,
it sounds a bit like a type of illness.
Well, I mean, at least I'm getting some feedback
to these things, you are not doing anything,
you're just going, "Oh yes, how lovely, oh wow,
yes, don't want to offend anyone."
- Too late to change my personality now.
Okay. - That's another thing,
we don't want a name that we have to, like-
- Have a long conversation with people.
- A long explanation of why we called our child that name.
Like Millicent and Penny.
- This is Penny.
Oh, lovely, is it short for Penelope or?
No, it's short for Millicent.
Oh, why? For the jokes.
- The only name I like out of that whole list was Tarquin.
- Okay. Good, good.
We'll get there, we've got time.
Thank you so much for watching.
I deeply apologize if we trashed your name.
- I know, I was about to say,
I'm very sorry if I got a bit carried away
at people giving us names.
- Especially if it's the name that you actually carry.
No, wait, what's more offensive?
If it's your name or if it's the name
you've chosen for your child?
- Yeah, that's more offensive.
- Because you can't help what you're named.
- It's your name, it's not like you've chosen it.
But take it with a pinch of salt.
- Yes, we all have different tastes.
- Yes, exactly.
Whenever you name something,
or whenever you meet someone of a name,
after a while they just become that name.
And you don't really think of the name anymore
'cause it's just a identifying label.
- That's true, there are so many names
that I'm like, if I could detach that name
from that person who I don't necessarily
get on with particularly well,
I would love to call my child that.
But it's ruined.
- Yeah.
- So thank you so much for watching,
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- Reacting to baby names.
(fuse popping) (Jessica yelps)
(they laugh)
- It was terrifying of an idea.
Okay, I'll just go plug that back in.
(Jessica laughs)
Oh, another one to add to the scream vault. (laughs)
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