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Recent reports tell us that no babies were called Nigel last year (and, with apologies to some perfectly decent Nigels, I can think of reasons for that). More mysteriously, the most popular boy's name (in England? in the UK?) was Noah: are new parents obsessing about global warming and the coming deluge?

Living, as we do, next door to students gives us some indication of which names are current. But we were surpised to learn that the owner of the car which was gathering parking tickets outside our door was called Cosmo. I've only ever come across two Cosmos before: one was the Archbishop of Canterbury, the other was a fairly accurate knife thrower.

I wonder if he was named after either of them?

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cmcmck

'And his lovely assistant'.............. :o)

When I chose my real world name it was genuinely very unusual. Sadly, it now isn't.

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shewhomust

It did occur to me to wonder how many of us have names datable to when we were born, and how many to when we chose them...

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boybear

..you may recall that I only narrowly escaped Nigeldom myself..

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shewhomust

I did indeed recall that - but I wasn't sure it was polite to mention it!

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conuly

Noah matches current naming trends, and has certainly been on the rise for *years* in the Anglosphere.

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shewhomust

Ah, then I'm slow on the uptake - I hadn't noticed!

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sovay

I've only ever come across two Cosmos before: one was the Archbishop of Canterbury, the other was a fairly accurate knife thrower.

I always think of Cosmo Brown, played by Donald O'Connor in Singin' in the Rain (1952). I've never met a live person of the name.

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shewhomust

Oh, good point! Why did I not think of that? I wonder if it was his real name - I mean, whether we are supposed to read it as a stage name.

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sovay

I wonder if it was his real name - I mean, whether we are supposed to read it as a stage name.

I always assumed it was his real name! It had the right sort of Elfland-to-Poughkeepsie ring to have been inflicted by parents rather than personal choice.