Names that will not be given to the Royal baby

What's in a name?

So far, 'George' has been mooted if the Royal baby is a boy and, 'Elizabeth' if the child is a girl.

Both are good names and both would win approval at a Catholic baptismal font.

And, I suppose we should be grateful that William and Kate have not gone down the Darren and Kylie route.

But it would be a good and wholesome thing if the Royal couple broke with tradition and named their baby either Joseph or Mary according to the gender of the infant.

What effect would that have?

Well apparently, there are hundreds of new parents and pregnant mums to be out there who are holding off having their child baptised just so that they may adopt whichever name is chosen for the Royal baby. How unwise. How very unwise.

We all know the dangers of the period between birth and baptism.

But, back to the copying of the Royal name.

If 'Mary' or 'Joseph' were adopted we would have hundreds, possibly thousands of little Marys and Josephs trailing in the wake of the Royals - excellent!

If nothing else it might shove all those Poppydoodah and Harryhooha ridiculous names down the popularity list.