Bloomin’ Weird Name for Naked Chef’s 3rd Girl
The Naked Chef, Jamie Oliver, and his wife Jools welcomed their
third daughter into the world last Friday. (Let’s skip over the part
about Oliver telling everyone he hoped they would have a boy.)
Their
newest, continuing an apparent family tradition of floral first names
plus hokey/hippie middles, joins big sisters Daisy Boo and Poppy Honey
in a wacky Oliver baby bouquet.
Indeed, 6 pound 10 ounce Petal Blossom Rainbow arrived just days after Dad cooked for leaders at the G20 Summit. The popular chef is spending two weeks at home with his wife and kids.
Bruce Lansky, Baby Name Guru and author of the 5-Star Baby Name Advisor, which, out on a limb here, does not include Poppy, Rainbow, Petal or probably even Jools, gives the new baby a hearty welcome to the world accompanied by two thumbs down for her silly name.
What do you think? After Daisy and Poppy, Petal feels a tad generic. It also makes me thing of worried Wemberly’s favorite doll.
This makes me wonder what they would have named the baby had she been a boy. Think they would have gone with Brian?
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He’s from the UK….what’s cool there and what’s cool here are different. Their operating rooms are theatres over there.
I like his daughters names. Cute. Sounds like he should have been a hippy, but they are cute.
Nah, a boy would have been Ranunculus.
Bruce Lansky is an idiot. His book is ridiculous. It was so awful, I didn’t even get around to looking up potential baby names. First, I looked up the names of friends and family, including my own. The ONLY name that he didn’t seem to hate – Jason. Jason is a nice name, but every boy can’t be named Jason! (He may have liked John too.)
He doesn’t deserve to be published. Buy The Baby Name Wizard instead.
Neither Daisy nor Poppy is THAT weird. They are just less common flower names. I had a friend named Daisy when I was young. Daisy is also an old fashioned nickname for Margaret.
Poppy is not common in America, but is much more common in the UK. Perhaps it is the accent.
Petal is unusual, but not so strange considering other (now common) nature choices like River or Summer.
Perhaps if they had a boy, they would have named him Basil!
I really love the names that Jamie Oliver and his wife have chosen for their girls. Not sure why but I do.
Why didn’t they just name her Schnookums? Petal bears too many connotations to “losing your petal” and that petty dandelion pluck fest, “He loves me. He loves me not.” How about something stronger and weirder like Hathor? I dunno’.