Name Your Baby After a Celebrity?
15 July - 4 mins
Podcast Series
Dave & Fionnuala on iRadio
Dave (guilty as charged) falls for a clickbait headline about “thousands of Erling Haaland’s children in Peru” - and it spirals into a brilliant chat about the wildest baby-naming trend fuelled by football.
Turns out Peru’s civil registry is packed with Haalands… but Neymar absolutely demolishes the numbers, with tens of thousands of namesakes, while “Lionel Messi” trails way behind.
From there, it’s only right to ask: if you had to name your child after your favourite famous person, what are you calling them?
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