Name Your Baby After a Celebrity?
About this episode
Dave and Fionnuala discuss the trend of naming babies after celebrities, particularly in relation to football players.
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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