What's In A Name?

I gotta shake my head. Why does the media go all smug when celebrities name their children? Gwennyth Paltrow coped it after naming her daughter 'Apple', as if this was the first odd name ever to be given to a child.

Now, Gerri Halliwell has named her daughter Bluebell, Tomcat have Suri and Brangelina have Shiloh and the media go squirrelly over what the names mean.

Could it be - oh, the humanity! - simply a matter that the parents liked the names and that they didn't in fact, pore over Baby Name books, seaching for some deep, inner meaning?

Oh, and let's not forget the trend of naming a boy child with the maiden name of the mother.

There have been plenty of peculiar and original names throughout history - they don't have to originate from the Bible, or the Torah, or the Koran.

I'm sure there's plenty of more important things out there to report on than what a couple name their child.