[daisyscarlett]

Julia Roberts has named her twins LINK

Roberts, 37, gave birth around 3 a.m. PST (6 a.m. EST) to Phinnaeus Walter and Hazel Patricia.

This obsession with finding unusual names for your kids is getting out of control...I mean, Phinnaeus...is that pronounced Finius as in Finius T. Bluster of Howdy Doody Time?

Hope the twinsy will be okay, they are premature, I think.

[lodwick]

Poor babies - those names are so wrong.

Why do parents do this?

[ladyinred]

Yikes! Those poor babies of Julia Roberts!
It's Howdy Doody time alright! How ugly is that name and what was she thinking?

[mountaineer]

Interesting choice of names. The last Hazel I knew was my great-aunt, born in the 1890s. Perhaps if Julia and Danny have another daughter, they'll name her Myrtle or Bertha, just to keep that old-fashioned thing going. As for Phinnaeus, I at first confused that with Phileas Fogg, the David Niven character in "Around the World in Eighty Days." Close enough! Had the twins been boys, she could have had Phil and Phin!

[BigWaveBetty]

The old timey names might be a new hip trend, another celeb recently named her new daughter Ethel. Just one more reason I'm glad I'm square.

[najida]

I am on the fence about old names. I know they are outdated to some.

We are expecting a niece in a week and my two favorite possible names are Olivia (after the dearest great aunt in the world) and Salome (pronounce Sal-o-may) a name that has been used in our family since the early 1700's.

I love them both. An old name can be a bugger when you are a kid (mine is very old-fashioned) BUT, if you can tell the child about who the were named for, it makes it something that can be worn with pride.