British actress Minnie Driver has somewhat of a conundrum going on. Minnie is with child, and although it's early days is fretting about what to call her unborn baby, particularly if it ends up being a boy. Friends, she told Ellen DeGeneres, have unhelpfully suggested Duncan Driver.

I guess Holden Driver's out. As are Mercedes Driver and Ford Driver. Mind you, baby's mother didn't get away so easily herself with Minnie Driver, particularly being English. Wonder if she's ever driven a Mini?

The trend for crazy baby names has been around since Frank Zappa called his brood Dweezil, Moon Unit and Diva Thin Muffin Pigeen in the sixties.

Trawl Hollywood's birth certificates and amongst them you'll find a university major (Audio Science, Shannyn Sossamon's son); a career (Pilot Inspektor, Jason Lee's son). Other vocations used as names include Poet, Miller, and Sailor. Forest Whitaker's kids - Sonnet, True, and Ocean - sound like scents of air freshener. Marcia Cross' baby twins Eden and Savannah wouldn't be out of place as evil villains on Days Of Our Lives.

Then there's the places, among them Dakota (Melanie Griffith), Indiana (Casey Affleck), London (Slash), Ireland (Kim Basinger), Alabama (Travis Barker and Shanna Moakler) and Heaven (Brooke Burke and David Charvet). No Hell as yet. And New Zealand hasn't seemed proved too popular. Keep your ear out for an Amsterdam, a Miami, or a Rio de Janeiro.

Some of these don't even sound like names, they just sound like noises. Michael J. Fox lashed out in the mid-90s after having one sensibly monikered son, Sam, and called his twin girls Aquinnah and Schuyler. Actress Marcia Gay Harden's daughter is called Eulala. Then there's the Willis and the Geldof girls - although I actually think Peaches is quite cute and Rumer, Scout and Talullah have been around so long that they almost seem normal. Okay, not Rumer.

Director Robert Rodriguez has carried his reputation for cutting edge cinema over to some unusual kids names. Rocket, Racer, Rebel and Rogue Rodriguez sound like the participants in a soap box derby league or a league of superheroes in a Korean cartoon.

Penn Jilette's daughter Moxie Crimefighter sounds like she's named after a superhero. Kal-El Coppola Cage is named after a superhero - Kal-El was Superman's birth name. And actor Rob Morrow's daughter Tu - get it? Tu Morrow, is in need of a superhero to spirit her away from those mean parents. Jermaine Jackson should have been done for child abuse after calling his kid Jermajesty. Why, the could arrange play dates with New Zealand's very own 4Real.

Pamela Anderson's acting talents were seemingly wasted on Baywatch since her heart belongs to 90s teen drama Beverly Hills 90210, her sons are Brandon and Dylan.

Traditional, timeless Max has been popular of late. Christina Aguilera named her new son Max Liron (which means ?my greatest song', too cute for a singer!) and one of Jennifer Lopez's newborn twins is also Max, born in February with his sister Emme. But American ice skater Scott Hamilton proves a name can go from the traditional to the adult section of your video store by calling his son Maxx.

I must also admit a slight fondness for the name Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin bestowed on their first born - that's right, Apple. After four years it's kind of lost its head-scratching curiosity factor. I also quite like the name Scary Spice Mel B gave her second daughter, Angel Iris. Not so much her older daughter, Phoenix Chi, which just reminds me of the drink which knows its own name.

And while Romeo Beckham now has a legacy to uphold (although he should be fine, being David Beckham's son), Bluebell Madonna just isn't for me. Although, Geri Halliwell could argue, why should Bluebell be any different to Poppy or Daisy or Rose?

Some go for tradition - Usher's new baby son is the latest in a long line of Ushers which includes the singer himself, christened Usher Raymond V. Tori Spelling, who I thought would be the first to jump on the ridiculous name bandwagon, called her son Liam Aaron as a nod to her late father Aaron Spelling.

Which celebrity offspring names do you love? And which do you hate? Should it be against the law to make up a name for your child?

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