What’s in a Name?

A Swedish mother wanted to have the name of her two year old tattooed on her arm. Although Kevin is not a complicated name, the tattoo artist managed to misspell it by adding an l, turning it into Kelvin. The mother was horrified. But after learning it would take multiple treatments to remove the tattoo, she and her husband came up with a far simpler and less painful fix: They changed their son’s name to Kelvin. CTV NEWS

A New Zealand post office had the task of delivering a parcel ‘2 Kay + Philip’, with no surname or proper street address and one mangled clue: “On a farm, situated up a long drive with cows, opposite Cust pub or thereabouts.” Amazingly, they found the rightful recipients after the postal worker left the parcel with the owner of a service station in the village of Cust in North Canterbury, which has a population of 450. The service station put the ‘address’ on Facebook. More than 2300 people shared it, and soon a man named Philip walked into the post office and said, “I think we own this parcel.” THE GUARDIAN

For new parents looking for unusual baby names, a baby website has recently revealed its top picks. For girls: Breeze, Fable, Gypsy, Spring and Sugar. For boys: Cub, Fender, Rhaegar (from Game of Thrones) and Marlin (from Finding Nemo). BOUNTYPARENTS.COM.AU