Hey David Beckham, I called my daughter Harper first | Zoe Williams

Until yesterday, my daughter had a name in literary resonance. But Mr. Harper has changed all that Beckham

There are so many reasons to reject the child's name is the name of a dog has too many letters, sounds like the kind of name that the child would have smelled of urine, is very elegant, a little Cath Kidston ... However, "Posh and Becks could use"? How could he have guessed that Posh and Becks, whose previous elections, we'll run through them are Brooklyn, Romeo and Cruz could use Harper

do not care, in itself, my daughter Harper with the same name as another Harper. There is someone in the street with a boy named Harper, her only child, not with malice, "Well, I named mine after Harper Lee," implying that she had named after Marx and Harper Collins, and she responded. "Of course, Harper Lee has called by name to a child and she was a little tomboy"

I said, but never felt moved to cry, because unisexuality is part of the point. I think the choice of names for their children to be in perfect balance: excellence, or hyper-feminine nor masculine, hopefully, without connotations of class, so they can move freely in society, and foreigners (hence the names of Americans are good), neither traditional nor nervous so you can invest as much of his own personality, and more developed, so little of his own, as possible.

• I think we really want a clean slate, but the interpretations are great, some people say there is nothing easier than Peter and Jane, or - in this way - the names short and simple confidence in English. Ben, Sam, Emma, ??Will, Sarah. I think simplicity is its own message, but I know that I have chosen names that are not considered as a tabula rasa for all, whether he says (I wrote about them once, and someone one in the comment is free "tragic of all, try-hard shock" - which was about Thurston, son - and the "middle class", this is my favorite book as "false intellectualism Posey" was Harper -.)
• What is not clear, however, is to have a name with a resonance in popular culture directly. You might not be called Kylie and move freely through the world without people assume certain things about you and your parents, and their interests, Yik Yak. And now, you will not be able to be called Harper. It has ceased to be culturally neutral-cum-culturally ambiguous to be responsible like diamonds in the tissues of your pubic hair. And the fact that it is two years older than the Harper government will not make any major difference at all, because people who can remember the exact age of the child stars of pop, well, I n 'not use the word "crazy" and say "very rare".

If Harper (my Harper) was a stylish bag and bought one like it, I could take it back. However, he grew in his time, which is the name

There is a hint of snobbery here, I can see - Harper had an MRI before, and was a literary (or, if you prefer a "middle class, Posey, fake" one). I I'm kidding when I think what has changed is that we went from neutral to charge. It's just gone from being loaded in a direction that is loaded into another. And after Posh'n'Becks people never to call his daughters after Harper Lee, because they will be afraid to be confused with the kind of people who call their son after David Beckham. They will instead of "scout", there will an eruption of scouts in a mini-wave of eco-chic message Harpers. But I argue here that I disagree that this is not that Beckham is not middle class, they are celebrities . There is something sad classlessly emulate celebrities pain of his happiness, on behalf of their children.

aggrieved that the sound in my heart, I do not like (which is the opposite of my normal state, where I do not seem to mind, and I'm boiling in the bile). It's a beautiful name. Do not ask someone else chose. I would even say he is the best name. The only mystery is why more people do not realize before.

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