It’s a pretty weird idea really; someone giving you a name. Invariably it’s your parents. They choose the name that will be your label until the men in tall hats slide into the furnace or oversee the packing of your body back into the Earth. That’s your brand name for a good few decades. So when it comes to baby names, you gotta be careful.

So what’s best? Give your kid an anonymous name, or give it a really stick-out-like-a-thorn name? It’s hard to say – you never know – if you give your baby a really outlandish name such as Demetrius, he might be drawn to the stage. Nothing wrong with that mind. If you call him Colin, he might be attracted to accountancy. The abuse or lack thereof that a kid gets at school could shape his entire life. So which baby names are you considering?

If you give your kid a really powerful name, and he or she fails to become powerful – the shame could be too much to bear.

I know someone who’s called Leaf; you’re never going to have anything like a normal life with a name like that.

But I guess you could always change it if you want. People who start a new life in the UK often discard their original name because it is too difficult to pronounce. But another reason might be that it’s a lot easier to integrate if you have a common name.

And that’s mostly what I’ve got to say about baby names.