We’ve seen English babies named for a bingo hall, a shoe store, a fish and chip shop, another fish and chip shop…and now we have one named after a shopping mall.
On October 9, Kim Leighton of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, gave birth outside her family’s flat, which is quite close to the Eden shopping centre. Close enough, in fact, that the birth was recorded on the mall’s CCTV cameras.
The baby girl was named Leanne Eden — middle name for the mall.
P.S. I love how the title of the news story contains a quip about Ikea. The author must not know Ikea has been used as a baby name for decades now.