It's all in a name...or is it?

Apparently some celebrities just don’t get enough attention, so they name their newborn baby something ridiculous to stand out. Cue Katie Price revealing the name of her one-month-old daughter yesterday; Bunny. Yes. You heard me right. Bunny. Bunny Hayler.

Forgive me for sounding old fashioned here but I think I’ve heard it all. It just seems unimaginable nowadays that Hollywood’s A-List would send their children out into the world with ordinary joe soap names like Tom or Emma. Instead, celebrities have waged a secret war against each other, in an attempt to come up with more and more ridiculous names, all in a bid to sound more outlandish than the last.

Fruit, cereals, colours, weeds, place names and directions have all been made into actual children’s names as celebrities attempt to outdo each other. Kim Kardashian and Kanye West took the biscuit when they named their only daughter North. The duo claimed it was more “inspirational than directional” and their “highest point” together as a couple. Fortunately, for her, North West joins a long list of unorthodox baby names in celeb land including; Blue Ivy, Apple, Coco and Memphis Eve.

But can someone with a name like Bunny or Apple actually be taken seriously in the real world? After all, a name is just a word. However if you look across the business world, there are hundreds of examples of people who have used their name to add value to their brand. Take a look at Donald Trump. His name is famous throughout the world. It is held with such high esteem that he now licenses it out to other businesses across the world in order to add value to their business and brand name, but would a name like Bunny Hayler have the same effect?  You’d have to wonder…

Former UK Apprentice contestant, Katie Hopkins, known for her deliberately controversial views, took to Twitter today to air her thoughts on Katie Price’s choice of name.

“Bunny? BUNNY? Makes sense I guess, given your dad was going at it like a rabbit with all of mums mates,” she wrote, referring to Price’s recent marital problems with her husband.

The controversial comments are nothing new to Hopkins who seems to thrive off the attention. The TV personality came under fire in July 2013 when she appeared on ITV’s This Morning and admitted she judges children on their first names.

Hopkins hit a nerve with presenters Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield, as well as viewers, when she made controversial comments linking children’s names with social class. She said: “For me, a name is a shortcut of finding out what class that child comes from and makes me ask, 'Do I want my children to play with them?” Katie added more fuel to the fire by listing names she detested like Tyler and Charmaine. "We don't achieve best friend status with Chardonnay," she added.

While many of us dismiss the controversial comments as nothing more than ignorant, snobby and

narrow-minded, Katie Hopkins does force us to re-evaluate our own preconceptions. Do we think less of someone with an unusual name? Do we think we know what kind of background they come from or what their parents are like? Or is there anyone out there who agrees with Katie Hopkins?

We might not like to admit it but maybe Katie Hopkins has a point and maybe we subconsciously judge people on their name or where they’re from or what social class they fall in to. Maybe, deep deep down, Katie Hopkins is right and her outspoken and blunt opinions are what we’re all secretly thinking in private. Maybe.