Cameron’s baby’s name: All the odds – and the result
See all the odds on baby names for the Cameron’s youngest child, both the feasible and the weird. And then find out which name won.
By Ian Dunt
For those of us with a weakness for weird betting, David and Samantha Cameron’s new baby girl came as a gift from above.
Every news item prompted another spasm of bets and listener suggestions. By the time Mr Cameron had emerged from the hospital yesterday afternoon to confirm she would be given a Cornish middle name, the radio call-in shows and Twitter were awash with suggestions.
Paddy Power backed Annabel as the little baby’s name. It proved popular before news broke of the arrival of a baby girl, with punters speculating that the baby may be named after her maternal grandmother. With all the boys names previously in the betting suddenly discounted Annabel was cut to 5/1.
Annabel was closely followed in the betting by Eleanor and Elizabeth at 6/1, with Margaret – presumably a popular name amongst the Tory grassroots – at 12/1.
Paddy Power are still offering 150/1 that the Cameron’s latest child will one day lead the Conservative party and 500/1 that she one day becomes leader of the Liberal Democrats.
William Hill liked the Annabel option too, offering odds of 4/1 on the name. Some fared better however, with Marnie on 2/1, Enid on 3/1 and Agnes on 3/1.
The bookmaker only gave Margaret 50/1 – the same odds as Edwina, which has potentially troubling overtones.
The name Speed, which one would have thought rather too modern for the Camerons, was at 1000/1.
Hills are now offering 10/1 that the couple will have another child while David Cameron is prime minister and 6/1 that Nick Clegg will be Florence’s god-father.
Sadly, no-one saw the actual name coming. The Camerons settled on Florence Rose Endellion, after telling reporters that the baby’s middle name would be Cornish to reflect the surprise birth during their holiday. St Endellion is a village in the north of the county.
The bookies were over the moon with the result, with literally no-one guessing the Florence name, even if they will stay pay out a few bob to those who guessed the other names.
“Florence was quoted at 16/1, but we can’t trace a single bet on the name – which is great news for us,” admitted Hill’s spokesman, Graham Sharpe.
“We took a couple of hundred bets, totalling a few thousand pounds, and did have one or two enquiries for ‘Rose’, also at 16/1, but took no bets bigger than £10, while no-one at all bet on or even asked for the name ‘Endellion’, which would have been a 100/1 shot.”
Still. 6/1 on Clegg being the god-father. Might be worth a flutter.
