The pandemic is a time most people want to forget — but one mother has immortalized it forever with her baby’s name.
Jodi Cross, of Bedfordshire, UK, found out she was pregnant with her first daughter during the UKs second coronavirus lockdown in 2021 — after a year spent trying to start a family.
However, Cross and her husband Rob, both 36, said they look back on lockdown fondly as the reason they were able to get pregnant — because they had more time to try for a baby due to being furloughed.
Hoping to remember this time in their lives, they chose to name their newborn Lockie — who arrived Nov. 28, 2021.
“We named her Lockie, for lockdown,” she told South West News Service. “We really liked the name, and lockdown was a good time in our lives because it was so relaxing.”
Jodi Cross gave birth to Lockie in November 2021. Jodi Cross / SWNS
Jodi and Rob moved in together and got married during COVID. Jodi Cross / SWNSCross, who works as a hairdresser, said she and her husband had been trying for a year to get pregnant. When a new strain of COVID was discovered last year, they knew their baby would be born during lockdown.
“We know lots of people didn’t enjoy lockdown but for us, it was a good time,” she explained. “We actually had the best time in lockdown. We named her after a good time, not a bad one.”
“People might not like the name,” she continued. “But I don’t care what they think.”
“The name just felt right,” Cross said. Jodi Cross / SWNSCross added that, although lockdown was the primary inspiration behind the name, there were a few other reasons they landed on the unusual moniker.
“There was a girl who came into the salon whose surname was Lockey at the time we were considering names,” she said. “And then we got married in Gretna Green in Scotland, where there are lots of lochs.”
