Ok, what erm, unsual, name did you secretly want to call your LO?

[WewishyouaBUMPERLICIOUS]

I'll go first: DD was very nearly Sapphire.

I also really wanted Twm for a boy (Welsh for Tom), but I am not Welsh! I just thought it was fab to have a name with no vowels!

[stardazzle]

Genevieve

[TequilaMockinBird]

XP wanted to call DD 'Red'

Thankfully, I won

[whoingodsnameami]

Not unusual but I wanted to call one of dts Bronwyn, but everyone said...........ewwwwwwwwww that horrible.

[Chaotica]

Elvis (for cultural reasons, not because I'm a fan)

[HangingbaublesofBethlehem]

my grandad suggested 'stopher' short for christopher - we secretly quite liked it but ended up having girlies anyway.

[Siriusmewisathreadkillertoo]

Lysander for DS2. Ended up with David! Too much Jilly Cooper on my part!!

[Chaotica]

What's wrong with Bronwyn and Red??

[SparkyFartDust]

Fabia (didn't know Skoda got there first)

[whoingodsnameami]

Sapphire is nice, my niece is called Destiny.

[Zebraa]

Willow

[wilkosroastingonanopenfire]

romilly. kinda wish i had now.

[Carmenere]

Patience, it was vetoed, and dd was due just about the time that Roy and hayley on corrie were about to adopt that baby and they called her patience, I was furious. I wanted to call her after Patience Grey, who was an amazing food writer not a bloody soap opera baby

[TequilaMockinBird]

It always reminded me of Fraggle Rock as one of the main fraggles was called Red

[Penthesileia]

Leonora (2 of my favourite opera heroines have this name).

[VirginBoffinMum]

Marius or Rex

[thatsnotmymonster]

Savannah (not that unusual I know) Still really like it.

[PaddingtonBore]

I had so many normal names that DH vetoed, Iris and Cordelia being favourites. We did very nearly go for Regan though, but the evil sister connotations put us off. I'm glad we didn't chose it now!

[thatsnotmymonster]

Oh I forgot my absolute favourite girl's name is Hero from Much Ado About Nothing.

Love it. Wish DH had let me call one of our dd's Hero (sigh)

[Flibbertyjibbet]

DS2 I wanted Otis. DP said no as its the name of a brand of lifts. I had never seen that in a lift before. Since he told me, every bloody lift I go in (and you go in a lot when you have a pram ) has a big plate on saying 'OTIS'.

We couldn't agree on a boys name for ages, when he was born a midwife said 'whats his name' I said 'well the only name we agreed on was Natalie'

(Don't worry we agreed on something else before I left the hospital!!)

[AaliyahsFirstXmas]

I wanted Ffion for DD but DP didn't like it cos it was Welsh and he isn't so we had Aaliyah instead

[jobschmob]

Gretal, Cocoa, Theo, Paddy

[Siriusmewisathreadkillertoo]

OOooh! I'm loving Marius!!! Want it!

[FrannyandZooey]

dante
blaise

dorcas
polly

can't imagine why dp vetoed these

[Bumperlicious]

Oooh, Cocoa, I like!

I really wanted Aurora or Aurelia but DH said what if she has a speech impediment and has to say 'Aworwa'

[ninah]

Fuschia