Oenone for a girl, Inigo for a boy

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

This is probably a pointless thread as is purely hypothetical, however I had a pregnancy scare in January and if I had been pregnant, it would have been due about now.

Still feel a bit wistful about it now.

ANYWAY I thought I would risk the MN baby name wrath and see what you would think of my choices

Girl
Oenone
Iris
Artemis
Ariadne
Hera

Boy
Inigo
Albert
Idris

What do you think?

[Catsmamma]

how do you stop saying oenonenoenoenoen...............??

[Clary]

I like Albert a lot (doesn't work with our surname!) also Iris is nice.

Oenone runs into the issue of having always to ask how it's pronounced (how is it pronounced?) which is not a good thing in general.

Artemis is rather fine, hunter goddess, but perhaps rather out there as a name. Hera ditto.

Inigo sounds like Indigo which has become relatively popular as a girls' name (yes, I know about Inigo Jones, but still).

[smartyparts]

Sorry that it's only hypothetical, but...& only my immediate thought..

a wee bit poncey/pretentious! Apart from Iris & Albert obv

[acsec]

Reality that's what I thought of, also love the name!

[meditrina]

I love the name Oenone! Actually all the names on your girl's list, except Iris.

Inigo is great, the other boy's names are OK.

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

Reality. Yes you have to have a girl - I remember your baby names threads at the start of the pregnancy, when you were full of love for Edith, Martha and the like.

Oenone is ee-no-nee (nickname Noni probably). Yes I know pronunciation is a bugger but it's so PRETTY.

I like greek names for a girl as my dd has a greek name and I like to keep a theme (why? I don't know)

I LOVE Inigo because my surname is Jones and I think that is a cool name.

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

What do you all mean by Inigo Montoya?

[LittleMissBabybrain]

Its from the film ?The Princess Bride? one of my favourite films of all time so yes, Inigo gets .y vote!

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

Oh I haven't seen Princess Bride for ages, my DP has never seen it and it is on my list to buy and make him watch it.

I know what you mean now.

[Nikki82]

I know a boy named Inigo.. It's a great name.

[sparkle12mar08]

Umm, no. Just... no.

[ViolaTricolor]

I like Inigo, but Oenone is a rather unappealing character in Racine's Phedre. She's a devoted servant who makes a false accusation of rape to cover up her mistress's guilt, then ends up throwing herself off a cliff.

[DessieLou]

Iris and Albert have my vote...sound great together so I suggest you should have twins!
Good luck if you are TTC.

[latrucha]

Iris. Hate the others.
Idris if you're Welsh. Otherwise Albert.

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

Oh Viola - I knew she was a character in Phedre but had no idea what she got up to! Yes that is rather offputting, I rather like the original Greek myth link to wine

DP would hate Oenone anyway, he looked at me blankly when I told him and said it is just a random collection of vowels.

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

Maryz you are right - when I think of all the grandiose names I thought of when I was pregnant with dd (Cassiopeia, Cassandra, Angelica, Pheonicia ) and she ended up with a very normal name - Sophia.

I am very broody at the moment I must admit and DP has wanted a baby for ages. However life has been a nightmare this year so I doubt we will tbh.

You should hear DP's names - Ra, Osiris, Ramses.

We are NORMAL people btw , not maniacs.

[CaptainNancy]

Inigo is fantastic, but poor Oenone is condemned to a lifetime of people looking blank and saying 'What?'
What about Undine or Ondine?

[PivotPivotPIVOT]

OOH Ondine. That reminds me of my fictional twins (Odette and Odile).

I do wish this place had a [twat] emoticon because I would apply it to myself.

Thanks Maryz . I do wander up the baby aisle in Sainsbos and look longingly at the tubs of sudocrem and nappies .

PLUS my dd is nearly 16. Look at all the new stuff they make. I can buy all sorts of completely unecessary crap like heated baby wipes containers.

It would be lovely. I look like some weirdo smiling at strangers' babies at the moment.

[ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs]

Oneoneoene or whatever it is sounds like onanism which is self pleasuring
I do like Iris and Inigo. I knew an Inigo, he was lovely. He was pronounced In-ee-go rather than Mr Pipkin who was In-i-go.

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

For the first time I understand what it's like to not be Irish and confronted with Caoimhe and Saoirse!

How the hell do you pronounce Oenone?

[latrucha]

Soory this isn't a real baby names thread too. My post sounds horrible!

I have a list of fantasy baby names too. Farah is my girl's name.