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Themistocles

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HoneyandRum · 24/11/2013 06:22

My dad wanted to call my bro Themistocles and it is still a running gag in our family (it actually has really grown on me over the years!). Are there any highly unusual names that you turned down but somehow just won't die and have taken on a life of their own?

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EvilRingahBitch · 29/11/2013 11:20

Hepzibah and Athlestan.

I'm such a coward.

SicknSpan · 29/11/2013 11:12

Leonard. It was the name for ds1 when I was pregnant and we didn't know what gender we were having, it was just the worst name we could imagine and when someone is being a bit sweet but dull we do a head-tilt and say awwww, Lee-O-nard.

Writing it down I realise how truly odd we are.

HalleLouja · 28/11/2013 10:06

Themistocles was my granddad's name! He was a tight old sod It's not a very nice name either. My other granddad was called Theodorous and was married to a Theodora. I have just realised the Th start to 3/4 of my grandparent's names.

I liked the name Eleni but DH vetoed it.

Bunbaker · 28/11/2013 09:17

I know someone who wanted to call his son Titus after Titus Groan. His wife vetoed that very strongly.

kelper · 28/11/2013 09:16

caip my step grandad was called hedley. I like the name but it sounds quite old fashioned.

CruCru · 28/11/2013 09:13

My Dad liked the name Basil before I was born. I think my Mum would have put her foot down (my brother is called Frederick).

igirisu · 27/11/2013 19:26

I love the name Faroukh but my partner said there was no way.

I also suggested Jupiter but i can imagine that was pregnancy hormones

Sickandsad · 26/11/2013 23:42

Brazier. DD, then 4.5 decided this was the name of her future DB a few days after we explained that I was pg. It grew and grew until she was convinced it was going to be his name and starting referring to him him using the name e.g. 'when Brazier comes, we'll..'

A few days before DS was born, I took her to the build a bear workshop and let her create a bear ready for DS and we named the bear Brazier, it's on his bear birth certificate and everything. So Brazier lives on. And DS has a much more boring, normal name Grin

BaronessBomburst · 26/11/2013 23:20

Do you know what came into my head when I read that, OnTheRunAndUp The Duff ?

What do you call a male sheep who makes sandwiches?

A buttering ram!

It was on a lolly stick circa 1979. Grin

OnTheRunAndUpTheDuff · 26/11/2013 23:09

It was the first name dh suggested when I was pregnant with dc1. Apparently after a farmer he knew when he was a child. I am afraid to enquire further, to be quite honest.

When I got pregnant with dc2 he suggested it again. I just gave him the look Hmm

(Ds has a nice normal name, and dc2 will as well)

BaronessBomburst · 26/11/2013 22:45

I'm asking!

OnTheRunAndUpTheDuff · 26/11/2013 22:37

Rammery.

Just don't even ask.

BaronessBomburst · 26/11/2013 09:53

We threatened to call DS Spitfire, whilst a friend of ours suggested Duncan. Both names still get bandied about years later!:)

mathanxiety · 26/11/2013 02:40

exH wanted Colmcille if any of the three youngest DCs had been a boy. Thank God for XX chromosomes.

Caip · 25/11/2013 21:26

DH loves the name Hedley which was the character in a Cornish novel we both read a few years ago
I think it sounds made up though

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 25/11/2013 20:08

Chess.

Sort of a running joke with me and dh.

Well except now we have dd2 and decided we loved the name Frankie (Francesca on the birth certificate) but have never once called her it. She's always Chess, Chessie, or Chessington Grin

Layl77 · 25/11/2013 10:47

Warm*

Layl77 · 25/11/2013 05:26

Sounds like very warn testicles

AuditAngel · 24/11/2013 21:53

We recently discovered that DH's grandfather (or great grandfather) had the name Espantaleon which means lion scarer. We really wished we had known that before we named DS.

He would have been Valentino Espantaeon (named for the world's greatest lover and a lion tamer, how cool!)

JuneauWhoIAm · 24/11/2013 21:53

DH has an unusual first name that isn't ever used.
His mother told me she also considered Troy. I was very amused as we were considering a getting Great Dane at the time and he would have been Troy.
I call DH Troy now when we get ahem, amorous Grin

Arcadian · 24/11/2013 21:49

Themistocles would be a dream for a middle name!

Chottie · 24/11/2013 06:28

We have an elderly male relation whose mother gave him the middle name of Hiawatha (sp) it has blighted his life. So whilst we would never use the name, it has never been forgotten.