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What bonkers names are your older DC keen on?

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PerspicaciousGreen · 19/04/2021 10:40

Our 3yo announced a little while ago that we should have another brown haired green eyed daughter called... Meecup. Sorry, sweetie, you're not on the naming committee!

When I was young I wanted a little sister called Jeid. Not Jade, Jeid.

If your older DC named their new sibling, what bizarre name would they choose?

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MirandaBlu · 26/04/2021 20:18

My little sister (then almost 4) wanted to name our littlest sister Grandpa. Apparently our mother had been showing her pics of the two of us and our brother as babies to prepare her, and she'd concluded that all babies had short, sparse white hair, as did our actual Grandpa. I (age 7) had much more mature tastes - my favourite was Tiara Halo.

EvilEdna1 · 25/04/2021 01:17

My DS1 wanted DC2 to be called Parrot Humpty Dumpty.

EuphieKat · 25/04/2021 01:13

When DS was two he wanted to call his little sister Zooter or DooDooBaba.

EuphieKat · 25/04/2021 01:12

Dd (11) reckons she’s going to call her kids (both girls) Ayla Secura and Sabine Rey, both Star Wars inspired.

Lollypop4 · 24/04/2021 22:50

our 6yr old wanted' cpt America or wolvarine' for his new brother .
The baby has the middle name ' Thor' as compromise

crazymuseummumtobe · 24/04/2021 22:28

'Appleonie'... Could there be a little girl at school or nursery called Appolonia? Reasonably common Polish/central European name, I think.

EssentialHummus · 24/04/2021 17:25

DD, then two, insisted that her sibling was going to be called Leander - after a friend’s family member who we’d never met. She then happily told her grandparents (who didn’t know I was pregnant). That was a fun 10 minutes trying to explain things, given that they don’t speak any English and have strong views about Slavic naming conventions.

Ellmau · 24/04/2021 17:16

I also remember as a small child thinking that Trousers was a really good name for a boy. I still think it has a certain assertive something!

It could work for a dog or cat member of your family :)

Ariannah · 23/04/2021 15:41

1940s. My grandma decided to name her baby Joan. However her older child was obsessed with calling the baby Vittoria after the beautiful lady who worked in the Italian ice cream parlour. On the christening day her older sister carried her down the aisle and whispered to the priest that the baby’s name was Vittoria... and she was baptised before my gran realised. And that’s why my mum has the legal name Vittoria but everyone calls her Joan.

Smurftastic · 23/04/2021 15:33

DD(3) decided recently that her sister will be called either Hooty Owl, Blurry Wardrobe or Coin Person!

Spied · 23/04/2021 10:26

Dd has always called every doll/teddy Rosie or Joshua so I think these would be her choices.

Bunglemom · 23/04/2021 10:18

Cinderella Rapunzel!

Needless to say we veto'd that one 😆

GetTheGoodLookingGuy · 22/04/2021 19:39

I was seven when my brothers were born. I still have the list of name suggestions I made, which weren't particularly out there, just quite dated for the early 2000s. Two of my boys name suggestions were Jeremy and John, and the only girls name I could think of was Tiffany.

ItsReallyOnlyMe · 22/04/2021 18:53

DD then 2, suggested her new (unborn) baby brother was called 'Potato'.

We expanded this to Potato Chip, and so he became Chip !

That's not his actual name - but 20 years later I still call him that (though no one else does !)

VoyageInTheDark · 22/04/2021 18:48

3yo said we should call bump Balloon or Arma 'because she has arms'.

She laughed off my actual name suggestions as if they were ridiculous

MyNameIsElizaDay · 21/04/2021 22:43

Niece decided her new baby brother should be called Woolly!

StevieNix · 20/04/2021 17:31

DS (3) has asked for a brother called strawberry or a sister called Emma Hmm

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PerspicaciousGreen · 20/04/2021 17:17

I also remember as a small child thinking that Trousers was a really good name for a boy. I still think it has a certain assertive something!

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hanahsaunt · 20/04/2021 14:53

Boudica

notawittyname1954 · 20/04/2021 13:38

my grandaughter has named her unborn younger brother Truck Treelifter

oohmyback · 20/04/2021 13:00

My youngest likes Oceana...for a boy or girl.

When I was pregnant with her my other daughter was really cross that she was going to be a girl so she wanted to call her pooface!

Edenember · 20/04/2021 12:59

@raskolnikova I think she just took a fruit and stuck something on the end, because just the fruit would be silly.

Edenember · 20/04/2021 12:57

@VienneseWhirligig I’d love to believe this was the source, but I think it’s very much fruit-based 😂 .She was insistent on the Appleonie spelling.

EmbarrassingMama · 20/04/2021 12:38

My two year old is adamant his new baby should be called either Carlos, Larlos or Marlos...

LadyCatStark · 20/04/2021 07:54

Eleven (or Twelve for a boy) 🙈.