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Guilty pleasure name..

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chloboe · 01/03/2022 19:20

Hi all 🤍

I thought this would be quite fun and interesting to do.. what are some guilty pleasure names you love? I'll start ..

Girl- Alaska
Boy- Koa

I'd never use these names as there just abit too out there for me and quite frankly, I don't even know if they are names 😂

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midsomermurderess · 01/03/2022 23:27

Martin.

MysticCT · 01/03/2022 23:25

Peyton for a girl
Santiago for a boy
I'm quite surprised my late Dad's name has been mentioned.

WeasilyPleased · 01/03/2022 23:22

Demelza and Zebedee for me. I know..Zebedee is especially ridiculous but it's so fun to say!

LeftieLucy · 01/03/2022 23:16

@H1Drangea I have a 5 year old Leonard!

I love gothic sounding names.

Balthazar and Azazel for boys
Hecate and Artemisia for girls

Pieceofpurplesky · 01/03/2022 23:12

Persephone known as Persy

inmyslippers · 01/03/2022 23:09

Love all these out there names

Girl - neveah, ocean, Olympia

Boys - Hudson, Carter, Kane, Calvin

DramaAlpaca · 01/03/2022 23:05

I love Seraphina, just love it even though it's long, frilly and not my usual style of name at all. I also love Clementine and Evangeline.

In real life I had boys, and if I'd had girls they'd have had short, neat names like my boys do.

flowerbutt · 01/03/2022 22:56

@schoolsoutforever

Just use the crazy names. I’ve taught kids with most of these names in a fairly non-bohemian city and it’s no big deal. My kids also have unusual names,. I’d much rather be ‘one name’ than ‘name no 3’.
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Fivebeanchilli · 01/03/2022 22:46

Blythe for a girl and Taliesin for a boy

HeartshapedFox · 01/03/2022 22:38

Boy: Gwydion, Girl: Ariadne.

schoolsoutforever · 01/03/2022 22:34

*in fact

schoolsoutforever · 01/03/2022 22:34

Infant my daughter’s name is on one list above. It’s fine - she loves her name.

schoolsoutforever · 01/03/2022 22:32

Just use the crazy names. I’ve taught kids with most of these names in a fairly non-bohemian city and it’s no big deal. My kids also have unusual names,. I’d much rather be ‘one name’ than ‘name no 3’.

SaggyTights · 01/03/2022 22:19

Raven
Story
Lyric
Portia
Mahalia (Miiiissss Mahalia Jackson!)
Loveday (I’m not Cornish)
Isis
Cleopatra

Valentine
Justice
Issachar, Ezekiel, Solomon, Isaiah, Jahdiel (lots of biblical ones, but I’m a right heathen!)

My kids have really ‘normal’ names Grin.

mumof41992 · 01/03/2022 22:17

Girls - Apple (my dds name)

Boys - Grey

H1Drangea · 01/03/2022 22:12

I love the old fashioned southern Belle names for a girl
Maybelle
Savannah
Blanche
Boys names , proper old fashioned
St John
Trevor
Leonard

DrEllie · 01/03/2022 22:11

Tuesday. Both daughters not born on Tuesdays. Gabriel, Seamus. DH said no. Just as well we had girls!

RoyKent · 01/03/2022 22:03

Another TigerLily- and Tigs for short

FeelMyBicep · 01/03/2022 21:51

@Branleuse my Grandma was a Queenie, she had olive skin & the softest hair, the name forever warms my heart ♥️

Rainbowbaby13 · 01/03/2022 21:37

Winter

PeeAche · 01/03/2022 20:46

This is a good thread. All of these are my "I wish" names. But I just couldn't do it for various reasons.

Girls: Ophelia; Juno; Coppelia; Wednesday

Boys: Heston; Grayson; Quentin

Climbingthelaundrymountain · 01/03/2022 20:39

Girl- Hero
Boy- Xavier

romdowa · 01/03/2022 20:35

Girl: Astrid, raven , Wednesday, wren
Boy: artemis, casper , Nathaniel,
All were either vetoed or just don't work with my accent

Traumdeuter · 01/03/2022 20:31

For a boy

Traumdeuter · 01/03/2022 20:30

Ariadne. I have a strong Lancashire accent and a very common surname, it wouldn’t work.

Ptolemy for a bit as I love Tolly for a nickname.