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What are your guilty pleasure names?

89 replies

Mamadooley · 25/03/2022 22:12

What are your guilty you wouldn’t even bother suggesting 😂 mine are.

Lavender
Bluebell
Sailor
Scout
Shiloh
Forrest
Ophelia
Olive
Penelope
River
Rusty
Navy
Sylvie
Sunday
Tuesday

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Jemimapuddleduk · 01/04/2022 22:44

Gloria
Sylvie
Fern
Pearl
Coralie
Ray (for a boy)
Dale

MamaFoxToBe · 01/04/2022 22:02

I absolutely love the name Atticus since reading To Kill A Mockingbird but I think it would be mean to call my baby boy that 🙈

DogsAndGin · 29/03/2022 21:35

Archimedes
Caspian
Primrose
Jemima

Georgarina · 26/03/2022 19:32

I went to school with a girl named Tahiti and I always thought it was an absolutely beautiful name - albeit one I could never use or suggest.

bigyellowTpot · 26/03/2022 19:11

I love a few of the names mentioned on here so far such as Maude, Walter,Alison I also like
Phinneus (not sure if spelt it right)
Taliesin
Ezra
Chad
Doris

NameChangeCity123 · 26/03/2022 18:47

Sailor

MadCatLady3 · 26/03/2022 18:39

Agatha and Orion. DH would never agree and I’m not brave enough anyway.

Goandplay · 26/03/2022 13:54

Pearl
Duke
Earl

mariepopp · 26/03/2022 13:52

Melody
Harmony

1Micem0use · 26/03/2022 13:51

Angharad

1Micem0use · 26/03/2022 13:51

Wolfgang

RoostasTowel · 26/03/2022 13:10

Æthelwulf
Wulfric
Wolfgang

Not sure why I had a wolf obsession when I was pregnant. Dh obviously vetoed them all.

BethanyLouiza · 26/03/2022 12:34

Mine would definitely be Clementine

gingerhills · 26/03/2022 11:49

Salvatore, Raphael, Fidelis for a boy

Serafina, Mireille for a girl

PiccoloMaud · 26/03/2022 11:36

I LOVE Maud but my husband gave it a hard veto. Maybe if we get a dog Wink

Synchrony · 26/03/2022 11:23

Wednesday
Aslan
Esteban
Anjuli
Bunty
Calypso
Capability
Vangelis
Noor

(some of these would be fine I think if I was from a different country).

Riverlee · 26/03/2022 06:06

Bjorn

Always fancied a Norwegian name and Bjorn Borg was well known so thought this was an obvious choice. Ended up with classic, safe names. Love their names, but still feel a bit regretful at not being more adventurous.

Pinkmagic1 · 26/03/2022 06:06

Ziggy

jadew88 · 26/03/2022 05:59

@Eloise666

Rupert and Jezabel

Rupert is our first choice for a boy haha

CthulhuInDisguise · 26/03/2022 05:58

Athena
Isolda
Iseult
Alison
Demelza
Bartholomew
Julian
Dorian
Raoul

Strokethefurrywall · 26/03/2022 01:40

I have a Sullivan, he's 8 and loves his name. We don't live in UK and it's not weird here even though he's the only one on island.

Other boys names would have been:

Griffin
Maverick
Vaughn
Dalton

None of them are that "out there" though, I know a few Griffins, 2 Mavericks, 1 Vaughn and an adult Dalton!

willwewontwe · 26/03/2022 01:14

Blythe 💕

Kanaloa · 26/03/2022 01:13

Actually I think loads of these are super useable - especially Jackson, Susannah, Maddie etc. They’re all just normal names! No guilt for those.

Also love Sullivan but it would be horrible in the local accent where I live.

shrimpbarbie · 26/03/2022 01:11

Also Tallulah and Vivi!

Kanaloa · 26/03/2022 01:11

Ooh I love Shiloh! Why is that guilty pleasure, it seems quite usable to me? Mine would be Salve. Really wanted to call dd6 this and DH kept saying ‘er shall we wait, shall we wait until we see her and see?’

Looking back it is absurd since our other kids’ names fall into the ‘sensible’ category, so it would have been something like ‘here are our kids Thomas, Hannah, Joseph, and Salve.’