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Original poster

Ok, what erm, unsual, name did you secretly want to call your LO?

112 replies

WewishyouaBUMPERLICIOUS · 26/12/2008 22:31

I'll go first: DD was very nearly Sapphire.

I also really wanted Twm for a boy (Welsh for Tom), but I am not Welsh! I just thought it was fab to have a name with no vowels!

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TheGashlycrumbTinies · 27/12/2008 18:57

Bruno or Kiki

scifinerd · 27/12/2008 18:53

Nettle for a girl, I also liked Lysander for a boy.

Kristingle · 27/12/2008 18:44

my SIL wanted to call her first son Xavier

lovely name but maybe not in glasgow

Kristingle · 27/12/2008 18:41

Perdita
Verity

Dottoressa · 27/12/2008 18:17

Hortensia. DH vetoed it for DD!

He also vetoed Aloysius for DS.

He has no taste.

lilLAURAand4poorlykids · 27/12/2008 18:15

lol how cool - where do i catch up with all the ladies from the thread ?? how is the lilone?

SnowOfHands · 27/12/2008 18:14

Yes I am ShowOfHands but in a festive incarnation.

I remember you!

SuperBunny · 27/12/2008 18:11

I know an Elvis. His brother is Van

lilLAURAand4poorlykids · 27/12/2008 18:05

SOH did you used to be showof hands from a thread i was part of duemay07????

SnowOfHands · 27/12/2008 18:02

Some of these names are fabulous. I particularly like Dorcas and Rufus. Nowt wrong with them.

wilbur · 27/12/2008 18:01

Ds2 was v nearly Dexter (still love that name) and if he'd been a girl he would have been Xanthe.

nkf · 27/12/2008 18:00

Ahem. Long before we had children, my husband and I both had a fancy for the name Pelham. I think I'd read it in a Georgette Heyer novel.

frankbestfriend · 27/12/2008 17:59

Araminta, Minty for short. Dh would not be budged though

Someone told me recently that there is a bufoon type character on Eastenders named Minty, so perhaps dh did dd a favour after all

cece · 27/12/2008 17:54

Sidney

Alathea/Althea

Wesley

DH vetoed my boys names and I had a boy so couldn't use Alathea/Althea

chatname · 27/12/2008 17:52

Aneurin (I'm a half Welsh, lefty, NHS worker). DH vetoed it though.

lilLAURAand4poorlykids · 27/12/2008 17:47

well i have dd1Zarah, dsTaylor, dd2Libby-jaine and dd3 is Ashlee

i wanted to call Taylor Axel or Harley but got shot down with those straight away by dh
he was going to be called summer if he was a girl

dd2 i wanted willow but wasnt allowed that either

but i was allowed to name dd3 although she nearly ended up without a middle name but i pushed for that too

georgimama · 27/12/2008 17:03

I wanted Rufus for DS. It is his middle name though.

I haven't given up on Orlando or Ptolemy if we have another son.

milkmonster · 27/12/2008 17:02

Electra or Persis

naturalbornmum · 27/12/2008 12:22

Teddy!

naturalbornmum · 27/12/2008 12:21

Well I love my DC's names but also like:

Talullah, Coco, Ophelia,

Kristingle · 27/12/2008 11:24

saskia

ilovelovemydog · 27/12/2008 11:20

Sasha
Xavier

SnowballsintheSky · 27/12/2008 11:18

Demelza but we're just not Cornish enough.

MrsWeasleyStrokesSantasSack · 27/12/2008 10:57

maddison (not that unusual now I know)

I know an Evangeline (named after the House of Elliot) Lovely name

NorkyButNice · 27/12/2008 10:57

Jasper or Felix.

And no, I wasn't expecting a cat...