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Come come! Share your guiltiest pleasure names...

405 replies

EverySingleStar · 14/10/2009 15:24

Come share the names you, for whatever reason, wouldn't ever use, but love with a passion

Here are mine

Girls
Harlot (I KNOW, I know)
Rain
Dream
Ever
London
Paris
Noelle

Boys
Canyon
Baylor (cat's name now )
Rohan
Corbin
Caspian
Noel

I'm sure I have more that I need to think of

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ArcticFox · 14/02/2010 07:41

Jean Baptiste - I love it, but you've got to be French or it looks stupid.

Isaiah- Middle name potential but too full on for first name (for me anyway)

Shoshe- I'm actually seriously considering Jemima

Shoshe · 12/02/2010 19:47

Jago
Milo
for boys

Jinty
Romilly
Jemima

for girls.
(much to old for childbearing now tho)

But then I called my kids by 'odd' names back in the day,

DDIL wants Forrest for a boy and Zeffi for a girl (she is South African tho, so they might not be such different names there)

LetThereBeRock · 12/02/2010 19:28

My latest is Ozias. I'd love to have a baby Ozzy.

Joni783 · 12/02/2010 19:15

I love love love Xavier for a boy and Aaliyah for a girl...

BlueBumedFly · 12/02/2010 18:16

I hate it when you own child's names come up on these

...never know if it is a good thing or a really bad thing....

CleverCircusFlea · 12/02/2010 17:59

Maia/Maya for a girl.
Fox for a boy or a girl. I think Fox is the coolest name on earth!

Bumperlicious · 12/02/2010 17:32

Twm - (Welsh for Tom) how cool to have a name with no vowels!
Seraphina
Octavia
Hera (actually, that one might still be on my actual list )
DD was very nearly Sapphire

asdx2 · 12/02/2010 16:48

Fletcher, Max, Reuben and Jerome for boys.
Flossie, Lottie, Dolly and Connie

mummyloveslucy · 12/02/2010 16:27

GIRLS

Primrose, Fiona, Clementine.

BOYS

Monty, Diggary, Hugo.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 12/02/2010 16:22

Mmm some really beautiful names here.

I love:

Indigo
Orlando
Delphi
Mathy
Ambrose

am I right in thinking these would all result in a kicking?

Romily
Cecelia
Persephone
Artemis

think i swallowed a book of greek mythology in my youth?

Sorry can't help but laugh at jonboy, the others are lovely though Cluttergump

colnelcustard · 12/02/2010 16:11

i called my daughter my dream name. honey.

if i had another girl i would call her ofelia (pronounced in the spanish way like pans labaryinth).

this is in my dream where i am also standing in a fabulous kitchen introducing my children to a magazine editor who is running a piece on me.

InThisSequinBraYesYouOlaJordan · 12/02/2010 16:00

DH and I both loved Tallulah, but wondered whether we should given Jessie Wallace...

Anyway, DS2 was a boy, so that was that one done and dusted.

CardyMow · 12/02/2010 15:22

I love Opal for a girl, but DP has always said it is too old-ladyish. Also Eilidh, but as am living in SE england, either no-one would pronounce it correctly, or no-one would spell it correctly. Still in my top 5 if I ever have any more though . Boys, I love love love Ruaridh and Lachlan, but again with the pronunciation. Plus neither would go with the boys names that have already been used for DS1&2 and DS3(sb). But then Eilidh wouldn't go with DD's name. And what for middle names? have used family names/ friends names all with meaning for all the dc's. DD's middle name is the 'family' middle name, all the first-born daughters have it for err 6 generations, DS1's middle name is my Dad's name (he died when I was 10yo), and DS2's middle name is the name of my best male friend who died in a quad bike accident while I was pg with DS2. DS3's middle name was the family 'boys' middle name. I think tbh if I had any more, it'd be the middle name that'd really stump me!

allydennis · 12/02/2010 15:19

mmmmmmm I love this thread....

Maggie-May for a girl
Hunter for a boy

But DH has vetoed both for being too 'celebrity-esque' (sadly we are not celebrities)...

littledawley · 12/02/2010 15:05

I love Cadence - don't know why I just think that the sound of the word is beautiful.

Sunshinemummy · 12/02/2010 15:02

Other names I love but am not alowed to have:

Girls:

Bay
Biba
Plum
Kitty
Margot

Boys:

Serge
Etienne
Onni
Kit
Dashiel
Atticus
Otis

Sunshinemummy · 12/02/2010 14:59

There's a family called the Novogratz's who have appeared in Living etc. a couple of times with 7 children with names I secretly like. They are:

Wolfgang, 12, twins Tallulah and Bellamy, 10, Breaker, 8, twins Five and Holleder, 4 and four-month-old Major

MaryMungo · 12/02/2010 14:54

Yes. She was such a lovely, capable woman in that book. Made me love the name.

All my husband could say was "Maggoty", and that was the end of that

cece · 12/02/2010 14:45

Verity
Alathea/Althea/Thea
Helen
Anna
Audrey
Una

Wesley
Gregory

Cortina · 12/02/2010 14:42

Peggoty - isn't that David Copperfield? Now I will have to use that one, if not for a child for a cat or at least a fish

Jo5677 · 12/02/2010 14:38

girls Scarlett Violet Verity Amber Lara Venetia Leila Ilona boys

Isaac
Alfred
Xavier
Walter
Wilfred
Blake
Austin
Rhys
Theo

SixtyFootDoll · 12/02/2010 14:24

HArmony is my current 'if I had a girl' 's name.

MaryMungo · 12/02/2010 14:22

Girls
Agnes
Morag
Dorcas
Gertrude (might actually use this one)
Briar
Peggoty
Polyhymnia
Dulcinea

Boys
Aloysius
Aelred
Noel
Huw (am not Welsh)
Bastian

passionberry · 12/02/2010 14:21

Oooh yes and Cordelia!

passionberry · 12/02/2010 14:20

Natasha
Serena
Blair
Brooke
Sky

(which I think are naff but I love them)

Octavia
Pandora
Persephone

(which are far too poncy)

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