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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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coldtits · 12/02/2010 14:16

jeremy
cordelia

bibbitybobbityhat · 12/02/2010 14:15

Sheherazade

Patience

Daphne

Jasper

Can't think of any more boy ones

belgo · 12/02/2010 14:13

Bathsheba I would have used this if dh had let me!
Another vote for Thor - I know a little boy called this. Very cool.

legallyblond · 12/02/2010 14:11

Oh, actually, Clover and Tabitha... my faves!

legallyblond · 12/02/2010 13:48

I LOVE Clover... def my guilty pleasure!

mumofsevenplusfour · 06/02/2010 20:44

gladys
agatha
serenity apparently a tena lady product
love them but dont think shed love me
arabella love but to pony club
dh likes rhino for a boy or so he says

Ineedsomesleep · 06/02/2010 20:20

Girls

Indigo
Blue
Tuesday

Boys
Valentine (love this name but its a notorious local villian who ended up dying of a drugs overdose).
Sirius
Roc
Ambrose

tummytickler · 06/02/2010 20:00

Jupiter for a boy - would/could never use it, but it is fab!
Also Wolfgang!

boodleboot · 06/02/2010 19:00

Guinevere
Lavender
Honeysuckle

Huxley
Homer
Tiberius

{altho Guinevere is a real contender for this bump is its a pink one...}

LifeOfKate · 24/10/2009 08:51

I have a secret love of the name Maude.. not even mentioned it to DH, as he would look at me very strangely!
I think Linus is really cute for a boy.
DH likes Wednesday!!! Thankfully it doesn't go with the middle names we are using

boodleboot · 23/10/2009 11:03

i really like the name Rhubarb for a girl too.....

LadyThompson · 22/10/2009 19:03

Er...

Girls:

Daffodil
Artemis
Honeysuckle
Bluebell (ruined by G Halliwell)
Speedwell
Marguerite
Primrose
and loads of other flower names
Mirabel and Maribel
Theodora

Boys:

Horatio
Roman
Bertram
Oswald
Augustus

LadyEvenstarsCauldren · 22/10/2009 18:31

Phoenix was going to be ds1's name
Orlando is another i wanted

Atlanta is my fictional daughters name
or
Arizona
and another I love is...

my name lol but if i have a daughter it would be really sad to name her after me i guess lol

I know a Sebastian Wolfgang he is a right so n so!!!

Kayzr · 22/10/2009 18:08

Clutter, Lulu Valentine is gorgeous!! My mum has a cat called Lulu so I couldn't use it.

Patsy99 · 22/10/2009 14:09

I like Diggory for a boy. Or for a girl, Aphra after the pioneering writer Aphra Behn, or Clemency.

Cluttergump · 22/10/2009 11:11

oh how could i forget......i would love to call a boy Gusto....such a great word. Gus for short.

Cluttergump · 22/10/2009 10:49

girls:

Margot [tres chic non?]
Peony - such a lovely word to say...
Guinevere
Lulu Valentine
Cassiopeia
Skylar

Boys:

Von
Spike
Jonboy
Thor [my cat ended up with this but wish i'd saved it as i LOVE it]

gumblossom · 22/10/2009 00:49

Ophelia(reminded Dh of drowned person), Somerset(our cat ), Marie-Claire(a magazine according to DH!).
We chose Guthrie for our son and boy did we get a hard time over that! But we love it, and it really suits him!
Also love Swedish names like 'Nils' but didn't want to go there with no Nordic background at all and living in the land down under.

TheHeadlessWombat · 22/10/2009 00:15

Names that I love but would be very unlikely to use.

Anakin
Ozymandias
Darwin
Mercury
Lorne
Thor
Wolfgang
Fox
Jacen(Spelled that way because I'm a Star Wars geek.It's the name of Leia's eldest son.
Anatol
Ambrose

colditz · 21/10/2009 23:50

Lolita (yes really)
Roderick
Jeremy
Jaspar
Jethro
Delilah

tallyhopinkerton · 21/10/2009 23:46

Gideon and Humphrey.

Meadow for a girl.

cloelia · 21/10/2009 22:58

Dorothy. My favourite granny's name but just impossible thanks to Wizard of oz. Sadly.

RnB · 20/10/2009 09:51

Love gilbert Blythe too

MayorNaze · 20/10/2009 09:46

i like gilbert (in honour of gilbert blythe)too!

i also love lavinia or virginia for girls.

and i may have hankered after twin boys that i wanted to name red and blue. perhaps

chegirlknowswhereyoulive · 20/10/2009 09:43

I love Hepzibah too.
Bethsheba/Bathsheba is lovely lovely.

I tend to call my kids whatever I darn want to and dont care what others think but even I would have to draw the line at those.

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