Names that wouldn't usually be names

[SawnUpLooRoll]

MIL was telling me about a science teacher some decades ago who named her daughter Antimony. I thought this was incredible, and got thinking about other words that could be used as unexpected names.

What do you think could be carried off as a name? In the same elemental theme, I suspect Cobalt has been a boy's name somewhere...

Oh and twins Pamplemousse and Ananas

I always thought Ananya (80s Body Shop fragrance) would make a lovely name!

@ChessieFL I had an Ananya in my class last year.

Midnite

Girls:
Felony
Cuisine
Niche
Covonia

Ages ago, the the times of landlines and wrong numbers I had a phone call for Goddess. Sadly, none of us were called that.

ABCD 😂😂😂

Girls:
Reality
Severance
Beverage

Boys:
Torque
Severn
Quantum
Disprin

There is evidently something morally wrong with my character because I really love some of these names.

But not Abcd, I saw an article about her in the paper where her mum was complaining someone was laughing about her name.....

Chlamydia
Beige
Fanny
Busy
Truce
Gay
Boobie
Vagina
Clitoris
Jail

Goodluck
Bouncy
Rust
BJ
Naughty
Car
Cad
Terror
Trick
Viper
Joke
Spar
Seed
Cnut
Wave
Sparky
Ned

When I was very pregnant and hormonal, I would have called DS Winter or Snow if he’d been a girl. Luckily he wasn’t!

@cookie5505 I also went to school with a girl called Moon! Really loved it actually, suited her and just seemed as normal as 'Kate or Julie' after saying it a few times

What about broadening our search to include ikea item names?

Lampen anyone

@SawnUpLooRoll I met a girl at a University open day several decades years ago called Antimony (she told me she used Timony for short) and she was lovely. I decided on the spot that we would be best friends for ever and desperately hoped she'd end up on my course, but I never saw her again. I wonder if it was the same one!

I went to school with an Amaryllis many many years ago!

Bambi
Honey
Princess

Captain

Sachet, Ananaya and Lidl's toilet rolls are really nice names!

I always thought Aeriel washing powder added more to the mermaid's name :) Powerful and deeply cleaning...

I like Ocean.

Pipistrelle is a sweet name, not just for bats.
Hadron is interesting.
Cornucopia should be a top 10 name.
Ercol isn’t just for furniture!

Twin boys Rogan and Josh? Where did the get the Name Hamble from in play school.is it a real name?

I have a baby names book that suggests such classics as:

Delete
Celery
Cricket
Fantasia
Tempest
Lord
Blush
Sting
Bark
Thor
Butcher
Crispy
Zap
Spirit

and my favourite...

Butter

My Son came up with Tinniel as a middle name for himself. It sounds like something from Brideshead Revisited to me.

I know of an adult Stormy and a young child called King.

I used to work with a man named Bright and he really suited it. Virtue names are popular in other cultures and I think they’re really nice.

littlemiss
I’d use Tempest and Thor, Lord is pretty cool too

I’ve seen Bambi, Honey and Princess used. Isn’t Princess the name of Katie Price’s daughter?