What odd names did you consider when pregnant and hormonal?

[CormoranStrike]

My eldest is in his 20s, yet I can clearly remember thinking Roy and Hugh were really strong contenders when expecting him (thankfully not for long, he wasn’t born in the 1940s or 50s when those names might have been mainstream).

So what names did you consider that now you think WTF?

Izaskun for a girl, also Edurne, Nekane. Barnaby for a boy, also Enneko, Augustine, Unax.

Tbh DS is SUCH A BARNABY that I regret not using it, but hey ho. We love his name.

I love Basque names, as the ones above, and we're in Spain so they'd be ok, but a bit difficult to spell and/or pronounce for my British family.

@TerribleCustomerCervix

It’s pronounced something like Dunn-uka, but said very fast.

It’s not one of the better known Irish names 😂

Ah, I have heard that but never seen it written down.

So many, I used to give my spouse lists and ask him rate them out of ten

Arella was one I got stuck on for a while with DD1. It was one of those 'read it on a baby name website while pregnant' moments that looking back I don't understand. No idea why now, it's actually pretty awkward to say with our surname.

A different 'what was I thinking' name for DD1 ended up growing on my spouse and it ended up being DD2's name, it's a 'Top 3000' name.

@vampirethriller

Ripley for a girl, I watched the entire Alien series back to back and hormones had me convinced it would be perfect.

I'm pretty sure Thandie Newton and Ol Parker's daughter is called Ripley. I like it.

Another Boris here (and Johnson was already mayor ). In my defence DH is Russian and international peace treaties have been agreed faster than our babies’ names.

Our magnolia tree bloomed on the day dd was born (at home) snd I seriously considered it as a name but DH vetoed! She now says she would have loved it!!

Howard was my top name for her as a boy….!!

Quinn
Means fifth or something and would have been fifth child for me and dp ( we have 4 older dc combined from previous relationships) so seemed so apt. Was dead set on it when first pregnant for a boy or girl. Anyway it was twins and then it didn't seem to work.

@Amdone123

I remember writing Keris Topha down. I was really taken with it. Settled for something really traditional.

Like Christopher, but spread out?

A friend of a friend got stuck on Alstroemeria for a bit, which I think comes under "nice flower, unwieldy name".

I liked the sound of Lemony for a middle name. I think I saw Clementine and went off on a bit of a fruit detour.

Leonard Cohen had just released You Want It Darker when I was pregnant and I wanted to call my baby Hineni (Hebrew for I'm ready, apparently), which is the song's refrain.

DH was very patient but totally

I also had crushes on Ramona, Tabitha and Alberta.

Strawberry for a girl (I suffered from strange pregnancy dreams about strawberries.)
Laurence for a boy nn Laurie. I love Little Women.

Django I remember being so angry my dh wouldn't even consider it I still really like it to be fair!

Gus for a boy, not too bad, but now I can imagine the dis-GUS-ting teasing at school!

Elfie for a girl. To be fair it’s an old Germanic name and my child has appropriate dual nationality. But I didn’t know that when I first heard it. I had a son but ultimately if I’d had a daughter I would have been put off by a young work colleague saying “that’s so cool, like something Paula Yates would have called her kid”.

Wolfie/Wolfgang. I still think it’s cool but then-DH was adamant!

My daughter is called Rosa. I was adamant her middle name should be Liberty until my husband said we should just call her Comrade if I insisted on that.

I considered Inigo for our son...along with Digby. I was quite ill with HG during my pregnancy but now I wonder if I was also delirious

I am thinking Hugh for mine - love it

I had a substitute Spanish teacher once who confided in us that she would love to have a daughter and call her Belén.

I think the gales of teenage laughter, and the explanation why, soon made her realise that you really couldn't have a kid with a name that sounded like... that, living in the UK. Poor woman!

Wilson for a boy. Actually it was my dh suggestion and I went along with it because I was convinced I was having a girl. A later scan proved me right. What a relief!

Looking at this list lots of baked of peoples kids I actually know.

My friend was being pressured to call her boy wolf ended up being his middle name. The boys dad has called his second son Isambard. Izzy for short 🙄 his new partner also calls my friends son a ridiculous nickname, I cringe every time I see it on SM!

Names...not baked. I'm not baking kids.

@MrsXx4, it's pronounced Eye-Nee-As!

Currently pregnant and its a good thing we've locked in a name for this baby already because I've had all sorts of odd notions. On a similar Greco-Roman bent, got hung up on Hector for a while; also went through a Basil phase. For girls, I've briefly fancied Gretchen, Alchemilla (Milly for short) and Heloise. My husband has a firm grip on the veto button!

Lucifer
I actually still like it and DS12 says he wishes it WERE actually his name

I remember my uncle wanting to call his new son Harmony. They lived in a very rough area! His wife put her foot down and baby became Joe.

@DisgruntledPelican

Ariadne. I am not sophisticated enough in manner or accent for shouting that in the playground and it sounds dreadful with my surname.

Ariadne has always been one of my faves since I was very young :) That and Adelaide.

Don't know why!

@ScrambledSmegs

I toyed briefly with Aeneas for a boy. Rejected it as too out-there, even for the N London area I lived in.

Just over a year later, we viewed a nursery at the same time as a mother looking to send her DS there. The boy's name was Aeneas.

I went to school with a boy called Aeneas. This was in Dublin in the 1980s. The teacher called him A-nas. So pretty much anus.

The teacher didn’t give a shit about correct pronunciation. I remember my father finding it hilarious but at the same time being horrified for the poor child.