What odd names did you consider when pregnant and hormonal?

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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?

I'm not originally from the UK, and a lot of names from my home country aren't easily pronounceable/translate well over here.

Had I been a boy, my dad wanted to call me Pekka. My life would've been made a misery at a British school for that! 😅

@SallySycamore, yes exactly. That was 33 years ago, and nobody told me pregnancy hormones would affect the grey matter!!

Yorick and Gulliver.

Isambard. Ten years on and one has just turned up at our school. His parents were obviously braver or less hormonal than me!

Gypsy. Both me and dh loved it but family kept scorning it off. I ended up losing the baby but we nicknamed it Star, so whenever we talk about it, it’s Star.

This meant that when we were talking about names for DD, we was considering XXX-Star.

I’m glad we didn’t

With ds, I was considering Bobby. Dh really wanted another name and I wasn’t keen but we both liked Bobby.

In the end I kept dreaming I was shouting my kids down from upstairs using the name DH wanted

So he won in the end

I hady eldest when I was in my teens - we had narrowed down our girls names to Dion or Leyah.

Thankfully he was a boy!

@Tidypidy

Balonz- just kidding!

😂😂😂😂😂

Maverick for a boy

Even on 20+ year old I can’t see anything wrong with the names Roy or Hugh.

Montmorency & xanthippe & Cecilly

I would have never really have used them but did pine for them for a bit.

I really loved the name Jethro. My husband vetoed. To be fair, he vetoed 99.9% of all the names I liked (pretty sure if we’d had a second girl she’d still be nameless) so it wasn’t until after ds was safely here and named that I realised the poor kid had had a lucky escape

@MummatoKennedy I have a relative called Kennedy but male and American, I would probably assume those characteristics if I heard of another Kennedy. I wouldn’t expect a girl because Ken/Kenny is masculine to me.

I know a 21 year old Hugh. It really suits him

Astra!!

Trevor, Denzel Terrance and my favourite ALAN. I loved the thought of people saying how's Alan the baby. DP vetoed them all 😭.

Atticus

@maryberryslayers

Atticus

I actually know of a little boy called this! I think it's one of those names that will never not be pretentious though as it's so synonymous with a literary character.

@PattyPan, I believe the name Kennedy for a first name is unisex. However over the years I have come across 7 people (irl) with the given name of Kennedy, and only 1 was male.

When I was pregnant with my youngest I watched Walking the Nile with Levison Wood and thought Levison was the best name ever. Luckily I saw sense as it doesn't go with our surname or our other children's names at all.

Vladimir (I’m not Russian..)! Thought baby Vlad would be cute......

Serendipity was going to be Dd1 name.
I was adamant!
Shortened to Sarah but definitely serendipity.
She isn't named that . She has a very traditional name 😀

Nev
But didn't want any one pronouncing it like Ned but with a V
So decided to solve that problem I'd spell it ... knev for the 'knee' sound
DH vetoted that very quickly
We had a girl!

I narrowly escaped being called 'India' by my mother while off her face on pethidine.

Thank heavens my father and sister were there to talk her out of it.

(No offence intended to people called India, obviously, but it really wouldn't have suited me)

@RickOShay

Coco. For dd now 19. Still like it tbh

My DD2 gets called this as a nickname. Tallulah was top of my list but not DHs for some reason 🤷🏻

I have a cousin called Ariadne, she’s known as Aria.
It’s pretty.
I also know a young man named Ralph. I like that name, it’s not too unusual that people have never heard of.
I don’t really like names that are ‘unique’, I’ve got a horrible name with a variation of spellings and although people say they like it I’ve always thought they were just being kind
So our dc have names that are quite well known.