A good girls name that isn't a name!

[littlejo67]

What would be a good girls name that isn't a real name?
I will go first... What about courgette...

Siobhan. Ok, I know it's a real name, but if you pronounce it the way it is spelled, like I did to someone on the phone, it's really pretty...Siobarn. Oops!

I'm old enough to remember the Harry Enfield sketch with Wayne and Wayneyta
"Let's call her Ashtray"
"Nah that's a Boys name".

Pillow
Charmeuse
Taffeta
Ladle

Also, can we have a thread for boys' names that aren't names?

kerfuffle

Cabriolet
Carousel
Antimacassar
Crochet
Kohl
Luminous
Pomander

Cathedral, dairylea and carburettor... my three terribly named imaginary triplets

I was convinced I heard someone calling a child Dairylea at a playground once. I think it turned out to be Demi-Lee.

Chanterelle.

I heard this in actual use a few years ago.

Clostridium, Putridia and Forsythia… Labia, Gymnomopedie, Glazed Maple.

Amnesia, I know a hair salon called Hair by Amnesia

Inertia

Papaya

@PomBearWithoutHerOFRS

Wouldn't Cobalt be a boy's name? Bruschetta and Gorgonzola would be good names and Candleabra (have I spelled that right? My Kindle has no idea! ) Or Tibia and Fibula the twins.

Boy triplets could be Incus, Malleus and Stapes

(bones of the middle ear, or ossicles, which is a pretty good name idea in itself - Ossicle Smith has a certain ring to it)

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

'Boy triplets could be Incus, Malleus and Stapes'

Fantastic

Hernia

Celery

I love this thread!

For some reason "Frilly" made me proper laugh.

My contribution is Szechuan. Said seductively like a Bond girl.

Allegra and Banjo.
(Heard a mum calling her thus named children not to go near those boys. ‘Those boys’ being my perfectly harmless little DSs )

Cilia

@Trainbear

I'm old enough to remember the Harry Enfield sketch with Wayne and Wayneyta "Let's call her Ashtray" "Nah that's a Boys name".

Spud-u-lik-a was genius

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

Would you start a thread on boys' names that aren't names?

Beginning with the Ear Boys, obviously.

I have some suggestions that I believe are rather good. YMMV, of course.

@MimiDaisy11

Margarine

I know a Margarine - though not British!

@MimiDaisy11

Cassette

I listened to a podcast the other day and there was a person called cassette on there

I like Cacophony

Caravan
Vaseline