Names! Peach?

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Hi all,

I'm not pregnant but hoping to be in the next couple of years. This is a bit of a 'just for fun' thread. I was thinking last night about some names that I have come across IRL which I really like.

Girls:
Peach
Pia
Storm
April
Sunday
Octavia

Boys:
Ives
Navy
Phoenix
Roman

I don't think I'd have the balls to use any of them. DD has a little out there name with only a few called the same name in the last decade - but it is an established name and not a newly made up one. I like unique names and striking names, names that people would remember and set aside from traditional names. I also think that every name is a made up name. At one point 'Charlotte' was a made up name and there was a first person to be called that, so all names have to start somewhere!

Anyway this was just for fun. Anyone have any wacky names they love but wouldn't use?

Please don’t call a child Peach! It’s just asking for Nintendo jokes. You might like these names and I like some of them too, but think about the potential for teasing at school as well as their future prospects.

Please not Peach!
April is beautiful though :-)

I don't think April is a wacky name? It was our choice if we had a girl. Pia is also not wacky to me. They're both unusual but I don't think it's on the level of Peach.

Roman is also not a wacky boys name. It's literally the 30th most popular name in the UK right now, and that's with it being in decline after being trendy for several years (eg it was 7 places higher in 2021).

We didn't have any truly "wacky" names we considered, just ones that felt a bit too stereotypical posh (Jasper, Felix, Hugo) but even those names are very mainstream these days.

Know a little one born recently called Pia. No one in lreland would blink an eye at that.
And Bob Geldofs dd is called Peaches.
Roman Keatings wife is Storm.
Only name l wouldn't ever go for is Sunday. That's a step too far.

Peach is the most unusable one imo. Some of the others are very usable although I’d avoid Storm as Stormi is Kylie Jenner’s daughter and I wouldn’t want people to assume that I am a Kardashians fan.

Respectfully, this reads like a small child naming imaginary children or dollies, or the first meeting of someone trying out new names for a fashion brand that doesn’t have a clear idea of its target market.

Pia or April are perfectly ordinary.

I don't think I'd have the balls to use any of them
I'd turn that round to "I think I'd have the sense to not use most of them"

Peach and Navy are ridiculous. Some of them are fine and nor particularly out there at all. April isn't at all odd.

April or Roman

Please don't use the others. How old are you? Peach is ridiculous for a name

Peach sounds like loo roll.

By the way, either name you choose the people around you will never have the guts to tell you to your face that the name is ridiculous, if you name your DD peach most likely all of your family & friends will say it's lovely and beautiful unusual name but behind your back.. they'll say otherwise.

I've seen it happen between my friends.

Sundays child is full of... At least you didn't pick Thursday I suppose.

And as for peach, why would you choose to name your child the same thing as the emoji for bum?!

I had two Octavias in my class at school 30 years ago; that’s not a made up name at all, just a posh one! And my mum has a friend in her 70s called Pia. April’s also a proper name (always makes me think “April O’Neill, Channel 4 News” from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but that’s an 80s/90s childhood for you!

The rest though…no.

I love Sunday.

Peach…not so much.

I went to school with a Pia Lizza who went by the nickname Peachy. Not in the UK though.

I like Peach and Peaches. I have a friend called Pebbles. No, really.

Peach sounds a bit 1990s pop star to me and not would I choose Sunday but the other girls names are fine without necessarily being to my taste.
I would have a rethink on the boys names, Phoenix is faddy and although Roman is quite a usual name there seem to be a lot of them if your inclination is to go for an unusual name. I don't like Navy or Ives unless you have a particular connection to the latter.

I like Peachy! In a Sean Connery accent

Apricot
Monday
Tempest
November

With Peach I'd assume you were really, really into your Nintendo games, or were frustrated in your efforts to put on an am dram Steel Magnolias.

Most of the others are fine, though I think Storm would get stereotyped by teachers at school though it would save her loads of time if she decides to become a stripper. One would hope young Navy enjoys the Village People.

You're naming a human being, not a pet. Please don't give them a name that people will make fun of.

April, Pia and Roman are good names. I find Navy particularly silly.

The only person I know called Peach, it's a nickname. She has a completely standard real name that she uses normally so e.g. her workmates don't know that her friends and family call her Peach. FWIW the nickname really suits her and I can see how a nickname like that might become a real name in the next generation.

The child that is born on the Sabbath Day is bonny and blithe and good and gay!

A couple of celebs have named their daughters Sunday. It's grown on me. Plus, Tuesday is a name, why not Sunday?

I'm 30.

All said this was just for fun and I wouldn't use them IRL.

But also, I do stand by my point that all names are made up, and 'clementine' was once a made up name which is also a fruit. I don't really see how clemmie and peach are any different. :)

I actually like those! I think apricot would be cute, NN April

I agree. I think peach is lovely!