Unhinged baby names you considered for your children when pregnant…

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What were they?
i have two girls, and I’m a fan in different names - but not made up names, IYKWIM.

when I was pregnant with my first I watched Moulin Rouge, and for quite a while I was convinced that Satine would be the perfect name, but my partner said no.
my second I was desperate for Vivienne, which in in itself is a gorgeous name, but combined with Satine seemed to follow a trend of ‘ladies of the night’ (pretty women) so my partner said no again.

whats the most out there names you considered for your children?

my top boys name was Moss. Not sure I’d have gone through with it.

Is it German? I know Petra (which would presumably be a variant of the same name) is quite common in Germany but not come across Peta there. I've known two women called Peta (one English, one Australian), both of whom pronounced it as in Peter - what has convinced you it's 'meant to be' pronounced Petta?

A mum I knew had a Teddy then a Rupert. I stopped bumping into her after a while so I never found out whether she went on to have a Paddington!

There are some excellent cat names on this list! Calypso (nn Callie) has just made it onto mine...)

My unhinged names are:
Demelza (had just had a Poldark phase)
Florian (I spent a lot of time in Belgium but DH thought he'd be bullied)
Felix (I still love this, and it would have suited DS, but DH insisted it was a cat name)

When I was much younger I insisted I would have a daughter and call her Anoushka... DS1 bump was nicknamed Horace and when he did in fact turn out to be a he it did briefly cross my mind as we were already so used to calling the baby that.

Frederick
Cadwallader
Tudur
Gregory
Macsen

Clementine
Heulwen
Morwenna
Kerensa
Kezia
Annunziata

Melisande. Milly for short. This was pre the Red Witch from Game of Thrones so I think I escaped with that one. Phew.

Constantine is the latest addition to my boy list but unlikely we're having more babies so it'll have to be a cat name!

It's not a great name for a child, to be frank. Aside from the fact that my dog and I regularly meet a (lovely) lurcher called Moss, It's too close to 'moist' for me!

Beowulf

But St John in JE was UNBEARABLE!

Tallulah. I must have been off my head to even consider such a pretentious and ridiculous name....but for a while I LOVED it!!! Thankfully the baby was a boy LOL

Snap! Except we were thinking either Perry or Reggie as nicknames.

Also, Rollo was a serious contender for middle name 😂

I really wanted DS2 to be Elvis.

I’ll refer you to my earlier post - that’s my DD’s name! We did go for it and everyone loves it 😊 It really suits her, thankfully.

Jadzia. Yes we like star trek in this house. Ds1 is thankful he is a boy!

nothing unhinged about those names you just decided you don’t like them

Oberon / Auberon for my son.

Trevor. I’m not sure what I was thinking or quite what my hormones were doing to me to make me thing I could name my child that!

Roy!

I do. It makes me think of a big bear type man, solid and dependable! 😂

Sorry, but I’m howling at this.. ( think it was the detail about the cabbage leaves )
But - wow - Ichabod??
Where did you find that name?😳

Oh my god I wanted to call my son Greene 😭😭😭 like the colour.

Exactly that!

Ichabod is in the Old Testament.

I did like a lot of the Greek/norse gods names. Glad I didn't go with any of them though my son really suits his name. He is not an apollo, thor, odin or thyr!