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.

For a boy I liked Blaise, Garion, Alessan, Devin or Geraden (too many Sc-fi books) - all vetoed by DH and I had girls anyway

IIRC it means earth goddess.
I rather like it.

About 2 years before it became a car name I met someone who had a daughter named Fabia. I loved the name but it was the mini cab drivers choice of Skoda by the time we were choosing potential baby names.

After the candlestick in Beauty and the Beast? 😂

I loved Sapphire, Alexa (pre amazon) as quite a few PPs have said. Don't know why Sapphire is such a stripper name yet Ruby is considered acceptable!

I also loved Autumn, Summer, River and Ocean. They aren't that out there compared to some, but they all would have been odd as our surname is a colour so pairing it with any of those names would sound like a paint colour!

I knew a Blaise when DS was at primary school. The only thing was that his sibling had a really boring and ordinary name and that didn't sit right somehow.

You could shorten it to Billie or even Bill. Or Mina. There was a Wilhelmina in the Malory Towers books who called herself Bill!

Long story but I used to own the house Jenson Button lived in before he was famous.

he is allegedly named after the car his father always wanted to drive and a colleague did similar with a motorbike.

I wanted to call one of my kids after the all time best thing I ever drove but Parsons and Marine Turbine Research & Development Association (Pametrada) was banned

Yup!!

There is of course a back story, we struggled to get pregnant, then I had several miscarriages. For a girl the middle name would have been something like Hope/ Joy but I couldn't think of one for a boy. So I thought Light

😂😆

To this day my DH wants a son named "Wolfgang"...

He doesn't believe me when I suggest that lil Wolfgang will end up nicknamed Gangbang in school because kids are twats.

I wanted a Thorin or Aikanaro in my hormonal defence but was easily persuaded these were too much.

I know but I just like the sound of it

We met a toddler aged Isis at the peak of when that was most unfortunate. Her sibling had Greek Mythology name

They repeat Minder regularly on TV. I like the name Terry and the late Dennis Waterman plays that geezer vibe to perfection

Most of these examples over the last 14 pages aren't unhinged names, they are just standard names (Gaia, Octavia, Roman, Flynn) that people just don't like.

I covered for a woman on maternity leave and when she came in and introduced me to Mowgli, I'm sure my face gave away what I thought about the name. He was very cute, though. She left the company but had two more children. Shame, as I would have liked to have met Baloo and Bagheera.

Other names of real children I have come across are Disney, Halo Annie, Zeppelin and Tomtor. These really are unhinged.

Lysander is similar to those in my mind. All great names. I had a colleague who was adamant that her baby was going to be called Isambard, Sam for short. Fabulous name. I hope she did.

Our children got very ordinary names. The nearest we got to something a bit more unusual was briefly considering Miles for our son. We did give him a family name as his middle name which out of the blue entered the top 100 not long afterwards and has stayed there, so that was a surprise.

I am a cat sitter. You have mentioned 5 cat names in your post including the one you gave your baby!

I think of Alfie's best friend, who I think may have grown up to be a Boris Johnson type, or alternatively to do very well indeed in the City. Or ended up in prison.

Haha
Ill let her know she'll be chuffed to hear of a cat called Sophie,!

I loved Stevie for DD, ex said no…I maintain it would have really suited her.

I like gem names too. If you had Ruby, Amber and Jade you could have your own set of human traffic lights. Pearl seems to be returning from obscurity. Garnet, Topaz and Amethyst might be good unusual choices.

Prague for a girl. Pregnancy hormones are wild.

I live in Inner London and even 30+ years ago when my children were little none of those would have raised an eyebrow round here. Not a posh area, just a very mixed one. There were lots of kids at the nursery and primary schools my children went to with names I'd never heard before because they were from different cultures, and we all got used to them. I still maintain the lad saddled with Attila-Armani was unfortunate, though.

Oh yes, I love all the gem names. Sapphire, Ruby, Opal. Also Crystal. Or Beryl? Another precious stone I believe.
I think Oak should be a great name for a boy, but have never heard it used in real life. I remember on here, someone asked for a suitable second name for Oak and the suggestion was 'furnitureland'!

I've got five kids and each one of them has three names, so I pretty well used up all my supply of 'usable' names!

My middle DD I wanted to call Ghislaine after a character in a story I'd read. SO glad I didn't go through with that now...

My mum's nickname was Crystal when she was a teenager. I had no idea why because her real name is Janice. It was because at school she had hair like this.