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.

Were you a big Blake's Seven fan? (Cally and Avon-backwards)? I rather like the name Kerr for a boy.

Ooh I forgot I did trifle with the name Vienna - think there was an Ultravox? song at the time.

I've heard of someone called Ophelia, which is lovely but a bad omen for relationships/drowning, but worse still is her surname...Dick.

Totally get you about Light! I lost my third baby, it was a total miracle that I got pregnant again and had another healthy baby and I was very drawn to names to do with light as well. Lucy for a girl, although it would have meant throwing out all our other favourites before that. For a boy I went through a brief phase of wanting to incorporate Lucky, for obvious reasons but also because it’s close to the ‘light’ meanings. But DH would never have agreed. In the end DS was given a solid old favourite.

Vienna just makes me think of Rigsby’s cat in Rising Damp but you are probably too young to remember that!

I had Fabian and Jocelyn on my boys list and Evangeline on my girls one. Also as DS is a rainbow baby after 2 mc, I toyed with ‘Prism’ as a middle name. Fortunately DH suggested waiting until DS was born to choose a name and he has a lovely but ordinary name.

Satsuma, Pomelo, Tangerine, Mandarin, Kumquat, Easy Peeler ...

I knew a Peregrine who must be about 35 now. Perry for every day. I'd be surprised to meet a female Peregrine, but I suppose you get used to people's names pretty quickly once you know them.

“Easy peeler” 😂😂 “perfect for kids lunchbox”

Zero.

...Not in memory of the actor Zero Mostel, but because we couldn't find a single boy's name that we even liked; and when we asked our four-year-old DD - who was desperate for a baby sister - what name she would like if she had a baby brother instead, she replied emphatically, "Nothing!"

You probably don’t want to know the other option… or my other child’s name 😬

Are yours called things like John or Stephen? Can’t think of anything worse tbh.

Banana LeStrange does have a certain ring to it ... 😁

I don't have kids, but this thread has just reminded me a former colleague of mine wanted to call his son Aneurin. Thankfully he didn't (I suspect he was outvoted by his Mrs!)

I've always loved the old Anglo Saxon names, and I actually considered loads of names along the lines of Aethelflaed and Enid for a girl, or Athelstan and Edwyn for a boy. ExH vetoed all of them. They all ended up with normal, ordinary names that are easy to spell and pronounce

But as no good idea should ever be wasted, my dear dogs and cats all sound like they should have been born prior to 1066.

Mine too 💔 I knew there would be a good reason why you rejected Vivienne but not Roy!

I know a Satine who is 18 or 19.

Tant, Emile, Alban and Winston for boys. DH hated all of these.
All our DCs first names are saints names. I snuck in a few unusual ones for middle names though.

It works surprisingly well as a middle name. It really does flow.

my partner was the one who said no to Vivienne. I might still use it one day…on a cat or something.
harry Kane called his daughter Vivienne a month or so later, which would have wound me up so it’s a good job I didn’t use it really 🤣

Peta Fowler (the academic) is pronounced Peter. I thought she was going to be a man but she wasn't.

Definitely not too young but I had forgotten that's what the cat was called.

There was a child in DD2s class who was called Poppy and she had a brother called Oscar - I had two cats called the same although the cats weren't siblings

I loved Dimitri & Lysander for when pregnant (17 yrs ago) was vetoed by everyone so DD ended up with a different name all together.

If we'd have had twin boys, they would have been Arthur and Merlin. 😂

That's a lovely name, memories of Sapphire and Steel on TV many years ago! We had chosen Barnaby for a boy but had a girl, OH's boss then had a dog he called Barnaby so perhaps it was a good thing we had a girl!
Our lovely neighbours had a dog with the same name as our granddaughter, whenever one of them was called in their garden, the other got very excited in their garden!

He is the Horatio of Horatio's Gardens and died tragically.

@NameChangeMay2026 , Evan definitely is a name. Where do you think the surname Evans comes from?

Love name Augusta!