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.

Zephyrine was an option for middle name….

Bracken would be a lovely name!

I think a lot of people would mishear it as Stephanie. And Sephy as Steffi.

I like Bernard.

Rupert will always and forever be a white bear wearing red and yellow clothes. Sorry.

Oh I loved Avril! When I was having DS1 I wanted Avril for a girl, and my mother was very scathing about how "old fashioned" it was. I got it from a TV series we watched in Primary called "How we used to live 1939-1953" which I am sure others will have seen too. The young girl called Avril would have been born in about 1930, so to my mother (born 1950) it was old fashioned, but wouldnt have been in the 90's when DS was born. Wish I had used it for one of my girls now I think of it.

Oh yes, I love all the gem names. Sapphire, Ruby, Opal. Also Crystal.

Contrary to popular belief, Crystal isn't an Americanism but a modern spelling of a very old German name, Christl, meaning Christ-like. I think it's pronounced Chrissle. So Crystal comes from those roots and is not some Disney name.

A PP has already mentioned Horatio, another of mine was Isambard.
DS didn't get either of those names.

No. No, it would not. Bracken is scrubland, and brackish water means water that is not flowing and therefore has lots of sludge and germs in it.

Why do some people like random words as names, when they are not names?? And if you do like random nouns as names, why aren't ALL nouns on the table? Why Bracken and not Fork???

I taught a Gaia. She and her brother were the most straight laced children you could imagine, determined to do nothing out of the ordinary. Mum, on the other hand, was a leftover from a 60's hippie commune. She fulfilled every cliche that you can imagine that went with that image.

Keresia with my first
Clementine my second
Sonny for my third. Got outvoted. I still love them now

I know someone called Horatio and he was so embarrassed he called himself Dave at school, even though it was a v posh school.

Fire for a boy. Can you imagine calling his name and the panic

My kids have got ordinary names, no thanks to my ExDH though.

He was set on Shaniqua for a girl and Trevor for a boy! In the 90s.

He was still trying to persuade our kids to use it for their kids too!

I'd love something soothing and naturey. Like Willow, Forest, River, Fern, that sort of thing. I also like Astrid. That's probably the only one of the lot I'd actually consider using though. My kids actually have very standard names. If I could do it again, I'd go a bit more unique and interesting, but not too much.

My friend has a 6 month old Clementine. Clemmie normally. Shes adorable. I did a double take at first but I’m used to it now and she suits it.

Please don’t name your poor child Moss ☹️

That’s brilliant! Thanks for sharing.

YABU to name your poor banana child “Pilts” or “Dreab.” 😔

Lindsey. For a boy. In a Scottish clan sense. Or Lindsay. We know a big grown up Scottish Lindsey. He's lovely.

Hammock?

Alethea. In the end I decided it sounded too much like Alicia said with a lisp and chose something else.

Rex

I wanted to call DD Evan or James as a girl's name 😫

I was the one doing the vetoing, but DH was set on calling our DD either Anastasia or Arabella. Actually now I don't think Anastasia is as awful as I did then, but it would still sound absolutely ridiculous with our surname. Arabella sounds like a spoilt schoolgirl from an Enid Blyton book to me so that was always a non starter.

Arcadia for a girl, Flint for a boy