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.

I teach a 13 year old Georgie, she's fab!

I absolutely love the combination of a multi-syllable, slightly "out there" first name, with a single syllable, common surname.

So something like:
Sapphire Jones
Arcadia Hughes
Delphinia White

Indiana for DD1.

Still love it now to be honest but not a single person I mentioned it to had anything positive to say about it. DP hated it but if he'd been on board I'd have used it.

DD1 and DD2 both have beautiful, albeit "old lady" names.

Maybe I need another cat? 😆

I love coco!

I do too. We have short last name but all my girls names are short too. :(

Leroy or Clement for a boy and Missy or Kitty for a girl.

Was it one f the Anne of Green Gable's books?

Avril's Atonement??

Peregrine. I haven't even bothered mentioning it to DH, he'd laugh me out the house.

20 years later im still a little bit sad my only DD isnt named Martha. I also loved Elliot as a girls name like on scrubs.

That name makes me think of the McQueen family from Hollyoaks 😄

Malachi or Camillus for a boy.

I do have Irish heritage but was born in Scotland & have an English father. DH vetoed both massively.

I have 3 boys all with very Scottish names, which I do love, but I still wistfully love Malachy.

Tuesday for a girl. No idea why, I thought it was 'different' 😅

I love the name Asher, it’s one of my favourites, doesn’t go with our surname at all but if it did, it definitely would have been under consideration.

I was obsessed with Angharad when pregnant.

I still stand by it- it is a gorgeous name.

However we are British, live in England and absolutely no Welsh connection at all.

We had a boy called Sam 😂

The first time I saw Malachy it was written down. I thought it was malarkey which I’d never seen written. I thought poor child!

Lysander - I still like it but too much Jilly Cooperish for a family very much not like that world. Ex immediately vetoed esp as we live in Portugal

Castiel 🤦🏼‍♀️

Phoenix

I loved St John, pronounced Sinjun, and still do but DH said no. Xavier was another he said no to,

Peregrine for DD. I was nervous people would be weirded out by it.

We went through with it and everyone loves the name!

My father wanted to name me Ermentrude (sp?)- Trudy for short. Thank fuck my mother vetoed it. Apart from MOOO I’d never have been able to spell it.

I loved St John too. Big Jane Eyre fan when i was a teen.

I knew a Persephone. She was called “Purse” for short which sounded ugly (to me).

Do it!

I don’t think that’s particularly ‘unhinged’ - I just don’t know if it was too alternative for us.
its a very cool name!

After reading about a long list of amazing women I fell in love with Constance. But didn’t go for it in the end.

A fella in work said go for it! It’s not like you’re thinking of called your kid Aloysius or something. FELL IN LOVE with that name instantly too.

in the end, neither were used. But I still think they’re great names!

oh I also loved Zelda but ex vetoed it as he had an ex called Zelda!

It was the HP evil witch association that stopped us using it! Also H (now XH) was a reverse snob and didn’t like anything ‘too posh’. Even Elizabeth didn’t make the cut!