To like these baby names???

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A light-hearted thread, these are the names people have called me crazy for liking but they're my guilty pleasure names!
Am I alone in all of them? Or does anyone else like any of these?
FWIW, I wouldn't be brave enough to use any, but I do love them!

Boys: Basil, Clay, Humphrey, Pluto, Rubeus, Rusty, Tokyo

Girls: Asia, Bambi, Grey, Jonah, Kobie, Panda, Texas, Tig

Are they all as crazy as people make out? 😂
Also FWIW, my baby name list includes completely mainstream and traditional names too, these are the most 'out there' of a big bunch, I'm just interested to see if there's any other odd one out person who likes any from my out out there list!

Asia and bambi are ok, the others aren't

Are they all as crazy as people make out?
Yes

I couldn’t imagine calling any baby girl those names.. especially ones like Bambi. Could you imagine a 35 year old Bambi?

I’d definitely roll my eyes if I heard any of these at a baby group, but each to their own

I had... issues with your boy names, but then I read your girl names which are just off-the-scale terrible, I’m sorry!

Sorry, it's a no from me.

Thing is, they aren't "baby names" for long are they? A 6mo called, say Bambi, might sound cute but a fully grown adult?

I mean, as far as I’m concerned they are truly terrible and will probably set the child in question up for a lifetime of negative assumptions and bullying but you do you! If I met a child with any of those names in real life I’d be polite about it.

I think the problem is they may be nice baby names but what about teenagers and adults? Will they work then?

Oops, cross posted!

In the nicest possible way.... I hope you’re winding us up!!

What else have you got?

Fuck a duck! You need an intervention.

@Chewinggumwalk not even pregnant yet, but thinking about TTC. Looking through baby names is just a hobby!

But like I said, I wouldn't use any of these, they're just guilty pleasure names and I was interested to see if anyone thought any would ever be usable, as I only have reactions from close friends or DM and DP.

They are mostly terrible.

I like 75% of your boys names, basil is lovely but I don’t know if I’d fancy fighting off baz as a nickname. The girls names are really unappealing to me.

To echo a previous poster, they don’t lend themselves to anyone above the age of 5 very well.

You've got to post a photo of your puppy and kitten. It's MN law.

@troysmammy sniggers

These are names to give puppies and kittens, not human babies.

Ah I see! It is one of the fun bits about being pregnant.

Until you present your lovely, carefully thought out, “laminated” (to misquote “Friends”) list, and your husband says calmly that he doesn’t like any of them, and what about Ellen or Sara or something completely different

Out of all them Bambi is the worst. Can you imagine the poor adult woman lumbered with it. Especially if she wasn’t built like a skinny little fawn and wanted to be taken seriously.

Some of them are okayish as nicknames. Nicknames that hopefully get dropped after primary school.

Clay for a boy is ok - the main character in 10 Reasons Why is called Clay.
Also don’t mind Grey for a girl but not sure I’d use it.
The others are a no from me. But then I had some pretty out there names on my long list - Fane anyone?

Please please please don’t name your child Rusty.. if they turn out to be ginger they will never ever hear the end of it

I was born with masses of brown hair, at 6 months it fell out and grew back ginger, imagine my mum had picked Ginger as a name 😂

Kids already have plenty of creative names for gingers without the extra ammunition!

Clay is the only boys name I’d consider, I don’t think I’d ever use any of the girls names.

Panda short for Pandora would be ok

I’m looking for a redeeming feature and can’t find one for any of them. Sorry!

Jonah is a boy's name. Please don't ever call your daughter this name.

I do like Humphrey, but otherwise I'd say that what you've got there is a list of nicknames.