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!

They are all awful IMO but other people's guilty pleasure names often are.

My guilty pleasure names are ones like Persephone, Calliope, Kerensa, Antoinette

Interesting! Mine were Fawn for a girl and Ptolemy for a boy (silent p!)

Your list just sounds to me like you are trying to make words with a bunch of scrabble tiles, I don't even recognise the majority of them as actual names.

I know of a aisha, she suits her name, a kobie to.

I like grey to.

But I love the name beau for a boy or girl

@MarielVanArkleStinks - one of the London Evening Standard crossword setters uses "jonah"/"jinx" quite often, so it's ingrained in me now. It was my first thought on seeing "Jonah" too!

Sorry OP, but those all sound like dog names.

My friends son is Clay short for Clayton which is her maiden name she does live in the states where surnames as first names is more common.

I like Clay and Pluto but none of the others, sorry.
I like:
Boys; Negan, Geordi, Phineas, Bae, Killian, Logan

Girls; Regina, Zelena, Xena, Olympia

My dad is named Basil and he is a real gentleman. I love the name but then I am biased

I knew a drag queen called Bambi Dextrous years ago

That has to be one of the best drag queen names ever!

It's nice to have fantasy names though isn't it! I was drawn to ridiculous names when choosing a name for DD. Even asked DP about Daffodil.

Bambi, Panda and Tig could all be cute nicknames. Texas is a pornstar name.

I don't mind the boys:
Basil Rathbone, Clay Stone (from the film City Slickers)!, Humphrey Bogart (obvs), Pluto- well, it did get de-planetarised, Rusty Trawler (from Breakfast at Tiffany's)
For the girls, i think Asia, Kobie and maybe Grey- actually, i think Kobie would be lovely if it fits with surname.

YABU to be asking when you're not even pregnant.

Kobie just makes me think of Obi Wan Kenobi outta Star Wars

A lot of the girls’ names would sound like porno names on an adult: Bambi the stripper; Texas and Asia also sound very porny to me.

Tig sounds like a public school hockey girl nickname - I’d expect anyone calling themselves that as an adult to be a complete twat, and probably married to somebody called Spiffy or Guffy or Poffy who went to school with Princess Eugenie’s husband’s younger brother.

Just no. To any of them assuming you're serious
Basil?! Lmao. Just internally screeched that Sybil style lol

And if you are giving your DD a boys name anyway (Jonah, Kobe, even Tig), why not just use Timothy, Steven or Robert? At least people will be able to spell those ones!

I was thinking Basil Brush, Glitter. Boom boom!

Basil Brush!!! How could I forget Basil Brush lol.
BOOM, BOOM!

Basil the rat

He’s not a rat. He’s a hamster

He’s a fox, isn’t he?!

Rubeus as in Hagrid?

Pluto, Bambi and Panda are beyond awful. They are not names for a human being. The rest aren't good but those are spectacularly terrible.

An old schoolfriend has a 3YO Basil, poor kid. They get the 'Brush or Fawlty?' comment all the time.

Basil and Humphrey?! Jesus wept

I’d consider Basil, Humphrey & Jonah
Otherwise nooooooooooooooooooptynooooo!

Clay, short for Clayton was a pretty common boys name in 1980’s Canada. I actually don’t mind Rusty but probably wouldn’t choose it. The girl’s names are awful.