The name Nausea

[Tombliwho]

Indulge me... DH and I have enjoyed ourselves today thinking of random words that could be names A bit like when Uncle Fester said Dementia was a beautiful name. DH thinks Nausea could be lovely.

When I was little I played a computer game called babiez where you adopted and cared for little computer babies. I named one Rubella, thinking it was a lovely variety of Bella.

Cayenne - Girl
Paprika - Girl

It's a shame the names Jezebel and Salome have negative associations,

There is a Jezebel in one of our local supermarkets! I had to do a double take when I saw her name badge.

Twin boys - Flotsam and Jetsam!

Lillet is quite pretty for a girl

Botulism for a boy perhaps.

At a work quiz night out team won a spot prize for naming one of King Lear's daughters 'Fellatia"

Diorama and Rwanda are lovely names for a girl!

I adore the name Lucifer, always have. Pesky devil ruining it for others.

Sphincter has quite a ring to it for a boy.

More girls' names: Influenza, Rubeola, Cholera. Not forgetting the very classical-sounding Diphtheria.

Never forget dear old King Cnut. Name is still in circulation in Scandi and Switzerland.

German vegetable and herb names are quite a rich source.

Boys:
Wirsing (savoy cabbage IIRC)
Topinambur
Mangold (chard)
Pastinake (parsnip. That one might be unisex, actually)

Girls:
Rucola (rocket)
Salbei (sage)

Twins Sam and Ella

That’s my dogs names😂

Meconium for a boy. Classy.

I like Tefal or Omelette for a girl

Male: Shart, Driftwood, Tide.

Female: Glaucoma, Espadrille, Tourniquet

Radium for a boy.
Belemnite for a girl.

I like Hypoxia and Hyphaema for girls, and Hypopyon for a boy.

Cathetar
Tamazapan
Cornea
Maxilla
Hymen (male version of Hermione)
Pinna
Ossicles
Cochlea
Helix
Pleura

Wasn’t nausea the fishmongers wife in asterisk?

CS Lewis thought Avarice was beautiful for a girl's name.

Areola sounds quaint
Vas Deferens sounds like an Austrian film star.
Papilloma makes me think of a gymkhana pony riding girl

I like Camphor!

I like Cashier for a girl and Till for a boy.

As an ex midwife I could give you some unusual choices but won’t .

However sometimes families were from different countries and the name sounded quite different in their own language,

I’ve met throughout my life (not in work)

A girl whose name was DJ ...literally just those two letters. She says her parents were hippies!
Crocus ....which I think is pretty.
Mangold (A type of chard) ..and I’ve never heard another child with that name. He was at DS’s nursery.

We loved for a while in Somerset and there are some great place names there.

We used to add Sir in front of some of them to make very grandiose names.

Not made up names, but veeery unusual ones: I went to school with Melody and Psyche.