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What my baby won't be called

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LaToada · 27/04/2011 07:24

i am famously bad at coming up with baby names. For some reason I err towards the faintly ridiculous and I know this but I just don't like any others
DC2 is due in august. So far this is what I've come up with together with the reasons I can't really use them in real life:
Frieda - everyone laughs and says it's far too old ladyish
Aydah / idah - as above
Jemima - bit dull and posh
Thera - not even sure how to say this
Aurelia - dc1 was going to be this but was a boy. Feel a bit weird 'reusing' a name
Delphine - love but a bit odd and what for short? Don't like Della
Giselle - as above and DP doesn't like because he thinks it's like jizz although I says more of a jez sound at the start
Alethea - think I like. Is it said alle thea?
Dulcie - worried about the 'dull' sound
Celestine - again a forerunner for Ds
Amara - like this but can't remember where I heard it and what it means

And to the boys....anyone still with me here?

Agustine / Augustus - I was so excited to be having an august baby. I love names with an obvious meaning and just as I was dusting my hands and congratulating myself on having found a boys name so early DP said no Sad. Reservations are as follows; Augustus - gloop. Augustine - I want to pronounce it august ine. Apparently it's auGustin. Which I don't like, too much like Justin. Also Gus for short has started reminding me of pus. Ewwww
Otto - DS was v nearly Otto. I really like it but it is very German. We are not German.
Leo - like. Fits in with august baby but a bit boring and DP doesn't like
Leander - bit girly. Wouldn't want a lee for short leonidas - I like but a bit poncy
Rastus - my addled with hormones offering
Emile - bit foreign for bog standard non exotic types like us
Idris - see Rastus

So as you see I have lots of ideas but no realistic ones
I had simlar outlandish ideas for DS1 but by the time I'd got him out after a two day labour I didn't care what he was called and DP wentvtor Tobias, which mow I love and is totally him dispite me dismissing it as v boring and brown in sound

Help me

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nooka · 30/04/2011 02:18

Oh if you have a claim to Welsh heritage then go for Idris Grin He's a lovely small trim heraldic dragon: . I love Postgate and Firman :)

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