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Absolutely ludicrous names you would love to use but wouldn't dare

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GitAwfMayLend · 01/05/2011 12:22

Girls:

Berengaria. I have always loved that name.
Andromeda
Cassopeia
Oenone
Artemisia
Elektra
(actually I love most classical greek names)
Hepzibah
Bathsheba
Calpurnia (I love the euphony of the name, not the meaning)

Inigo (actually, if I have a boy I will call him that, surname is Jones so will be marvellous
Percival
Lysander
Magnus

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CheerfulYank · 02/05/2011 05:29

Temperance, Constance, Patience, Honor

OneBadAsp · 02/05/2011 08:25

cheerfulyank i love names that are virtues! my friend works at a nursery with a little boy called justice, which really suits him, strong-willed but very lovely little boy.

Prunnhilda · 02/05/2011 08:35

Chloris
Agamemnon
Ingo (though in Scotland it describes the bit around your window if you have thick walls) (I'd still use it)

squeak2392 · 02/05/2011 13:39

Bethesda (simply too Jewish for me to use)
Prudence - bullying alert
Virginia/Virgil - see above

I love classical Greek names, and have got quite a few down as names I would actually use (harder to find boys names though).

belgo · 02/05/2011 13:41

Oops my ds's name is on here!

I love Bathsheba.

edam · 02/05/2011 13:42

I sometimes get a bit wistful over Taliesin which I would have loved for ds but it is a bit poncy (here in England, anyway). Dh and ds wouldn't even let me have it for the cat, darn them!

Like Ivo but it sounds too posh to me (dunno if it is but I first came across it in a Georgette Heyer and he was the Marquis of somwhere).

RamekinSkywalker · 02/05/2011 13:49

I adore:
Woodrow
Seymour

would totally use the names Artemis, Ivo and Magnus. Fabulous names imo.

BitOfFun · 02/05/2011 13:50

My boy's name is Ignatius. Iggy for short. But I won't have any more children now I have discovered the joy of puppies.

FessaEst · 02/05/2011 14:00

There was an Ivo on "child of our time", and a Talisin I think?

I love Hepzibah/biah
Perdita
Aurora
Iolanthe/Ianthe

(I don't think these are ludicrous at all, just unusual)

I seem to like much more run of the mill boys' names.

nometime · 02/05/2011 14:04

Finnbar and Kester - absolutely love them but DH vetoed both!

Georgimama · 02/05/2011 14:05

There are some boys names I would have loved to use. I settled for the strong but conventional "George"

Horatio
Winston
Randolph
St John
Hector

There aren't that many girls names I like that are considered all that "out there" these days - Hero, Octavia, Cordelia, India etc all quite standard these days.

Bonsoir · 02/05/2011 14:30

I love Artemisia and Bathsheba Smile. There is a little Electra in my DD's class and it doesn't seem very "out there".

LaWeaselIsOupaLaDouffe · 02/05/2011 14:48

DH wants:
Philomela
Any obscure name of a celestial object that hasn't be used as a real name in several hundred years.

I secretly really love surname names like:
Hadley, Harper, Westly, Jackson

but I know they would sound silly where we live.

Currently trying to convince DH Evangeline is a nice name (he's not convinced)

LaWeaselIsOupaLaDouffe · 02/05/2011 14:57

Oh yes, and I really like American place names too:
Lafayette, Detroit, Georgia

(waits to be kicked off MN)

missmiss · 02/05/2011 14:57

I want to call a boy Tennessee.

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 02/05/2011 15:38

LaWeasel, I love Lafayette too! (more than your others, I admit). Let's get kicked off together ...

LaWeaselIsOupaLaDouffe · 02/05/2011 16:04

Grin We could start a secretly liking American names club.

I love Lafayette so much, but something about taking it away from the bayou makes it sound horribly pretentious...

LadyClariceCannockMonty · 02/05/2011 16:17

Oh, who cares? And anyway, pretentious compared to what? All the down-to-earth names already listed on this thread? Smile
(Disclaimer: I love most of the names people have suggested here. But they ARE pretentious, a lot of them).

LynetteScavo · 02/05/2011 16:46

I really wanted to call DS1 Amadeus.

Turned out to be another one at his school anyway, so it would hardly have been that unusual.

rumpleteaser · 02/05/2011 16:52

missred I have always loved Merlin and Candida and my cat is called Percival!

noddyholder · 02/05/2011 16:55

I wanted to call ds Elvis and sometimes wish I had because the person he is it wouldn't have phased him at all!

clangermum · 02/05/2011 16:58

another for Hepzibah

aStarInStrangeways · 02/05/2011 18:30

So many gorgeous names on here

I love Artemis, Loveday, Electra, Iphigenia for a girl; Isambard, Bartok for a boy. Sadly we already have a pretty strong and lengthy surname so any of these would just be overkill :( Except Electra, actually...and I am pg with a girl...

I also have a terrible penchant for fantasy novel names. Cersei is a great name, even though the character is such a total irredeemable hellbitch. DH has had to talk me out of Adara in the past.

Bonsoir · 02/05/2011 18:32

noddyholder - there is an Elvis in my DD's class!

LaWeaselIsOupaLaDouffe · 02/05/2011 18:35

There are lots of beautiful names on this list. Lysander has really taken my fancy. Artemis lovely too.