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

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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

Just thought of Marmaduke, Odysseus and Ptolemy for a boy. I love that.

I also like Osiris for a boy, however don't really think is appropriate to name a baby after the egyptian god of death, somehow.

Oenone is a beautiful name, but can you imagine how many people would not pronounce it correctly. There are enough people in the world who cannot pronounce my dd's name Sophia - and that is a very well known name.

Osiris is fucking cool as cool!

I would totally have used that for DS

I felt quite constrained by my DSSs' names when choosing a name for DD - it needed to "go" with their names, so that the three of them felt like brothers and sisters, and the DSSs have über classical (lovely) names. Left to my own devices I could probably have gone a lot more out there...

I like Osisris too! Classical names are ace imo, you could have some really funky nicknames, eg, Oz, much better than the usual respectable names we feel obliged to give our dcs. I like Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Nefertari as well, knew a baby Ramses once, let's start an Egyptian renaissance!
Also a fan of Ophelia, Laertes, Anais, zola, Lyra, Vega and many other constellation based names..... Feel a need to rename my godfish now as def not having any more babies!

goldfish, not godfish......

I should have stuck to my guns Bonsoir! Oddly Elvis goes well with our surname but he is 17 now and very much a Jesse!

You couldn't name him Elvis, so you named him after Elvis's twin?! :)

This thread is giving me such name regret over DD...

Cheerful I only found that out years later but I like it !

Elvis is a brilliant name.

God I want some more children to name in grandiose manner but really can't be arsed

Inigo & Forrest are firm faves...if DD2 had been a boy then I think DH would have got his way with Forrest!

Also adore Perdita, Constance and Lettice.

My ds has 2 mates called Stone and Hooper

Isn't Candida a vaginal infection?
I love lots of the others. I have one of them.

Yes I think it is thrush or something, that's what put me off wanting to change my own name to Candida when I was a teenager!

Penthesilea
Scathach

Angus
Lachlan
Cuchulain

Dh said no!

I wanted

Aurora
Aurelia
Jocasta
Andrina
Sapphire

Or

Otis
Raphael

Also liked Ondine and Twm

Being English l do prefer english names.

Ambrose for a boy.

I know an Otis actually.

I like Ankaret - is medieval english version of welsh Angharad.

one of my friends from uni has a sister called Inken, i love that name too! was instant veto for DP though same as Paloma

Telemachus
Rhuairidh

Andromache

Oooh Wolf! Love that!