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

My DS's second name is Wolf in breton. I wish I had been brave enough to use it as his first name.

I'm loving most names on here - much nicer than on most threads imo .

Blimey Getorf- I actually know an Ankaret- I assumed it was spelled 'Anchorette'

Bumper- I love Aurelia and Ondine too... I take it MrBumper said 'no'?
Wouldn't Twm be pronounced 'tomb' though? Kind of puts me off...

Sarcophagaiea anyone?

DS1's first and middle name have been mentioned more than once on this thread - I still love them and they really suit him!

A name I love the sound of but could never use because of the connotations is Judas, DP vetoed Jude and Jonas which was as close as I'd dare to go. Such a shame, one little betrayal of Christ and the name is tarnished forever...

Wow at someone called Ankaret - I read an obscure baby name book which said it was seldom used since the 15th century.

She is mid-50s, so definitely not from 15thC

I am proud to say my DS1 will be Gilbert Bartholomew James -. Ludicrously tasty.

Here are some of my more memorable choices vetoed by DP:
Augustus/Augustine
Constant
Lemuel
Alban
Cuthbert
Yorick (Alas...)
Bartolomeo
Wenceslas
Celio (Male form of Celia, pronounced CHAY-lee-o)
Stanislaus
Thor

I know a Yorick and a Thor.

I was at school with an Alban and a Titus.

Oh, I love so many of these names!

I love Clover, Sebastian, Benoit/Benedict, Wolfgang, Margot and Clementine.
No rhyme nor reason, I just love those names!
A friend recently had a baby called Sapphire which I think is impossibly glamorous, in a 1930's way. Lovely.

I don't think any of those are ludicrous, Clover.

Then again I think my opinions on this thread demonstrates that my ludicrousness threshold is pretty high.

Particularly love Wolfgang from your list. Would you shorten it to Wolf or Wolfie?

Actually I concede - those are just some of my favourite names. Wolf probably (thinking of a Noel Streatfield character). Did you mean me btw?

Oops, yes, I did!

Wolf is lovely. Clementine also, although I wonder what people would shorten it to.

bellatrix sounds pretty and 2 sweet nns but harry potter means i just couldn't

I would love twins called Balthazar and Bathsheba

That would be brilliant

Wolfgang. That wins the prize.

For twins:

Bartolomeo and Bathsheba
Eleuthera and Elektra
Hephaestus and Hepzibah
Inigo and Iphigenia

I thought of a lovely name this morning, another classical greek one, Clytemnestra. Shame it sounds a bit like clitoris. [gtin]

I knew a pair of twins called Sharona and Shania. Ludicrous in a chav way.

Getorf dont you start wiv de chav bisnizz - i iz cing u soon.

Ariel was fab until Disney
Atticus ( my dog's name because I thought I wasnt having anymore babies)
Sparkle - bloody brilliant!
My DC5 was going to be Tallulah Honey Butterfly Bo if he had been a she.

I is a chav myself innit

Ariel is a brilliant name, IMAGINE if you had a baby in the eraly 90s and names it Ariel after the fairy in the Tempest. And then that film came out and everyone thought you named your baby after the mermaid instead.

or the washing powder...

U iz a chav is it?
We will c innit
We will c....

Deffo chav.

My idea of the perfect christmas is buying everything in the Argos catalogue, and 8 tonnes of sweets.

Ha! at talking about christmas in April

Or fucking May