When my mind was addled with pregnancy hormones, I wanted to call my baby...

[MaryAstor]

Oak.

A good, strong, very English name, I thought. Unusual but beautiful. Incredible that it is not widely used. Very smug about landing on such a perfect name.

If I hadn't been so off my face on morphine and sleep-depravation post-birth I'd have legged it to the registry office then and there to make it official. A few days post natal, I realised that the top 100 names are popular for a reason, and the fact that Oak was not ranked among them spoke volumes.

See also: Bran, Heath, Prospero.

DD was almost Horatio Solomon.
I'd still do it, but she happens to be a girl.

sashh-yes. A friend of mine plays Olaf. I have challenged him to name his firstborn after the character but I don't think he's brave enough!

DH wanted to call our DS Eric as well. Didn't happen. If we'd been able to produce #2 I wanted to call 'him' Malachi or Dexter. Quite possibly a huge bullet dodge there!

Tallulah Belle or Honey Bean (!)

Hey I've been thinking of Malachi!

My 'awesome' name was 'Ace' for a boy or a girl.
I couldn't believe it wasn't more popular. Ace and Oak is a great sibset.

What's wrong with Erik? (It should be a k at the end obviously :o ) I have a very wonderful, strapping 5 year old called Erik - he is proud of his Viking name and it sounds brilliant when his friends chant it when he takes a penalty at football :) )

Oak may be going a bit far - I thought of Axel for DS2 but was talked out of it when DH pointed out it sounds the same as the German word for armpit :o Also thought of Ulf and only decided against that because DH has a good friend called that - I like short, strong names but they do have to actually be names :)

I'm liking most of these names but then my brain is pregnancy addled at the moment.

Loki is an especially fab name, but I do live in Sweden so maybe it's w little more mainstream here.

At the moment I want to call our son Elfie, intact I call him Elfie and I feel like that is his name.

Isn't Loki the god of lying or some such similar negative thing, or am I mixed up? It sounds cool til you look at the meaning...

I thought mischief, but only because that's what it says in the film the mask!

Loki is the god of mischief, he isn't all bad though, there are some lovely stories about him.

Ah - thinking about it my impression of Loki is based on a novel (Gods of America I think, or the sequel Ananci's boys) rather than anything more reliable! :)

I've never understood how Jude got so popular for a while, but that's also due to being a bit too inclined to automatically think of characters in novels when considering names!

I know a little boy called Loki and he is the best behaved 3 year old I have ever met, its funny how kids often are the opposite of their name meaning :)

Diamond. Reading too much George MacDonald.

This one was nearly Curdie as well. Actually I might still use that.

Juniper. DH said it could go on the shortlist! I was ecstatic. A few days later he admitted he only said that to make me feel better (terrible pregnancy). Still quite like it actually...

Cleopatra! Do not know what I was thinking My husband laughed when I suggested it and I was really offended at the time!

Archer. It was my great grandad's name. Mind you, he called his PFB Lloyd George [surname]

I know an Australian 'Oak' and hsi sibs have similar slightly hippyish names. Not one I'd go for but it does suit him and I couldn't imagine him as anything else now.

one of my grandsons is called oakley :)

Phlox. And I STILL want to call her Phlox. I love that name... sigh.

I know an Oak too. And a Hawthorne. And a Thorn.

at Prospero and Frig (FRIG!!!!).

Oak is...Not so good!

I also loved Cleopatra for a girl (my DD is a stocky, blonde tomboy...poor thing would surely have been traumatised), Justice, Lyric and Sky (for a boy). I was totally fucking addled, clearly.

They got normal names.

We were thinking of Ardon a few weeks ago, until someone on here pointed out it sounds like hard on

I have a Loki and a Freya - my rabbits.