Your favourite non-MN friendly names?

[jorahmormont]

I think we need an amnesty thread, for all our favourite baby names that the MN jury would inevitably tear to shreds be brave, come forwards and share your contraband baby names!

If we have a DD2, she will be called Beckett. MN hates Beckett as a boys name so I just know they'll loathe it for a girl, which makes me love it more

Axl

Not that we will be using it anyway, chose something different and more appropriate for when he grows up :)

I have a long standing fondness for Dylan despite its rep on MN as a 'naughty boy's name'.

I may well have a Dylan and dress him in a bovver boots when he goes to nursery so he can look sufficiently naughty to all the little Lysanders and Ruperts.

I like 'boring' names, reviled by many here for being for being unimaginative, too popular, and, well...boring. Good solid classics especially, and I don't care about popularity or the 'risk' of being shock horror another child with the same name in a classroom or school building.

So I shall add Isabella, a great favourite of mine.

whispers I like Daisy and Lacey.

Mason, Dylan, Cole, Reece, Riley, Kai, Elliot, Connor
I HATE the old fashioned names trend. I'm having a baby not a 90 year old.

Wolf

I've always liked Mildred, but I think the general consensus is that it's hideously ugly. Although I wouldn't use it now anyway, because of the whole 'granny chic' trend.

Ariel. As in the little mermaid. Love it. I also love 'girly flowery fussy' names. The girlyer floweryer and fussyer the better.

Whoever mentioned elliot, I say go for it. I'm usually not one for unisex names but I really like elliot for a girl. Think it sounds lovely

Girls:
Cherry
Lemony (I know 'usually' a boy's name)
Ambrosia

Boys:
Not sure I have any. Franklin and Marshall might be MN-disapproved, surname as first name and all that!

I have a Franklin. I feel quite good that it's MN disapproved

I know of at least one other MNetter with a Franklin too.

I love all the names that MN often terms ' boring'.

I always thought Ariel was a boys' name. I suppose from the Shakespeare character, and the fact that I used to know an Ariel who was male. That was long before The Little Mermaid came out, though.

:-) if DS to be was a DD then it would have been Daisy. It was DH's decision. I haven't been brave enough to put the name we're going for up for discussion here, would probably get slated.
Saw my own name, Heidi, completely slated. My mother would be devasted! It was the only girls' name she could get my dad to agree to at the time - every other suggestion he knew a dog called that!

I like Axl, Franklin, place names, surname names, Beckett, Luna, alsorted God names - Thor, Zeus, Apollo, Orion and erm.... Endeavour.

I would have loved to have used Awesome as a first name. Awesome Toothbrush is an amazing name!

I must be the anti-MNname person judging by this thread.

Lily-Mae

Dylan
Harley

I love Axel!

I also love surname type names, Finlay, Jamesion, Harris, Brodie,

Then here in Scotland it's always been more of a thing.

Isn't it mad? MN doesn't like names that are too crazy or too common/boring? What can we call our children? Wonder what the 5 most approved MN names are?!

Approved MN names -

Ptolemy
Clementine
Rupert
Xanthe
Juno

Anything other than these is contraband.

DD has a Welsh name, quite uncommon (she's one of 23 girls born with it last year), which is also against the rules, and if we have little Beckett, her middle name will be Welsh. A DS would be Rory Dylan, which I assume is also Not Allowed.

Jayden

I am still a huge fan of Raymond.
tbh, nobody in real life likes it either (argh).

Ptolemy is one of the worst names I've ever heard. I just see lobotomy. Kayden is actually a better name and any one I know away from mn would agree! Different world.

I've never understood the 'vindicated if you use a popular name' mentality of mumsnet - there are over 43000 towns and cities in the uk and the top name in the list was given to 5 or 6 thousand babies. The likelihood of having a class full of Olivers is very slim.

I'm pregnant at the moment. There's no way I'd put the name we've chosen out there to be ripped apart. I don't really understand why people seek MN approval on names.

Ptolemy
Clementine
Rupert
Xanthe
Juno

I'd say they're Telegraph approved rather than MN approved.