Guilty pleasure names?

[ellafay13]

What are your personal guilty pleasure names & what are your favourite/s from my list?

Most of these I would consider using but some are GPs*

Beck*
Finn
Jeremiah
Atticus
Riff*
Felix
Robin
Jace
Luca
Frankie
Locke*
Zachary
Reuben
Timothy*
Maxim*

I was so very close to calling DD Wednesday.

OH did not allow it though

LOVE Maxim.

Kaiser is my current favourite boys name. Don't think I'd ever use it though. Likewise Jayden and Rudi. I love Ramona for a girl but would worry about her being called moany/moaner

Aurora, Arwen, Levi, Xavier, Thackeray.

These aren't exactly guilty pleasures, just names that I love and DH has vetoed!

Starla. I used to know a Starla years ago and she was just awesome. But I would never be brave enough to use her gorgeous name.

Emerald
Topaz
Tabitha
Magenta
Aurora
Andromeda
Indigo
Pearl
Aisling

Orion
Silas
Inigo
Fox
Jethro
Axl
Osiris
Cassius
Barry

Rowan (although tbh thats just one DP doesn't like and I love)
Archie (ditto)
Silas
Wolf...this one sounds amazing with our surname but I don't think I can bring myself to do that to my son if we have a boy

Topaz is a wonderful name. There's a journalist called Topaz Amoray - such a mellifluous name.

Theo Fennell's daughters are called Amber and Emerald, I think. Rather cool given his line of work.

Starla and Topaz, gorgeous! Especially love Starla, if I was having a girl I'd use it.

Thought of some more denied to me on account of being bog standard middle English middle class:

Marina

Serena

Angharad

Paloma

Somiya

Heledd (pronounced the way the Welsh do).

Shoulda been Welsh

I've always had a penchant for the following
Propeller
Nostril
Influenza
Uttoxeter

In the same vein, woolly, I think Quinoa (whether you pronounce it quinn-noah or keen-wah) would make a great name.

Artemis/Artemisia
Lysander
Achilles
Olympia (so much prettier than Earl's Court, as the old Sloane joke goes).

I also love posh girl nicknames such as Tetty and Ticky.

Woolly I can't believe you've managed to name two of my DCs!

Serena is very achievable surely. It's a bog standard name in Ireland (went to school with two and I've taught a few), and we tend to be far less adventurous with names!

Willow and Hunter. DH vetoed both. Similar to a previous poster we're in Ireland and kids would be teased. I also love Arwen but it's lotr and I don't think I'm cool enough to get away with it. Well that and I only have boys

Rainbowe as a girls' middle name.
Anastasia.
Esmeralda.
Augusta.

Inigo
Axel
Desmond
Luciano

Clementine and Joel - I love Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Also I think Fox is a cool name for a boy, big XFiles fan

Some more.
Rosaria.
Primula.
Viola.

Xavier.
Zain.
Theodore.

Jejune
Idaho
Creosote
Dirndle

Finn is by far my favourite from your list.

I don't think I have "guilty pleasure" names as such but these are some names I like that are not my usual style or wouldn't have worked with my existing DC's quite conventional names:

Ocean
Devon
Blue
Harley
Jago
Ronan
Nayan (a Hindu name and I have no Hindu connections)
Jerott (a sexy man in series of historical novels I like)
Axel
Corey
Reinmar (an old-fashioned German name, I have no idea why I like it)

Anstey (place-name near where I grew up, which was apparently also used as an anglicised form of Anastasia in the Middle Ages)
Anjana (another Hindu name)
Vienna
Bryony

Kevin, Clyde, and Kyle... that's what my dc would have been called if it was only up to me

Iora Odd I know but I think of Serena as one of those names like Lucinda or Tamara that needs to be preceded by 'Lady'. DD has a very nice but very ordinary name, which I think describes our family's aspirations to a tee!

Godfrey. I love this name but it's just too middle aged and it doesn't have a sensible abbreviation, so I don't think I'd ever use it.