Favourite names and guilty pleasure names...?

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Idk. I'm genuinely curious, looking for inspiration and maybe other people could use that inspiration as well ;) (this was inspired by an other thread)

Mine are:
Gabriel
Ari
Emmett
Erik
Julius
Peregrine
Anton
Cormac
Azariah
Elon
Isaac
Elmo
Elric
Uriel
Ulrik
Vincent

and Vercingetorix (nope, I'd never go for that one... That's the guilty pleasure name)

Cressida
Clarissa
Clara
Louisa
Ziva
Carlotta (yes,,, I seem to like the letter C)
Erica
Gemma
Arielle
Pomona
Susannah

Flame is probably my ultimate guilty pleasure name.

Delilah and Faroukh

It's so interesting to see how some names keep cropping up. Like Malachi, for example!

sugarpie I also like Ziva. But it apparently sounds very similar to the Hebrew word for gonorrhea... Which, seeing as it's a Hebrew name...

Buntysoven

Please don't judge me grin

Well, as long as you don't judge me for liking Vercingetorix, Corvus, Alon, Castor, Maxima, Emeraude, Olympe/Olympia and Misha...?

Deveraux
Ernest - popular in our family history, though it would be deemed old fashion, now seems popular!
Jabez

All names in our family history. Also,
Aled
Roderigo (from Shakespeare studied at school?)
Roderick
Josiah
Isambard
David
Martin
Bjorn

Girls:
Rowena
Victoria
Isla
Dorothea
Georgette

Also love Malachi and Loveday.

Real guilty pleasures would be:
Dolly
Crystal
Bear
Rain
Storm

I need to get myself an army of cats to name the above.

I love Arianna, Lilyana, Florence,

Persephone. Would be my name I love but could never use.

Lillith I adore but DH vetoed.

Love Gabriela and Gideon for boys

I need to get myself an army of cats to name the above.

Good strategy.

When I was little I used to wish that I worked in an office that could give children names (like, I was a little kid...). I'm not sure how exactly I came up with it/why I thought the parents would agree with this weird concept. Maybe it was influenced of stories of children being abandoned? Not sure....

But yeah. I wanted to work in that office, the naming office... (I must have been a really weird child). I had a name book and my parents had to read it to me before I could give my dolls/plushies names.
Favourite names were Leona, Anna, Madita and Virginia, I think ;) Oh, and Vera. I myself wanted to be called Vera...

Your idea of getting a cat army is more feasible...

Tbh horatio it would be better than letting some people name their own. The girl in Australia called Nutella. The thing for taking out random letters like N'talia or random capitalization LaDonDa or such

These are a mix of guilty pleasure names and my favourite names:

For boys:
Raphael
Elliot
Nathaniel
William
Oliver
Giovanni
Theodore
Noah
Lincoln
Aiden
Casper
Elijah

Raphaela
Brianna
Giovanna
Erica
Eva
Ivy
Bethany
Blythe
Hope
Melody
Harmony
Mallory
Edith
Cecilia
Lux
Bonnie
Julie
Juliette
Meredith
Camilla for girls.

What is a guilty pleasure name? Why would you feel guilty for liking a name? Or is this ome of those 'what I would name my child if I were brave enough' threads?

My current favourites are Benjamin and Matilda.

Names I love but likely could never actually use: Persephone, Cassiopeia, Amaranth, Lucrezia, Miriel, Yasmin, Sophronia, Zachariah, Tarquin, Quentin, Aloysius, Mallory. And maybe Balonz.

I love:

Persephone
Cora (there's a theme!)
Ptolemy
Raphael
Leonardo (another theme!)
Cassiopeia

I'm sure there are more that I'd never use but adore!

I like Castor a lot! But then, I don't live in the UK, so the oil thing isn't an issue.

What is a guilty pleasure name? Why would you feel guilty for liking a name? Or is this ome of those 'what I would name my child if I were brave enough' threads?

Not sure what it means. To me personally it's a name that I love but can't use. It has nothing to do with my own bravery, I'm not the one that may be given the name of a (in the English language) stomach losening oil... Or, I know, for example a little girl called Aphrodisia. Lovely name imo, but definitely too close to aphrodisiac. So, even if this was my personal all-time favourite name I wouldn't want to "do that" to a child of mine...

I'm not sure if this makes sense ;)

Cancelly I love Sophronia. That's really lovely!

I love the sound and feel of Candida and Gavin but wouldn't use either.

I really really love Loinnir and Seren - my favourite girls' names I think - but don't have any Irish or Welsh heritage that I know about and don't personally like using names I don't feel entitled to IYSWIM.

Love Moses, Chaim and Shoshanna but though we do as a family have some Jewish heritage they feel a bit strong for the limited amount we have. God I'm very close to racism on this aren't I? Would never say that anybody else shouldn't use them though.

Lysander for a boy, Artemis for a girl!

Oh, I get it! Thanks for explaining. Yes, I have always loved the name Lenore but would never use it because it sounds like fabric softener

Ooh I love Lysander too

Hero and Jesse

my non existent dc4 would be called River.

my crazy name which I would actually use is Valley which id call either boy or girl. good thing Im not having any more

love Rain/Rainy for a girl too.

I got served by a girl in mc donalds called Leif. love it! but could never use it.

Favourite Girls Names:
Aria
Lauren
Camila
Savannah
Mackenzie
Maria
Olen

Favourite Boys Names:
Joshua
Quentin
Brendon
Isaac
Dean
Tyler
Alejo

(I'm from Cuba btw... that's where Zamira, Olen and Alejo come from!)

Too many names to list that I love.

Guilty pleasure is Wolfgang. If only I could.

Guilty pleasure-cadwallader!
Didn't even know it was a name until I saw it in a baby name book.but it sticks out and I've remembered it since reading the book maybe 7 years ago.

Mrs I know what you mean.... ;)

I personally really adore Leif but wouldn't use it either.
God I'm very close to racism on this aren't I? I don't think so. I personally would feel weird calling DC a name of a culture I have absolutely no connection to (ok, you actually do with Shoshanna, for example, but still). I'd feel weird using a Japanese name for example seeing as I have no connection to the country/culture (well, I do like Japanese food, but still).

I'm currently contemplating the names Arik and Virginia. Virginia is actually one of my all-time favourites (ever since I was a little girl) but I wonder if the virgin-part is a but too... "virgny-y"... ;)