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

annandale btw, I didn't mean to imply that me liking Japanese food meant that I had a connection to Japan. I meant that seeing that Japanese food is my only ... that I have no connection to that culture...

Shoot, yes. I have foot in mouth disease.

Anyhow, I wouldn't tell anybody else not to use a name for that reason either...

id be more worried they'd get called Vagina!

there is a child singer called Amarachi which is awesome. I think its African?

I know what you mean, incidentally I really love Japanese names (and am a huge anime fan) but I would feel wrong using one. Shame as DD has been desperate for a little brother called Takumi :o

I love Luna, but. I can't get past Tic.

I like the the name Indie for a boy. My DP referred to my bump as Indie, no idea why. We don't even use it as a nickname, even though it could make sense with the name my DS has now.

Also like (if I was brave enough)

Asa
Asher
Xavier
Sergio
Vincent

My DP has said a big fat no to all of these anyway!

Callista
Odette
Tirion
Xanthe
Elspeth
Agnes
Nimue
Saoirse

Jonty
Peregrine
Tristram
Aldous
Tycho
Erasmus
Taliesin
Osian

Cake

Erasmus is awesome!

My DP has said a big fat no to all of these anyway!

I feel like I see this so often on this board. I wonder if many men are just less adventurous in the naming departement or whether it's pregnancy hormones making some of us (me...) like some outrageous names? Actually, I even like them when I'm not pregnant. So, yeah... Oops ;)

I'm a sucker for French names:

Elodie
Genevieve
Vivienne
Claudette (though this means lame!)
Agathe
Coralie
Jolie

Etc

husband has a thick, cockney-esque accent and can't pronounce anything vaguely French. le sigh

Oh and I ADORE Xanthe, Calista, Athena, Minerva. Anything Grecian goddess sounding but when I got dh to say Xanthe it came out as Zanfffeee. So no. Lol

I love Marlena (Mar lay Nah)

I love Marlena (Mar lay Nah)

I quite like the name Ottilie for a girl and I also like the name August.

I'm happy as I mentioned the name Astrid to DH (far too early really as only just got BFP on the weekend) and he really likes it :o :o probably as a middle name though.

Malachi and Loveday are brilliant, they sound like the hero and heroine of a Cornish tale of romance and derring-do.

I love the name Linnet, but it doesn't sound brilliant in an Essex accent. I didn't have any girls anyway so I didn't have to make that decision! I also love Patrick but it didn't go with our surname at all. Ans I love Sorensen, because of the character in The Changeover novel, but it just would have been a bit too Scandi I think (although the character is from New Zealand).

Cagliostro

Astrid is lovely :)! I also like Ingrid.

My guilty pleasure names are Ray or Rae, Estella, Blossom.
One of my favourite names is Robin or Robyn- gutted we never got to use it.

Love this thread! As someone else said, Wolfgang is a brilliant guilty pleasure name! Little baby Wolf would be so cute.

Me and OH haven't had a baby yet but have been TTC and have had our names picked for years, with middle names, Matilda Alice and Hugo Leonard.

I love the name Leonard but people always react negatively, it was my beloved Grandad's name and it does hurt when people say "he'd get bullied!" I always think people that say that must have a streak of a bully in them to even think that way...

I also love Belle, Rex, Woody, Clementine, Birdie, Dodie, Coco, Octavia, and recently heard Matisse for a little girl (saw the daughter of an artist I follow on Instagram was named Matisse and thought it was so perfect!) and obviously as a huge fan of fauvism it would be wonderful but not sure OH would go for it...his heart is set on Matilda! All my friends think I'm a bit arty farty and will go for something a bit out there, so sometimes I'm tempted to go for a completely normal, regular name just to shock everyone lol!

I wanted Rainbow or Violet for DD.
We settled on Cleo

Norky Cleo is lovely! If I called a girl Clementine I would abbreviate it to Cleo, just like it a lot more than Clem as a nickname :)

I just remembered a name I saw on MN (had never heard of it before) a while ago, and I think it's beautiful for a girl - Emrys

I really like the name Cleo :)

It does reminds me of h2o, which was my little sister's favourite TV show... If I remember correctly she was a pretty cool character :) (And of course also of Cleopatra...)

Wolfgang is pretty awesome, I agree. I'm wondering whether I should put it on our list...? But it is very Mozart and very Goethe, which would be a lot to live up to...

I really like Wolfram.

jemima Blossom is really cute :)!! I personally love the name Robin.

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Emrys... is that an other of the Merlin character?

I agree, it's a really lovely name! Oh wow.

I think it may be, I've never watched Merlin but I have a feeling I mentioned it to someone IRL when I first read it and she said ooooh like Merlin :o it's so pretty though so the association wouldn't bother me really. And it's unusual without being tooooo out there so I think it might be a winner (not that I've told DH this, and it's too early to be discussing names really - no scan yet - but I can't help it!) along with two other front runners, Astrid and Rowan. Luckily baby would need two middle names like our other DCs have.

Boys' names OTOH... argh!

I've never watched merlin either ;)

I don't think the association is bad (?) either.

I really like boy's names, tbh.

Idk, I think in girl's names there's this line between beautiful and too frilly. Between feminine and too dainty. An issue I personally don't have with boy's names, tbh...

Or did they do something awful with Merlin in the TV show? Did they make him the bad guy...?