Fantasy name thread.

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First off don't feel sad for me please. I am completely at peace with this.

I lost my only baby just after the 12 week scan. There will never be a baby but DH and I still say 'that's a nice name' if we see or hear something we like.
The nice thing is that it is complete fantasy so it doesn't matter.

At the moment we like Wyndham for a boy and Winter for a girl.

What are your fantasy names and what would you say if I was going for those names.

No one?

My friend wanted to call her now 18 year old Wednesday, she was talked out of it by the midwife and has never forgiven her.

I quite like Winter, but struggle with Wyndham as it's a rural town in Western Australia (where I live)!

In my fantasy life I'd like twin girls called Saskia and Cleo.

Hi OP, sorry for your loss. I like your fantasy names - mine would be Artemis for a girl, Conrad for a boy (I have one DD, Miranda).

Ah, I've never heard of Wyndham as a town - it reminds me of John, the author, partly why I like it!

I present...Wyndham. Population: 1,000. Distance from state's capital city: 1,400 miles.

(It is kind of a cool name without that association, though.)

Thank you, Koala. I've learnt something new! Geography was never a strong point.

I'm sorry for your loss OP that must have been tough.

Mine would be Crystal for a girl and Barney for a boy - neither of which I would actually name my children but I love both names.

My hypothetical fictional daughter is called Alba

I bloody love that name

Wyndham is an old family name, and I love John Wyndham.

Wyndham is a park in Grantham (I always thought it got its name from a benefactor's surname). I think it works well as a first name.

I think of Winter as a boy's name (because of potting round in Victorian family tree when it was definitely that sex)

I really like Winter!

My fantasy names are Hero and Erasmus. Wouldn't ever use them but I think they're so cool.

Oooh in fantasy land I'd have two boys and two girls, named Jasper, Henry, Olive and Meredith.

Indiana for me (boy or girl).

I'd never get it past DH in a million years!

I have two girls and I love their names, but if I didn't struggle pronouncing my r's they would be Miriam and Greta.

I love Meredith and Miriam.

I would have like Edith too and I could have claimed Enid as a family name too.

In my fantasy I have twin girls called Rowan and Willow! Sorry for your loss OP xx

So sorry for your loss OP .

I had a dream the other night that I had a little girl called Snow. I don't suppose I'd ever get it approved by DH but I sort of love it!

BrokenBattleDroid Would you like to borrow my DH?! Indiana is his fantasy name for a boy or a girl!

I know you're at peace, but anyway.

I can't have children but spend a lot of time thinking about baby names:

Seth
Phoebe / Lola

Cornelius & Dorothea

Amos & Roberta

• love those names!

I am sorry for your loss. How painful.

Winter I like, but Wyndham less so due to the novels of the novelist by that name.

Flavia is a name I love for a girl, and long have loved it, as a not usuable really name, and Lindsay or Ninian for a boy.

Less not usuable names I like are

Lois, Mhairi, Cairaistiona (Christina), Vaila (Shetlandic), Rowan (pronounced row an, as in now/cow), Iona (it got somewhat overused here in the 00s), Maighread (nn Meggie), Mairsaili and Lileas (my current favourite favourite) for girls and
Patrick (Paidraig), Calum (got overused in the 00s here), Dàibhaidh, Magnus, Niall and Somhairle for boys.

I quite like Winter actually. Wyndham reminds me too of John Wyndham and as a result I'm then reminded of my childhood fear of being murdered by a giant rhubarb. Plus those sinister Midwich Cuckooo kids.

Fantasy kids I'd called Sheba and Hallam. Today at least

Although now i see Sheba and Hallam written down I've gone off them a bit.

Fickle.

Zephyr for a boy but my girl choices are more conservative, I love Elena and Serena.

Sorry for your loss.

I was fortunate to be able to have one child but will almost certainly never have any more. My fantasy names are Cressida (NN Cress or Sid) and either Hayden or George.