Guilty pleasure

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Seen this somewhere else before and it threw out some brilliant names and unusual choices so....
your guilty pleasure names, names you love but perhaps wouldn’t use

Olympia

Lorenzo, Delilah, Margarita, and if I were Muslim I would call my son Mustafa. Love that name

I was having a Phineas or a Cosmo. Settled for a Thomas 😄

Arlo/ aloysius/ koda for a boy. Effie/ winter/ lilo/ leilani for a girl. In the end we chose James

Why does the name Atticus come up so much? Why is it a name people aren't brave enough for. I know a Cornelius, called Corney for short

Athena
Artemis
Antigone
Luciana
Loveday
Morwenna
Angharad
Marie-Claire
Angelique

Erik
Raoul
Lorenzo
Antonio
Humphrey
Aurelius
Julyan
Leonidas
Montgomery

Loads!

Quite a few mythological names - Antigone, Niobe, Ganymede, Artemis, Nyx, Andromeda, Icarus

Hamish & Ailsa – I’m not Scottish

Emrys – I’m not Welsh

Sansa, Cersei, Tyrion, & Nymeria - I’m not a character in Game of Thrones

A few 'Marmite' names that I’d be worried about my child hating – Myrtle, Hester, Dennis, Eugene

Others - Demelza, Damaris, Phineas, Jessamine, Temperance, Hepzibar, Balthazar, Tarquin, Cornelius

Daphne. I still like it actually. I might name my fictional third child it.

Cornelius
Athena
Raphael
Renata
Alva
Demelza
Guinevere
Ailsa
Alanis

Also Riley for a girl

Girls - Hero, Antigone (Tiggy), Sage, Cressida, Cecilia, Camilla, Celine, Marianne, Bianca, Valentina, Delilah, Bathsheba, Octavia, Ianthe, Isolde

Boys - Santiago, Enzo, Paris, Ellery, Victor, Jasper, Inigo, Rafael, Axel, Fox, Emerson, Elijah, Blaine, Hector, Otto, Griffin

To be fair I’d totally use some of the above, but DP is more of the Jane and John school of naming so we’re going to have to meet somewhere in the middle!

My daughters name has come up on here ☺️ It is a bit of a marmite name though.
Girls: Arrietty
Boys: Ptolemy
We named our baby in the sky Vesper as it means ‘evening star’ I don’t think I would be brave enough to name an earth baby Vesper.

I also love Clementine and Evangeline. And Hudson for a boy.

Scheherazade
Guinevere
Yseult
Oriel
Vashti

Tybalt/Thibault
Raphael
Lysander
Demetrius
Oberon

Gideon and Fabian

Boy's names:

Fiorello, Korbinian, Severin and names that are hyphenated with Marie/Maria. I like hyphenated boy's names in general, tbh.

Girl's names:
Lettice, Sophronia, Gemma, Severina, Roxanne. (Idk if Gemma is a genuine gp name. But it's one of my favourite names and my lovely spouse apparently hates it...😑)

Chelsea
Princess
Harmony

River
Sonny
Buddy

Patience
Blessing
Verity
Constance
Cecily

All vetoed by DH when we found out we were expecting a girl.

Geraint and Owain (I am Welsh) and Jürgen and Johannes (lived in Germany on and off)

My DD's name is on here.

Oh I would do love to meet a toddler Humphrey. Not sure a teenage boy would thank their parents though. Shame

I know toddlers called Hector, rafe, cassian and two called Jago!

My sons middle name has been mentioned 😁

My own too out there choice was Dashiel, nick name Dash.

Boys:
Raglan - shame it's a sleeve
Jory
Griffin
Ashwin -I knew a kid called this

Girls:
Sapphire - apparently it's not 'classy'...
Arrietty -comes up a few times on this list!
Already
Olympia

*Albany I’m not going to call a child Already

I know a fair few children with names from this thread, I'm pleased to say.

Welled up a bit at 'Vesper': to you.

Mine are:

Elanor (the flower in LOTR)
Ariadne (vetoed by DH)

Most of our cats' names have come up here- we call our cats all the pretentious names my DH wouldn't let me call our DCs.
I would have loved to have called my eldest Scarlett, which would have really suited her, but no-go with boring DH.

Storm for a girl

Hero for a boy

They do sound more like ponies than children though ☺