Crazy names you didn’t use?

[AragornsManlyStubble]

Oh, is mine a list to be judged.

For my 1st, I fully admit I shouldn’t have been allowed to name a cat, let alone a child. She narrowly avoided being called Keilani Aqua.

I hang my head in shame.

My 2nd escaped any really dodgy possibilities, lucky thing.

My 3rd......Well on the list were Scipio, Zealand and Rockford. I hadn’t learned my lesson from number 1.

Not saying I don’t still like them, but I know now they shouldn’t have been on the list!

What names did you have on The List, that you look back and think ‘How was I THAT crazy?’

@wilberforce I know a 25-year-old called woody and it really suits him! I fancied him at school and no one every seemed to call him anything phallic

I really wanted Talisker (still think it’s an awesome name!)

Also I vetoed them because of connotations but I love the names Iago and Ophelia

I was very keen on Sunny for a girl. Had boys though.

@secretwitch well thank god, Jezebel just means 'Whore'.

Also known a Sunny, and she was. I like Sunny.

@CorianderLord

Also known a Sunny, and she was. I like Sunny.

I know it’s inappropriate but I just love the sound!

I think I shall name my next female cat Jezebel.

Oops, I meant to quote @CorianderLord

I loved tiger lily for my dd but wasn’t brave enough and when I was pregnant with ds I was considering Teddy if he was a girl but not a boy.

Both ended up with beautiful traditional names but sometimes I wish I’d been a bit braver.

Quentin

I had Sunny on my girl list as well. DH was like errrr no. Also October, which I still like in theory for a book character or something, just think it would have been a bit much in real life (imagine shouting it across the playground 🙈) Winter and Ember were other unusual contenders had we been having a girl 😕

One of our cousins is called Maverick - even more curious is they are French and have a really French surname

I really like Winter, less so when it’s paired with Rose as that seems a bit obvious.

@aragorns that is a very distinguished ferret then. I also like Benedict but round about that time every child was called Ben and I do think of Bendicks Mints!

If this baby had been a boy, I honestly think we might have named it Uther Pendragon. My DP was totally onboard - no calming voice of sanity in my ear.

Quentin

What's crazy about that? Honestly wondering as we have one!

I’m the worst person to be a calming voice of sanity!

‘Should I call my baby Spartacus?’

‘Yes. Yes you should.’

‘What about ‘Joanofarc? All one word!’

‘That’s awesome, and will absolutely suit a modern child!’

I love unusual names and only rarely has someone crossed my barrier of ‘Too Much’!

He is far from distinguished, just a wriggly mad sausage of fur!

Bambi 😬

Lol @Orphlids one or the other, not both together! Uther for preference. I also like Derion (as in the saint who rides a stag)

@SpringSpringTime, in for a penny, in for a pound!

[quote Orphlids]@SpringSpringTime, in for a penny, in for a pound![/quote]

@MadCoffeeLady

Bambi 😬

I went to school in the US with two Bambi’s! We called them Bambi1 and Bambi2..

I would have loved Thor. My great-great grandad was Thor so technically it's a family name and not a rip-off of Marvel films...

Girl:
Xanthe
Bronte
Perdita

Boy:
Atticus

Iseult
Nova
Evangeline (lovely but there are personal reasons not to)
Aphra

Sonny
Buddy
Atlas