Crazy names you didn’t use?

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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?’

i wanted Spike for a boy. i love Persephone.

in the end DD’s dad chose from a 1950s baby name book. he chose well.

I also have a son called Quentin .

I also like Lawrence and Axel mentioned earlier.

I wanted Zinzan. DH wanted Woody. We ended up with a Tom.

@TonyBennsCat

I wanted Zinzan. DH wanted Woody. We ended up with a Tom.

Tom 😂😂 lovely name just very different to the other ideas!

My mom almost named me Coubertina as a tribute to the founder of the modern Olympics (Pierre de Coubertin) since she loves the Olympics. Cool idea, but I'm so glad she didn't, lol.

I have dearly wanted to name a girl Beatrice. Everyone, even my PhD advisor back then, told me it’s an awful name. DH got us a dog, and called it Beatrice. Horatio for a boy. DH got me an elderly cat called Horatio to stop me using it.

I have a DS Caspian. Follow up hits may include Otto, Ottilie, Phineas. Or I might just end up with new pets.

Funny to see DH's name on this thread mentioned a few times. I've named changed for this but he's called Axel. I actually met a few before meeting him so it really is just another name to me.

@sergeilavrov love Caspian and Otto 😊

I really like Benedict and Quentin...

Anyway DH wanted to call DS Winston or Nelson (now the names of my brother's dogs). Before we knew that DD was a girl he threatened me with Genghis (we're white British but it does go well with our surname).

I thought one of my kids' names would end up on this thread!

@Flyingarcher I have a Wulfric known as Wulfie. It's a great name, I get a lot of compliments. His brother and sister's names are also rare/ unusual old names.

Wolfie (now a middle name )
Kingston
Mercedes - still like that one tbh

Names we didn't use:

Torsten
Ivar
Rafael
Ulric
Elias
Edwyn

Magdalen
Helga
Livia

Emrys

Love this thread. Pregnant with my second and it's giving me loads if ideas haha
I desperately want to call this baby Digby if it's a boy. I have absolutely fallen in love with the name. Dh is not adverse to it either and thinks it's cute but I wonder if it's pregnancy hormones in over drive! Can anyone put me on the right track?!
If it's a girl we are going for paloma (a family name) but equally love it.

I thought about the name Ariel..after the little mermaid and then Comfort as i heard someone else was called that and thought it was nice but realised they were both products to wash clothes and they might get teased, i like the name sky aswell

Lorelei (our surname two syllables both beginning with L)

Augusta - I like but never met anyone else who does!

Both Dds now early teens hate these names so dh was right in the end

Exh wanted Lucian. We live in the NW, can you imagine it, in my Northern accent?!

Ariel-still love it tbh!

I once knew a family who named their children Sinbad, Zadco & Gulliver with a sister named Sheba.....fabulous names.

Rocky
Valentino (I was induced on valentine's day)
Austin

Soloman or Amon for a boy

Queenie for a girl

Actually I'd love a cat called Queenie

@MsTSwift I am absolutely with you on Augusta! I think it's beautiful. In fact, so many of the names on this thread are completely wonderful

Really wanted DS to have either Zinedine or Zidane as a middle name. DH put his foot down on that!

Well it was summer 2000, Euros.

Scout
Red

And whilst on holiday in porthcawl looking out at the sea ‘Tusker’ after the rock that stands out in the bay.

All suggested by DH and firmly shut down very quickly by me.

I wanted Jesse, Leon or Tracy for my son... He's called none of those!