What bonkers names are your older DC keen on?

[PerspicaciousGreen]

Our 3yo announced a little while ago that we should have another brown haired green eyed daughter called... Meecup. Sorry, sweetie, you're not on the naming committee!

When I was young I wanted a little sister called Jeid. Not Jade, Jeid.

If your older DC named their new sibling, what bizarre name would they choose?

Dd1 wanted to call the new baby Paul or Gary whereas dd2 was convinced it would actually be a girl despite overwhelming evidence and wanted Tiffany.

I think they’ll be the the Eve’s, Izzy’s and Noah’s of their generation!

We went with Hugo

My DS constantly called my bump Pando (as of bing bunny) and we even started referring to bump as that.

I had to book a caravan holiday whilst pregnant and it asked for the names of all the party. Bump would have been born by then and as we didn't know what sex it would be we used Pando on the booking form. When we got there 6 months alter, the woman behind the desk was very relieved when I told her new Dd wasn't actually called Pando 😁

@Edenember

Appleonie. I have no idea.

Maybe they misheard the name Apollonia? It's quite an unusual name though, maybe they've been reading the Mumsnet Baby Name threads.

Appollonie is the game of the Venus Blanche in Baudelaire's poetry. Perhaps PP's DD is an intellectual

When we were having DS, DSS suggested Roger or Billy for a boy, and Amber or Samantha for a girl. We decided against.

When my sister was born apparently I was grumpy because my parents refused to go with my suggestion of Diana Classical - I was a big fan of the Royal Family as a child

Eleven (or Twelve for a boy) 🙈.

My two year old is adamant his new baby should be called either Carlos, Larlos or Marlos...

@VienneseWhirligig I’d love to believe this was the source, but I think it’s very much fruit-based 😂 .She was insistent on the Appleonie spelling.

@raskolnikova I think she just took a fruit and stuck something on the end, because just the fruit would be silly.

My youngest likes Oceana...for a boy or girl.

When I was pregnant with her my other daughter was really cross that she was going to be a girl so she wanted to call her pooface!

my grandaughter has named her unborn younger brother Truck Treelifter

Boudica

I also remember as a small child thinking that Trousers was a really good name for a boy. I still think it has a certain assertive something!

DS (3) has asked for a brother called strawberry or a sister called Emma

Niece decided her new baby brother should be called Woolly!

3yo said we should call bump Balloon or Arma 'because she has arms'.

She laughed off my actual name suggestions as if they were ridiculous

DD then 2, suggested her new (unborn) baby brother was called 'Potato'.

We expanded this to Potato Chip, and so he became Chip !

That's not his actual name - but 20 years later I still call him that (though no one else does !)

I was seven when my brothers were born. I still have the list of name suggestions I made, which weren't particularly out there, just quite dated for the early 2000s. Two of my boys name suggestions were Jeremy and John, and the only girls name I could think of was Tiffany.

Cinderella Rapunzel!

Needless to say we veto'd that one 😆

Dd has always called every doll/teddy Rosie or Joshua so I think these would be her choices.

DD(3) decided recently that her sister will be called either Hooty Owl, Blurry Wardrobe or Coin Person!

1940s. My grandma decided to name her baby Joan. However her older child was obsessed with calling the baby Vittoria after the beautiful lady who worked in the Italian ice cream parlour. On the christening day her older sister carried her down the aisle and whispered to the priest that the baby’s name was Vittoria... and she was baptised before my gran realised. And that’s why my mum has the legal name Vittoria but everyone calls her Joan.

I also remember as a small child thinking that Trousers was a really good name for a boy. I still think it has a certain assertive something!

It could work for a dog or cat member of your family :)

DD, then two, insisted that her sibling was going to be called Leander - after a friend’s family member who we’d never met. She then happily told her grandparents (who didn’t know I was pregnant). That was a fun 10 minutes trying to explain things, given that they don’t speak any English and have strong views about Slavic naming conventions.

'Appleonie'... Could there be a little girl at school or nursery called Appolonia? Reasonably common Polish/central European name, I think.

our 6yr old wanted' cpt America or wolvarine' for his new brother .
The baby has the middle name ' Thor' as compromise