Guilty pleasure name..

[chloboe]

Hi all 🤍

I thought this would be quite fun and interesting to do.. what are some guilty pleasure names you love? I'll start ..

Girl- Alaska
Boy- Koa

I'd never use these names as there just abit too out there for me and quite frankly, I don't even know if they are names 😂

I love some of the names already mentioned.

Mine would be Herbert.

Boudicca
Queenie

Midori (not the liqueur... my friend's name)
Scheherazade
Samantha
Phaedra
Tallulah
Malaika
Comfort

Blixa
Isambard
Noíse
Linus
Melchior
Prosper

When I was pregnant I chose Elfie for a girl. It's a Germanic name. I had a boy.

Arsinoë - unusable in the UK, but I still like it

Misty, Cassidy, Bambi, Velvet, Cadence, Shelby.

Wyatt
Lysander
Mircea

Callula
Ripley

Girls:
Tigerlily
Stevie
Tuesday (or Wednesday or Sunday )
Goldie
Marigold
Joanie
Anastasia
Ember

Boys:
Lysander (dh vetoed)
Caspian (dh vetoed)
Silver
Forrest

And Shelby and Melchior.

Lolita
Dakota
Belle

Sonny
Clayton

Ariadne. I have a strong Lancashire accent and a very common surname, it wouldn’t work.

Ptolemy for a bit as I love Tolly for a nickname.

For a boy

Girl: Astrid, raven , Wednesday, wren
Boy: artemis, casper , Nathaniel,
All were either vetoed or just don't work with my accent

Girl- Hero
Boy- Xavier

This is a good thread. All of these are my "I wish" names. But I just couldn't do it for various reasons.

Girls: Ophelia; Juno; Coppelia; Wednesday

Boys: Heston; Grayson; Quentin

Winter

@Branleuse my Grandma was a Queenie, she had olive skin & the softest hair, the name forever warms my heart ♥️

Another TigerLily- and Tigs for short

Tuesday. Both daughters not born on Tuesdays. Gabriel, Seamus. DH said no. Just as well we had girls!

I love the old fashioned southern Belle names for a girl
Maybelle
Savannah
Blanche
Boys names , proper old fashioned
St John
Trevor
Leonard

Girls - Apple (my dds name)

Boys - Grey

Raven
Story
Lyric
Portia
Mahalia (Miiiissss Mahalia Jackson!)
Loveday (I’m not Cornish)
Isis
Cleopatra

Valentine
Justice
Issachar, Ezekiel, Solomon, Isaiah, Jahdiel (lots of biblical ones, but I’m a right heathen!)

My kids have really ‘normal’ names .

Just use the crazy names. I’ve taught kids with most of these names in a fairly non-bohemian city and it’s no big deal. My kids also have unusual names,. I’d much rather be ‘one name’ than ‘name no 3’.

Infant my daughter’s name is on one list above. It’s fine - she loves her name.

*in fact