For future reference, none of these names are acceptable and you must not use them:

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No I won't actually list any as some poor MNer may be mightily offended that her little princess is completely happy with her name.

There is a lot of oddness surrounding names atm.

I used to see people suggesting lists like

Thea
Kate
Martha

Now it's all

Vestibule
Atrium
Foyer
Undulate
Candida

I love unusual names, but it's getting silly now.

Desist.

As previously mentioned, I'm hoping for twins

Violoncello Trombone Glockenspiel and
Dagenham Auchtermuchy

Meanwhile I've been thinking about deriving first names from US presidents.

George Washington - Washi obviously
James Monroe - Monroe (girl)
John Quincy Adams - Quincii (unisex)
Martin Van Buren - Buren (boy)
William Henry Harrison - Harrison (boy)
John Tyler - Tyler
James Knox Polk - Knox and Polk - a buy-one-get-one-free - both boys
Zachary Taylor - Zachary and Taylor - another bogof
Millard Fillmore - another bogof - I desperately want to meet a Fillmore
James Buchanan - Bewcannon
Rutherford Birchard Hayes - THREE for the price of one - all girls names obv - Birchard sounds a bit painful
Grover Cleveland - what an opportunity
John Fitzgerald Kennedy - Kennedi
Lyndon Baines Johnson - Baines - another good name for a girl
Richard Milhous Nixon - Milhous - fantastic
James Earl Carter - Earli (girl)

If my next child is a girl she will either be Chlymidia or Gonnereaha, I think they sound almost Shakesperean but really unusual.

If anyone laughs I will pout and flounce.

We used to play the alternative name game on long family car games, once the Murray mints had run out. You had to go through the alphabet offering names that sounded plausible for girls/boys, incl. stuff like Windolene (girl, obviously), Splurge but weren't. Wouldn't be possible nowadays as most of them would be real children.

We're not the only country to be so ridiculously selfish about naming kids: in France, there are people who've named their babies Peripherique, after the ring road around Paris. Even here, I doubt there can be more than a handful of M25s.....

I knew a girl called Candida at school.

Bizarre. Parents were rather unworldly but still...

There was a Candida in my year at school. She was known as Candy.

How about Pronto for a boy?

Ooooh, gillyd, Chicane is one of DD1's (joke) names for future children - Chevron is another, I can't remember the rest but they all begin with Ch/Sh

Hernia

Urea

Melia

Addison

and if you hale from sarf London: 'Arris

I worked in OutPatients once,and we had to shout patients names out across the waiting Room.My patient (this is the honest truth I promise) was called ....... Fanny Tite!! LOL now but then. It was a sweet little old lady too!

I have a close friend called candida.

Candida was always a frightfully posh name, wasn't it - and thrush always used to be called thrush, it's only been known as candida quite recently.

Gay/Gaye is another formerly nice name that can't be used any more.

Bit sad really.

HAHAHA this thread has made me smile ALOT!!! THANKYOU!!!
my mum used to be a health visitor and a forign family wanted to call their son fucker, she advised them that although it might be nice to call him that behind closed doors out on the street might be another issue and perhaps to choose a more typically british name to give him for the rest of the time... they chose alfred. Lucky kid, not sure which one i would chose... alfred or fucker?

Agree with C121! fantastic thread.Really made me laugh too.Great stuff,keep 'em coming.