Come come! Share your guiltiest pleasure names...

[EverySingleStar]

Come share the names you, for whatever reason, wouldn't ever use, but love with a passion

Here are mine

Girls
Harlot (I KNOW, I know)
Rain
Dream
Ever
London
Paris
Noelle

Boys
Canyon
Baylor (cat's name now )
Rohan
Corbin
Caspian
Noel

I'm sure I have more that I need to think of

I love Cinnamon and also its Spanish translation - Canela, but wasn't brave enough.

NappyShedSal - "Cinnamon" (for a girl?) is so cute!!

I have a ds called Bear

names I wanted included

boys
Casper or Caspian

Girls
India
Indigo
Blue
Honey

Girls Lucretia Anastasia Boys
Sigmund
Morris

Another one I like is Ethel. Honestly, I do. It makes a beautiful sound. Would people think me completely insane if I did use it, though? I think I like Araminta better.

Horatio (from CSI)
My sister wants twins so she can call them Willie and Fanny.

I love Bear, verybusyspider, I'd like Wolf, but my DH would divorce me i think!

Forgot one!

Lucifer

I can't explain this but......Keith. I know, I know!

I work in a multicultural area and just love some names that just wouldn't be culturally appropriate. Ali Shan O'Brien just doesn't sound right. Ali Shan is my favourite for a boy, with Muawiyah a close second (sp? sounds like moo halve ee ah). I like Aisha or Ekari for a girl.

Am very surprised my first name has been mentioned!

Favourites that DH vetoed:

Stirling
Dewi
Maggie
Miriam
Rex
Monty
Talitha (which he suggested for DD1 but then completely put his foot down for DD2 when I thought it was a dead cert)

Also really like Jensen but just couldn't. Not really my style to name after pop culture. Although DD1 was apparently a big character in Eastenders (don't watch) and when people mentioned it I exasperatedly replied 'Noooo - War and Peace!'

But ended up with 4 I am very happy with.

Eustacia from Return of the Native and Ophelia, great names but too tragic for real life!

I love Tuppence for a girl. Apparently its a euphamism for vagina tho

I love Tuppence for a girl but apparently its a euphamism for vagina

God I've got to go to bed I think these painkillers are finally kicking in given my crapness at typing... night all x

LetTherebeRock I also love Ozias, which was the name of my great, great, great grandfather, and also my 5 greats grandfather.

Also like some other names which have cropped up in my family tree, e.g. Nathaniel, Alvar and Absalom. Also like Gabriel a lot (which isn't in my family tree).

Girls' names I like Miranda, Juliet and Rosamond, which aren't quite so outlandish, but are still not terribly popular.

Thurston - for a boy (after a member of sonic youth) DH wouldn't countenance it for our son but I have named one daughter after a favourite singer of mine (PJ Harvey) and another daughter after a folk singer so I am not too disappointed.

lol at this thread, I actually USED my fantasy dream name, as ds's middle name....and then campaigned everyone to use it ;-)

Velvet and Plum. Not together.

I did dare use it but her daddy said no chuffing way. Jose.

I grew up being the only Grace under the age of about 75 & hated it til I was in my late teens. Now I hate it that people keep shouting my name in supermarkets, I spend ages looking for someone I know & it's actually someone under ten they're yelling at!

Names banned by DH
Nathaniel
Edmund (cos of Blackadder)
Theodore

Dorothea
Melangell
Georgiana / Evangeline / Genevieve (difficult to spell)

Mateja (had a Yugoslav friend at school with this name)
Margot (a friend used it first)
Verity (too many people said it sounded like someone who didn't know how to have fun)

DD has the middle name of Berengaria (the wife of Richard the Lionheart, but also a liner. Came across it at fourteen & it was always on my list of dream names but never as a first name as it doesn't shorten to anything cool - Beri or Gari!)

Possiblities for No 2 (due in 7 weeks) DO include
Boris
Horatio
Lilith
Dorothy
Honeysuckle
Clementine

A friend also gave us the good advice - check the National Statistics Website for the previous few years names & discount anything in the Top 20 so they won't have to share their name with loads of others in their class.

The names I WANTED were,

sebastien
frazer
Dominic (same name as pub so couldnt !!)
moses (before gwyneth nicked it)
noel
patrick
noah
lars

My wish list girls names were

Darcy
lourdes
maddison
mabel
ebony
lucy
heidi

BLN, we used to have a rabbit called lucyfur !!

I love for girls:

Lolita (lolly for short, just unworkable though, sadly)
Darcy
Heaven * (thanks virginia andrews)
Indigo I just met a baby girl called this, who totally suited it...
Savannah
Tree (I did actually meet a little girl called this)
Albie (ditto)

For boys:

Clay
Blue
Logan * as above
Huxley (my friend liked this and ended up with something else but I completely love it and may try to convince dh... I reckon I'm having a girl so may not be an issue but it's just so heroic sounding lol!

Fantasy as in - would NEVER use
Topsy
Skye
Tahlia
Albertine
Silvia
Perla

Lief
Sidney
Madoc
Maxen
Mostyn
Rock

Girls:

Really wanted Edna, t'was my dear nanna's name, but just couldn't name my child after a crusty old drag!

My friend has a daughter called Honey Diva, i WISH i were the type of woman who could get away with calling my kid that, but my friend has pink hair and rides a skateboard, she can call her kid whatever she wants.

Boys, I'm just not exotic enough to get away with any of these:

Lazlo
Wolfgang
Banjo