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

bigmouthstrikesagain (and there's a music ref if I mistake not!) - Thurston! Thanks so much, that might well make our list. Just about obscure enough to get away with - people won't instantly think of T Moore who is mostly not a household name.

I have just though of Isolade. I think it is beautiful.

My biggest problem is the MIL. It would cause huge rows if we were to use something 'different'. She moaned about Freddie.

I love Bromley for a boy.

Forgot to add

Humphrey
Montague (which is a family name - my uncle Monty is lovely)
Wilberforce
Horace

dd2 nearly got called Cassis (a la French, but as it doesn't work in English, she didn't).

Though dd1 would have liked to have named her 'Yup Yup Prison', when she was still in utero....not sure why exactly, but no doubt some sort of sibling rage

owl for a boy! but then they'd have to write that on job applications- bad move!

My dd likes these names:

Love
Flowers

I really love Jago, but dh said 'NO!' Not sure whether it is just the name, or the fact that my first childhood cat was called Jago that puts him off. Is that wrong? I just think it's beautiful.

It's a lovely name ooosabeauta, another Cornish one. I actually know 2 baby Jagos at the moment and it's a great name for a little boy. Can always be shortened to Jay by your DH if he can't stomach the whole thing.

oh, i love irish names (we live in N.I)

my two ds' both have Irish names but i had to really fight with OH to get them. some he has completely refused though are,

Naoise
Aodh
Lorcan
Rúaidhrí

my mind has blanked now but i love Naoise and Aodh.

To all those Tatiana lovers: our DD is Tatiana and we get SO many compliments on it. I know that this doesn't mean anything as people are always polite but we get very enthusiastic responses as opposed to polite grimaces!

Very hard to find a boy's name that is similar (real name but unusual) though.

Jago is great, but I really love Zeus. I haven't registered my sons birth yet and I'm sooo tempted to throw it in as a middle name.
God of all Gods, yep that sounds about right.

I once had an 'imaginary' family with names I made up

Among them (it was quite a big family, ) were:

Odin (husband)
Araad (daughter)
Star (daughter)
Gunadaar (dog)
Bacu (cat)
Tipin (puppy)
Tipin2 (baby-on-the-way)

can't remember what I called the 'wife'. Orese or something like that.

I love the name Axel.

The Us Director Robert Rodriquez and his wife names their 3 boys Rocket, Racer and Rebel.
I love em. But they'd sound a bit stupid shouted out crossly in Morrisons

I have some girls naames that I like but the 2 i have already have very normal names so it would be weird to divert from tht.

I have always wanted to have twin girls and call them India and Aisha. (so naff when you think about it but someone at my dns nursery had something similar which i misheard and hated at first and now im in love with the whole idea!)
other include
safaron
xanthi
acacia (lovely plant but cant help thinking that one sounds a little chavvy!)
Infact there are a lot of plant names I would have loved to call dd but it would look a little naff for someone who designs gardens to have children named after plants

However I like very boring names for boys.... give me a thom or nathan anyday I love those names.

after writing that I realised dd is named after a plant.... a common one too!!! Duh!!!

lol unlikelyamazonian i know someone who calls their grandad gundar... a childhood mispronounciation that has stuck!

Like some PPs mentioned I like the names Cassidy and Savannah for a girl, but they were on our shortlist for DD and are still contenders for the future if we have another girl so didnt add them here.

I like Moriarty and Mortimer for a boy. Mort for short!

Clementine for a girl, although I used that on a lizard (she was orange).

I dont have many fantasy boys names--a lot of my shortlist have come up here but I'm happy with that!

I love the book the YaYa sisterhood and went through a big phase liking Siddalee and Vivi. Went for Martha and Connie in the end...

Also love Conrad, but couldn't ever do it...And Cohen.

Damaris an Artemis.DH vetoed these names as 'we don't live in Islington and have pretensions'.

Toby-DH vetoed this as he had a tortoise called Toby and I had had a sheepdog called Toby.
Caleb-Dh again,can't remember the reason.

We named our dds traditional but uncommon names and they are the only ones with those names in their school.

Beegey,Clover doesn't make me think of cows and I'm a farmer's daughter.I always think of Clover in 'What Katy Did.

Calypso

i so wanted to call our baby Calypso, perhaps fortunatly she turned out to be a boy, especially as DP has confessed having formative emotions whilst watching jennifer ehle in the chamomile lawn as a teenager

hmm a few pple have mentioed my ds2 s name and dds name!

i also like

Bibi/Biba
Coco
Aurora
Flora

Sonny
Fergus
Teddy
Horace

Well, here's some I would love to use ...if I were much braver/ crueller!!

For boys:

Wolf
Fox
Rex
Pascal
Dikembe
Auden

For girls:

Roxy
Snowy
DeeDee
Orchid
Jazz

Great thread!

AuroraB I love Calypso too

My other fantasy girls' names are
Olympia
Elettra
Echo
Xanthe
Rain
Melody
Plum
Cordelia

Am less inspired for boys' names as am expecting a girl, but they'd include Digby, Theo and Felix