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

Choc-Ice
Bamboozle
Dingbat
Sandstorm
Zambezi
Marmamaduke
Xanadu
Viridian
Faraday
Spencer

Make of that what you will

Girls
Maeve
Lacey
Winter
Sundai

Boys
Thor
Grey
Zane
Thunder

ohh, just saying the names makes me want to have another and name it all of them! my girls have very traditional names but I wish I had gone with Maeve and Sundai

Ezekiel

Miscellany
Rubella
Nutella
Sonnet
Lyric
Autumn
Wednesday
Poetry

Thor
Affray
Enterprise
DD says Pint

I absolutely love Ever, that's genius OP.

Lucian. Love the way it sounds but DH insists it's son of Lucifer think he got it from a bunch of silly films

My MIL is called Noelle so I wouldn't even consider!

TheDevilEatsBabies what's the problem with Cian? That's my son's name! [worried]

LC200 why on earth Rubella??? Why not Measles or Tetanus then?

It's pretty! Ruby or Ella for short.

I am actually not over keen on Rubella - it's dh's "choice" - not that we used it obviously.

I do love Miscellany though...

well we were really really bad with baby names - we just don't seem to like any names, especially me. We were quite happy with Evelyn, and bc DH was for some reason absolutely convinced we were gonna have a girl we kind of gave up on boys' names. Suffice to say we had a son took us about 10 days to choose a name, most of which went on as follows:

DH (browsing baby names websites): ?
I: no
DH: ?
I: no
DH: ?..?..?
I: NO WAY!!

Really hope no.2 will be a girl, otherwise I'll probably have to hang myself

Is it just me or does anyone else think Jasper, Felix and Mauve are cat's names??

BTW I doubt anyone would be as cruel as Herr Heinrich Schliemann, the excavator of Troy, who named two of his kids Andromache and Agamemnon

Agamemnon! That was another one dh liked!

Eowyn - from Lord of the Rings ... just love her character and the name but DD remains Anna :-)

Athena
Aurelia
Aurora
Andromeda

for girls

Cosmo

for a boy

Girls:

Tryphena
Calypso
Oenone
Parthenope
Comfort
Araminta

Boys

Lambert
Diggory
Stokely
Winston

I've always liked Savannah for a girl.

When I was young and stupid I thought Shangri-la would be a pretty name.

wow what a cool thread - I wish I had a baby to use up some of the inspiration.

I have 2 dds but if I had a boy my fantasy names were
Jasper which dh doesn't like anyway
Stefan which is the name of first boy friend so bit of a no no
Cassian - just like the name but dh thinks its v poncy!

ex-SIL wanted Savannah for a girl until DH pointed out it would make the poor child sound like porn star (we have an unfortunate surname)...

Boys names I love but DH ruled out on grounds of 'getting beaten up every day in the playground'itis:

Dorian
Florian
Sebastian (actually Sebastiane, but I never even got as far as spelling it DH screamed NO!)
Tristan
Julian
Lucien
Alaric
Raphael
Gabriel
Ariel
Oisean
Ciaran
Wolfgang

Never considered Thor but it does have a ring to it...

Girls names I was overruled on:

Ella
Niambh
Sinead
Orlaith
Aisling
Scarlett
Flora/Florence
Stella
Julia
Freya

Nam e that DD (5) wishes she'd been called:

Chantelle

Ok obscure I know but I would like to have called our girls the following:

Little Lips
Scopf a douf

I used my mad-but-I-love-them names as middle names: Texas (significant holiday) and Venus (strong female, and she had just one Wimbledon when DD was born).

That would be "won" Wimbledon - must go to bed!

Is anyone else making a note of any of these names for future use? Or am I the only one?

Kayzr - me too! Am due to be induced with baby on Sunday, and have got this thread on my 'watching' list! Some lovely ideas here!

Nativity for a girl. Beautiful, but crazy!

I'm delighted how many people (ooh, 4 at last count) have said Cosmo! My second son is called that, and we frequently get complemented on it as a lovely name. We met a couple in a cafe who also had a 3 year old Cosmo, at the time. We (and they) had never met another.

Last summer I met a grown up Cosmo, who had heard me screaming at calling my Cosmo, and came and introduced himself. He was in his early twenties, and had always loved his name.

Part of me wants to say 'don't name your kid Cosmo' because I like him being unusual, but mostly I think go for it! It's a lovely Victorian name, and definitely due for a revival.

Nativity is a great name.

Quite a few people have put my son's name down, but generally in their girl's list

I have a feeling he is going to hate me when he's older...