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Come come! Share your guiltiest pleasure names...

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EverySingleStar · 14/10/2009 15:24

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

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UnrequitedSkink · 15/10/2009 17:04

Nathaniel, sorry.

UnrequitedSkink · 15/10/2009 17:14

O, thought of another one - Angelina. I think it sounds sooo pretty but my family would kill themselves laughing.

LibrasBiscuitsOfFortune · 15/10/2009 17:15

Atticus.

Millicent.
Heloise.

mrswoolf · 15/10/2009 18:12

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tattycoram · 15/10/2009 18:12

Skink - nothing at all - I love it. I am just a bit wary of names that could be deemed at all poncey as I was bullied at primary school. However, there are loads more unusual names around now than there were in teh seventies.

Is it really your mum's nn? How come?

UnrequitedSkink · 15/10/2009 18:42

Because when she looks like she's getting irritated, we say "Count to five and twenty Tatty Coram!" which obviously helps enormously

jardins · 15/10/2009 20:11

LibrasBiscuitsofFortune guess what? My 13 yr old daughter is called Héloïse and she loves her name! In fact it seems to be a name which pleases most people! When we were living in Paris my daughter went to school near Notre Dame and right beside the river Seine we found the house where Héloïse and Abelard had lived. There story has gotta be one of the most romantic stories out. Go for it!

I still live in France and I have a penchant for flower names: Violette, Capucine, Rose. They really work out here (and my DD secretly wishes she was called Violette even more than Héloïse ) but in England (and my DC are half English) those names just don't work quite as well. My DH really likes the name Lily Rose but I'm afraid it'll be a little naff.... what do you think?

Cometrickortreatingwithme · 15/10/2009 20:13

Agnes DD was very nearly Agnes.

Dp hates it though.

jardins · 15/10/2009 20:13

ps we're thinking of calling our DD (due January) Angelique (another one that works well in France) but we'd probably call her Angel for short.

But sshhh, it's a secret

LibrasBiscuitsOfFortune · 15/10/2009 20:16

Jardins, the reason I would never use it is it's basically a merged version of my first and second names and I wouldn't want people to think I had called a daughter after myself!!! It's a GORGEOUS name however.

hellsbelles · 15/10/2009 20:21

Libra - never thought of my name as guilty pleasure. Have to agree with Jardin's daughter. I always get 'what a beautiful name' when I tell people what it is - although it is a pain always having to spell it out.

hellsbelles · 15/10/2009 20:22

oops didn't see your last post! Sory

zebramummy · 15/10/2009 20:37

matis, capucine, scheherezade

tattycoram · 15/10/2009 20:43

Skink - I can imagine

SarfEasticated · 15/10/2009 21:32

I love Tacita for a girl- but it means 'silent' so not such a good choice for a child

And I love Etienne for a boy, but we aren't even remotely French so would be odd.

katnkittens · 15/10/2009 22:14

I have loads... DH is a very conservative baby namer but I probably wouldn't use any of these anyway

Girls

Savannah
Claudia
India
Blue (met a Dutch couple on holiday a few years ago with a baby called blue, she was beautiful)
Valentina

Boys

Grey
Elijah
Hunter

I'll probably think of loads more...

persephoneplum · 15/10/2009 23:09

To me, a guilty pleasure name is one that's in bad taste, but one I like for some irrational reason.

Nicole Ritchie's children's names fit this category for me. I really like them but know I probably shouldn't.

I also love Willow... but what if she was short and dumpy(ie. not willowy)? Just couldn't run the risk as we have genes that go both ways in our families.

UndeadLentil · 15/10/2009 23:14

Lorcan makes DH physically ill.

And DD2 would have been Jarlath if she was a boy. Think hormones played a part there, though the person who I know with the name is a fine human being.

ja9 · 15/10/2009 23:17

Ten10 my friend has just had an archer - to be known as archie. I LOVE it!

McDie79 · 15/10/2009 23:20

When I was pregnant I wanted to call her 'Dallas',hmm might call my next dog that actually

UndeadLentil · 15/10/2009 23:20

And if he tells a lie, they can call him Lord Archer.

Nancy66 · 16/10/2009 00:44

I loved Valentine for a boy - overruled by DP for being 'too poncey'

IrritableGrizzly · 16/10/2009 06:59

Julian
Rufus

Prudence

All never to be - probably just as well for them!

MaElsie · 16/10/2009 08:10

Rawdon - it's just such an unutterably manly name!

Siegfried, Tristan (yes, I was an All Creatures Great & Small fan!), Linus, Gilbert, Abel (too much like an adjective), Yuri (I'm not Russian), Flavia

Cortina · 16/10/2009 12:32

Rawdon - Thinking Vanity Fair, PP, good choice

For me:

Ptolemy
Atticus
Dorian
Ambrose
Julius
Mephibasketh
Arthur

Thomasine
Friday
Loveday
Tuesday
Marigold
Tatiana
Araminta
Arabella
Hepzibah