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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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BlueBumedFly · 12/02/2010 18:16

I hate it when you own child's names come up on these

...never know if it is a good thing or a really bad thing....

Joni783 · 12/02/2010 19:15

I love love love Xavier for a boy and Aaliyah for a girl...

LetThereBeRock · 12/02/2010 19:28

My latest is Ozias. I'd love to have a baby Ozzy.

Shoshe · 12/02/2010 19:47

Jago
Milo
for boys

Jinty
Romilly
Jemima

for girls.
(much to old for childbearing now tho)

But then I called my kids by 'odd' names back in the day,

DDIL wants Forrest for a boy and Zeffi for a girl (she is South African tho, so they might not be such different names there)

ArcticFox · 14/02/2010 07:41

Jean Baptiste - I love it, but you've got to be French or it looks stupid.

Isaiah- Middle name potential but too full on for first name (for me anyway)

Shoshe- I'm actually seriously considering Jemima

victoriascrumptious · 14/02/2010 13:45

Riven.

It's the name of a poster on here who was annoyed at me the other day. All I could think about was how lovely her nickname sounded when it was said out loud. I wrote it in my babynames book. DH says no on the basis that it's meaning isnt great sob.

I also like Shy which sounds nice when said out loud. Again-I dont like it's meaning and it has a chav flavour

WorzselMummage · 14/02/2010 14:04

Cooper
Horatio
Geronimo

Iris
Violet
Greta

KERALA1 · 14/02/2010 14:41

I really like Augusta but think I am the only person in the world that does.

Takver · 14/02/2010 14:53

Lots of Maria names, particularly Maria del Mar shortened to Mari - Mar & Maria del Cruz (Mari - Cruz)

Vetoed on the grounds that as we're neither Spanish nor Catholic they were rather inappropriate. But I still love them.

thislittlesisterlola · 14/02/2010 17:16

on the grounds dp wont let me so i they arent very out there names just names im not allowed. Bay. Rory. Henry- his idiot of a friend is one and it would never be lived down Hetty. Millie. Emilia. Anaya. Or Annie. The names we do agree i love so not too bad i guess.

Fleecy · 14/02/2010 18:20

Icarus or Atticus for a boy

Hero, Mirren or Aurora for a girl.

Both DC have quite normal names, or so I thought, but DS has been mentioned on here!

cityangel · 14/02/2010 20:05

Kyla because dh says its too much like Kylie

Angel because I like it but don't think it would be an easy name to live with

Otis because of the lift connection and would not go with out initials

mrsvwoolf · 14/02/2010 20:17

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belindarose · 14/02/2010 20:19

Malachi and Stella. I LOVE the sound of Stella, but it's a definite no.

TiggyR · 15/02/2010 10:18

Girls:

Honeysuckle
Indigo
Ambrosia (just couldn't be done, could it, really?)
Dahlia
Cleanthe
Hepzibah
Lorelei
Evangelina
Sapphire
Dido

Boys:

Julian
Valent ine
Gabriel (perfectly usable - don't know why so many people are scared of it)
Jethro
Hugo
Orlando
Iago
Inigo
Django
Infactanythingwithano
Tristan
Guy
Romulus and Remus for twins you wouldn't be able to take your eye's off Romulus for a moment would you, poor child?

TiggyR · 15/02/2010 10:21

Sorry for the rogue apostrophe in eye's most unlike me, don't know what came over me....

elliedodger · 15/02/2010 12:41

Boys:

Sebastian
Valentine
Lysander

Girls:

Persephone
Bianca - love it in the Shakespearean context but it's been tainted by Eastenders association
Hero - another Shakespearean name
Isolde
Henrietta
Delilah
Delia

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 15/02/2010 16:05

Think we should start a commune and raise children together, TiggyR! Great names all.

CakeandRoses · 16/02/2010 11:27

So funny how many of us love Gabriel and how few there actually are! Lots of DHs vetoing it, I reckon. We're expecting number 2 this year, i love Gabriel, DH won't even act like its a serious suggestion!

CakeandRoses · 16/02/2010 11:30

But my real fantasy ones are:

Boys:
Fox
Marmaduke
Caspian (came v close to naming Ds1 this actually)

Girls:
Lulu
Tallulah
Angelica
Soshanna

Over Dh's dead body!

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/02/2010 11:31

Is it because it begins with "gay"? Sounds stoopid I know but I seriously wonder. Maybe some men can only hear one syllable at a time?

howdidthishappenthen · 16/02/2010 11:32

Oh no -these names are so fabulous. Now I feel like I'm really letting the side down by going for 'Elizabeth Honey' for our little girl coming on Thursday. I want a 'Clover'

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 16/02/2010 11:39

Go for it howdidthis! Just not Clover Honey Clover Elizabeth is nice though.

Elizabeth is a great name though - what are you thinking of for short? [quietly noses forward "Bess" and "Eliza" for howdidthis's attention]

arsesandoldlace · 16/02/2010 11:47

Some of these names are gorgeous!

Girls:
Boudicca (Boo for short!)
Loveday
Netta

Boys:
Archer
Peregrine
Aloysius
Benedict

arsesandoldlace · 16/02/2010 11:50

Oh and also Beau for a boy, and Tristan - vetoed by DH as he thinks it sounds wussy. Which I suppose it does.