If you could call your child anything...

[legallyblond]

... free from thoughts of what people would say, whether its fair to lumber the child with it, how the name sounds shouted across the tesco carpark etc etc, what would you choose?

I would choose:

Girls - Honeysuckle and Pandora

Boys - Wilhelm

(BTW, in real life, my shortlist is Clemency, Clementine, Matilda or Grace for a girl and decided on Felix for a boy - all of which I love of course!)

Oooh,

Boys - Gabriel (doesn't work with our surname), Nathaniel, Ignatius (DH says these last 2 are 'too catholic')

Girls - Delilah (love it but worried about Tom Jones-style teasing, plus the fact the original Delilah was actually a harlot!), Ruby (too popular)

lydia. but DH completly against it. says people will call her chlyamidia

I don't think this is true but he won't be budged!

Love Wilhelm!

I wanted to call DS1 Jean-Baptiste after my fav rugby player.
And I wanted to call DD Geniveve.

But the names they have are actually better

Jethro & Hebe.

Hugo, for a boy

Angelina Ballerina, for a girl.

Rasmus

Elvis. Wasn't even allowed it for a middle name.

Mathius or Angelo for a boy

Gwynevere, Aurora or carlotta for a girl

Omg Hebe is the lovliest name!

Ruby-Tuesday I adore it but wouldn't ever use it.

Vassilissa for a girl and Yaroslav for a boy.

I love Russian names and everything Russian (people often mistake me for a Russian, even though I have no Russian origins).
DH is Algerian so Russian names would not fit our children (sigh).

Ilyria, Lanaya, Ezri. They are from sci fi shows and I loved them as soon as I heard them but I can't see others thinking the same.

Juanita

Gabriel

Gabriel for me too (have a surname starting with G, plus H unhappy with biblical associations).

FBLink - I love Ilyria!

Vivien
Julius

hmm Gideon probably... no chance
Elin which he would have agreed to

BRONZE is french slang for a dump I think...

I would call mine Grace and Patrick......well, would you look at that now, that's what they are called!

Edwin (complete surname clash) for a ds

Cordelia for a dd

sorry Magaly?

Carrie
Hardly outlandish, but comedy gold when combined with my surname

I understand the translation I'm just bewildered as to what it has to do with the thread and why it should matter to me as an English person on an English speaking website

tries desperately to think what smallissheep's last name is

give us a clue