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!)

Tallulah

"Omg Hebe is the lovliest name!"

It usually gets ridiculed on here-gad I´m not the only one who likes it.

It wasn´t used as didn´t go with surname-husband also likes it!

Ava or Lily for a girl

Douglas for a boy.

Araminta and Antigone, to be known as Minty and Tiggy

I am also secretly jealous of the schoolfriend who named her daughter Pinky Gorgeous

Pinky Gorgeous

EEEEK!

I would have called mine William, Edward and Alice. Which is thoroughly un-outrageous, but we decided to give them Welsh names so they weren't allowed.

In fact I would go the whole hog and have a William James and an Edward George as our surname starts with a "J" sound so those middle names would have been out too.

Alice Emily I think.

If I had twin boy and girl I would call them Coco and Toto.

Honey.. for a little girl

Jesse... for a boy

Tabitha: in memory of my dear-departed first cat
Beelzebub: Because the sound of it always makes me laugh (especially if I imagine Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder saying it) and, well... just for the hell of it...

Flora for a girl (clashes w surname)

Basil for a boy

Ralph pronounced the posh way, or perhaps Rafe to match the pronounciation.

Celeste, I love that name and it makes me think of Babar the Elephant stories.

I agree with bran

Gabriella Lauren (too Italian apparently)
Verity May (Isn't a real name)
Teddy Gerald (sounds like a gruppy teddy bear)

All DH's comments - love the name that we have for DD but still can't wait for number 2 to try and get my way!

Lonnie - my pooch is called Basil - he is gorgeous but in hindsight wish I had saved it for a little boy!

Do remember that woman who called her child Ikea. She lives in that unselfconcious world you describe and for that, I envy her.

Zinzan (yes it's a real name), Ptolemy or Rafael for a boy.

Will have a think about girl's names.

Eowyn for a girl - because I love her character in Lord of the Rings

Hero girl
Django boy

at Jamie. You're my favourite stalker.

Are you sure you aren't bored bran? you have taken on legendary, nay, mythical status, you know. You are mentioned on other threads today ....

LaDiDa - I have DD3 with the name you love and considering Celeste and Hebe for DC4

LOVING Elvis though