Crazy names you considered?

[LaurenBlue]

During my pregnancy, my partner & I got rather excited about naming our now four-month-old twins. We ended up naming them Cristiano & Nahlia but we did consider Nathaneri & Raya, Kelis & Jamesison, & even Thelma & Caddi.

Don't judge me, I was hormonal! Given the chance, I'd have named them Fork & Knife! :-)

Just wondered what crazy/funny/embarrassing names you considered for your little one?

Those who are at DP's refusal to accept Seth as a name. I agree with you totally. I have even used the biblical name argument. His mum agrees with me and has ALSO used the biblical name argument. All to no avail. DP just says it 'sounds like a made-up name' Also when I said Rhianna it was refused because he thought it was Rihanna. Had to inform him that Rhianna is a very old Celtic name. Ah well

I know that theese are not really unusual names, but my ex DP really wanted an arabic name for our DD as he is from Morocco, he wanted Rachida, Noor, or Souad, I was thinking about it but settled on an arabic name that also sounds English aswell.
I was also thinking about Posy!! Ramona ot Aura, I still cant explain Posy, I must have been very Hormonal at the time.

Dp reigned me in when it came to our DD's name but I confess I still love all of the below:

Astrid
Ophelia
Beatrice
Rosalind

What DP doesn't know is the campaign I am currently mounting for the our next baby if she is a girl... she will definitely be an Emmeline (after Miss Pankhurst, natch).

DS 1 Shortlised boys name
Arcadia
Leonidus
He is now 2 and called Ares
If DS 1 had been a girl he would have been called Artemis

DS 2 shortlisted boys names were
Helios
Hades
Charon( I Still love this name)
Poseidon
Thor
Chiron
Now 6 weeks and called Odin
If DS was girl his names could have been
Sayumi
Hitomi
or Rika
DD shortlisted names were
Nemesis
Callisto
Georgina
Isabella
She is now 6 and called Athena

It's pronounced - Sh h(e) riz ard. Very short e sound, like the e in bed.

I had a moment of wanting Apsley for DS. The moment passed.

ooh, there's some terrible names on this thread...

I was seriously considering Harlan for my little boy until a few weeks ago. I got slaughtered for it which has put me off...

when I was pregnant with DD I wanted Travis for a boy and Freya for a girl. They probably don't really sound unusual or odd names but my parents thought Travis was hilarious . Freya wasn't a very well known name when I was pregnant. I heard it for the first time when DH said he had seen a newspaper article about it. As soon as I heard it, I knew that if I had a girl she would be Freya.

She is 7 years old now and is Freya (middle name Louise) and people always say what a lovely name it is.

Umm... alexisfaith... Lochinvar is a character in a famous poem by Sir Walter Scott ("Oh! Young Lochinvar has come out of the west..." and so forth).

Rather more likely that that was the inspiration than that someone decided to mangle the spelling of your hometown...

Lochinvar is also a loch (now a reservoir) and a burn in Dumfries and Galloway (from Loch an barr, meaning "Loch on the hilltop"). There have been various Barons and Lairds of Lochinvar, which is where Scott got the name from.

(Lochinvar, in all its uses, is pronounced with the stress on the last syllable, by the way, not the same way as Lochinver).

Have a friend who is due in a few weeks and their dh is still desperate to go with Isambard for a boy!

DD was always going to be 'Jade', I somehow knew I was having a girl to the point where I hadn't even picked a boys name.

DS1 would have been Amber Rose if he had been a girl, he was meant to have been Reece all the way through the pregnancy, but as soon as he was born, my ex-P and I looked at each other, said he didn't look like a Reece, and we didn't know what to call him. Ex-P suggested Logan, and I loved it, so that's his name. It was only after we had registered his birth that ex-P told me it was from Wolverine...(!)

I liked Morten for DS2, but DP vetoed that one and he ended up being Ayden. He would have been Sapphire Louise (nn Saffy-Lou) if he had been a girl.

This time we have already agreed on Amethyst (Ammy) for a girl, but boys names are proving more difficult. I like Tobin or Kellan at the moment, just need to persuade DP...

Ohnororo - i love harlan

Some people just have no taste!!

Ohnororo - i love harlan

Some people just have no taste!!

See i love it so much i even posted it twice

I can't understand it now, but when I was pregnant I thought it would be WONDERFUL to name DD2 Glory.

I am so glad DH laughed at me.

Still irked though that he vetoed Celeste for DD1. I still love it.

My mum nearly called me Pollyanna.

I'm not grateful to my dad for much, but that is definitely one thing.

On our shortlist of boy's names we had Worf, from Star Trek. Along with Carter, Teal'c and Rya'c from Stargate SG1. Had my son been a girl the name would have been Amidala Delenn (Star Wars and Babylon 5).

Oh, and he ended up being called Orion Taliesin. We wanted a 'different' name that could be shortened to a 'normal' name if he didn't like being different. So Orion can be Ryan in the future, and Amidala could have been Amy.

Condensedmilk, I love the name Celeste, there is a lady my Step-Mum works with who is called Celeste, but she is the only one I know of.
My friend was seroiusly thinking of calling her DD Tallulah,until she heard of a lady who had called her cat that

I wanted Boddington or Sterling for my boy...think he had a lucky escape with Franklin!

Bathsheba!

I have an Alexander and it seems to be a lot more popular than I thought it was so am slightly regretting not going for one of our odder choices from the shortlist.

We knew he was a boy from 12 weeks so never had to think about girls' names.

The ones that came close were:

Estlin
Josiah
Marcello
Jonah

I was nearly called Roberta, my mum's first choice - quite glad that my dad didn't like it.

I didn't mean it in a bitchy way about Lochinvar, I was just surprised to see (what I thought you meant) home on here and got carried away mainly because I see so many Scottish names wrecked through odd spelling on MN. Hands up, I'm ignorant. Sorry, Professor

If DS was a girl it would have been Ebony Moonbeam when I think about it now!!

Blaise for a girl, but was told by friends it sounded like the name of a horse...