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Following on from the bad children's names thread...

223 replies

Caligula · 01/11/2005 14:20

....What names were you tempted to choose for your own children which you reluctantly discarded because you knew it was wrong to name your children solely for your own entertainment, and also because you thought they might get the piss taken out of them or be considered pretentious?

Mine were

Fidel
Vladimir
Padraig
Jesus

OP posts:
binkie · 01/11/2005 14:26

Good idea, caligula

.. or you had to persuade your partner out of?

Josiah
Godrevy
Viva

bamboo · 01/11/2005 14:27

DH wanted Noam.

doormat · 01/11/2005 14:27

elysium
scarlett

Pagan · 01/11/2005 14:27

Romany (for a middle name)

dyzzidi · 01/11/2005 14:28

I had to persuade DH that if we were having a boy Oakley was not a good idea.

I mean FFS 'Oakley' thats a pair of sunglasses.

tarantula · 01/11/2005 14:30

Muireann, Sorcha and Caoimhe. Mainly cos dp couldnt pronounce them so what hope anyone else All quite common names in Ireland

Bozza · 01/11/2005 14:33

Sebastian (liked but not sure we could carry it off)
Anakin (think it sounds nice but couldn't do that to my child)

As it happens we had a girl so irrelevent.

frogs · 01/11/2005 14:33

Octavia for dd2 (great name, shame about the car). Also, she was no. 3 not no. 8, and I'm enough of a classics dweeb to be bothered by that.

Florian or Fabian for ds. Fine in German, too girly in English.

Mary for dd1 (too Catholic, said dh). Eva, Bernadette, ditto.

doormat · 01/11/2005 14:34

also eden

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bosscat · 01/11/2005 14:35

Orlando

I don't know why I thought this name was great and it was even before Orlando Bloom was known. It was after the actual place

bosscat · 01/11/2005 14:36

oh yes sebastian. I love that one too but couldn't imagine shouting it in tescos

Fimbo · 01/11/2005 14:36

I wanted Rhia for a girl, dh refused on the grounds that someone would put "dia" in front of it.

gingerbear · 01/11/2005 14:37

Rose
Lilly
Daisy
....lovely names, yep, but not when you have a horticultural surname.

Bozza · 01/11/2005 14:41

I do actually know of a mumsnetter with a Sebastian who is a similar age to DD but it wouldn't have worked for us.

ParisMum · 01/11/2005 14:42

Grace

we were looking for a name that's pronounced roughly the same way in English and in French. fortunately dp suddenly realised that when you say it in French it could also be spelt 'Grasse' which means FAT!!!
Close one

marialuisa · 01/11/2005 14:46

I love jemima for a girl, but it wouldn't work.

DH wanted suggested Nova and Carina for a a girl. Yes, let's call our child after a cheap car! he also likes Idris for a boy 9which is an oldman's name IMO).

gladstone · 01/11/2005 14:46

Ds might have been Jago, Somerset, or Inigo, but I didn't have the nerve in the end.

If he'd been a girl dh was set on Demelza......

nailpolish · 01/11/2005 14:49

Skye or Star

quite liked Angus (we live in Angus) for a boy but dont like Gus so that was a no-no

nice name i heard today at dd's playgroup was Chiara

suzywong · 01/11/2005 14:50

I was to be Inigo if a boy,

Dh and I had decided on ds1's name years and years ago when kids were still a grown up thing and a long way off, but did toy with Sadie Mae for a girl, glad we didn't have to as it would have dated very very quickly and been indistinguishable amongst all the other __ie - Mae's /Lou's

nailpolish · 01/11/2005 14:50

liked Hamish too but everyone laughed

or Seamus or Vernon

Caligula · 01/11/2005 14:51

I couldn't have Julia because it would have led to a glottle-stop.

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Frayedknot · 01/11/2005 14:56

I love Seamus.

To give you an idea of how totally impossible choosing names with DH was, he had Christine for a girl at the top of his list.

nailpolish · 01/11/2005 14:57

LOL fk!

poor you!

Fauve · 01/11/2005 14:58

Ds:
Lachlan (hard to spell)
Storm
Troy
Trygve
Iestyn

He now has 3 pretty humdrum names (but I like them). We only just rejected Max, because we couldn't decide what the full version should be (Maxim, Maximillian, etc), so was interested to see recent thread on that.

Dd:
Yolanda
Angharad

She has two moderately exciting Welsh names in the middle - she is a quarter Welsh