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

[Caligula]

....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

Good idea, caligula

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

Josiah
Godrevy
Viva

DH wanted Noam.

elysium
scarlett

Romany (for a middle name)

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.

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

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.

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.

also eden

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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......

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

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

liked Hamish too but everyone laughed

or Seamus or Vernon

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

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.

LOL fk!

poor you!

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