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

Have to say tho that we couldnt have called dd Ruaridh if she was a boy cos thats the name of our pet tarantula who has red hair .

I like Coinneach for a boy myself.

Augustus - Ds2 was due in August
Tertius - he'd have been our third child

Oh yes, Christian.
Dh mentioned he was thinking of it to MIL (who is Jewish). She was surprised. He said, but why, it's only a name.

(Baby turned out to be a girl, thank goodness, and we named her after MIL's own mother. Halo halo.)

Elvis Really liked it but dp said no

binkie - we used MIL's father's name for ds1's middle name. Got shed loads of brownie points for that.

DP wanted Miranda, which I hated, and he too suggested Christine for a girl, to which I was not amused, as that was his ex wife's name

If a girl would have been Tiger or Dusty

Siofra its gaelic and means little elf in hindsight it would have been perfect

Mosschops - good for you. Ds1 is Rory and I still love it - always have since my schooldays - there was one in my year. Everyone is well used to it now, but IIRC, it raised an eyebrow or two when we announced it.

I wanted Irish names, but before I could even suggest one, dp got on his bigoted high horse, ans said we could only have names like Edward, Millicent and Charles.

My next door neighbour's little boy (who was 6 at the time I was pg) requested that if we had a girl, could we please call her Edna?!

Wanted Denzel because it is traditional Cornish and I am Cornish, but all I could think of was Denzil Washington and West Indian rastafarians!

Cosmo - still thinkng might have a number 3 (which will of course be male) so I can use it. I think it is fab!

DS1 was going to be Tafara Liam...until we realised that Liam is an Irish form of William which we caterogically didn't want - go enough Williams in my family without adding another one in.

If DS1 had been a girl he'd have be Zoe Yananai, if DS2 had been a girl he'd have been Alexis Yananai.

And if we'd had twin girls (!) we'd have had Alexis Yananai and Chelsea ????.

Actually I've just realised the advantage of pets. You can use all the improbable names you don't dare use for your kids on the dogs, cats and rabbits.

and reading it now Tafara Liam sounds completely Crap - Tafara Yehudi goes much better - especially with our surname

i wanted rainbow for a girl but dp said no

DD1 wanted to call dd2 'Freda'.

Oh I wanted Angel HRLMalorytowers, and I could have actually had Angelus as it's a good greek name (FIL was really keen when I mentioned it as a joke!) but DH nixed it on the basis that they'd get beaten up every day at school

Hausfrau, spent all my pg with ds3 arguing with dh over the name Ciaran - dh wanted it and I didn't (because I knew a Kieren once who was a complete drip) Anyway, we compromised: it is ds3's middle name.

Also love Fabrizio but would have to have married an Italian to use it.

I toyed with Elias for a while. Still sort of like it.
It's all coming back to me.