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

Ah yes, Dino, found it now. Would never have been my first choice, personally, but b**dy parents never consulted me.

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Have taught a "Cheverolet" and a "Star" (who spent her days staring vacantly into space) Had an Uncle Willie Pullar who died a few years ago!!!

I wanted Lloyd but dh pointed out we lived in an area full of African-Carribean Lloyds and ds would look a bit daft being the only white boy with that name. And he said it would remind him of Loyd Grossman (who can't even spell his own name, the muppet). I wasn't entirely convinced by the first argument but the second got me!

Then I suggested Owen, and dh said no, people would think it was after Michael Owen. Tried for Bryn or Gryffydd and got both of those rejected too. (Can you tell there's a theme here? Both grandfathers are/were Welsh and the English names we liked are all hugely popular).

We ended up with the only Welsh boy's name we could agree on. Very happy with ds's name but still resent all my choices being vetoed. Grrrr.

If I ever persuade dh to go for no. 2 I have female names all lined up (from when I was a kid) and dh had better not mess with me. If it's a boy, I might have to sneak off and register him on my own...

I wanted Margaret Rose for DD but then realised people would think I was naming her after Princess Margaret, who I thought was ghastly.

So I couldn't.

Ah that's another reason for not Margaret - feared it would be shortened to Maggie which I don't like that much. Just like Margaret, none of its diminutives, so had to abandon it. (And then of course, people might think I'd named her after the great she-devil herself )

I know a Lily-Rose, which is a great combo, IMO. Caligula, I'm going to have a whole stable-ful of horses using up my loved-but-rejected names when I'm older.

I know a man who's the same age as me and he's called Adolf.
Naturally his friends and family all call him 'Addy', but it really is short for Adolf.
That one's not been so popular in the past fifty years or so somehow.

Caligula, ds1 as a bump was called Fidel, in fact I kidded my mum we were thinkign of it, much to her horror...do still rather like it.
Mabel (love that but...)
Vladimir (as in Ilyich Lenin)
Tony (as in Benn...do we detect a theme here?)
Fairfax (when desperate to find an English name for ds2 - luckily for him he is dark nor fair!!)
HMC I know a Fenton. It's a place near where dh comes from so he jokes about Fenton's sister Drinsey Nook (another place) etc etc

sorry that should be ds2 is dark not fair
pmsl at this thread, esp suedonim's Pheasant (it's a colleague's surname...)
I also like Hector, Rory and Angus.
ds2 was going to be Florence, still really like that ( as no more babies here...)

I wanted Aubergine for a boy.

Wilbur, (((hugs if you do them, regards if you don't)))

Our first would have been Andrew
Our third and fourth would have been Robert Duncan or Mary

We chose a wonderful name for our second who is now a strapping seven-year-old and loves her life.

Believe me, it does get better

I really, really wanted to name ds Elvis! Dh flatly refused.

Lily-Rose is lovely
there's a painting in the Tate by Singer Sargeant called Carnation Lily Lily-Rose which I love despite it being very chocolate boxy
DH just snorted

Fauve and harpsichordcarrier,

Ahem, I have a Lily Rose! (dd)

I like it I like it! i wanted it!
did it come from the painting or from the Family at One End Street (forgive me if you don;t know what I am talking about...)
it does sound a bit twee with my surname mind you.

Neither...I don't know what you are talking about but then I am a bit of a philistine

Thing is, when I have my 3rd child if she is a girl would it be too twee to call her Rosie May?

there's a girl called Lily Rose in this book

no not too twee but people WILL say Rosise May... or Rose May not
which might be tiresome

HCs (both), Lily Rose always made me think of that picture but I didn't realise what its title was. Love the picture, but love the name more. I think it grows on you, too.

Is it a good read?

I loved scarlet for a girl, also loved felicity but dp's surname is Foote, so she may have been Flick Foote
For a boy.....Elvis

I loved the book as a child actually. but it is probably a bit GENTLE for children today I would have thought.
ELvis??
seriously???