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

Marina, at 'unhinged' Mazo de la Roche. Thing is, the names are all I remember of the books! I was also rather taken with the Forsyte Saga when I was pg with ds1, so Soames or Fleur or Ireneeeeee could have been in with a chance, as well.

Gem, I laugh about it now as well. I mean, how ridiculous can you get??

Micheal - SO would not be fair with our surname
Jeremy - I like it. Nobody else does.
robin - Laughed out of town by mym mum. So he has it as a middle name instead.

If this baby is a girl I like Evelyn, but nobody else does. Aso like Emily.

Marina how weird you should mention Frideswide... she is big news round here... at the girls' school where I do some work sometimes they have named a building after her (where I teach) and there is a choir named after her for which I have written several songs!
not sure about her suitability as a role model though...

Colditz.... would you have a problem with Isaac too???

DD2 (who was 9 when I told her I was expecting) wanted to call the baby Eyeball!!

Frida...........I was mad on Abba as a child, still like them in fact so I thought I might name a child after one of them, didnt go through with it in the end though.

my sister is expecting and my siblings and i have nicknamed the baby shatner! my brother in law is worried it will stick.

I like for boys:
Seamus ...but we have no Irish connections
Barney/Barnaby

for girls:
Steller-spelt just like intersteller
Mir- like the space station (can i hear snorting?)
Lara

Treasure? because of daddys little treasure.....
I truly have met this person....
In maternity, met a Portia (dramatic eh?) who called her daughter Storm.

grew up near a Storm and Raina - we used to joke if they had a third child it would have been called Thunder.

Theshrimp - surely the spelling is interstellar?

We told everyone that our first baby (ds) was going to be called Frogmore Chervil - plenty of people took us seriously and what's really worrying is that some even managed a strained "Oh! What unusual names!"

Isambard, still think it's a brilliant name, just to see people's reactions. Mavis for a girl (our surname's Davis).

My father's middle name is Monins - he got arrested once as he refused to tell the police his full name!

Your right anorak. Whoops! good thing I didn't have a girl!

Your right anorak. Whoops! good thing I didn't have a girl!

When we were waiting for our 1st baby to arrive, we told people that we wanted good traditional names - and were considering Ethelred or Boudicca! Cue many worried looks. For our last, we knew it was going to be a girl and I really wanted Amaryllis or Tallulah - dh was appalled!

I really love some of these names!

DH wanted to call DD Flash if she'd been a boy. So glad she was a girl!

We liked Aneurin for a boy , but it was a girl. Liked a friends idea of Trinity for a girl.
Too chicken though and ended up with names from the top ten each time!!

I told all the kids I taught that my first baby would be called 'wellard' (as in dog on Eastenders)many couldn't understand why i'd changed my mind when he was born

Nbg - I like Angelica. Wanted it for dd!

Dh wanted to call dd3 Dixie, he looked it up and apparently its an olde english name. but he wanted it because of Dixie Dean(everton player). I do like the name but just couldnt give it to her as her 1st name, so it is her middle name. but dh did win again on calling her Serena Williams. so i have a little tennis player lol.

DH has an old friend called Merlin. What a cool name. Unfortunately just won't work with our surname. Shucks.

I wanted Simeon but it reminds dh of monkeys.

Dh wanted Drusilla