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

Should she not have been "Mignonne?"

DD2's middle name (while we are on a meat theme) means "beef" in Romanian (where we wee living at the time).

I also knew an English woman who called her daughter "Cielecina" (pronounced Chelencheena) which means "veal" in Polish.

Fisil - I'm going to start working on dh now!

I know an 'Elvis'.
At first it was snort-stifling, but it has really grown on me.
Anyway, I can't snort given my choices.

I wanted for ds

Absolem (sp) or
Sidney

but was over-ruled by dh (and his mother)

I wanted "Christmas" for dd, had she been a boy. I thought we could call him Kit.
And yes, we were a bit stuck for boys names, and I had been in labour for the whole of Christmas Eve.
When I told the midwife, she just said "errr, NO!"

Um, posts from frogs and suedonim had me bit worried; nearly called my daughter octavia too, frogs, but didn't for same reason. For same reason considered Primo for first son but he wasn't my first child. My first daughter's middle name is Damaris. And my son is now called Remy.We discarded Ezekiel, Ferdinand, Anakin and Aiken.For a girl we liked Leanora- actually still do. My friend met someone whose kids are called Paris and London (girl and boy).I met a girl once at uni whose parents called her Teresa Chopping.

DS1 would have been Darcy if a girl. He gets faint with relief when he thinks about it.

Nearly called him Freddie as I found out I was pg same day Freddie Mercury died.. exH and I both felt it was a fitting tribute.. but I remembered in nick of time that my boss was Fred..!

I love Skye. Asked DH to have vasecotmy reversal in hopes of using it. Two word reply ending in 'off'

For dd1 I loved the name Calliope, everyone I mentioned it to shot me down in flames, I couldn't believe how rude people could really be. A strained "that's nice" would have sufficed, sadly they told me exactly what they though

anyway Dh hated it and we agreed on something else.

for dd2 we had agreed a girls name before I got pregnant and I decided the boys name which was Caleb a name I love. Dh hated the name Caleb but I do love it, sadly didn't get to use it.

I wanted Calliope too - but then a friend said " On my god it sounds line cannelloni!!!" - so needless to say.....

DS2 was going to be Arianne Colombia Electra!!
He constantly says he's glad he's a boy - wonder why???

I developed the safety mechanism of not telling anyone my name ideas until it was done and dusted. I couldn't bear the negative comments about names I loved. If they had their way (mine and dh's family) we'd have had really, er, popular names.

I have a popular name and I don't like it.

what is wrong with. My one year old is named grace and we call her groovy gracie. PS-my full name is christine. What is wrong with that? Just kidding,

I hate made up names that are the fad in north america, like jaeden or cheray. Names that are not traditional names by made up the parents. Made that comment at a DH's office lunch to celebrate our baby and a women immediately said my name is colina.

DS is called Dylan but in hindsight Damian would have been more appropriate!!!

Two months after having DS2 a new shop opened up in our nearest city named the same as my boys. At first I thought it was funny but now 3yrs down the line I find it irritating. Every time I call their names I get the wierdest of looks, I might as well have called them Mark & Spencer!!

Someone did tell me about twins who were called Calvin and Klein!! Honestly!!!!

Dodsey, know the feeling. Ds2 was born a whole month before Wimbledon this year when a new British tennis star emerged. Yet there seems to be a general feeling that we named him after said tennis star. Pah!

Good friend named her ds a whole year before some pope came along and nicked it.

So much for picking unusual names!

God it's a minefield isn't it ?? I actually knew someone called Adora Dick (shock)- I kid you not!
DD1 Catriona Stella O'Donnell DD2 Roisin Catherine O'Donnell - masses of brownie points for using mums maiden name.! Poor little Roisin though is only one vowel away from a dried fruit!but pronounced RO - Sheen

hmm, bad names ... where does jemima stand ??

(dh & i both loved it, in case ds had been dd, but we seem to be in a minority)

Roosmoo, my dd once told me that Vagina Puddleduck was her favourite Beatrix Potter character!

As soon as they told me it was twins they posiblities seemed endless.
tweedledum & tweedledee
hansel and gretal
luke & leia
in the end have chosen two family names which we both like
William & Edward
then we realised that these shorten to
Bill & Ted

Mentioned it on another thread, but I had a Great Uncle called Willie Pullar!! FGS what were his parents thinking? Or is 'willie' a modern word not used when he was born 90 years ago?
You see , now you even have to take future vocabulary into account when naming your child.

local paper here had baby comp and published pictures and names. there is a baby called dre.
Also, it really depends on your surname. There is also a Lolita Pay. Apologies if her parents are reading this, but that's just unfortunate.
I ;like to think; if the kid wants to be a bank manager/ corporate lawyer(outside chance but you never can tell) will it look good on their office nameplate. Or if they work in a supermarket, on their badge?.And , when will people who name their kids after stars realise those aren't their real names; as well as dre i found a shakur(girl) a jaa jaa, a jj and a shania!maybe that shania will change her name to eileen? my dd once wanted to change hers to dolphin tinkerbell so i guess we're only ever 1 step away from name trauma no matter what; one person's poison is another person's poisson etc...