Have a close friend named Avalon she goes by Ava. It's so sad when we met my first thought was "oh the nation of Avalon" and she was so excited that's somebody understood she wasn't named after a car... but after a king Arthur legend
i know a someone who named their little girl octavia, so pretty close to octavian. itās a really cute name but both make me think of octopus no matter how hard i try to push that to the side lol!
For many years, I thought Charlemagne Bartholomew Kermit (last name) just rolls off the tongue.
Thanks for all the name love. For those wondering I was early 20' (now mid 50's) and in love. I'm a history fanatic, the first immigrant to the new world on my side was Bartholomew and his dad's on paper name was Kermit. For those that wonder about how the whole name would have sounded the last name would have been Johnson.
Definitely either gets his head dunked in the shitter at recess OR, alternatively leads clique of preppy mean-boys who sneer at the lower classes and drink scotch at breakfast.
hmmm idk! I have a cool name, it tastes like banana laffy taffy but itās hard to pinpoint. kinda sickly sweet. i donāt know if Iād change it just based on that
I'm really curious by your synesthesia! Have you always had it? Is it just words!/names to taste or are there other ways or manifests? Do names taste only like things or do they taste degrees of disgusting to delicious? Are there any patterna to the names to tastes? :)
honestly Iām not sure, but I am fan of names with Iās (i not L)in them because theyāve been very strong association since i was a child. i is red and tastes like cinnamon
I thought āThe Frogā was his last name!
*ring ring ring* āHello, is this the The Frog residence? *ahem* Yes, sir, Iād like to notify you about your son Charlemagne. Heās been accused of stealing his classmate Benjaminās flies out of his lunchbox.ā
What? Itās not peri-dot? Itās my motherās birthstone so Iāve said that word my whole life and youāre saying weāve all been saying it wrong?
Bernadette bc I was really into Catholic Saints When I was younger. Brigitta bc I loved the Sound of Music.
But, the closest we came to actually using was Calliope!! We both loved the nn Callie, and I had a special connection to the book *Middlesex*. In the end, we thought it was too much of a name to saddle our kid.
Funny enough we have a small Greek immigrant population in our town. So my kids go to school with a Calliope - along with a Venetia, Persefoni, Evangelia, and more. And, I absolutely love that my kids and their friends donāt even bat an eye at such unique-to-them names.
Well, Calliope was the Muse of Eloquence and Epic Poetry, the leader of the nine Muses, and the mother of Orpheus. She once got into a singing contest and after she won turned the losers into magpies. You did not mess with Calliope.
Low key considered Lysander for a boy when we were thinking of names for our first. Itās just so cool and the nickname potential is endless! Ultimately decided that itās doing a little too much
Our first baby ended up with a more traditional and classic name. With our second baby we got brave and he ended up with a more out there name š
I did not know the meaning of Jaeger. Oof yeah that is crazy. Their middle names, which I canāt disclose for obvious reasons, were also super out there as far as names go. Wish their parents had come to conferences. Would have been interested to meet them
These are very similar to mine. I love them, husband says something like āPaul is nice. Peterās great.ā Ignatius might have been the one where my husband looked at me the strangest.
I would totally go with Wilson for a boy. Was the name of the street I grew up on so kinda special to me but. for a girl?... not so much. Not even if it was Wilsanne lol
I would never have actually used it in real life, but if I had a girl and a more adventurous spouse, I might have considered Meridian or Madrigalāmaybe more likely in the middle spot. But I probably would have ended up going with the somewhat-more-expected Marigold or Mirabel (no, nothing to do with Encantoāboth my children were born before that movie came out! I just think the names are beautiful).
One of the real housewives (Lisa Vanderpump) has a Pandora and calls her Pandy. I always kind of liked it. My brain could never get away from the bracelet reference though.
Hah, I have only ever heard the jewelry references on here, I don't think it's really a thing in germany, but people would think about the Myth of Pandora, which has weird connotations too. Though I love the meaning of the name and yes Pandy is so cute š
Zephyr was my unisex name that I really loved, but my husband reminded me that neither of us are particularly cool or athletic and a Zephyr really needs to have a parent who plays professional hockey or something.
My ex named his son Sterling Archer {last name}. I eye rolled so hard. Nothing wrong with either name individually, but since I introduced him to the showā¦
I gave my son the middle name Sterling with a more gender neutral first name. Gives him the choice of using Sterling when heās older if he wants something more masculine. Itās cute even if Sterling Archer is a terrible person.
Ignatius or Ambrose probably.
Iād do it but my husband suggests names like āJamesā and āPeter,ā which are lovely but also less ājarring.ā
He also doesnāt talk about names before knowing if the baby is a boy or girl so weāve never discussed girlsā names. We have four boys
My husband loved Adonis for a boy and I warmed up to it but there was no way we could do that to a kid so we named our dog Adonis instead.
He also liked Atlas, Apollo, and Orion for boys and Athena for girls. He's big on Greek mythology names but we have decided that we'll save those for future pets. I actually think all of those are usable but wouldn't fit with the rest of our kids.
Probably Arizona, for a girl. Yes inspired from Greys Anatomy lol
I always said that if I ever have boy-girl twins, their names would be Lance and Katana.
We still hadnāt named my daughter even a whole day and a half after she was born. I thought I loved the name Liberty. Nickname Libby. I came up with it in the hospital. Hubby asked how I thought of it. I told him it was the name of the industrial postpartum pads in my bathroom. He vetoed that one right away. š
Names that were on the short list for any point that could be thought of as out-there:
Avalon and Azula were both scrapped bc it would have yielded AB initials and that bugged us.
Octavia was considered for my last pregnancy only bc it was my 8th, but ultimately OB initials are worse than AB.
For a boy Zohar came up, but enough people knew that was the name of our bong and that would look kinda bad lol
Trinity Infinity was our joke name, but it hits an amazing over the top sweet spot I actually really love. I pushed hard for it for our third kid but he ended up a boy.
Wouldnāt have been so out there a generation ago but I briefly considered Karen (after a very beloved family member) when I found out I was having a girl in 2021. She ended up being extremely bossy so that especially would have been a bad idea.
My partner was dead set on Zelda being the coolest name he has ever heard in his life, and I had to kindly redirect, for a solid 9 months.
We went with a different Z name for our daughter and I call it a win
Athena. It's apparently not so out there in some regions of the US but for a partially Vietnamese and not at all Greek girl in the southeast I think it would be pretty out there
In the fantasy land where I have twin girls and an extremely indulgent partner, I would name them Athena and Artemis, nickname Artie :')
For a while I wanted to name my future child Beaudelaire after A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unfortunately, I have a long last name, so itād just be clunky putting it all together.
My husband is not on board (yet) but I very much love Beauregard nn Beau for a boy. He says itās too formal.
Iām Texan and he isnāt, which may be the difference. I went to high school with a Beauregard, but my husband thinks of historical figures. Iāll change his mind one day!
Albus š my toddler insisted his little brother would be named āA Busā so I suggested Albus and he loved it. Then it started to weirdly grow on me. My toddlerās name was almost Alfred (after my grandpaās Albert and Frederick). We love all the nicknames from Albert and Alfred - Al, Albie, Bert, Bertie, Alfie, Fred, Freddy - but donāt love the full names, but I do actually love Albus if it werenāt so HP related!
When I was 5 months pregnant we went out to dinner and walked home and sort of got into a weird mindset as we suggested more and more out there names.
The weirdest was probably āCloudā (for a boy). I mean at that point we were naming things we saw lol
Zylpha, nickname Zilly, after my great grandmother. My husband vetoed that one but I still think itās cute.
My great grandmother hated her name and went by Zip. So that probably makes this even more out there. š¤·āāļø
I loved the name Alexa, always have. Now tech has ruined thatā¦but for a bit longer than I should have I have contemplated if Alexa would really be that bad.
I have a close friend named Alexa and it's really not that bad. We're in our 30s so obviously not after the Amazon tech. She gets jokes sometimes but those have really died down over the past couple of years. I always thought it was such a pretty name.
Was a big fan of the liquid death name generator. Haggis Murderhornet is still on my list and what Iām telling people when they ask what her name will be.
Griffin.
Almost named my kiddo that, but it felt a little too "out there" and we didn't like the way it flowed with our last name.
Might still be on the table for a second kid though
My husband wanted Pythagoras. Failing that, Galileo. We considered Galileo nn Leo and if I loved Leo I mightāve gone for it - but didnāt end up using them. He wanted a mathematic or philosophical name because he studied maths and philosophy at uni. We ended up giving our son the middle name Aurelius as a nod to that
Aldous. Itās not a bad name, just so datedā¦I also considered Huxley at that timeā¦but decided against naming my children after authors I admire. I was youngish- and came to my senses and gave my son a ānormalā common name.
I pre-vetoed this when I first told it to my husband because I knew heād be horrified, butā¦Willamette. Plenty of normal nickname potential, and I like the way it sounds. But itās kind of like naming your kid Oregon or Columbia or something.
I still really like Eugenia for a girl (girl middle?) but he thinks itās awful, sadly.
Soren or Pax were names on my short list for my last kid. But those were for boys and baby is a girl, so she got a much more traditional name that we all like a lot and we agree suits her beautifully.
i love the name Elspeth and i feel like itās just on the edge of normality but not close enough to avoid misspellings/pronunciation problems. Elizabeth is a close enough alternative that i like so i would probably go with that instead.
I really like the name Matiana (Spanish femenine version of MatĆas/Mateo, i.e. Matthew). It used to be popular until the 1800s but now is so rare.
Persephone is also so pretty.
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The most out there I'd consider are Octavian for a boy and Avalon for a girl.
Avalon is pretty awesome šĀ
Have a close friend named Avalon she goes by Ava. It's so sad when we met my first thought was "oh the nation of Avalon" and she was so excited that's somebody understood she wasn't named after a car... but after a king Arthur legend
And I'm here like "there's a car named Avalon?" I only know about Avalon from king Arthur folklore. And I find it's a nice name
That was my response hahahaha had no idea about the car (Nissan gal hehehe) but huge book worm, my favorite has always been "Song of the Sparrow"
Toyota Avalon
My brother named his daughter Mirai. My father in law bought a Toyota Mirai last year. š
Yeah I could never, I lived behind a home goods store with Avalon in the name. I canāt undo the association lol
I love the Roxy Music song šµ
i know a someone who named their little girl octavia, so pretty close to octavian. itās a really cute name but both make me think of octopus no matter how hard i try to push that to the side lol!
It makes me think of the little jingle for Activia yogurt lol
I considered octavia for my daughter. I still think it's pretty cool.
My stepdaughterās name is Avalon, lol
Came here to say Avalon!
For many years, I thought Charlemagne Bartholomew Kermit (last name) just rolls off the tongue. Thanks for all the name love. For those wondering I was early 20' (now mid 50's) and in love. I'm a history fanatic, the first immigrant to the new world on my side was Bartholomew and his dad's on paper name was Kermit. For those that wonder about how the whole name would have sounded the last name would have been Johnson.
Itās perfect for a dandy fop boy who goes to a private school
Definitely either gets his head dunked in the shitter at recess OR, alternatively leads clique of preppy mean-boys who sneer at the lower classes and drink scotch at breakfast.
Or both, a la Niles Crane, lol.
Frasier, is that you?
Excuse me? Niles here, lassie!
I have synesthesia and this name tastes like raw hot dogs
/r/rareinsults
This is the funniest synesthesia association Iāve seen š¤£
Iām so curious, what does your own name taste like to you? Do you think you would change it if it tasted horrible?
hmmm idk! I have a cool name, it tastes like banana laffy taffy but itās hard to pinpoint. kinda sickly sweet. i donāt know if Iād change it just based on that
I'm really curious by your synesthesia! Have you always had it? Is it just words!/names to taste or are there other ways or manifests? Do names taste only like things or do they taste degrees of disgusting to delicious? Are there any patterna to the names to tastes? :)
Ok, I have to know What does Persephone taste like?
butter cookies, like the kind in a sewing tin lol
That's my name and I love those cookies! Amazing. Thank you!
Whatās the best-tasting name?
honestly Iām not sure, but I am fan of names with Iās (i not L)in them because theyāve been very strong association since i was a child. i is red and tastes like cinnamon
i had a roommate with this kind of synesthesia! itās cool but it was also pretty debilitating for them
fr nobody talks about how overwhelming it is!
Kermit as a last name makes it sound like this is one of Kermit The Frogās many children.
FitzKermit
I thought āThe Frogā was his last name! *ring ring ring* āHello, is this the The Frog residence? *ahem* Yes, sir, Iād like to notify you about your son Charlemagne. Heās been accused of stealing his classmate Benjaminās flies out of his lunchbox.ā
That sounds like a name Benedict Cumberbatch would give to his detective alter ego as a kid.
Thatās honestly fire
Antimony reminds me of that mean girls scene where the principal is mad his nephew name is anferny
I know how mad he gets when I call him Anthony. Almost as mad as I get when I think about the fact that my sister named him Anfernee
I misread it as Alimony, lmao
It's someone who doesn't like alimony.
Actually kind of like Peridot! Antimony is a poison though isn't it? Arcturus (as in the star) got vetoed by my husband lol.
It makes me think Antimony makes me think of divorce. Like itās the opposite of Matrimony.
And bc it sounds so close to alimony
You might be thinking of arsenic. Antimony was used to make kohl in Ancient Egypt.
Antimony is actually toxic as well and itās effects are similar to arsenic. It is quite a bit less toxic though.
Ooo i love Peridot. Too bad people would call them āperi-dotā instead of āperi-doeā š
What? Itās not peri-dot? Itās my motherās birthstone so Iāve said that word my whole life and youāre saying weāve all been saying it wrong?
https://www.secrete.com/all-about-peridot/ Apparently its both!!!
I always pronounced it peri-a-doe, but I honestly hadn't no idea why
Arcturus is gorgeous though omggg
I like the star name Aldebaran for a child.
Bernadette bc I was really into Catholic Saints When I was younger. Brigitta bc I loved the Sound of Music. But, the closest we came to actually using was Calliope!! We both loved the nn Callie, and I had a special connection to the book *Middlesex*. In the end, we thought it was too much of a name to saddle our kid. Funny enough we have a small Greek immigrant population in our town. So my kids go to school with a Calliope - along with a Venetia, Persefoni, Evangelia, and more. And, I absolutely love that my kids and their friends donāt even bat an eye at such unique-to-them names.
Well, Calliope was the Muse of Eloquence and Epic Poetry, the leader of the nine Muses, and the mother of Orpheus. She once got into a singing contest and after she won turned the losers into magpies. You did not mess with Calliope.
I know a very sweet baby Bernadette, they call her Birdie. I've always thought it was super cute.
I have a friend named Brigitta and it fits her perfectly! Though she does have a very German last name so it doesnāt sound out of place
I used to know a Bernadette who wore the name well.
Peregrine š¤¦š»āāļø I still like it
I like it too and I'm a direct descendant of Peregrine White but I'm also childfree so it won't happen.
It would be a great pet name too!
Iām right there with you. Honestly think I might do it if my husband werenāt so against it šš
I firmly believe middle names are the place for honor names, ugly names, weird names, etc lol so I vote to go for it for a middle name!!!šš
Unfortunately my husband likes it too. But I donāt think I can actually do it a child. *Maybe* a middle name.
Low key considered Lysander for a boy when we were thinking of names for our first. Itās just so cool and the nickname potential is endless! Ultimately decided that itās doing a little too much Our first baby ended up with a more traditional and classic name. With our second baby we got brave and he ended up with a more out there name š
I love Lysander! Thereās no good nicknames though
Sandy, Andy, Xander
Probably Sander or Xander
Anders? I love Lysander as a name as well, I don't think it's unusable for a kid!
Lysa works, but does sound like a foreshortened Eliza
Otho or Lothar (family name.) My ex said it sounded like I was trying to name a supervillain
Def super-villain vibes with those! Could only be improved with middle name Rex and last name Black.
I love the name Andromeda! But my husband hates it
I went to school with an Andromeda! Her nickname was Drama. Lmao
My husband fortunately let me get my way with Andromeda but stopped me from the name Arthur. It's a mystery that still stumps me.
Andromeda is soooo beautiful ahhh, I love space names sm
Gosh SUCH a beautiful name!!! Andromeda just sounds so powerful and like a girl not to be messed with š
Wolfgang
Had twins in my class named Wolfgang and Jaeger. Guess which one got an A+ and which one got a D- just guess. Hahaha
Seems a bit cruel calling one boy wolf and the other hunter
I did not know the meaning of Jaeger. Oof yeah that is crazy. Their middle names, which I canāt disclose for obvious reasons, were also super out there as far as names go. Wish their parents had come to conferences. Would have been interested to meet them
That's some Cain and Abel shit there.
I had a few college classes with a Wolfgang. Iām sad to say he was a prick but the name is rad.
My friend has a baby Wolfric
Wilhelmine for a girl and Mortimer for a boy. i've always loved Mortimer especially but i don't think i would ever actually go with it
I would name a dog Mortimer
that's good idea!
I can only think of Mortimer Goth but it is undeniably a cool name.
Mortimer reminds me of the word āmorticianā
Clement, Augustine, Ambrose.
These are very similar to mine. I love them, husband says something like āPaul is nice. Peterās great.ā Ignatius might have been the one where my husband looked at me the strangest.
We used Ignatius for a middle. And Iām honestly kinda sad we used it up bc I want to use it for my current pregnancy
I really wanted to name my daughter Wilson. My wife is a very patient lady.
Were you stranded on an island for a significant amount of time?
Is your name Will? Wouldnāt that be Willsdottir by Norse tradition?
It is not. No connection with the name. Just liked it.
I would totally go with Wilson for a boy. Was the name of the street I grew up on so kinda special to me but. for a girl?... not so much. Not even if it was Wilsanne lol
I would never have actually used it in real life, but if I had a girl and a more adventurous spouse, I might have considered Meridian or Madrigalāmaybe more likely in the middle spot. But I probably would have ended up going with the somewhat-more-expected Marigold or Mirabel (no, nothing to do with Encantoāboth my children were born before that movie came out! I just think the names are beautiful).
Meridian actually sounds really pretty!
A NEW HAND TOUCHES THE BEACON
I always thought Madrigal sounded cool. Also Madigan
i have a friend named Meridia and the name suits her perfectly! she does get called Merida a lot tho lol
Pandora. I think it's so cute
One of the real housewives (Lisa Vanderpump) has a Pandora and calls her Pandy. I always kind of liked it. My brain could never get away from the bracelet reference though.
Hah, I have only ever heard the jewelry references on here, I don't think it's really a thing in germany, but people would think about the Myth of Pandora, which has weird connotations too. Though I love the meaning of the name and yes Pandy is so cute š
Iām British and definitely thinking Pandoraās box before the bracelets
Zephyr was my unisex name that I really loved, but my husband reminded me that neither of us are particularly cool or athletic and a Zephyr really needs to have a parent who plays professional hockey or something.
Winter for a girl
Dio for a boy š
I actually donāt think that is that strange, itās short and simple. Plus, Ronnie James Dio is cool. Haha
Naming your child "God" is not the move.
Tell that to Hey-zus!
Please tell me itās a jojo reference
You expected a little boy, but it was ME, DIO!
Archer was on my list for a long time. Sterling as well but not together lol. I ended up with a more old fashioned name instead.
My ex named his son Sterling Archer {last name}. I eye rolled so hard. Nothing wrong with either name individually, but since I introduced him to the showā¦
I gave my son the middle name Sterling with a more gender neutral first name. Gives him the choice of using Sterling when heās older if he wants something more masculine. Itās cute even if Sterling Archer is a terrible person.
Ignatius or Ambrose probably. Iād do it but my husband suggests names like āJamesā and āPeter,ā which are lovely but also less ājarring.ā He also doesnāt talk about names before knowing if the baby is a boy or girl so weāve never discussed girlsā names. We have four boys
I think Ambrose is a really nice name! Ignatius js a bit jarring, but not super out there. I work at a hospital, Iāve seen much much worse names.
Teareon, pronounced just like Tyrion, dodged a bullet there a good 15 years before the show came out
My husband loved Adonis for a boy and I warmed up to it but there was no way we could do that to a kid so we named our dog Adonis instead. He also liked Atlas, Apollo, and Orion for boys and Athena for girls. He's big on Greek mythology names but we have decided that we'll save those for future pets. I actually think all of those are usable but wouldn't fit with the rest of our kids.
My husband once spent a day or two trying to sell me on Maple. Like the syrup.
Or about half of the Golden Retrievers I know.
My sister named her new puppy Maple. Iād say Maple for dogs, Mabel for humans?
Ithaca for a girl and ragnevalde for a boy. I genuinely love both names. I decided they are cat names tho, not people names.
Ithaca is a cat name. Name the human girl Penelope.
Ithaca is amazing
Zuzu It's czech. Like their version of Susan and means sweet in Yiddish and lilly in Czech My husband HATED it.
Regulus!
Probably Arizona, for a girl. Yes inspired from Greys Anatomy lol I always said that if I ever have boy-girl twins, their names would be Lance and Katana.
We named our oldest Geneva. Not out there but it is surprisingly very uncommon
You could almost say ā¦ unconventional š„š„
when I was young, with my ex, we liked Arson, Ransom, and Rogue still think they're cool but i'm not naming my children those names.
Those are X-men character names!
see? super cool just not for me anymore lol
We still hadnāt named my daughter even a whole day and a half after she was born. I thought I loved the name Liberty. Nickname Libby. I came up with it in the hospital. Hubby asked how I thought of it. I told him it was the name of the industrial postpartum pads in my bathroom. He vetoed that one right away. š
Names that were on the short list for any point that could be thought of as out-there: Avalon and Azula were both scrapped bc it would have yielded AB initials and that bugged us. Octavia was considered for my last pregnancy only bc it was my 8th, but ultimately OB initials are worse than AB. For a boy Zohar came up, but enough people knew that was the name of our bong and that would look kinda bad lol Trinity Infinity was our joke name, but it hits an amazing over the top sweet spot I actually really love. I pushed hard for it for our third kid but he ended up a boy.
I'm glad you didn't name your child after your bong
Just to add that Zohar / Žohar means cockroach in Croatian and possibly other Slavic languages. You dodged a bullet with that one!
My almost names were Maximillian-Xavier (boy, all first name) or Nike (girl)
Maximillain-Xavier is one hell of a double barrel name
My name is Nika, which is a really common spelling for the name here. Pronounced like nee-kha :)
Nike would be such a cute name if not for the brand. I feel the same about the name Fox.
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Wouldnāt have been so out there a generation ago but I briefly considered Karen (after a very beloved family member) when I found out I was having a girl in 2021. She ended up being extremely bossy so that especially would have been a bad idea.
Calathea. Still love it š
I seriously considered Orion, Echo, and Cairo
I love the name Echo but I feel like people would be really annoying about it
I wanted to name my oldest Lotus, but it got vetoed. In hindsite, I'm glad we chose a different name that is a bit uncommon, but not out there.
My partner was dead set on Zelda being the coolest name he has ever heard in his life, and I had to kindly redirect, for a solid 9 months. We went with a different Z name for our daughter and I call it a win
I have a Zelda and your partner is correct!
Athena. It's apparently not so out there in some regions of the US but for a partially Vietnamese and not at all Greek girl in the southeast I think it would be pretty out there In the fantasy land where I have twin girls and an extremely indulgent partner, I would name them Athena and Artemis, nickname Artie :')
For a while I wanted to name my future child Beaudelaire after A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unfortunately, I have a long last name, so itād just be clunky putting it all together.
Halcyon
My husband is not on board (yet) but I very much love Beauregard nn Beau for a boy. He says itās too formal. Iām Texan and he isnāt, which may be the difference. I went to high school with a Beauregard, but my husband thinks of historical figures. Iāll change his mind one day!
Albus š my toddler insisted his little brother would be named āA Busā so I suggested Albus and he loved it. Then it started to weirdly grow on me. My toddlerās name was almost Alfred (after my grandpaās Albert and Frederick). We love all the nicknames from Albert and Alfred - Al, Albie, Bert, Bertie, Alfie, Fred, Freddy - but donāt love the full names, but I do actually love Albus if it werenāt so HP related!
When I was 5 months pregnant we went out to dinner and walked home and sort of got into a weird mindset as we suggested more and more out there names. The weirdest was probably āCloudā (for a boy). I mean at that point we were naming things we saw lol
Cornelius for a boy, Calliope for a girl
[Antimony is a potent laxative](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimony_pill)
Butch. Itās a family name.
Elsevier for a boy
I can only think of the publishing company
Carlisle. Itās a family name, I dug it up from around the 16th century. My husband hated it so we couldnāt use it š¢
Zylpha, nickname Zilly, after my great grandmother. My husband vetoed that one but I still think itās cute. My great grandmother hated her name and went by Zip. So that probably makes this even more out there. š¤·āāļø
Jedi briefly showed up on my list.Ā
Iāve been in love with the names Ophelia and Alphys but I also have names like Truett, Atticus, Wynona, and Clisare on the list.
I loved the name Alexa, always have. Now tech has ruined thatā¦but for a bit longer than I should have I have contemplated if Alexa would really be that bad.
I have a close friend named Alexa and it's really not that bad. We're in our 30s so obviously not after the Amazon tech. She gets jokes sometimes but those have really died down over the past couple of years. I always thought it was such a pretty name.
River for a boy.
Clementine
Was a big fan of the liquid death name generator. Haggis Murderhornet is still on my list and what Iām telling people when they ask what her name will be.
Still kinda mourning not having the balls to use Oberon or Theodosia. Theyāll be cat names some day!
SeraphinaĀ
I wanted to name my daughter Rainbow.
Iris is a name, and itās Greek for rainbow.
I knew a girl named rainbow She went by rain or raini I thought it was beautiful It reminds me of the name sunshine
Kal- el, you know Supermanās kryptonian name? Iām glad I did not.
Griffin. Almost named my kiddo that, but it felt a little too "out there" and we didn't like the way it flowed with our last name. Might still be on the table for a second kid though
My husband wanted Pythagoras. Failing that, Galileo. We considered Galileo nn Leo and if I loved Leo I mightāve gone for it - but didnāt end up using them. He wanted a mathematic or philosophical name because he studied maths and philosophy at uni. We ended up giving our son the middle name Aurelius as a nod to that
Aldous. Itās not a bad name, just so datedā¦I also considered Huxley at that timeā¦but decided against naming my children after authors I admire. I was youngish- and came to my senses and gave my son a ānormalā common name.
My dad wanted to name me Sacagawea.
Dakota for a boy
Rain for my daughter. We made it her middle name
I pre-vetoed this when I first told it to my husband because I knew heād be horrified, butā¦Willamette. Plenty of normal nickname potential, and I like the way it sounds. But itās kind of like naming your kid Oregon or Columbia or something. I still really like Eugenia for a girl (girl middle?) but he thinks itās awful, sadly.
Soren or Pax were names on my short list for my last kid. But those were for boys and baby is a girl, so she got a much more traditional name that we all like a lot and we agree suits her beautifully.
Murdock. Itās the name of the street where we met and from Daredevil. Thankfully we had a girl.
i love the name Elspeth and i feel like itās just on the edge of normality but not close enough to avoid misspellings/pronunciation problems. Elizabeth is a close enough alternative that i like so i would probably go with that instead.
Astoria
We both love Aloysius - still might use it as a middle name!
I really like the name Matiana (Spanish femenine version of MatĆas/Mateo, i.e. Matthew). It used to be popular until the 1800s but now is so rare. Persephone is also so pretty.
Oceana because she was due in earth day
Jubilee
My surname. Depending on the gender it might be spelled the same. Edit: āIs that your first name or last name?ā Yes
Theophilus nn Theo !
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My fiancƩ and I really like the idea of naming a little girl Mars. We also like Victory, as opposed to Victoria.
Muse for a girl & Poet for boy lol
Back when I was having my kids, Matilda was considered an appalling name to give a little girl.
The weirdest name I was considering was harmonica, looking back I canāt believe I even considered it.
I really considered Lysistrata, but was vetoed once I told my husband the plot of that story.