My fiance thinks the most clever name ever for a baby is Doctor. Because everyone will assume he is one. Blah. In my family I have Ethel, Erma, Gertrude, Morton, and Anton that I don't like.
You could go with the tried and true Nevaeh. Bonus points for keeping a straight face when you excitedly tell them it's Heaven backwards!!!!!
If all else fails, tell them you're naming it after where/how it was conceived. Something pretty and sophisticated like Duvet. A classy friend I went to middle school with got pregnant while drinking Alize, and named her baby that.
OMG! I think my BF who's a teacher in Phx taught Alize! She was telling me she had a kid named that in her class!
Re: Worst names ever...
Ingaborg - got that one from The Golden Girls
Olympio - Great G-Pa's name.
If it's a boy, telling her you're naming it Sh!thead but pronounce it /Shith-EED/ Tell her how it is spelled.
I used to work with a guy whose grandaughter was named Morticia.
I think the worst name I remember on the Nest was Poppy Bumble.
My uncle had customers with these names:
Booba
Ardella
Bob Fartwell
My dad had a cousin named Chlorine- as in the element.
My brother used this name for my niece while she was in utero:
Tawny Blondelle
OMG! I think my BF who's a teacher in Phx taught Alize! She was telling me she had a kid named that in her class!
Ethan Michael - 12/21/09
Norah Jewel - 2/26/14
Lenard Gustav (DH's grandpa's name - he really wants to name a boy that. Hell no!)
Mary Jane (Could be considered normal, I guess, but funny)
Rufus Thomas (my parents called my brother that before he was born - Baby Ru)
La-a (pronounced "Ladasha". Yes, you pronounce the "-")
sisters Summer Sky and Rainbow Bubbles, both went to school with XH. Also, i went to elemetary school with a Stormy...