Guilty Pleasure Names

sqfibemom · February 2017

What are your current guilty pleasures? Most of mine aren't off the table since SO and I don't have a naming style, we just pick what we like, but I always like hearing more.

FakeFinn · February 2017

Elvis. For a girl.

No, I'd never consider this in real life

joforyoga · February 2017

Dallas or Sterling for a girl. My first pregnancy I was completely obsessed with Sterling but everyone I talked to, everyone on the bump and my husband all hated it

virginiaunicorn11 · February 2017

I knew a girl in college named Michael Anne who went by both that and Mikey. We have a lot of Michaels and Annes in our family, so I always thought that would be a cute honorific girl's name. But I'd never do it.

I tend to use names from our culture/family, so two names I love but wouldn't use are Astrid and Jaia. Not weird names, just not our style.

Oh, and Skye. In high school I always said that would be my baby name, boy or girl. Now, not my style, but definitely still a guilty pleasure name.

bbiutmcph · February 2017

Crispin and Wolfgang. My husband would never plus our surname would never work with either

lm45678 · February 2017

My GP names are boys names on girls- especially Logan.

I also love Clementine for a girl, but don't think I would ever actually name my daughter that.

As for boys, I absolutely love Clayton on a boy which I would 100% use but DH Isn't a fan- not sure that counts as GP

sqfibemom · February 2017

I love traditionally boy names on girls: Ryan, Noah, Sawyer, Joey etc.
I also love Scout, Story, Sailor, Briar and Poet for a girl.
I love Sebastian and Atlas for a boy.

ashleyandely · February 2017

girl gp names: marigold, marilyn, cassiopeia, autumn, lux, marceline

boy gp names: orien, fearchar, ardy, winston, quinn, pierre, lane

eta: prudence gp girl name

mercury94 · February 2017

I knew a girl named Austen in college. I thought the idea of naming a daughter after Jane Austen like that was so cool, but I would never do it. I also used to have a thing for using the name Stacey for a boy, but it's definitely not my style now.

Bringmemylongswordho · February 2017

Names I love but will never use

Boys: Horst, Emery, Addison, Reginald, Isidore, Ignatius, Mordecai

Girls: Yui, Mirai, Avivit, Bronwen, Temperance, Verity, Sigrun

Names I might use given the chance

Johannes, Percival

virginiaunicorn11 · February 2017

Brett on a girl

mrs_tacos · February 2017

I love Atlas for a boy. Would never use it, but I love it.

I really want to give our LO the MN Hermione if it's a girl, but DH says it's waaaay too nerdy. I also love Henrietta and Elisha for a girl, but would never use them. I also love month names, like January Jones, or September, which is the name of a character in a book series I love.

joforyoga · February 2017

Bringmemylongswordho said:

Names I love but will never use

Boys: Horst, Emery, Addison, Reginald, Isidore, Ignatius, Mordecai

Girls: Yui, Mirai, Avivit, Bronwen, Temperance, Verity, Sigrun

Names I might use given the chance

Johannes, Percival

Love Perceval too! I just think of the cutest little guy named Percy but hubby hates it.

KyleeWaller · February 2017

Girls: Tallulah, Temperance,
Boys: Pollux

NarrowHouses · February 2017

I love Aoife, Evangeline, and Ingrid.

For Aoife, we have Irish heritage, but its not that prominent so it would just seem a bit of a disconnect. Also, pronunciation.

Evangeline would make our kid's name 20 letters long! My husband is pretty set on most first names being 6 letters or under.

Ingrid would sound awful with our surname.

strawberrytree · February 2017

Mine are all ethnic names from a background we obviously do not share (my kids all have red hair and a McLastname). Ekaterina, Paloma, Esperanza, Alessandra, Noor, Kiranjit.

livingthedream-3 · February 2017

Girl - Willa
Boy - Amadeus

smallbutmighty77 · February 2017

Boy names for girls, but I don't consider it a guilty pleasure, they are on my list...
Riley, Ryan, Spencer, Elliotte, Charlie, Dylan.... Dylan and Charlie we can't do bc of family names similar, husband hates Elliotte. I loved Riley but it's getting really common. Still like Spencer too. NN Spence or I've seen Penny

joforyoga · February 2017

LivingTheDream said:

Girl - Willa
Boy - Amadeus

These are great names, no need to be guilty pleasure names!

neverblushed · February 2017

virginiaunicorn11 said:

Brett on a girl

I tutored a girl named Brett many years ago. Lovely young lady. Her older sister was Sam, which I think was short for Samantha.

cantrellja · February 2017

Penelope, Gwendolyn and Bronwen for a girl

Jasper, Beck and Hugo for a boy

geojaminee · February 2017

My GP names are fairly normal names that I can't use with our last name. My last name starts with an S so pretty much any name that ends with that sound would just slur right into our last name. I can't use Grace for that reason. Ruth was a name that my H loved, and I love the meaning, but it RHYMES with out last name, so hell to the no with that one. And I LOVE Judah for a boy, but with a LN starting with S, if you say it together, it sounds like Judas and o.O So damn.

Cricket99 · February 2017

Oh so many guilty pleasure names! Our last name starts with R and ends in son, so a lot of names that end in the -on sound are completely out. Plus longer names are out too.

Girls: Persephone (nn Phe), Ariadne, Sparrow, Wren (DH vetoed).

Boys: Tadhg, Destry, Orion

midge519 · February 2017

I love Shamus but we aren't Irish and it just doesn't fit well.

saham07 · February 2017

Wolfgang
Park
Winter
Story
September
January
Stone
Olsen nn Ole
Klein
I would never use any of these, but I have smiled when I've heard them on people. (I would use Wolfgang

)

ellie111227 · February 2017

I love the name Trygve for a boy. Enough that I would probably use it if dh didn't hate it, even though it makes no sense in America.

leighry · March 2017

I love Hudson and Tomasz for a boy. I love Collins, Truitt and Noah for a girl.

ashleyandely · March 2017

I have another one: Hannibal

lm45678 · March 2017

leighry said:

I love Hudson and Tomasz for a boy. I love Collins, Truitt and Noah for a girl.

Collins is a GP name for me too!

LadyMillil · March 2017

Bronwyn
Christianne
Penelope
Astrid
Marcella
Lyla
Ava
Sophia
Charlotte
Isobel

No boy names. DH is set on naming a boy after his dad so I never think of boy names

leighry · March 2017

@laurenm2123 I wanted to use it so bad but my husband couldn't get on board (for any of our 3 girls). Such a wet blanket haha

jordannpaige10 · March 2017

Persephone & Clementine.

anj042014 · March 2017

bridge-and-wall said:

I knew a girl named Austen in college. I thought the idea of naming a daughter after Jane Austen like that was so cool, but I would never do it. I also used to have a thing for using the name Stacey for a boy, but it's definitely not my style now.

I love the name Austen for a girl. It is actually on my list. I don't know if I would happen because my husband isn't a fan. But I think it is adorable.

LoveLee85 · March 2017

Girls: Goldie and Winnie

doodleoodle · March 2017

I love, love the name Matteo but given our heritage we could never use it.

leighry · March 2017

I love Cruz for a boy.

mrsvp614 · March 2017

Dexter. Love it, but I also loved the show (about a serial killer named Dexter) and our last name has an X, so it'd be too much.

NME44 · May 2017

Resurrecting this Bc I love GP names.

Laurel Dawn for a girl.

Finnick Ryan for a boy.

I'd totally use them, too, but we won't have enough kids to ever get to those names (We'd have to have 2 more boys and 3 more girls to cycle through the list before we got to those.)