Guilty Pleasures

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Everyone's got them. Names that you would really, absolutely use if you were a celebrity, a millionaire, or in some other way not living in the real world. I'm really curious as to what everyone's guilty pleasure names are, and why.

Mine are:
Girls:
Cinnamon (Cute, right? No idea what I'd do for a middle name, though.)
Rose Thorn
Oriana Star
Sunshine Rae
Wilhelmina Hope (My grandmother's name; I like the idea of it, but it just looks ugly to me. And most people seem to agree.)

Boys:
Briar Patch (Rose's twin brother, obviously :) )
Horatio Grey
Indigo Sea
Isidore Blue
Jett Storm

Come to think of it, I could almost inflict Horatio on a real person. Almost. Only problem is he'd spend his life being told there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are...well, you get the idea.


I limited myself to five boys and five girls, but if you have more/less, that's cool too.

Comments

[haughtymelodic.livejournal.com]

Jett Storm is destined to be a weather man :)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but an awesome one. He might not always be right, but he'd always be cool.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Aw, cute. I love the theme.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Ptolemy
Jean-Baptiste
Ignatius

Mirabel(le)
Maybelle

I think it's pretty obvious why I wouldn't use them (although I think Mirabel(le) is okay, just a bit too over-the-top for me personally to actually use).

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

I like Maybelle, but it's my BFF's dog's name. :o/ That just ruins it for me!

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Most of the names I have on my list I guess could be considered guilty pleasures:

Girls:
Aurora
Bijou
Femke
Gemma
Thora
Valkyrie

Boys:
Aksel
Crispin
Indy
Jericho
Jett

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I forgot Corwin which I LOOOOOVE and is the name of a very good friend.

Which is why I could never use it and therefore is a guilty pleasure name.

***And Leonidas, which will stay a guilty pleasure for obvious reasons.

[justuschickens.livejournal.com]

I've just decided to chuck the whole concept of guilty pleasures and use them.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

That's awesome. :) I would totally do that for some of my names, but I have a feeling it might be hard to talk the SO into it.

Those wild Greek and Italian names that only the elites can get away with, and other crazy names...

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Andromeda
Absinthe
Winnifred
Philomena
Athaliah (Jezzie's demonic offspring, for those who don't know. Too bad, because the name is beautiful. ATH-uh-LIE-uh, with an accent on the first syllable, too.)

Ares
Apollo
Odysseus
Bartholomew
Cassius (I can't get over him being the manipulative bad boy behind Brutus' painful innocence.)

Re: Those wild Greek and Italian names that only the elites can get away with, and other crazy names

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

I love absolutely all of these, especially Apollo and Odysseus. And Andromeda. And Ares. Well, you get the idea. :)

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

I agree with justuschickens and may use some of these someday...

Rosary (f)
Proserpina (f)
Alaska (f)
Story (f)
Keller (f)

Salinger (m)
Rocket (m)
Sedley (m)
Thackeray (m)
Radley (m)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Story and Rocket would be an awesome noun-themed sibset.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

I love Aphrodite, Orion, and Dante. Seems like they'd have a lot to live up to, though.

[luvahs.livejournal.com]

Briar Patch is the name of a bed and breakfast I stayed at 2 weekends ago. haha

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's another good reason to keep it a guilty pleasure. Naming a kid after a bed and breakfast would be kinda shady.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

girls:
pippa
tallulah
clementine
cosette
tennessee

boys:
cash
jasper (only because i love the nickname jazz)
hudson
huck
indiana

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

I like your names. I feel like they all fit together, like maybe they could be a huge family from Georgia or Alabama or something. I especially love Jasper with the nn Jazz, but I think it works on its own as well.

[shyspy.livejournal.com]

Boys:
Onyx
Lorenzo
Chazz* (I really love this one, but just can't bring myself to use it)
Brixton

Girls:
Vega (We might end up using this one, sci-fi sounding or no!)
Kadence
Kiara
Kaida

(Can you tell I love K names?)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Onyx is such a great name. It would be so cute on a little boy with black hair.

[mistressfishie.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Piper
Andromeda
Arneb
Talitha
Evalina
Persephone
Adriella

Boys:
Sirius
Malakai
Senka
Cassius
Indiana
Altair

Most I've used in (mainly futuristic) stories but I'd never use them on a real kid. :)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Persephone and Sirius. Love those names. :)

Re: "if it's a girl, Bookcase or Sandstorm or maybe Hat, but that's more of a boys name."

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Psst... I wouldn't blink at a Zelda! That's one of my favorite names.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

See, I can't tell. My first name is super common, and I think it'd be awesome to have a really rare name. But at the same time, I wouldn't want to start my kid off in life with what some would perceive as a disadvantageous first name. I dunno. Luckily I still have a couple years to decide. I certainly admire your attitude on the matter. :) And Apple is a cute name!

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Chrysanthamum = WIN.

I like Artemis, too, but ever since Nymbler told me it's a unisex name I've liked it for boys.

[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

monet (i might just use this as a middle name...)
pandora
november
melpomene
nyx

sirius (curse you, jk rowling!!)
percival (see above)
octavius
basil
apollo (though if i have a boy/girl twin set, i'll probably stick this as a middle name...)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

I love Basil, I would totally use that in real life. Monet is quite nice as well, although weirdly I feel like i've been seeing it on a lot of lists lately.

[bluegenedream.livejournal.com]

Cleopatra
Persephone
Clover
Ginger (This wasn't guilty pleasure until I saw Ginger Snaps)

Night - I consider unisex

Hermes
Draco (I decided I'd name a son Draco one night when I was looking at a stargazing map. I was 8 and Harry Potter had not yet come into existence. Darn you JK Rowling!)
Lucifer (Feel slightly ashamed that it's even on my guilty pleasure list but I honestly think that if you ignore all the connotations it has, it sounds really strong and nice. And there was a saint or something named Lucifer, so whatever. Lucius and Luke are my not-so-guilty replacements for it.)


I feel like I have such weird taste for guilty-pleasure names....

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

I had never considered Night as a name before. That's awesome. I love Clover and Cleopatra as well. Lucifer, however, was ruined for me, as it was my mom's dog's name. Oh well. I like your taste in names!

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Torben
Thatcher
Asa
Forrest
Atticus
Nolan

Piper
Maren
Isabel
Emily
Harriet
Matilda

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Oh and also?

Thoren
Soren
Ezekiel

Poet
Rivka (I'm not Jewish, so this might be pushing it, haha)

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Maverick is my number one guilty pleasure name for a boy. For a girl, it would have to be Remy. I won't use it, but it's cute.

My SO's guilty pleasure name for a boy is Star-James. We can only hope it won't be used.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Star-James reminds me of Star Jones which is...not optimal. I love Maverick for a boy; it's got a great sound and a great meaning.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I love the name Briar, but it is strictly a girl name for me.

My guilty pleasures:
Payne
Japheth
Deacon

Eulalia
Poet nn Poe

I also adore the name Byrdie/Birdie, and I might use it as a nickname, but I don't love a logical full name for it, like I do other names. I do love Briar, but there are names that I love more than that one.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Briar was a toss up. I think in my head it's unisex, but I haven't really bothered to decide since I don't plan on using it.

Poet with the nickname Poe is great on so many levels. Where does Eulalia come from? I've herd it before, but only in Redwall.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

I forgot September and November for girls

[duckduckcaboose.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Andromeda
Aphrodite
Starlight or maybe Star Lyte to make it uber-classy a la Rooster McConaughey.
Tangerine (it sooo trumps Apple)
Astoria
Guinevere

My taste in boys names is more traditional, but I might do something like combining River with Thames, lol... There are so many names I can't use with River.
Oh, also BOWIE. I would so name my kid Bowie.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Tallulah

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Dahlia
India
Liberty
London
Magnolia
Olive
Poet
Sienna
Sloane
Tuesday
Wednesday

Arizona
Beauregard
Felix
Grover
Garland
Kirby
Linus
Paris
Roman
Roosevelt
Rupert
Rufus

[moshimoshi-13.livejournal.com]

I have a little crush on a girl named Cosette. I think it's pretty useable as a name. Maybe a little bit LES MIS, but still, I've seen it used in practice and it works.