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 :)

[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).

[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.

[rorylareina.livejournal.com]

Valkyrie is fantastic.

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.)

[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)

[luvahs.livejournal.com]

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

[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]

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

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

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

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

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

[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?)

[aislincalum.livejournal.com]

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

[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. :)

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. :)

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't really have a set list of guilty pleasures as much as I have a list, and the names on it have sort of a usability gradient. I love Aurora and Jericho, and Gemma's on my list as well.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Aw, cute. I love the theme.

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

LOVE Ptolemy. Maybe as a middle name?

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

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks!!! I might be crazy enough to make these the middle names, lol.

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]

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

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

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

[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.