Guilty pleasure name...

[politicking.livejournal.com]

Boy: I have loved the name Tristan since... wow, since I was like nine or 10 years old. I'm not sure I'd use it, but I still love it.
Girl: I love the way the names Elle, Ella and Ava sound, and I always picture a cute, dainty little girl with those names... but it was so popular (and maybe still is?), that I'm unsure if I'd ever use it.

What are your guilty pleasure names? Would you ever use them?

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[shechoselove.livejournal.com]

Girls Names: Sage, Cordelia, Payton

And no, probably not

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

For a girl....Blue, Rain, Paloma, Heidi

For a boy....Ocean, Marley, Oscar

Maybe I'd use them, maybe not. I really love Paloma though.

[americandiva.livejournal.com]

Guilty Pleasures:

Parker, Harper, Hadley...all for girls

And no I would never use them

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

Ohh...Harper is a guilty pleasure for me, too! Doesn't fit in with my other daughters names, though...Emilie Claire and Hannah Paige.

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Cadence for a girl. Tucker for a boy.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

I love Cadence for a girl. I'd never use it though. :(

Tucker & Cadence

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Those are great, a nice pair too. Hope you consider using them someday.

Re: Tucker & Cadence

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

They've been towards the top of my lists for years now, but with Cadence rising in popularity with the spelling Kadence (and others) and Tucker rhyming with Fucker...I don't know anymore.

Re: Tucker & Cadence

[crossingthesea.livejournal.com]

Too many great names have been lost to excuses. Stay strong and keep loving them.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

I also love Ava, but it's definitely too popular for me to use.

I'm sure everyone here has heard my guilty pleasure names, haha, but here they are: Ptolemy, Ignatius, Jean-Baptiste. I also like Evander and Edmund, I don't know if I'd call them guilty pleasure names, but I don't think I could use them on an actual kid. For girls, I really like Mirabel, Theodora (but I would consider actually using it), Dulcibella, India, and Maybelle.

Then there are all the names I really like but couldn't use, mostly due to insane popularity, like Michael, Emily, Hannah, Grace, Joshua, Andrew, Ryan... the exception would probably be William, which I would use even considering how common it is.

I love the name Nicholas, but I can't use it because I have a cousin named Nicolas.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

My biggest guilty pleasure girl name is Sadie. I adore it. But too many people are like "it sounds like a cocker spaniel!" :(

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

Hahah! We have an Old English Sheepdog named Sadie!

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

This makes me sad. I may just get a dog and call her Sadie, so I can use the name and get it out of my system, lol.

My boss has a little girl named Sadie. When she told me that, I seriously SQUEALED. She's like "what?!" I'm like "I LOVE THAT NAME!!!" I thought I was pregnant once after being raped (ugh), and I don't know WHY, but I just got the name Sadie in my head. She was going to be Sadie Elisabeth. No clue where it came from, as it was never a name I'd thought about before. Needless to say, I wasn't pregnant. But then my friends also commented that it would've been dumb on a mixed-race baby anyway (I'm white, the jerk was black). Funny this? My boss's little girl is mixed. :-P

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

How exactly would Sadie have been dumb on a mixed race baby...? I'm not getting it at all.

[home-to-me.livejournal.com]

they just said they pictured it on like a little white girl, I guess (or, you know, a dog). I have a friend who's having a baby who'll be mixed, and when I offer name suggestions, she's like "Nope, that's too white..." lol. Though let me tell you... when I have babies, I don't care WHAT race they are - I like the names I like. Period.

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

So sorry you had to go through that. :(

I don't think it would be dumb on a mixed race baby. I can picture it on a white, black, mixed, hell, ANY race baby, TBH! It's a *cute* name to me. I think that's why it works so well for dogs. I can see it on a cute little girl, but not a grown, mature woman.

[thejoysofjess.livejournal.com]

The only Sadie I've known who wasn't a dog spelled it Seidy and was hispanic. I actually really liked it on her, but I'm still a little iffy on that spelling.

[classiestkid.livejournal.com]

Ava, Addison and Avery are my favorite girls names, I'm really hoping the fad is over by the time I'm ready to have kids.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately when the fad is over, they'll be dated, so it would be like naming a baby born now 'Stacy'.

[idrinkacidrain.livejournal.com]

...Or Travis, Tiffany, Pamela, Patricia and the like. This is why I dread popularity surges of my favourites.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Exactly, most of the time you just can't win. :-\

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

For girls: India. I also have a ton of other ones, but India is number one.

For boys: Ashley, I suppose.

I want to use India because I think it's gorgeous, but it would be so awkward on my future lily-white child. Maybe Ashley as a middle name.

[raisintree.livejournal.com]

Is the Gone With the Wind/Wilkes reference intentional? Or just a coincidence? :D

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

LOL, just coincidental. I have a lot more favorite guilty pleasure names in addition to those two.

[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

Count me in for loving India!! I think it sounds gorgeous, but to me it'd be like naming a kid Canada or something (though there is America Ferrera ... lol).

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

I love Ephraim for a boy. I also love Liam. My husband LOATHES both. I would possibly use Liam, but not Ephraim.

For girls I really like Felicity...but I don't think I'd use it. Although, when I just asked my husband if he liked it he shrugged and said, "Uh...I guess..." lol...good sign! ;)

Oh! And I love Ainsley for a boy, too. Again, my husband would never go for that. I wouldn't seriously want to use it...but like the way it looks/sounds.

[xx-imagination.livejournal.com]

Delilah, Wendy, and Ender.

I would never use them on children, but I really want to get kittens and name them those!

[essmtee.livejournal.com]

For girls - Calliope, Lorelei, Abra, Caprice

For boys - Gideon, Emmerson, Jonas, Silas

Since my three children are grown and nearly grown I'm no longer seriously considering naming an actual child so I feel as though I have more freedom to say 'of course I would use that name'. But when a real baby is on the way I've found that one tends to get a little less extravagant with names. Having said that however, I named my first child Cassandra which I thought of as a guilty pleasure back then but went ahead and did it anyway. I've wavered a little bit over the years, sometimes thinking that the name was a bit much but I still love it and it never became way too common like I was afraid it might.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Blue
Alaska
Lavender
Lourdes
Ravenna
*
Oleander
Simeon
Aeneas

No, I most likely won't use them. There are a lot of names that are more normal that I like better =)

[spartan-picnic.livejournal.com]

Bambi and Liberty. Yeah, I would never use them on kids. Instead I named my iPods with those names :D

[spartan-picnic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my taste in names is usually a bit... classier l but I just love Bambi and Liberty -_____- Unfortunately they are totally ridiculous and even cruel on real people.

Actually now that I think of it probaby all of my favorite names are a bit guilty pleasure names for me since I am Finnish and I think it's horrible how some Finns give their kids English names when they clearly are 100% Finnish. That's why I can never use ay of my favorite names, like James, on my kids if I stay in Finland :/

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I would probably have to say that Juno is a guilty pleasure name. I don't really feel guilty about any of my boy names, they're all fairly normal. Would I ever use it? If I ever found a guy who liked it, and he didn't like my other names, then heck yes.

[xdontxyouxwish.livejournal.com]

i knew a girl named blue.

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

girls:
emily
hazel
harriet
ruby
joey (would only use as a nickname for josephine)

boys:
thatcher
atticus
asa
forrest
sawyer
phineas
oscar
otto
soren
torben
hans
niels
finn