Guilty Pleasure Names?

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

On a recent post I made about guilty pleasure names, someone told me that my choice wasn't anywhere near as bad as they were expecting for a "guilty pleasure" name. Honestly, a lot of my guilty pleasure names aren't WAY out there. So...I'm curious, what are YOUR guilty pleasure names? Mine are:


Bristol
Dusty Rose
Paisley
Cosette
Coraline
Daytona


I think the craziest guilty pleasure I've come up with was when I (JOKINGLY) said that if I ever had boy/girl twins I was naming them Bryan and Aldean or if I had girl/girl twins I was naming them Jessica and Elizabeth.

Comments

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

The only real name I would qualify as a guilty pleasure name is Beckham. And I would definitely use it if my husband liked it, HA!

Also, I LOL'd at Jessica & Elizabeth! I spent an entire summer reading about them when I found the series at a rummage sale ;)

[medamina.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Andromeda
Hermione
Liadan
Persephone
Sorcha
Ziva

Boys:
Dmitri
Heathcliff
Remus

I think Coraline is awesome, by the way.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Andromeda is totally on my guilty-pleasure list, too!

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I think the main reason I couldn't use Coraline is that the movie was so creepy.

Well, that and my #1 girls name starts with a C and has a hard C sound....and I don't want to be that mother! lol

Also, I love Ziva! I just can't imagine it on a little girl that's not Israeli. lol

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

Storm was a name I decided I loved when I was about 16 XD I still like it to this day, not 100% sure I'd use it. I guess it would depend on the potential father's opinion :p

Others that are on the REALLY LOVE but maybe just too weird are:

Eros
Odin
Rain
Lucien [for a girl]

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

I know a little boy named Odyn and it's actually really cute on him. I wish they had spelled it with an 'i' though...

[starcrossed.livejournal.com]

I love Dakota for a girl. And for a boy I absolutely LOVE Kermit, I think it's so cute (but rendered kinda unusable by the frog!)

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I love Kermit too!

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I think Dakota is a great name for a girl.

[pirahan.livejournal.com]

Liesel and Elsa. My husband said they were too German :(

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Aw, I don't think they're too German. I think they're cute!

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

I've always loved Tallulah but most likely won't use it. A more recent guilty pleasure for a girl is Snow.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

Every time I hear that name, now, I think of Tallulah Does the Hula from Hawaii. So...I can see where it might be more of a guilty pleasure name. lol

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Mine are (all girls) Harlequin, November, and Kaliadne. I'd use all of then but they've been vetoed.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Actually, I self-vetoed November, because it would be lazy if she was born in November and weird if she wasn't.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

I love November! I've got it on my list as a middle name (Sarah November) which hopefully my future husband won't veto.

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

Girls:

Liberty
Nevada
Kerensa
Ceridwen
Paris
India

Boys:
Horatio
Barnaby
Octavian
Yadier

I would have thought Bryan and Aldean would be two boys, but I love the reference. Brantley is on the rise in the Top 1000, so I can totally see someone using those for twins, too. I didn't get the Jessica and Elizabeth reference until I read the first comment, though, but they're cute and usable. I wonder how many people IRL would figure that one out.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Barnaby & Barnabas are on my list too...

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if I commented on your original post, although I remember reading it. I think Cosette and Coraline are perfectly usable. Bristol just makes me think of the Palin family. Dusty Rose is too adjective-noun sentence-sounding to me. Also, Dusty is a boys' name to me thanks to reading Johnny Tremain as a child. Rose is nice though. I've always had a really negative reaction to Paisley. Daytona = Daytona, Florida. Also, NASCAR.

Boys:
Sonnet
Ever

Girls:
Poem
Lyric
Ever
Winter (used to like it for both)
Snow

As I mentioned in response to another comment, I also like Kermit, and I used to love Zephyr, Merritt/Merit, and Paige for boys. Oh, and someone mentioned Meredith for a boy recently, and I am really kind of liking that too. That's all I can think of right now. I've got a new computer and haven't transferred over my documents from the old one, so I don't have access to my current list or list of old favorites.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I like Lyric, too. It's very pretty.

My biggest reason for not using Coraline is the dark tones of the movie. Plus, my #1 girls name is Colleen...so a sibset with Colleen and Cosette and/or Coraline is too much "K" sound for me.

Bristol Palin is the reason that Bristol is now on my guilty pleasure list. Everyone would associate that with her and think that's why I liked the name rather than the actual reason I like it.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

My guilty pleasures are probably Casper and Luna. My husband would never agree to either, and sadly I think I'd never be able to use them.

[eveyalecia.livejournal.com]

Casper is one of my faves!

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I think Luna is a perfectly good name, to be honest!

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of what makes a name (or a song or a food or anything) a "guilty pleasure" is that it doesn't otherwise fit with our image of ourselves. We think we're classier, or not as snobby, or not as geeky, or not as [you fill in the blank] as liking the name suggests. Or (perhaps worse) it DOES fit with some image we have of ourselves, but one that we're not proud of!

So for example, maybe a hardcore NASCAR fan might really secretly love "Daytona", and it would be a bit "guilty" because even they think that's out of proportion; or else someone who doesn't think of themselves as a big NASCAR fan might love "Daytona" anyway and it would be a bit "guilty" because "I don't even LIKE NASCAR!"

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I think that makes a lot of sense!

[fiending.livejournal.com]

I have actually thrown around the idea of using Daytona as a middle name for a girl because I'm from there and I plan on NEVER moving back. Ha. I would also use Nova because it's a main road in Daytona and it wouldn't have that awful NASCAR association.

A lot of my guilty pleasure names have "bad" things associated with them or they sound stripper-ish. Some are just off the wall. ;)

They are...
Abernathy
Bambi
Bellatrix
Darlin/Darlyn
Diesel
Fox
Jezebel
Juniper
Karma
Loki
Lucifer
Magick
Persephone
Pixie
Prodigy
Rogue
Salem
Sassy
Scout
Siren
Trixie

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I don't find it to be an "Awful" association...and is actually the reason I like both Daytona and Bristol

Scout is a name that keeps growing on me. I don't think it's quite to where I'd use it, just yet, but I like it a lot more than I once did.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

Scout's on my list, too. i love it, can't lie.

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I think my biggest guilty pleasure is India for a girl. I love the way it sounds, and it just looks pretty to me. But I'm not a fan of naming kids after countries, so it would be weird.

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

I LOVE India!! It is featured in so many lovely combinations in the London Telegraph birth announcement section!

[kitchen-poet.livejournal.com]

Mine are Ulysses and Amelia. Ulysses we likely wouldn't use because it could be too out there, and Amelia we wouldn't use because naming a child after a Doctor Who companion isn't particularly sound logic and it is too popular for us to really use, even though I really like both names.

I would have said my top guilty pleasure name was Oona, but I'm seriously considering using it as a first name because I just love it and I don't care that other people think it is weird. :)


OH. And we have a list of several noun names as second middle names that all happen to start with F. It started with Finch, which is my mom's maiden name & reminds me of Atticus Finch. And then my husband fell in love with Fawkes. So now we have Finch, Fawkes, Fogg (the actual middle name of a very wonderful college roommate) and Fleur. So maybe they aren't that weird when seen alone, but having a set feels a bit out there. I like Grey too.

I'm also determined to be able to use the nickname Jazza and/or Jazz for something...

[lalazizara.livejournal.com]

My guilty pleasure names are not that bad. They used to be horrible...ie Saylor, Stormy, Misty and so forth. But now I've switched to Countries and Cities as names. I adore Savannah, Augusta, Georgia, Sydney, Catalina.

As for boys, I have no guilty pleasure except for Felix.

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

I love Savannah, Sydney, and Catalina. I would actually name a daughter Savannah. But I'm from Georgia :D It's a pretty popular and normal name in the South.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

i love Paisley & Cosette, but i guess that makes them guilty pleasure names, too. i'd never use them. also Vienna.

[mommy.livejournal.com]

and Scout. i've always loved that name.

[stacyinthecity.livejournal.com]

I think that might have been me that said that. :) And I stand by it!

My guilty pleasure name is Katriana (kay-tree-AHN-uh). It is something that I think I came up with on my own when I was a kid. I knew someone named Katrina and I just fell in love with k names and started playing with sounds. I still really like it, and have that sentimental attachment to it, but I could never name my child this now. It is not my style at all. I think it is a real name, some sort of Katherine variation (which is what I was going for when I made it up).

[sweetest-asylum.livejournal.com]

Cochise
Wednesday
Gudrid
Thorstein

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

Serena and/or Darien (both of which are the English dub names of an anime I love; see also icon)
Jill (Valentine) and Chris (Redfield) (but I joke that we're going to name our dogs that - from Resident Evil)
Cordelia (I just like it, but everyone else in my family hates it)
Probably something from mythology, like Persephone or Cassiopeia...well, Cassiopeia would be bad, but I think the name is pretty.