I saw a really old thread like this and thought it looked like fun, so I thought I’d bring one back. What are your favorite guilty pleasure/outlandish names, A through Z, boys and girls?
I’ll post mine down below because I have to think about it!
[name_f]Astraea[/name_f] & [name_m]Apollo[/name_m]
[name_f]Bunny[/name_f] & [name_f]Briar[/name_f]
[name_f]Callisto[/name_f] & [name_m]Castor[/name_m]
[name_u]Dove[/name_u] & [name_m]Dover[/name_m]
[name_u]Echo[/name_u] & [name_m]Erastus[/name_m]
[name_f]Fawn[/name_f] & [name_u]Finch[/name_u]
[name_f]Galatea[/name_f] & [name_u]Golden[/name_u]
[name_f]Hestia[/name_f] & [name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m] “[name_m]Hawk[/name_m]”
[name_f]Io[/name_f] & [name_u]Indigo[/name_u] “[name_f]Indi[/name_f]”
[name_f]Jinx[/name_f] & [name_m]Jupiter[/name_m]
K ?
[name_f]Lavender[/name_f] & Larkspur
[name_f]Mercy[/name_f] & [name_f]Marvel[/name_f]
[name_f]Nyx[/name_f] & [name_u]Neptune[/name_u]
[name_f]Oceana[/name_f] & [name_f]October[/name_f]
[name_u]Poet[/name_u] & [name_m]Pacific[/name_m]
[name_m]Quimby[/name_m] & [name_m]Quest[/name_m]
[name_m]Rigby[/name_m] & [name_m]Roswell[/name_m]
[name_u]Salem[/name_u] & [name_u]Scout[/name_u]
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f] & Thistle
U ?
Valkyrie & [name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Wednesday[/name_f] & [name_m]Welby[/name_m]
[name_f]Xanthe[/name_f] & [name_m]Xanthus[/name_m]
Y ?
Zenith & [name_u]Zephyr[/name_u]
Astarte
[name_f]Beryl[/name_f]
[name_f]Chrysanthemum[/name_f]
Dandellion
Endellion
([name_m]Will[/name_m] continue, but there are way too many!)
I say guilty pleasure but I might use some of these as middles?
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] ‘[name_f]Lottie[/name_f]’ and Algenrnon
[name_u]Blue[/name_u] and [name_m]Brynmor[/name_m]
[name_f]Camber[/name_f] and Carnelian
[name_u]Dove[/name_u] and D’artagnan
[name_f]Endellion[/name_f] and [name_m]Endymion[/name_m]
Firefly and [name_u]Fifer[/name_u]
[name_f]Generosity[/name_f] ‘[name_f]Rosy[/name_f]’ and Galahad
[name_f]Hannelore[/name_f] and [name_m]Heathcliff[/name_m]
[name_f]Iolanthe[/name_f] and [name_m]Iolo[/name_m]
[name_f]Journey[/name_f] and [name_m]Jeremiah[/name_m]
Kestrel and [name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_f]Leocadia[/name_f] and Laertes
[name_u]Memphis[/name_u] and Malachite
Nightingale and [name_m]Noon[/name_m]
[name_u]Ocean[/name_u] and [name_m]Orpheus[/name_m]
Picotee and [name_m]Pablo[/name_m]
[name_f]Queenie[/name_f] and [name_m]Quaid[/name_m]
[name_f]Reverie[/name_f] and [name_f]Revel[/name_f]
Stargazer and Seafarer
[name_f]Topaz[/name_f] and [name_m]Truett[/name_m]
[name_f]Undine[/name_f] and [name_m]Uriah[/name_m]
Villanelle and [name_u]Vyvyan[/name_u]
Whitby and Wildfire
Xya and [name_m]Xylon[/name_m]
[name_f]Yara[/name_f] and [name_u]Yeats[/name_u]
Zazie and [name_m]Zebedee[/name_m]
My guilty pleasures range from ‘this just wouldn’t fit with the rest of my style’ to ‘you can never name a living thing this’…
[name_f]Arcadia[/name_f]/Astatine and Atid/Antimony ([name_f]Asti[/name_f] and [name_m]Tim[/name_m]!)
Bethlehem/Briyah and Bienvenuto
[name_f]Cascade[/name_f] and Cavalier/[name_u]Cairo[/name_u]
Darling and Dare
[name_f]Evangelica[/name_f]/[name_f]Evening[/name_f] and Erabor/[name_u]Everest[/name_u]
[name_u]Forever[/name_u] and [name_u]Frost[/name_u]
[name_f]Gwyneira[/name_f] and Gianbaptiste
Hallelujah/Hekibel and [name_m]Hawk[/name_m]/[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_f]Io[/name_f] and [name_m]Idris[/name_m]
[name_f]Jubilee[/name_f] and [name_u]Jericho[/name_u]
K----- (I’m just really not into K names)
[name_f]Lethe[/name_f] and Leodensian
Marinette/[name_f]Magda[/name_f]/[name_f]Mehetabel[/name_f] and [name_m]Maverick[/name_m]/[name_u]Memphis[/name_u]
Niagara/Nereli and Nelac
[name_f]Obedience[/name_f] and [name_m]Ottomar[/name_m]/[name_m]Odysseus[/name_m]
[name_f]Promise[/name_f] and [name_m]Prosper[/name_m]/[name_m]Pryor[/name_m]
Quire and [name_m]Quest[/name_m]
[name_f]Rialta[/name_f]/[name_m]Riviera[/name_m] and [name_u]Ruby[/name_u]/Reut
[name_f]Sparrow[/name_f]/Sunset/[name_f]Sonnet[/name_f]/[name_f]Starling[/name_f]/[name_f]Sparrow[/name_f]/Skylark (No gender preferences here)
Therapie/[name_f]Twyla[/name_f] and [name_u]Truth[/name_u]
[name_f]Ursa[/name_f] and [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_m]Vered[/name_m] and Vegard
[name_f]Wednesday[/name_f] and Wolfie
Xiola and Xernias
Yocheved and Yttria
Zanzibar and [name_m]Zev[/name_m]
([name_m]Will[/name_m] have to finish this later)
Not all of these will be true guilty pleasures, some will just be a little out there.
[name_f]Arizona[/name_f] & [name_m]Absalom[/name_m]
Bluma & Briar
[name_f]Chrysanthemum[/name_f] & Cedar
Dandelion (I came up with this for a character in middle school and I still love it.) & Diego
Eurydice & Eliezer
Flannery & Fortitude “Ford”
G & Guernsey
Hester & Hiram
Independence “Indie” & [name_m]Icarus[/name_m]
James (f) &
Keturah &
Lemon &
Myfanwy & Meriadoc
Nike & N
Odilia & Orpheus
Petal & Peregrine “Pippin”
Queenie & Quill
Rahab & Rhodes
Scheherazade/Stellaluna/Sabbath & Saint
Temperance & Thoreau “Thor”
Ursa & Ulysses
V & Valentine
Wednesday “Wendy” & Welcome
Xanthe &
Yseult & Yarrow
Zipporah & Zebedee
[name_f]Acadia[/name_f] and Athelstan
[name_m]Boston[/name_m] and [name_m]Brayson[/name_m]
[name_m]Clooney[/name_m] and Cipur
[name_u]Domino[/name_u] and D’Artagnan/Dustfinger
[name_f]Epiphany[/name_f] and [name_m]Esau[/name_m]
Freelove and Fiyero
[name_f]Godiva[/name_f] and Gilligan
Halo and [name_u]Haley[/name_u]
[name_f]Imagine[/name_f] and [name_m]Iolo[/name_m]
[name_f]Jubilee[/name_f] and [name_m]Jesus[/name_m]
Kindness and Kilroy
Lundi/[name_u]Lennon[/name_u] and [name_m]Lancelot[/name_m]
My and Midas
[name_f]Novella[/name_f] and [name_m]Needham[/name_m]
[name_f]Orpah[/name_f] and [name_m]Oxford[/name_m]
[name_f]Prunella[/name_f] and [name_m]Peerless[/name_m]
[name_f]Queenie[/name_f] and Queequeg
Rococo and [name_u]Regan[/name_u]
[name_f]Silence[/name_f] and [name_m]Sinbad[/name_m]
Timbrel and [name_m]Tarzan[/name_m]
Utopia and [name_m]Uzzi[/name_m]
[name_f]Violante[/name_f] and Vickery
Wonder and [name_f]Wyoming[/name_f]
Xanthippe and [name_m]Xanthus[/name_m]
[name_u]Yeardley[/name_u] and [name_m]Yul[/name_m]
[name_f]Zuzu[/name_f] and [name_m]Ziggy[/name_m]
A few of these I could be persuaded to be bold enough to use as middles, though…
A lot of these I’d still use anyway but…
[name_f]Ariadne[/name_f] & Aslan
[name_f]Bethesda[/name_f] & [name_m]Bard[/name_m]
[name_u]Calypso[/name_u] & [name_m]Castiel[/name_m]
[name_f]Daenerys[/name_f] & [name_u]Dorian[/name_u]
[name_f]Emerald[/name_f] & [name_m]Espen[/name_m]
[name_f]Fantasia[/name_f] & [name_m]Finnegan[/name_m]
[name_f]Gardenia[/name_f] & [name_m]Gulliver[/name_m]
[name_f]Harmonia[/name_f] & [name_u]Hudson[/name_u]
[name_f]Isis[/name_f] & [name_u]Indiana[/name_u]
[name_f]Jessenia[/name_f] & [name_m]Jovan[/name_m]
[name_u]Kendall[/name_u] & [name_m]Kaiser[/name_m]
Lovella & [name_m]Lucifer[/name_m]
Marinette & [name_m]Maximus[/name_m]
[name_f]Niamh[/name_f] & [name_m]Nazareth[/name_m]
[name_f]Orella[/name_f] & Olivian
[name_f]Pandora[/name_f] & [name_u]Phoenix[/name_u]
[name_f]Quilla[/name_f] & [name_m]Quill[/name_m]
[name_f]Rapunzel[/name_f] & Rhydian
Scheherezade & [name_u]Salem[/name_u]
[name_f]Titania[/name_f] & [name_m]Thor[/name_m]
[name_f]Ursula[/name_f] & [name_u]Urban[/name_u]
Vixen & [name_m]Viridian[/name_m]
[name_f]Whisper[/name_f] & [name_u]Winslow[/name_u]
Xanthippe & [name_m]Xenos[/name_m]
[name_f]Yamileth[/name_f] & [name_m]Yves[/name_m]
Zarula & [name_m]Zebulon[/name_m]
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] & [name_m]Adonis[/name_m]
[name_f]Blanche[/name_f] & [name_u]Beau[/name_u]
[name_f]Calliope[/name_f] & [name_m]Caspian[/name_m]
Dandelion & [name_m]Dionysus[/name_m]
[name_f]Elizabella[/name_f] & Eliseu
[name_f]Flor[/name_f] & [name_u]Falcon[/name_u]
[name_f]Gaia[/name_f] & [name_u]Galen[/name_u]
[name_f]Heavenly[/name_f] & [name_u]Hero[/name_u]
[name_f]India[/name_f] & [name_u]Indigo[/name_u]
[name_f]Jewel[/name_f] & [name_m]Jupiter[/name_m]
[name_u]Kenya[/name_u] & [name_m]Kaiser[/name_m]
[name_f]Lotus[/name_f] & [name_u]Legend[/name_u]
[name_f]Magnolia[/name_f] & [name_m]Maximus[/name_m]
[name_f]Nala[/name_f] & Nightingale
[name_f]Olympia[/name_f] & [name_u]Orion[/name_u]
[name_f]Primrose[/name_f] & [name_m]Percival[/name_m]
[name_f]Queen[/name_f] & [name_u]Quincy[/name_u]
[name_f]Rainbow[/name_f] & [name_u]Reign[/name_u]
[name_f]Sunshine[/name_f] & [name_f]Sparrow[/name_f]
[name_f]Tiana[/name_f] & [name_m]Thor[/name_m]
[name_f]Una[/name_f] & [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_f]Venus[/name_f] & [name_u]Valentine[/name_u]
[name_f]Wisteria[/name_f] & [name_m]Wolf[/name_m]
[name_f]Xenia[/name_f] & [name_m]Xander[/name_m]
[name_f]Yadira[/name_f] & [name_u]Yale[/name_u]
[name_u]Zola[/name_u] & [name_u]Zen[/name_u]
Some of these I would probably still use but:
Aoide & [name_m]Achilles[/name_m]
Briseis & [name_u]Blaise[/name_u]
[name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f] & [name_m]Castor[/name_m]
[name_u]Denver[/name_u] & [name_u]Day[/name_u]
[name_f]Evening[/name_f] & [name_m]Eero[/name_m]
[name_u]Fallon[/name_u] & [name_m]Finnick[/name_m]
[name_f]Gwyneira[/name_f] & [name_u]Grey[/name_u]
[name_u]Halcyon[/name_u] & [name_u]Hunter[/name_u]
[name_f]Ithaca[/name_f] & [name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_u]Juniper[/name_u] & [name_m]Jesper[/name_m]
[name_f]Kirrily[/name_f] & Kyrin
Linaria & [name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_m]Merrit[/name_m] & [name_m]Melchior[/name_m]
[name_f]Nephele[/name_f] & Nicander
[name_f]October[/name_f] & [name_u]Orion[/name_u]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f] & [name_m]Perseus[/name_m]
[name_f]Queenie[/name_f] & [name_m]Quinton[/name_m]
[name_f]Rainey[/name_f] & [name_m]Rainier[/name_m]
[name_f]Sunday[/name_f] & [name_m]Scipio[/name_m]
[name_f]Tiana[/name_f] & [name_m]Theseus[/name_m]
[name_f]Uvelia[/name_f] & [name_m]Uriah[/name_m]
[name_u]Valentine[/name_u] & [name_u]Valentine[/name_u] (lol)
[name_f]Wednesday[/name_f] & [name_m]Wolf[/name_m]
[name_f]Xanthe[/name_f] & [name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
Yvie & [name_m]Yves[/name_m]
[name_f]Zofia[/name_f] & Zylen
[name_u]Aberdeen[/name_u] & [name_m]Algernon[/name_m]
[name_f]Boheme[/name_f] & [name_m]Basil[/name_m]
[name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f] & [name_u]Chauncey[/name_u]
[name_f]Dharma[/name_f] & [name_m]Diggory[/name_m]
[name_f]Eir[/name_f] & [name_m]Erasmus[/name_m]
[name_f]Flower[/name_f] & [name_m]Felix[/name_m]
[name_f]Greer[/name_f] & [name_f]Garland[/name_f]
[name_f]Hestia[/name_f] & Harvest
[name_f]Indira[/name_f] & [name_u]Indigo[/name_u]
[name_f]Jemima[/name_f] & [name_m]Jonty[/name_m]
[name_f]Keturah[/name_f] & [name_m]Kees[/name_m]
[name_f]Leopoldine[/name_f] & Limerick
[name_f]Morgana[/name_f] & [name_m]Mortimer[/name_m]
[name_u]Nile[/name_u] & [name_m]Neville[/name_m]
[name_m]Oran[/name_m] & [name_f]Olga[/name_f]
Philophrosyne & [name_m]Ptolemy[/name_m]
[name_f]Quintessa[/name_f] & [name_m]Quill[/name_m]
[name_f]Rhiannon[/name_f] & [name_m]Rudyard[/name_m]
[name_f]Sunshine[/name_f] & [name_f]Shasta[/name_f]
Terreis & Telemacus
[name_f]Undine[/name_f] & [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_f]Velma[/name_f] & [name_u]Vernon[/name_u]
[name_f]Wilhelmina[/name_f] & [name_m]Winthrop[/name_m]
[name_f]Xena[/name_f] & [name_m]Xerxes[/name_m]
[name_f]Yetta[/name_f] & Yuleimy
[name_f]Zelda[/name_f] & [name_m]Zebulon[/name_m]
[name_f]Aeronwy[/name_f] & [name_m]Albion[/name_m]
[name_f]Boudicca[/name_f] & [name_m]Buzz[/name_m]
[name_f]Cassiopeia[/name_f] & [name_m]Caradoc[/name_m]
[name_f]Demelza[/name_f] & [name_m]Draco[/name_m]
[name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f] & [name_m]Endymion[/name_m]
[name_f]Forsythia[/name_f] & [name_m]Fitzwilliam[/name_m]
[name_f]Godiva[/name_f] & [name_m]Geraint[/name_m]
Honeysuckle & [name_m]Horatio[/name_m]
[name_f]Ithaca[/name_f] & [name_m]Isidore[/name_m]
[name_u]January[/name_u] & [name_m]Jethro[/name_m]
[name_f]Kismet[/name_f] & [name_m]Kipling[/name_m]
[name_f]Leopoldine[/name_f] & [name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_f]Morag[/name_f] & [name_m]Marmaduke[/name_m]
[name_f]Nimue[/name_f] & [name_m]Newt[/name_m]
[name_u]Orion[/name_u] & Oleander
[name_f]Phaedra[/name_f] & [name_m]Pippin[/name_m]
[name_f]Quintessa[/name_f] & [name_u]Quant[/name_u]
[name_f]Reinette[/name_f] & [name_m]Romeo[/name_m]
[name_f]Sunniva[/name_f] & Scorpius
Tuppence & [name_m]Thaddeus[/name_m]
[name_f]Umbrielle[/name_f] & [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
Vespertine & [name_m]Vittorio[/name_m]
[name_f]Wisteria[/name_f] & [name_u]Willoughby[/name_u]
[name_f]Xiomara[/name_f] & [name_m]Xerxes[/name_m]
[name_f]Yseult[/name_f] & [name_m]Yorick[/name_m]
[name_u]Zola[/name_u] & Zedediah
I’m not sure I classify these as guilty pleasures because they quite resemble my actual favorites, but…
Apelila (or Apikalia) + [name_m]Aurelius[/name_m]
[name_f]Blossom[/name_f] + [name_m]Bear[/name_m]
Cèilídh + [name_m]Carlito[/name_m]
Dandelion + [name_u]Duffy[/name_u]
[name_f]Endellion[/name_f] + Excelsior (actually [name_u]LOVE[/name_u] this one as a MN)
Fliss + Friday
[name_f]Glimmer[/name_f] + Given
[name_f]Hialeah[/name_f] + [name_m]Huckleberry[/name_m] (this one too)
[name_f]Inez[/name_f] + …
[name_f]Jemima[/name_f] + [name_m]Juanito[/name_m]
Kittiwake + Kittiwake
[name_f]Liliosa[/name_f] + [name_u]Lennox[/name_u]
Mabli (or [name_f]Martie[/name_f]) + [name_u]Mischa[/name_u]
[name_f]Nahla[/name_f] + [name_m]Newt[/name_m]
[name_f]Olive[/name_f] + [name_u]Oak[/name_u]
Peakalika + [name_u]Poet[/name_u]
[name_f]Quilla[/name_f] + [name_m]Quigley[/name_m]
[name_f]Raphaela[/name_f] + [name_u]Raleigh[/name_u]
Sunflower + [name_f]Somer[/name_f] (or [name_u]Seeley[/name_u])
[name_f]Tigerlily[/name_f] + Theonino
[name_f]Valley[/name_f] + [name_m]Vine[/name_m]
Waterlily + Winnipeg
[name_f]Xena[/name_f] + [name_m]Xavier[/name_m]
[name_f]Yaretzi[/name_f] + [name_u]Yael[/name_u]
[name_f]Zuly[/name_f] (or [name_f]Zadie[/name_f]) + [name_u]Zooey[/name_u]
together some of these really sound like overpriced vacation apparel stores-- maybe that’s my true calling!