What are your favorite outrageous names that you fancy but wouldn’t actually use?
[name_f]Tigerlily[/name_f] or Bluebird
[name_m]Huckleberry[/name_m], [name_m]Cotton[/name_m], [name_m]Draco[/name_m], [name_f]Antigone[/name_f], [name_f]Modesty[/name_f], [name_f]Sparrow[/name_f], [name_f]Galilee[/name_f]. I’m more willing to use some of these as middle names.
[name_f]Silence[/name_f] - I love this name for a girl! I also love [name_m]Sil[/name_m]êncio (“silence” in Portuguese), but I suspect that it actually has some usage after [name_f]Mary[/name_f], Our Lady of [name_f]Silence[/name_f].
Brave, Heart and Bluejay are also nice.
Oh! My newest middle name love is Songbird!
I seen these names and loved them. I would use these as middle names.
[name_m]Boon[/name_m]
[name_m]Coltrane[/name_m]
[name_m]Nickleby[/name_m]
I love [name_m]Cedric[/name_m] and [name_u]Cedar[/name_u] for boys but couldn’t actually use either.
[name_u]Ocean[/name_u], [name_f]Persephone[/name_f], Hareton, Sunset
[name_f]Gravity[/name_f] nn [name_f]Vivi[/name_f] or [name_u]Gray[/name_u] is the most outrageous…oh and Libertine nn [name_f]Libi[/name_f] lol.
Any name involving “hild”, e.g [name_f]Hildegarde[/name_f], [name_f]Brunhild[/name_f], [name_f]Swanhild[/name_f]- I love these names, but I don’t think I could ever give them to a child.
And then there are the rare Irish names that nobody in [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] actually uses, like Aoibhgréine, Lasairfhíona, Tuathflaith, Céibhfhionn, Lennabhair, & Cionnfhaoladh. To me they’re so pretty but very impractical!
[name_m]Stellan[/name_m]
Devereux
[name_m]Quill[/name_m]
[name_u]Salem[/name_u]
[name_m]Destin[/name_m]
[name_u]Cobalt[/name_u]
Buzzard
[name_f]Eilish[/name_f]
Destiel
[name_m]Castiel[/name_m]
[name_m]Ander[/name_m]
[name_f]Nova[/name_f]
[name_f]Tosca[/name_f]
[name_f]Tulsa[/name_f]
Besitos
Denahi
Could still be great middles, should circumstances be different.
[name_u]Artemis[/name_u]
Somerset
[name_f]Sapphire[/name_f]
[name_u]Phoenix[/name_u]
[name_f]Sparrow[/name_f]
[name_m]Aeneas[/name_m]
[name_f]Ariadne[/name_f], [name_f]Antigone[/name_f], [name_f]Thomasina[/name_f], [name_f]Horatia[/name_f], [name_f]Honoria[/name_f] and [name_f]Amaryllis[/name_f]
I could make a giant list, but instead I’ll just list one: [name_f]Eire[/name_f]
Swoon. Pronounced the Irish way, which I’m sure nobody would ever get right and I would feel like a jerk trying to get them to do so…so, definitely GP!
[name_m]Aurelius[/name_m]
Aslan
[name_m]Ezekiel[/name_m]
[name_m]Jaron[/name_m]
[name_f]Endeavor[/name_f]
[name_u]Lake[/name_u]
[name_m]Odysseus[/name_m]
[name_u]Juneau[/name_u]
[name_u]Cedar[/name_u]
[name_f]Antigone[/name_f]
[name_f]Reverie[/name_f]
Eilonwy
[name_u]January[/name_u]
[name_u]November[/name_u]
[name_u]Nevada[/name_u]
[name_u]Blue[/name_u]
[name_f]Austria[/name_f]
[name_f]Sarah[/name_f]-[name_u]Lisa[/name_u]
[name_u]Madigan[/name_u] and [name_f]Calanthe[/name_f]
Keneti for a little boy
[name_u]Ocean[/name_u]
[name_m]Odysseus[/name_m]
[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_m]Nikolai[/name_m]
[name_u]Artemis[/name_u]
[name_f]Odyssia[/name_f]
[name_f]Alaska[/name_f]
[name_f]Guinevere[/name_f]
[name_f]Kinga[/name_f]
[name_f]Twyla[/name_f]
[name_u]Winter[/name_u]
Many of these are on the shortlist for middle names, at least!
Illyria, Otillie and [name_u]Artemis[/name_u] for a boy
Honeywild
Waterlily
Peachblossom
[name_f]Plum[/name_f]
[name_m]Lemon[/name_m]