I’m curious if any of you all have joke names for potential children? For example, my wife jokes that we should name our baby [name_f]May[/name_f] and have it be short for Mayonnaise (sibling to [name_m]Mac[/name_m] for Macaroni, and [name_f]Anya[/name_f] for Lasagne, of course).
I think joke names are funny to think about, but they also may come in handy if people are pushing for a name we’re not ready to make public or for social media if we want to protect our child’s actual name. Plus, it’s kind of fun to think of new silly “siblings”.
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[name_f]Wanda[/name_f] started out as a joke name, so yeah 
The other one we joke about is [name_m]Leif[/name_m].
both only make sense if you know my and DH’s full name, which I won’t post, so you’ll have to take my word that they’re funny
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me and my mom have a set of name jokes that she’s been telling since the 80s, so I guess these are kinda the same
these are the best ones
what do you call a man on your door step? [name_m]Matt[/name_m]
what do you call a man in your mail box? [name_m]Bill[/name_m]
what do you call a man with a shovel in his head? [name_m]Doug[/name_m]
What do you call a man in a tree? [name_m]Leif[/name_m]
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[name_m]Ganymede[/name_m] is our on-going joke name. It’s very niche, as we both read a book years ago about a teenager named [name_f]Callisto[/name_f] who had a brother with the name. Their parents were astronomers or astrologers I think.
Anyway, it’s what we have always told people we would name our first child in the event we have one we name. The idea is to shock people so they won’t be as judgemental when we use a name we actually like 
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When I was pregnant with our twin boys we settled on a name for baby A pretty early on, but we couldn’t figure out what to name baby B. We used to joke we’d put [name_m]Secundus[/name_m] on his birth certificate (it means “second” in Latin). When they were babies we’d sometimes even jokingly refer to him as [name_m]Secundus[/name_m], but we stopped doing that as soon as he was old enough to respond to his name 
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Reminds me of the name for my godson that his aunt and uncle picked: Poppo Quadratus. (so basically “square butt”). I think they went down a list of saint names and just selected the weirdest ones.
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Our ‘name’ we tell people who are being pushy about inquiring when Im pregnant is mahonri moriancumr. Which (in our religion) is a name that was so long and cumbersome that they didnt want to write it down.
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When my friends and I were in middle school we used to constantly make jokes about giving our kids ridiculous names with normal nicknames. But being in middle school they were always increasingly terrible things (rather than just random or silly) like Influenza “Lulu” or Pneumonia “Mona” 
I also know a [name_m]Will[/name_m] who he gets all sorts of “Will is short for…” jokes with random phrases like “will not help you” or “will abandon you at the grocery store” depending on whatever he’s supposedly done in that the situation Always lightheartedly of course, and exaggerating whatever he did or didn’t actually do
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In my creative writing class all the girls had fun names for their future babies. [name_f]My[/name_f] personal favorite was Papaya. 
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I like Papaya! I love words that sound like they should be a name. Like Naive.
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