What are your current favorite guilty pleasure names?
ETA: my list
This includes common names that I can’t use for personal reasons but that I still love.
Abernathy
Andromache
Antigone
Apollonia
Astrid
Ceridwen
Clementine
Diana
Elowen
Evangeline
Galilea
Grainne
Hippolyta
Isabeau
Minerva
Narcissa
Olympia
Rowena
Amadeus
Atticus
Archimedes
Aurelius
Endymion
Henry
Leonidas
Perseus
Rafferty
Somerled
Valerian
Wilder
Definitely Antigone and Ismene. Great names, albeit difficult to pronounce without direction.
however, the connection to Oedipus Rex makes them complete guilty pleasures
basically, in the greek tragedy Oedipus Rex, Antigone and Ismene are Oedipus’ children, who he had with Iocaste (jo-cast), not knowing that Iocaste is his mother. Antigone ends up dying in the next play (named Antigone). it’s a very weird play but I definitely recommend it.
Mine would be Noctiluca.
Noctiluca Scintillans is a type of bioluminescent sea algae that glows when disturbed. It’s marvelous to look at, and seeing bioluminescence is an amazing experience.
I LOVE Antigone. It’s in my own GP list. I’d use it as a MN if I could ever get SO on board. But between pronunciation issues and it having the appearance of “anti gone” it’s a no-go sadly.
That’s neat, and bioluminescence is definitely cool! I think it could potentially work as a MN. It has the more elaborate and complicated look of a mythological name and ends with the familiar -luca.
I’ve seen you post about Noctiluca before and you’ve really got me crushing on it too! I hope you’re confident enough to use it in the first place because I would love being friends with a Noctiluca!
Today my gp is Farolito wich means little lantern in spanish and is another name for luminarias. It sounds so sweet and cool to me. I also love [name_u]Dandelion[/name_u], [name_u]Taliesin[/name_u], and [name_m]Petrichor[/name_m]
[name_f]Narcissa[/name_f]
Also one of mine! It’s beautiful.
Oh my gosh, reading your reply made my day. Thank you 
I’ve actually considered Noctiluca before, so who knows, maybe you will get to be friends with a little Noctiluca someday 
Kaz! I can force Caz as a nickname for [name_m]Caspian[/name_m], but oh how I wish Kaz was a name in its own right… 
[name_f]Savannah[/name_f] [name_f]Augusta[/name_f] is also on my GP list. It was so nearly a go until someone informed me that there are two cities in [name_f]Georgia[/name_f], USA with these names… [name_f]My[/name_f] Kiwi self would have never guessed! 
I recently thought [name_f]Ella[/name_f] and [name_f]Eve[/name_f] would be the cutest twin names… Two issues:
[name_f]My[/name_f] real name is VERY similar to [name_f]Ella[/name_f], and people would be confused.
[name_f]My[/name_f] #1 baby name is [name_f]Evaluna[/name_f], and we can’t have an [name_f]Eve[/name_f] AND an Evaluna…
Okay, actual GPs that people might actually relate to…
Girls
Boys
[name_f]Andromeda[/name_f]
[name_f]Daffodil[/name_f]
[name_f]Peony[/name_f]
[name_f]Wisteria[/name_f]
[name_u]Boreal[/name_u]
[name_m]Daedalus[/name_m]
[name_m]Dionysius[/name_m]
Estragon
[name_m]Hannibal[/name_m]
Methodios
[name_m]Sherlock[/name_m]
Sosigenes
Oh! Seconding all of these! Especially [name_f]Andromeda[/name_f] & Dionysius. 
I’ve got really into word names recently, like [name_u]Evergreen[/name_u], Woodlark, Rosebay and [name_m]Rosewood[/name_m] for boys, and [name_f]Wildrose[/name_f], [name_u]Nightingale[/name_u], Searose and [name_f]Daylily[/name_f] for girls.
Maryvonne, [name_m]Seraphim[/name_m], [name_f]Elizabella[/name_f] & Lulabella, [name_m]Desmond[/name_m], [name_f]Wildrose[/name_f] & [name_u]Penrose[/name_u], [name_u]Karol[/name_u] for boy
I’m pretty bold, but [name_m]Napoleon[/name_m] feels unusable. I also really like [name_f]Elsinore[/name_f], but I’m dead set on naming a girl [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f], and it feels too [name_m]Hamlet[/name_m].
yeah, especially considering Napoleon was a (relatively) bad leader. not a good connection. But I adore nn Leo/Leon 
my gps are definitely Antigone and Ismene right now haha
luckily I’ll never have kids anyways but the origin of the names annoys me lol
I really love the sound and look of [name_f]Pippa[/name_f], but it has a not very nice meaning in many other languages that makes it unusable for me 
rendering it a GP
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]
[name_m]Azriel[/name_m]
Aurelias/Aurelio
[name_m]Helios[/name_m]
[name_f]Persephone[/name_f]
[name_f]Melinoe[/name_f]
[name_m]Tennyson[/name_m] and [name_f]Celestine[/name_f]
[name_u]Minnow[/name_u] and [name_m]Icarus[/name_m] come to mind
