You can throw in surnames if you want. And not necessarily things you’d actually name your kids.
Maximilian - a gorgeous, powerful name.
Alyss - a horrendous misspelling of Alice or Elise, depending on where you put the accent, but it looks damn cool
David - probably my favorite classic man’s name
Nemesis - Beautiful, beautiful name. Would love to name any potential daughter this if it weren’t for the weird attention it’d garner. Little Nemesis would be in therapy before she was six.
Miriam - A more realistic daughter name. Damn pretty, sounds like a fantasy name that happens to be real.
Nike - not pronounced like the shoe or the Anglicized version of the goddess, but more like nee-kuh. Lovely, classic name.
I have a fondness for gender-neutral names, especially for girls. Robin, Kim, Alexis, names like that.
[Bob Zany*]Bob Zany is just my stage name, my mother named me Big Dick McGurk… It takes a woman of vision to name her son Big Dick[/BZ]
*I think it was Bob Zany, but I am not sure.
I dated a girl in high school named Lindsay.
I was married to a girl named Deidre.
Both favorites of mine.
I love the name Susannah. . . used it for my daughter’s middle name, actually.
I think Peter is a lovely name for a man.
I’m absurdly fond of Old Testament prophet names. Also Aloysius. My naming philosophy, though, is that you should give a child a conventionally-spelled and easily pronounced first name and reserve your creativity for the middle name; also that anyone who randomly capitalizes letters mid-name should be shot.
I love the name Russell.
I like Olivia and Sydney for girls these days. (My daughters are Brooke and Dalerie)
I like Cameron for boys right now. (My guys are Charles and Jack)
Clare or Claire
Not fussy about the spelling
Paul or Michael
For men, Patrick and Dmitri are my favorites.
For women, I love the names Josephine and Stella.
Also, I always liked my grandmother’s name Arilla, but only when people put a bit of a Spanish flair on it. Sometimes in the South, it ended up rhymed with gorilla, which was less than ideal.
I really like the name Medb (or Maeve) pronounced “Mayve”.
I also really like the name Aoife pronounced “Eefah”.
Both of these names are extremely common here.
For weird names I would love to call a daughter Bealtaine or Samhain, they’re the Irish for May and November respectively and also the names of pagan festivals that occur around those times. The first one is pronounced “Byallthinna”, the second one “Sowyn”.
Guys: Aniket, Keshav, Saurabh, Udaiyan/Uday, Sergei, Arkady
Girls: Shirin, Nefret, Adithi, Priyanka, Mohini, Anuradha, Dagmar, Agnes (pronounced A-nyez)
In my defense, I do hail from the ethnic group associated with almost all the names I listed, so they sound as common to me as “Robert”.
Elizabeth
Alice
Rachel
If I have a daughter my first choice would be Elizabeth Rachel, since Elizabeth is the most beautiful name ever (and by definition, my daughter will be beautiful.) Alice is my second favorite name, but Elizabeth Alice would be a bit too…much. Rachel would balance it out.
So if I had a second daughter or my (non-existent) wife would strenuously object I would want to name her _____ Alice – but not Elizabeth or Rachel, since “Rachel Alice” sounds a bit harsh, and I havent’ come up with a good alternative name to use as the first name, and wouldn’t name her Alice as a first name to avoid AiW namecalling.
I don’t have a particularly favorite boys name, only I know that mine isn’t particularly euphonious (and my last name definitely is not, but oddly enough they do balance each other out when put together.)
Also, when I was growing up in MA, every other girl seemed to be named Margo/Margot/Margaux. But it’s not a name I hear very often anymore.
I always said that if I ever had a daughter, her name would be “Nova.”
I always said that if I ever had a son, his name would be “Bennu.”
As it turned out, I had neither.
I’ll accept camelcase and apostrophes IF you’re from a culture where that’s relatively normal (so, like, African American or Hawaiian*).
Basically your choice of names should reflect the traditions of your culture. And not just the latest fad. Misspelling names just to make a new name is silly and is only okay in fiction, and then only with good reason.
Mercedes is another gorgeous name. Too bad you can’t really use it anymore, at least in the US.
I like this thread as I am trying to come up with names for my baby girl, scheduled to arrive the first week of January.
My favorite girl names:
Christine - my sister’s name, so it’s taken
Savannah - other sister just named her new twin girl
Suzanne
Leanna - currently first in the running for the new babe
Noelle - in 2nd place
Boy names:
Keith - I like the strength this name conveys
Connor
Liam
Ian
Sterling
I like language neutral names, particularly those that are written and said (more or less) the same in English and in Spanish:
Minerva
Aurora
Diana
Barbara
etc…
And also “mexican” names, most are a variation of nahuatl and mayan words:
Cintli
Citlali
Nicte
Xochitl
Guadalupe - but only if its the full name, not Lupe.
Pick one of the ones mentioned in this thread – if you pick a “new” and “original” one chances are everyone will have it! 
We’ll be naming our girl Josephine Violet, Josie for short.
I also like Audrey, Claire, and Natalie.
If Josie were a boy, she’d have been Duncan James.
Some because I have good associations, some I just plain like, and some are a little of each.
Kristin
Kristi
Kerri
Elizabeth
Bethany
Ophelia
Jack
Dmitri
Lorenzo
Quentin