This is mine too. Although I can’t use it on any future human children I have because I named my cat Ulysses. I still love the name though.
I also have always loved the name Raven; however, recently it’s become pretty popular and my main criteria for a name is that it cannot be popular or common.
Severin.
I think it’s the coolest name ever.
But how do I tell a 10 year old I named him after ater a porn novel and a porn VU song?
I did something similar-- I named my cat Maceo because it is one of my favorite names, and would never go with my last name. Maybe someday I’ll have a cat named Ulysses too.
Mom told me that was her first choice for me, but dad nixed it. I like it now, but when I was a kid, it would have been Penny.
I believe it’s pronounced “DECK-lun”.
Levin. It’s a family name, but my husband hated it.
Tristan. Again, husband didn’t like it…he thought the kid would get picked on.
If we had had a girl, she would have been Olivia Joy. No girls for us.
Joshua - the only reason I can’t give the name to my kid is that I’m not having kids!
Like** Dangerosa**, I would have chosen Catherine if there hadn’t been others in the family before her.
Misery. Yep, I’m a King fan.
I like Persephone and Athena and other names from mythology as well, but I decided to just keep it vanilla. My daughter has a very common name, a little too common, in fact.
If my son had been a girl, he’d have been Savannah. I liked it at the time, but I think I’d have tired of it by now.
koeeoaddi, I like Tamar too, but I fear you’d have wound up with a bunch of people calling your kid Tamara or Tammy, so maybe you dodged a bullet there.
Adam. It was the dog’s name. I didn’t name the dog.
Sancho. It happens to be the name of several favorite historical figures… but sadly, it’s also the name of the Quijote main character that’s supposed to be “humorous”. People hear “Sancho” and break out into laughter amid giggles of “Panza”, which is both the character’s lastname and the word for “belly” or “gut”. Sigh.
Tamara is a relatively popular “exotic” name in Spain nowadays. There’s a very good young singer called Tamara and an older famous-type-person who couldn’t sing if her life depended on it.
Marina is a common name in Spain and Portugal, so I imagine in Brazil. Means “of the Sea”. My mouther’s cousin is a Marina.
It is also the last name of a very popular right-wing talk show host here in Boston. You might be able to use that if you don’t want the porn explanation. It is a pretty name.
My family doesn’t hold back when it comes to this stuff. My name is Maverick which I actually love and has served me well. My little brother named his first son Gunner. He and his wife like guns and hunting so they felt the name came naturally.
Porter for a boy (my favorite style of beer). good thing I had girl twins or they might have been “Porter” and “Stout”
I wanted Penelope as a girls name but China Wife was dead set against it. Fair enough as she liked Veronica and that one rubs me the wrong way.
Alice. Wouldn’t want her being called “Alice in Wonderland” her whole upbringing (unless she wanted to :)) It would work as a middle name, but not with my favoriteest first name ever, “Elizabeth”, because “Elizabeth Alice” is less than the sum of its parts due to not being euphonic.
Then again, my third favorite name is Rachel, and while Rachel Alice sounds a bit harsh, when combined with my last name it sounds nice.
Maybe my second daughter can be called Elizabeth somethingorother.
I considered “Alice” for a couple of seconds, but my mom killed that idea forever by quacking, “Mel! Kiss my grits!”
(I know that was Flo, but Alice was still ruined by association.)
Heh. I had a friend who named her children Penelope and Nicholas. My son called them “money.”
Wanted to name my second daughter Willow, but the MIL said “what if she winds up short and fat?” and everyone else said “Would you like some granola after you finish hugging that tree?” Also loved the name Prudence but didn’t think that would be fair to the kid.
Also liked Zora and Aurora but got lots of lip curls tossing those around.
My sister’s name is Mercedes, I think it’s a beautiful name and if I have any girls (slim chance) that’s the name I’d go with.
For a boy?
Onan
If anyone questions me about it I’ll say, “it’s ok, I’m taking it back.” ala Randall from Clerks II.
Some other first names that have been ruined:
Adolph
Percy
When I was preggers, we went looking at many sources for names. We saw an article for the frst computer generated jokes and found "Insect Brittle’. We thought it was hilarious and saw some real value in the idea. What little high school twinkie is gonna sit around scribbling "Mr. & Mrs. Insect Brittle’ in her journals? Who’s gonna mess with a kid named “Insect”? We had a good time with that idea and told the MIL over the phone one day. She slammed the phone down and refused to talk to us for 2 weeks. (Not that is was a bad thing…)
‘Savannah Hilton’ had been an option since that was the conception point but we ended up with a boy. Considering another popular Hilton right now, we dodged that one!
After we met the offspring we came to ‘Corwin’. It’s a nice historical name and from our favorite book series (‘Nine Princes in Amber’) and it’s unique. He wears it well and there is never any confusion which ‘Corwin’ in any school or group. As an added bonus, it’s not very corruptible (since ‘Insect’ would have eventually shifted to ‘Bugger’)
My favorite names I took out on the dogs - Theodora, Astrid, Coriander and Peapod. The rabbit got ‘Edible Rex’.
During a recent “maybe we’ll have a kid after all” conversation between my husband and I, it was discovered that my husband hates the name Micah, which sucks because I love it. He didn’t veto Holden or Jonas though, so I still have hope.
For girls I love Iris and Daisy but would have to choose one or the other because one flower name per family is enough.
I love the name Myceeluna, but I’d never saddle my kid with that.
I also love Celine, but my family jokes enough about my adoration of Celine Dion that I’d never live it down.