What are your "guilty pleasure" names?

Question

What names do you secretly love? Ones you would never admit to your spouse or friends, because you know that you could and would never want to use them anyways?

For me, it's a lot of names from mythology like

Andromeda

Aphrodite

Artemis

Cassiopeia

Minerva

Galatéa

Medea (who killed her children....)

Echo (I really love this one actually)

or Nyx

I love the way they sound, but am well aware they would be ridiculous on a mere mortal.

Then there's Shakespeare:

Laertes

Lysander

Yorrick

Horatio (tainted forever by the sleazefest that is CSI Miami)

Fenton

Ophelia (middle name? think I could get away with that)

and Lear.

Loved this one for many years now. I don't live in an English speaking country, so it wouldn't rhyme with quite as many words as it does in English ("Lear, my dear, come here." *criiiinge*).

Middle name? Yes? Hmm? Maybe? No? Okay.

What else...Serenity. Yes, she'll be a stripper and a p**n star, but I like the sound of the word.

So, what are some of YOUR guilty naming pleasures?

Answer 1

I always liked my grandmothers middle name, Gentlina (pronounced gen-tle-lina).

*Cosette is from Les' Miserables as well as Eponine, Fantine and Magliore. (my fave play)

Answer 2

I like the name Nadine but no one would like it.

Answer 3

Cosette its from an opera/book  

Answer 4

I love Artemis and Gwenyth. My husband said "No, NEVER!" to both. I also like Nomi hehe! I'll never use it but I think it is so cute.

Answer 5

Honestly I love the name Call. It was a name of a character in this book about cowboys and a cattle run. If I could use it I totally would.

Also Dodger is pretty d**n great.  

Answer 6

Lilith (I'm in love with the way it sounds, but it has a very dark history), Cressida, Avalon, Briar, Azalea, Evaristus and Demeter

Answer 7

I love Echo and Lysander!!!

.....Lear is cute too

Answer 8

Haha, I actually love the name Echo. I also love Persephone. Another is Bryer, for a girl. I don't really have that many, and I don't have any for a boy.

Good question!

Answer 9

I LOVE Lysander. Its on my middle name list, if we have anymore babies!

Answer 10

My great grandmother's middle name was Ophelia.  I absolutely love it, but there is no way on God's green earth that I would ever get to actually name a daughter that.  

Answer 11

Sugar, Pendulum, Barf, Honk, Badger, Quicker, Peck, Bummer, Kanebulon, Porcine, Twizzler, Lucky, Buster, Maidenform, Beswick, Handie, Spazz, Gasdunk, Fluckster, Mordfink