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Awesome

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I would actually use... (*serious favorites)

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Gem*, Mariposa, Nanette, Rosary, Sunniva* ; Anthem, Arch, Athens, Callaghan, Gatsby, Jove, Joyce, Juneau*, Macauley*, Peregrin, Pollux*, Quill, and Temple

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And still like...

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Amandine, Aurore, Ebba, Eugenie, Kismet, Liadan, Nazarene, Onora, Sierraleone, Thessaly ; Anchor, Arryn, Calvary, Gospel (I've never actually considered this before but it's neato and I like the idea of shortening it to "Goss"), Helix, Lewin, Moon, Reason, Red, Thelonious, Travers and Zenith

I like:

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girls
Aurore - prefer Aurora
Kinneret
Kismet
Thessaly
Thisbe
Valor - for a boy

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boys
Berlin - for a girl
Poet - ditto
Serenity - ditto

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They're all only guilty pleasure names though.

YOu mean 5 people named thier children one of these names? Really? Sheesh!

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Camaro
Copper
Happy - 10 people named thier kid this!!!
Shiny
Tuba
Albino
Danger
Dreamer
Famous
Furious
Gatsby
Gin
Greco
Hawkeye
Heinz
Icarus
Machiavelli
Rambo
Saviour
Subaru
Success- better than Dreamer I suppose?
Trillion
Tripper
Vice

Didn't think anything could make Lexus & Porsche sound upmarket, but Subaru and Camaro are having a very good try.
Yay Humphrey, and nice to see Llewellyn & Taliesin! - although judging by the comments on Taliesin, they might well be Lou Ellen and Taluhsin.

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Great to see:

Amadea
Aurore
Cassiopeia
Clementina
Eugenie
Frederica
Hyacinth
Kinneret
Liadan
Mariposa
Rosary
Shulamit
Thessaly
Thisbe
Tuba -know a Turkish one

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Absalom
Ante -probably parents from my neck of the woods
Apostolos
Benoit
Desiderio
Icarus
Inigo
Llewellyn
Peregrin
Serafim
Severo
Severus
Silvanus
Taliesin
Thelonius
Vasilis
Vasiliy

Some comments:

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Amadea - this is nice
Amandine - I know it means something like "made with almonds", but I still think it's cute. I also like Mandaline
Aurore - beautiful
Australia - meh
Cassiopeia - beautiful, but maybe not practical
Chardonnay - nice sound, but a bit tacky
Christmas - I actually like it
Ebba - this is common here
Exodus - jeez
Frederica - since this is almost my name, I'll have to say I like it ;)
Gem - wouldn't work here; in Swedish it means "paper clip" (but then it sounds more like "game"). Rather nice in English, though
Happy - ick, dog's name
Hyacinth - love it
Kale - you eat it
Kinneret - nice
Magenta - cute
Mariposa - sweet
Nouf - what?
Pennylane - guess the parents already had a John, a Paul, a George and a Ringo, then?
Porsche - tacky
Rosary - actually cute
Rye - bread
Seraphim - prefer Seraphina
Shulamit - like it
Sierraleone - a country that used to be plagued by an atrocious war
Snowy - as much as I love snow names, this is too much of a pet name
Tuba - I think this is Turkish, actually
Albino - poor kid
Ante - not too uncommon here; it's a form of Anders
Arryn - parents like GoT...
Chaplin - was he born with a moustache?
Danger - silly
Edge - parents like U2
Elmo - a Muppet
Furious - jeez
Gin - *hiccup* cheersch!
Heinz - I know it's a real name, but I still think of ketchup
Inigo - love it
Rambo - silly
Saviour - eh...
Thelonius - love it
Tripper - makes me think of narcotics
Vasiliy - love it
Yahweh - I think many people will find this...um...blasphemous

This message was edited 5/17/2014, 12:32 PM

Wow, thanks for combing through the 5s and picking these out. What a great list full of unexpected names. I might have to turn it into a name game on the other board.

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The ones that jumped out at me on my first pass through:

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Amadea Amandine Assyria Christmas Ebba Flower Gem Icy Major Nouf Oakland Reef Rosary Snowy Thessaly Thisbe

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Absalom Ante Apostolos Elmo Famous Greco Humphrey Icarus Juneau Red Sephiroth Temple Wise

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Yves (on a girl) and Tripper are blowing my mind right now. Tripper maybe a little bit more, lol.

5 baby girls named Tuba? YES.

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(BTW, Kevin would not approve of that.)

Delighted to see Llewellyn and Taliesin. On the girl side, Claudine is a treat, likewise Shulamit, and Pennylane is ... memorable.

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I taught a lovely Apostolos once; he chose to go by Albert, presumably to temper the wind to the non-Greeks.

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Famous Furious Gatsby Gent sounds like a social worker's file.

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I hope little Albino isn't. And one also wonders if the dictionary meanings of Trillion, Kale, Tuba and Wraith make them advisable! There's also the Rocky Horror link with Magenta - not a role model here on Earth; and in the Douglas Adams Hitchhikers books there's a Trillian, appropriately female, who tweaked her ordinary name of Patricia McMillan when she went galactic. So I'd be surprised to meet a male Trillion.

Sorry - this is the unedited version. Please ignore.

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Taliesin Llewellyn Famous Furious Gatsby Gent Gin Albino Apostolos Trillion

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Claudine Tuba Kale Magenta Pennylane Shulamit

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Delighted to see Llewellyn and Taliesin. On the girl side, Claudine is a treat, likewise Shulamit, and Pennylane is ... memorable.

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I taught a lovely Apostolos once; he chose to go by Albert, presumably to temper the wind to the non-Greeks.

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Famous Furious Gatsby Gent sounds like a social worker's file.

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I hope little Albino isn't. And one also wonders if the dictionary meaning of Trillion, Kale and Tuba makes them advisable! There's also the Rocky Horror link with Magenta - not a role model here on Earth; and in the Douglas Adams Hitchhikers books there's a Trillian, appropriately female, who tweaked her ordinary name of Patricia McMillan when she went galactic. So I'd be surprised to meet a male Trillion.

This message was edited 5/17/2014, 4:20 AM

I love seeing Amadea, Cassiopeia, Clementina, Cliona, Eugenie, Eurydice, Thisbe, Absalom, Benoit, Berlin, Gatsby, Inigo, Llewellyn, Peregrin, Poet, Pollux and Taliesin being used. Thanks for sharing. :)

Many of these looked like the parents just opened up the dictionary and put their finger on a word.

These caught my eye, these are awesome:
Amadea
Eugenie
Eurydice
Sunniva

More I missed

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When I was going through looking for horrible things, I found a few more to add:

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girls
Amino
Anabelen
Briony
Chosen
Debby
Diore
Duchess
Eulalie
Gazelle
Kinga
Linen
Olivine
Ourania
Rune
Samuela
Satine
Tawny
Winner

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boys
Clever
Diesel
Dieter
Deuce
Gawain
Harvest
Laverne
Ludovic
Murdoc
Nike
Oaken
Pius
Relic
Renley - misspelled GoT names, sneaking in
Revelation
Saveliy
Spiros
Thorn
Treble
Triumph
Zurich

Aggie: Gaggy Aggie. Saggy Aggie.
Amandine: A nice way to serve green beans.
Assyria: Not a good idea to start a name with ass.
Brighten: New whitening toothpaste.
Bronte: Brontesaurus.
Camaro: Porntastic.
Caoilinn: I know it's Irish and probably pronounced like Kaylyn, but it looks ridiculous.
Chardonnay: I think this might have been the name of one of the hookers in "Ted" but no, now that I think, it was Sauvignon Blanc. IT's porntastic though.
Christmas: I knew a very nice sheepdog named this. She was born on Xmas day.
Copper: "Come get me, copper!"
Ebba: Ubby dubby talk.
Exodus: I know it's Biblical and yadda yadda yadda, but it's awful. It sounds like a laxative.
Fancy: Be nice to the gentlemen, Fancy, and they'll be nice to you.
Fergie: God awful.
Flower: Flora or Florence would have been so much nicer.
Happy: Not.
Icy: She's a snow queen.
Juneau: No, I don't know.
Kale: And her brothers Collard and Spinach.
Knowledge: I read once about a woman who threw her two sons off a bridge. One of them was named Sincere Understanding, and the other was named Supreme Knowledge. I have a dim view of the mentality of somebody who names their kids Knowledge.
Lei: Lei, Lady, Lei.
Magenta: Rocky Horror references are so lame.
Major: Major dumb.
Mariposa: This is actually very nice.
Nanette: No no, Nanette.
Nouf: Somebody getting hit in the stomach with a Nerf ball.
Pennylane: Idiot.
Porsche: Porntastic.
Reef: Dumb.
Rosary: I bet anything they aren't even Catholic.
Rye: Hope she meets a boy named Ham so we can have Ham on Rye.
Seraphim: Plurals do not make good names.
Shiny: These people should be sterilized and possibly confined for their own protection.
Shy: And her brother Bashful.
Sierraleone: I admit that Sierra Leone is an attractive sound, but that doesn't mean it's a good name.
Snowy: Laundry product.
Stellar: Less than.
Success: Guaranteed to be a failure.
Sunniva: I know people on here like it but it always sounded like a name for a sports car or SUV.
Sunset: Porntastic.

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*chanting* Share the worst! Share the worst! :P

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Aggie: I will admit to liking Iggy as a nn for Ignatius for a character but can't get behind Aggie.

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Amadea: Not terrible if you could overlook the horrific Madea movie connection.

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Assyria: Ass is just not a good thing to have in your name.

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Aurore: The boring version of Aurora!

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Coda: I could see this being cool in a sci-fi maybe.

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Exodus: I think they aren't very acquainted with this word.

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Fancy: Like the song where she's a prostitute? Classy.

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Hyacinth: This would make a cool mn if the fn was proper and stuffy.

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Juneau: I like this. :)

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Kismet: I like this, too. Not enough to use it in a story.

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Larue: As in 'the street'? What a romantic name.

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Magenta: I actually like this one, too.

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Mariposa: The right girl could make this beautiful.

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Onora: Hm. I can see the appeal but it looks clinical to me.

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Pennylane: Adorable and horrible at the same time. Penny Lane from Almost Famous, anyone?

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Rosary: I do like the sound of this but it's just too religious.

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Seraphim: Hey, if Seraphine is okay...

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Shiny: I only hear Jayne.

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Shy: I like the sound of Shy but it just sucks as a name.

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Sierraleone: What is this ugliness?!

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Snowy: I'll admit to liking Snow as a name. Snowy? Nah.

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Thessaly: I love Thessaly!

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Thisbe: I love Thisbe!

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Zeppelin: "This is my son Aeroplayne and this is my daughter Zeppie. We drive everywhere because if God wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings."

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Albino: WHAT NO WHY OH GOD NO

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Arryn: This is a Game of Thrones name, yes?

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Athens: I can see it.

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Bison: If he smells bad... just... oh, poor boy.

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Connery: What's wrong with Connor?

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I know it's completely irrelevant given that the kid is most likely an American growing up in America and all, but the name that caught my eye was Tripper because... well, in my mother tongue, "Tripper" is the word for "clap", as in gonorrhea. Good times.

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(I should go to bed ;) )

Please do share the worst of them too! :)

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I like:
Amadea - I think it's very pretty. I kind of love it. I can see myself use it in real life.
Amandine
Aquinnah - I'm not sure why but it's more male than female to me. (I googled it and I was thinking of Thomas Aquinas)
Cassiopeia
Clementina
Coda - I like this in a GP kind of way and for a boy.
Ebba
Flower - I like it as a middle name
Juneau - GP but for a boy
Knowledge - nice as a middle name
Pennylane - kind of cute, kind of stupid
Sunniva
Sunset
Zeppelin - GP but for a boy

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Absalom
Anchor - middle name
Anthem - middle name
Benoit
Bison - middle name
Bliss - like it better as a middle name
Callaghan
Colorado
Dreamer - middle name
Hawkeye
Heinz
Icarus
Inigo
Joyce
Juneau
Lewin
Llewellyn
Loch
Lotus
Moon - middle name
Neeson
Obsidian
Peregrin
Poet - middle name
Rambo - GP
Reason - middle name
Remus
Spartacus - GP
Taliesin
Thoreau
Waldemar - prefer Valdemar
Wise

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boy those are some bad ones

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I kind of like Aggie or Amandine on a girl. I feel really bad for the boys named Joyce.

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Speaking of odd names... I met a couple with a daughter they named Calamity. That's weird.

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Heidi

If these are the best, I'd hate to see the worst. They are mostly ridiculous or horrible and I'm glad that no more than 5 babies born last year were given these names. The only one I like is Eugenie---that deserves to be much more popular. Yves for a girl in particular stands out, as it's a French male name. What kind of idiot uses Yves for a girl instead of Eve?