My Guilty Pleasures

"Brünnhilde" by Arthur Rackham
I have so many guilty pleasure names, and they are some of my favorite to talk about. These are the names I absolutely love but (probably) wouldn't use in real life. This post will probably be really long, so I apologize in advance. Please post some of your guilty pleasures in the comments!

Girls:

Veruca
Hortensia
Dymphna
Myfanwy
Atalanta
Aviatrix
Nimue
Belphoebe
Romola
Iphigenia
Bloom
Noomi
Tanaquil
Bidelia
Hero
Priya
Garland
Thisbe
Bathsheba
Andromeda
Thistle
Dahl
Persia
Valkyrie
Nasrin
Virgilia
Brunhilde
Nym/Nim
Calpurnia
Ursula
Truly
Clothilde
Gosling
Eglantine
Dagmar
Tinúviel
Celandine
Sidonia
Eilonwy
Hecate
Delphi
Mirabeau and Isabeau
Fiammetta
Evening
Moth
Abbott
Bliss
Fairuza
Coppélia
Temple
Rosegold
Mauve
Scholastica
Heatherbell
Nebula
Easter
Haruka
Tuesday
Cassiopeia
Illyria
Rosevine

Boys:

Sigurd
Ivar
Aneirin/Aneurin
Bede
Haytham
Eamonn
Leopold
Ferdinand
Rudolph
Crispin
Keats
Adler
Stellan
Fly
Corvo
Aubrey
Royal
Darwin
Laszlo
Bjorn
Hawthorne
Baudelaire
Ludwig
Rigel
Lars
Oberon
Soren
Toulouse
St. John
Gable
Amadeus
Bellamy
Ariel
Elm
Horatio

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  3. AnonymousAugust 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM

    I love names but more for my characters then for any future children. The more strange or unusual, the more I love them and more than half of these names on your list I've used for various characters :)

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  4. UnknownSeptember 3, 2015 at 1:28 AM

    I love Ermintrude, Sophronia, Iphigenia, Iseult, Belsante, Dowsabel, Parthenia, Arabella, Anchoret, Hortensia, Godeleve, Audefleda, Frethesancia, Herberta, Cleone, Sinope, Eula, Euphemia, and Ephrosyne. Boys: Agilulf, Cynewulf, Hartwig, Earl, Tancrede, Aurelianus, Rudolph, Wellington, Thakery, Arphaxad, Beresford, Cadwallader, Carantoock, Casimir, Campion and Beacon. Random genre's but I like them for different reasons.

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