66 thoughts on “Baby Names Rejected as “Too Victorian””

  1. My husband and I have been joking about the name Consequence for ours (due in April). Similarly “Victorian”.

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  4. I am in LOVE with ‘Rampant Humility Mason.’ Although I do wonder what such a name would do to the kid’s self-esteem…

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  5. Lemme guess…

    You don’t want your child’s emails to be caught by his friends’ anti-spam tools!!!

    er… you are having a boy, right?

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  9. If it’s a girl, slightly alter Lucretia and you could have Meta Secretia Mason. Mmmmmmmm, yes. Based on personal experience with baby leakage, it’ll be descriptive on many levels for a few years, as well as Victorian.

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  10. I also love Lucidity. Mason is a great last name it seems like any name would go with it. Our last name is Brown and all the names I like sound silly with it. I am not due until August so I have time. Good luck with the naming thing.

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  11. In helping our daughter research names and we LOVE Montana but think our grandson is going to be Damien or Tristan Xavier Jameson Smith (2 of my kids have 2 middle names). With Smith as a last name it needs to be a little different.

    Can’t believe you nixed all those wonderful names, tho. 🙂 Walk through a cemetery – good spot to find names.

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  17. I’d go with the bad Friend’s reference name. Like Regina Falange and Consuela Banana Hammock.

    Our friends told us that they wanted to name thier future child “Embry”. They had worked on this for months. Then my husband ruined it for them by saying, “You mean like embryo?”

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  19. I don’t know what you mean by “too victorian”. They all seem lovely to me. I especially like Ubiquitous as a middle name. Or how about Pernicious Olfactory Mason?

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  24. One of my favorite books, To Say Nothing of the Dog, has a string of Victorian daughters named after flowers. The oldest is something dull like Rose, but the the youngest is the hilarious Eglantine.

    Eglantine Woodbine Mason, should you ever have a wee girl.

    There’s also a Scottish stereotype of large extended Catholic families finally having so many Agneses in them that one gets called Senga (agnesbackwards) to keep them straight.

    Senga Ettedanreb Mason.

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  31. Hi Maggie,

    I’m delurking to say hi and tell you how much I love your blog! I wanted to know if you had any recommendation for pregnancy books?

    Thanks,
    M

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  41. We considered Ghengis Farquar… We thought he could later introduce himself by saying, “I’m here to pillage your village and do your taxes.”

    We went with Zachary instead.
    Happy Birth-Day to you both.

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  42. Melanie’s Friends comment is funny – a cousin of mine just named his baby “Holden” A perfectly cute name, but since we all watched Friends too much, we cannot refer to the baby without saying, “Holden McGroin” Thank goodness the baby lives in another state.

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  45. Such an undertaking, naming someone! My husband and I love the old classic or literary names, like Holden (mentioned above), Harry, Harriet, but with a last name of Johnson…..well, certainly complicates things.

    I do have a friend who in the haze of pain medication after a complicated delivery named her baby “Luminous Crystal Light”

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  49. I have friends who named thier little girl Talula. Thank god it wasn’t a boy, they were seriously going to call him Huckleberry. Child abuse, I say.

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