I taught a 12yo TigerLily last year who went by Tiger. She was a super articulate and confident girl with a fiery personality. I absolutely loved having her in the classroom!
I named my daughter Tigerlily June. It fits her so well. She’s 13 months now and I absolutely love it. My little Tigerlily. Like the flower and like the princess 🥰
ugh I know... Senna is actually a beautiful Arabic name meaning "brightness", from Sana meaning "splendor". But unfortunately it's associated with the laxative from the plant that in english is called senna :'( Wanted to name my future daughter that until I heard of the association, though it wouldn't work anyway, since in spanish, which my extended family speaks, Senna sounds like "cena", meaning dinner 😂 rip
Kowhai is actually pronounced "ko" is core "wh" is f and "ai" is eye. Its a Maori name for a tree with yellow flowers. Kowhai is the name for the colour yellow in the Te reo (Maori language) just for info purposes. Love your vids SJ! From NZ.❤
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I’m an early years teacher and in my class this year I have a little girl called Elvis and her parents call her Vi and I can’t help but find it so cute ❤️ She is the sweetest soul which helps too 😂
I always comment on your videos when my baby girls name shows up. ☺️ My husband and I named our first child, a girl, Winnifred Darling last year. We call her Winnie. Many people tried to dissuade me but four months into my pregnancy I couldn’t imagine her as anyone else. She was and most definitely is a Winnifred Darling, my darling Winnifred. 💗 Love your videos AND podcast SJ!
@@johnnyschranz4005 Why? Winnifred Darling is a cute name in my opinion! She is not named something like Dick Long (which is unfortunately a real life name, this person actually existed and I feel sorry for him) or stuff like that.
I’m from Ireland and I love seeing the Irish names! Fionnuala, Aoife and Caoimhe are so common here it’s funny to think people think they’re too ‘out there’ (but I do understand the pronunciations are not intuitive if you don’t speak Irish!)
My partner vitoed aifric and síofra from my list even though we're both Irish and live in Ireland 😂 some people have ptsd about Irish names I think 🤦🏻♀️
@@marty9011 I know about 20 people called Sinéad 😂 if you're in Ireland you don't get too much confusion. Her kids are probably Áine and Peadar on the role call in school 😂
Waylon Jennings was a very popular country singer here in the US. He was born in 1937 and passed in 2002. A couple of my favorite songs of his are "Lucille" and "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys." He's a legend as far as I'm concerned.
My Dad took us to see Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter perform many years ago while we were on vacation! It was either in Lake Tahoe or Vegas. (was too young to remember exact location cause we were traveling for 3 weeks)
@@cavlizzy, that is so cool! I really wish I could've been alive to see Conway Twitty and wish I could see Loretta Lynn or Willie Nelson before they die. Honestly, they're the 2 remaining that I actually love! All the rest Nashville is too historically good for!
@@mandymorrow5473 I'm a native Texan so getting to see the one's that are from here has been pretty easy. Willie Nelson is always great! I found out I saw Waylon at Harrah's Casino in Lake Tahoe! :)
I am finally able to watch these videos again without having baby name regret. Not that I don't love the name we chose (Monty), but there are always so many good ones. Now that our son is 7 weeks I feel settled enough to come back.
Really validated that I named my March 2021 baby boy a "guilty pleasure" name that's on this list - Rumi (yes, after the Persian poet and not Beyonce's daughter). It's SO sweet. Most people love his name. Everyone else asks me to repeat it then take a long pause. hahaha
I was so surprised how many times Juniper came up. I have a four month old daughter named Juniper who is nicknamed Juni for short and everyone who hears her name tell me they love it! I say if you love an "out-there" name go for it. Honestly you won't regret it
I don't know if you live in America, but here Juniper or June are surprisingly more common than my daughter's name, Jane! (Which you'd think as a plain name would be more common). She's 8 months.
My guilty pleasure is November (for a girl) ✨ could nickname her Noa or Ember. I like that if she’d grow up to not like something so different, Noa is a “safer” name for her to go by😅
@@SJ_Strum Thank you! I am trying to build up the courage to use it (one day, am currently here mainly as one of the writers lurking for character names 😂), and this helps a lot x
@@SaraSmed As much as I like the idea of you naming your daughter after my birthday month, I personally wouldn't do that, because she could be teased because of it. My girlfriend and I played it safe when we named our baby girl (who is now in Heaven). Her name is Emily Lucy (her middle name is after me, and Emily after my girlfriend's grandma).
So I plan on using Juniper Leigh for a girl and for a boy Augustus, but I love the name Willoughby! I’d use it for a girl! I’ve never heard that one before used as a name! So pretty!
Tigerlily gives me deep baby name envyyyy. Also love Kit, Everdeen, Goldie, Willoughby, Daphne and Wren, Wednesday, Fox, Freddie, Elvis, Keats, Lavender, Hyacinth, Casper, Wilder are all on actual lists ive written for #2. My first is a boy named Ezra. Tell me your faves.
I'm American and I've met a few Gemma's. Not too out there at all. My guilty pleasure name is Cassiopeia, but I think I'm more likely to go with Cassandra. Cassandra Scout.
All of my favorite LOTR names would be my “guilty pleasures”. LOVE Arwen, Eowyn, Meriadoc & Peregrin. A character only in the Hobbit movie trilogy whose name I would love to use is Tauriel. My only concern is the automatic refference status of the female names. I feel I would be better able to hide the refference in the male names with the help of their nicknames being Merry & Pippin (or Pip). Another literary name I love I Huckleberry with the nickname being Huck. Also love the name Ziggy, but feel like I would be braver using it for a future pet cat instead of my child. 😅
Hi SJ, Kowhai is pronounced Core-fye (second syllable rhymes with pie). Really beautiful native tree that grows yellow flowers, kowhai is also the word for yellow in Te Reo Māori (the indigenous language of NZ). Thanks for including a name from our country!
Glad someone else noticed this too. I'd just come to the comments to say this but was struggling with how to phonetically type it. I was thinking second syllable sounds like the start of the word fire, and there's emphasis on the 'core/kaw' part because there's a macron on the kōwhai ☺️
Was playing this in the background and totally perked up when I heard Witt! That’s my last name and I always thought it would make a great first name for a boy or maybe just a nickname for Whitney to keep the name in the family
Ooh, and I think Lupin is also the name of those beautiful tall flowers a bit like foxgloves.. but I may be wrong xxx Lupin the character is fabulous as name inspo xxx
My youngest daughter’s name is Clover Pearl. My older daughters thought her name was quite normal compared to theirs. I have a Westen Liberty and Berlin Shynae.
I have been in LOVE with the name Matilda since I was 19 and met my husband around the same time. I want to name a girl Matilda Lake (lake is my husbands name) but every time I share it with others they laugh at Matilda. I know what I want is more important than what others think but I don’t want her to get laughed at and get the “like the movie” response every time she introduces herself. It’s still my number one name even though we haven’t been successful with conception yet.
I feel like a lot of these names are very wearable now a days specially, some are even common so I’m confused haha. I have some of these on my list and I encourage anyone to use these if they are on your list!
Last week at work there was a customer and she had a toddler named Opal and it was the first time I'd heard it used for a name and it was just perfect for that little girl
I have a Griffin! Penn, Yale, and Arrow are some of my favs that I couldn't get hubs on board. Other guilty pleasure names Selah (pronounced say-lah), Prudence (Pru), Shepherd (Shep), Callahan
I watch this one alllll the time. Would you do another one with everyone’s updated guilty pleasure names? Might bring some levity to your day! Xox big hug, Danica
My one is definitely Ashildr, its the name of Maisie Williams character in Doctor Who and I just adore it. I've actually just recently rewatched her episodes.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of doing rapid fire names this video, however I feel like this was just a tad too fast. I like to listen to your videos as I drive home from work And it's just a little bit hard to even keep up or think about the names at all when you say 4 of them in one breath. AgainI love the idea and you and your videos, but it was just a bit too fast this time
Constructive criticism done correctly 👏I agree. Sometimes names need to sit on me for a second to get a proper vibe. It was a fun video idea but I couldn't process a lot of the names or consider what I thought of them cuz they were there and then gone. Toward the end was a better speed I think 🤔 But doesn't she look gorge in that pink sweater and pink blush! :)
Not sure about Lemon but I've always liked 'LIMONE' -pronounced Li-moan-ee, for a girl. I think Pelagia' s daughter in 'Captain Correli's Mandolin 'was called Limone? Another favourite is 'FINELLA'-she's my friends daughter so would be tricky to copy it. I know a TIGER ,a teen boy.
Such cool names! I love Prairie but hubby would never let me 😆 I also love the name Wednesday but tbh Addams family would never let the poor child get a break 🥲
As a New Zealander, I just want to let you know that Kowhai is not pronounced "Ko-fee" 😂. It's Kaw-Fi. It's Māori, a native tree and is also the Māori name for yellow ❤
So good to promote the correct pronunciation ❤️ If I may add, it is more like kaw-fie, rhymes with tie (which you very well may have meant, I just want to make it obvious to the non-kiwis) 😊
Names we had on our list but were not brave enough: Boy: Enzo, Maximus Girl: Lavender, Skye, Marigold, Gaea, Margaret/Marguerite, Olympia, Juno. Loved Olympia so much, but as we already had Oliver(couldn't help myself as our relationship blossomed in Greece, and this is what Oliver reminds me of), Oli & Oli would be a little confusing. We decided on Oliver (for Greece, beautiful colour, olives and warm vibe) and Maia (for fairytale vibe - name of Thumbelina, lightness, Greek mythology and actual name of one of Pleiades)
Loved this different style of video! My guilty pleasure name schuyler was on there haha although I think I prefer the spelling Skylar. Could never use it though, my mum has ridiculed me for liking that name for years haha
My guilty pleasures for a girl are Quenby/Quinby, Trilby (like the book, not the hat,) Viveka, Ariadne, and Deirdre. For boys; Whitaker, Stosh, Malcolm, Hollis, and Alaric.
Lilith is actually one of my very favorite name meanings. Jewish folklore says that she was Adam’s first wife, but she refused to be subservient to him so she left him and coupled with an archangel. Of course, scholars often depicted her as a demon, sexually impure, and even sometimes stealing babies?? The insecurity of man knows no bounds 🤣
I love Lillith! But my niece is called Lillian-we call her Lilly and Lillith would be too close and called Lily too. So we have come up with Lilah instead...as she'll be nicknamed Nyxy!
no one ever mentions this name and it's overall just almost never been used but totally will be mine. it ticks so many boxes! short & sweet, french, colour name, gender neutral. Roux
Hey! Love your videos! Just wanted to let you know that when pronouncing Kowhai the "ai" is said like "eye". I mean you can say it however you would like.. but that's how it's said to be more accurate :))
This was fun! I really had to focus! Clover is my favorite name, but I am also contemplating if I'm brave enough to use it. Minerva also stood out to me on this list.
More than half of the names on my list are on this list lol Tigerlily has always been my guilty pleasure name but Im seriously considering Bambi. My husband…. 🤪
Love these names could you do a video with baby names that end with -inn, I love the name Quinn with the sound at the end but I haven’t really heard any others
I’m confused by Gemma not being accepted in the US?? Maybe depends on region! Here in New York I know a few people named Gemma, and I had two Gemma’s in my class growing up (in the 90s). So strange that it’s not popular in your region but I say go with it! Beautiful name and totally common & wearable in New York and the surrounding area at least!
First time I have seen my own name on one of your list! About the name Waylon, it is well known in the Netherlands (where I come from) ♥️ Love from Senna
My name (but I pronounce it differently) as well as my sister's name were on this list. My sister's name is Gemma, we live in the US (we have lived in Northern, Southern, and Northwest America), and no one seems to have a problem with it.
Our black lab is Tallulah and it’s actually so easy to say all day and everyone loves it. We agreed on it so easily we are like we should have saved it for a human. So many nicknames. Tula, Lula, Tully, Lulie
@@marjoleinfokkens6338 I would say it‘s pronounced like SJ said it at 3:07 but with a stronger german e sound at the end, than the i sound she used. But it is hard to describe, because for me it sounds like it is spelled 😅 So I don‘t think it‘s pronounced the same in the netherlands and in germany.
If you’re afraid to use an “out there” name, use it as a middle name. Mine is Sunshine. Whenever I tell people my full name they say they love my middle name (or think I’m lying lol)
Kowhai is pronounced almost like core-fi(think wi-fi). It's beautiful it almost means yellow in Te Reo Maori like the yellow flowers on the kowhai tree
"Lupin" is wolf. Maybe SJ means "Lapin", which is French for rabbit. Word of caution, to a French speaker, "Miette" is a bit of a silly name. It literally means "crumbs" and wouldn't be used as a Christian name.
I love the name Peach! And Raven, Persephone, Cecilia. Can you get some more Arabic names up in here? Haha I heard Leila, which is Arab, but it's a super common one for Arabs. Some names I love in Arabic are Lujain (meaning silver), Sanabel (meaning wheat), and Ghazala (meaning deer)..I will never use these myself but they're gorgeous names!
@@amandachatila9040 That's good to hear! Was it elementary school? I love that name. Wish I had a chance to use it now but it's too late. Lol. I have 2 girls, Lois & Colette. (Lois was my grandmothers name: Lois Lane, no kidding!) :)
@@cavlizzy It was middle and high school! She always stuck out because she was the only Liesl and it quite fit her. Lane is an underused name too!! I have Collette (or Colette) on my list. Love the sound of it.
@@amandachatila9040 Lane is my family last name. But it is becoming more popular for a first name. All the girls loved my daughter Lois' name because no one else had it! And they loved the way it sounded. Same for my daughter, Colette. If you ever use Colette I would suggest using only 1 "L". It is the more usual spelling. She never has to spell her name for people.
I could use some advice. My daughter (Named Cordelia Artemis) is four months old and getting very frustrated with her toys. She screams at them and I can tell she's very distressed. How can I best comfort her? Should I remove the object that's distressing her, or should I let her work through her upset with it (which I think is due to her inability to manipulate the object in the way she wants)? I hug her and hold her and tell her I'm there and I see her big feelings etc. but it doesn't feel like enough.
I love how the first two are Ursula and the Eartha (my name now (sometimes) is Herta (meaning the same thing) and my older daughter in a past life is Ursula (she's still alive and well) :p
My guilty pleasure name is Cyanite with the nickname Cyan for a girl. There’s a character in a book with that name and I love it. I wouldn’t be brave enough to name a baby after a mineral though 😅
Can you do popular aesthetic names like dark academia, cottagecore and gamer?
Oh yes I love that idea! Xx
Is there one of these yet? Loving all these vids!!
I taught a 12yo TigerLily last year who went by Tiger. She was a super articulate and confident girl with a fiery personality. I absolutely loved having her in the classroom!
I named my daughter Tigerlily June. It fits her so well. She’s 13 months now and I absolutely love it. My little Tigerlily. Like the flower and like the princess 🥰
I love it!
Reminds me of a celeb who named their kid Heavenly Harani Tiger lily
Such a beautiful name, I am trying to convince my husband to let us pick this 😍
Imagine that on a resume.
@@MsBianca78 😂😂
Being a nurse rules some names out. Senna? That's a laxative. Penrose? That's a type of drain used for wounds and surgeries. 😂
Yah 😂 what's the stupidest name you've come across?
@@Cassxowary Dear
my fav is when i see people named melena 😅
ugh I know... Senna is actually a beautiful Arabic name meaning "brightness", from Sana meaning "splendor". But unfortunately it's associated with the laxative from the plant that in english is called senna :'( Wanted to name my future daughter that until I heard of the association, though it wouldn't work anyway, since in spanish, which my extended family speaks, Senna sounds like "cena", meaning dinner 😂 rip
Kowhai is actually pronounced "ko" is core "wh" is f and "ai" is eye. Its a Maori name for a tree with yellow flowers. Kowhai is the name for the colour yellow in the Te reo (Maori language) just for info purposes. Love your vids SJ! From NZ.❤
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I’m an early years teacher and in my class this year I have a little girl called Elvis and her parents call her Vi and I can’t help but find it so cute ❤️ She is the sweetest soul which helps too 😂
How cute! I love it for a girl xx
that is really cute haha
5:37 oh my god I cannot lol 😂 got me crying she said that so causally. "Reminds me of um divorce" hahaha
I just came across a student named "Maple" at school today. I really liked it. Has anyone else ever heard it?
Nice :)
Sunny has been my guilty pleasure baby name for years ! Pregnant with my third baby girl and we are going for it 😍 what about spelling Sunnie ?
I always comment on your videos when my baby girls name shows up. ☺️ My husband and I named our first child, a girl, Winnifred Darling last year. We call her Winnie. Many people tried to dissuade me but four months into my pregnancy I couldn’t imagine her as anyone else. She was and most definitely is a Winnifred Darling, my darling Winnifred. 💗
Love your videos AND podcast SJ!
I’m obsessed with her name as you know!!! So gorgeous xxx
she’s gonna get bullied
@@johnnyschranz4005 Why? Winnifred Darling is a cute name in my opinion! She is not named something like Dick Long (which is unfortunately a real life name, this person actually existed and I feel sorry for him) or stuff like that.
@@LucyQ-ew6zp sure it’s “cute” maybe for the 1960s
I’m from Ireland and I love seeing the Irish names! Fionnuala, Aoife and Caoimhe are so common here it’s funny to think people think they’re too ‘out there’ (but I do understand the pronunciations are not intuitive if you don’t speak Irish!)
My partner vitoed aifric and síofra from my list even though we're both Irish and live in Ireland 😂 some people have ptsd about Irish names I think 🤦🏻♀️
I love Irish names but for the spelling. A woman I knew was named Sinaid [ hopefully spelt right ] & called her children
Anna & Peter.
@@marty9011 I know about 20 people called Sinéad 😂 if you're in Ireland you don't get too much confusion. Her kids are probably Áine and Peadar on the role call in school 😂
I adore the name Aoife but my husband vetoed it because he said he didn’t want to struggle spelling his own child’s name 🙈😂
@@anithabombita She didn't live in Ireland hence the difficulty with her name.
“Prosper” is one of my guilty pleasure names for sure… my favorite character from a book from my childhood! - “The Thief Lord”
Oh yes, memories!
Someone else!
Waylon Jennings was a very popular country singer here in the US. He was born in 1937 and passed in 2002. A couple of my favorite songs of his are "Lucille" and "Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys." He's a legend as far as I'm concerned.
My Dad took us to see Waylon Jennings & Jessi Colter perform many years ago while we were on vacation! It was either in Lake Tahoe or Vegas. (was too young to remember exact location cause we were traveling for 3 weeks)
@@cavlizzy, that is so cool! I really wish I could've been alive to see Conway Twitty and wish I could see Loretta Lynn or Willie Nelson before they die. Honestly, they're the 2 remaining that I actually love! All the rest Nashville is too historically good for!
Oh wow that must be why it's getting popular xx
@@SJ_Strum, I think so for sure. At least in the USA.
@@mandymorrow5473 I'm a native Texan so getting to see the one's that are from here has been pretty easy. Willie Nelson is always great! I found out I saw Waylon at Harrah's Casino in Lake Tahoe! :)
Love seeing Aloysius! It was my grandfather's name and I've always heard my family say it "aloe-wish-iss".
I am finally able to watch these videos again without having baby name regret. Not that I don't love the name we chose (Monty), but there are always so many good ones. Now that our son is 7 weeks I feel settled enough to come back.
I love Monty ♥️
@@beckbeck5110 Thank you! We love it too. We also liked Everett and Reed, but Monty Dean just fit him.
Really validated that I named my March 2021 baby boy a "guilty pleasure" name that's on this list - Rumi (yes, after the Persian poet and not Beyonce's daughter). It's SO sweet. Most people love his name. Everyone else asks me to repeat it then take a long pause. hahaha
In the US, I've always heard Schuyler pronounce "Skylar," at least in the southeast.
Northeast USA too!
And in Hamilton!!!
Oh yes!!! I read it so differently! x
Sissy Spacek's daughter is Schuyler pronounced Skylar. She was in the original Babysitters Club movie.
My current guilty pleasure name is maple! But as a Canadian id be afraid it was too much. 🍁
Awe that's so lovely tho. I hope you end up using it even if it's a middle name ❤
Soda reminds me of Sodapop Curtis, the character from S.E Hinton’s the Outsiders, which is an amazing book and would not be a bad namesake! 😄
I can verify Gemma is nearly unheard of in the US. We had it on our list if we had a girl and my parents thought we were just making it up.
I was so surprised how many times Juniper came up. I have a four month old daughter named Juniper who is nicknamed Juni for short and everyone who hears her name tell me they love it! I say if you love an "out-there" name go for it. Honestly you won't regret it
So cute!
It’s so gorgeous! Yes it was on there loads x
I don't know if you live in America, but here Juniper or June are surprisingly more common than my daughter's name, Jane! (Which you'd think as a plain name would be more common). She's 8 months.
@@GraceHopeBlessing that's so interesting. Juniper is so uncommon in Australia which is where I'm from. Jane is a gorgeous name ❤️❤️❤️
Juniper is particularly great because it can evolve with her! Juniper then Junie, Then June!(:
I absolutely love the name Coast for boy. It’s a guilty pressure but I’m way to scared to use it 😢
I love that you put Hendrix and Genesis together on the list… they make such a cool first name/middle name pairing!
Yes super nice together xx
Would love to see you do a video on Hawaiian names/ cultural names.
Yes I love Hawaiian names x
My guilty pleasure is November (for a girl) ✨ could nickname her Noa or Ember. I like that if she’d grow up to not like something so different, Noa is a “safer” name for her to go by😅
Yes that’s such a good idea x
Do it!!💕
@@SJ_Strum Thank you! I am trying to build up the courage to use it (one day, am currently here mainly as one of the writers lurking for character names 😂), and this helps a lot x
You would want to get pregnant around February to have her birth month match her name.
@@SaraSmed As much as I like the idea of you naming your daughter after my birthday month, I personally wouldn't do that, because she could be teased because of it.
My girlfriend and I played it safe when we named our baby girl (who is now in Heaven). Her name is Emily Lucy (her middle name is after me, and Emily after my girlfriend's grandma).
So I plan on using Juniper Leigh for a girl and for a boy Augustus, but I love the name Willoughby! I’d use it for a girl! I’ve never heard that one before used as a name! So pretty!
Tigerlily gives me deep baby name envyyyy. Also love Kit, Everdeen, Goldie, Willoughby, Daphne and Wren, Wednesday, Fox, Freddie, Elvis, Keats, Lavender, Hyacinth, Casper, Wilder are all on actual lists ive written for #2. My first is a boy named Ezra. Tell me your faves.
I'm American and I've met a few Gemma's. Not too out there at all. My guilty pleasure name is Cassiopeia, but I think I'm more likely to go with Cassandra. Cassandra Scout.
Rhapsody is one of my guilty pleasure names. We still may use it as a middle name paired with Nova as a first name if we have another girl. 🤞
In my friends and family we have a Pyper, Senna and Adeline all under 5 years old. It's nice that the names are getting so much more love.
Ah that's amazing! xx
All of my favorite LOTR names would be my “guilty pleasures”. LOVE Arwen, Eowyn, Meriadoc & Peregrin. A character only in the Hobbit movie trilogy whose name I would love to use is Tauriel. My only concern is the automatic refference status of the female names. I feel I would be better able to hide the refference in the male names with the help of their nicknames being Merry & Pippin (or Pip). Another literary name I love I Huckleberry with the nickname being Huck. Also love the name Ziggy, but feel like I would be braver using it for a future pet cat instead of my child. 😅
I really like the name Elowyn because it sounds very similar, like it could be a LOTR name, but isn’t.
I have a Théoden which I fell in love with thanks to LOTR
@@kirstynschererable such a great name! I have baby name envy. 😄
Absolutely true! Peregrin is my favorite
Can’t wait for part 2! I love Truly, Lovie and Dove or girls and Holland and Bondi for boys. ❤️
Our 18month old is Memphis-Ray loved the name for so long and our eldest is Austin-George and our Angel girl we called Daenerys ✨
Hi SJ, Kowhai is pronounced Core-fye (second syllable rhymes with pie). Really beautiful native tree that grows yellow flowers, kowhai is also the word for yellow in Te Reo Māori (the indigenous language of NZ). Thanks for including a name from our country!
Glad someone else noticed this too. I'd just come to the comments to say this but was struggling with how to phonetically type it. I was thinking second syllable sounds like the start of the word fire, and there's emphasis on the 'core/kaw' part because there's a macron on the kōwhai ☺️
Was playing this in the background and totally perked up when I heard Witt! That’s my last name and I always thought it would make a great first name for a boy or maybe just a nickname for Whitney to keep the name in the family
I love Lemon hahah I felt attacked by SJ's reaction
My guilty pleasure names are Gravity, Cloud, and Bloom all for girls
I didn’t realise there were so many! I loved reading them and it’s still there so will do another x
Ooh, and I think Lupin is also the name of those beautiful tall flowers a bit like foxgloves.. but I may be wrong xxx Lupin the character is fabulous as name inspo xxx
I have an Elswyth! She’s Elsie on a daily basis but I’ve only ever received compliments for her name. Next baby will be Hermione or Foxleigh
My youngest daughter’s name is Clover Pearl. My older daughters thought her name was quite normal compared to theirs. I have a Westen Liberty and Berlin Shynae.
Oh yay my name was mentioned a couple of times! It always exciting when people mention my name
I have been in LOVE with the name Matilda since I was 19 and met my husband around the same time. I want to name a girl Matilda Lake (lake is my husbands name) but every time I share it with others they laugh at Matilda. I know what I want is more important than what others think but I don’t want her to get laughed at and get the “like the movie” response every time she introduces herself. It’s still my number one name even though we haven’t been successful with conception yet.
I love it! Reminds me of Gordon Ramsay daughter who goes by Tilly for short x
I love Matilda! Such a gorgeous name. I also really like Tilda, might be a good alternative?
I feel like a lot of these names are very wearable now a days specially, some are even common so I’m confused haha. I have some of these on my list and I encourage anyone to use these if they are on your list!
Loved this list! I don’t think my spouse would go for it, but Tigerlily could be another way to use Lily without being too ordinary.
Last week at work there was a customer and she had a toddler named Opal and it was the first time I'd heard it used for a name and it was just perfect for that little girl
All I think of with Waylon is a random character in Twilight that gets brutally attacked by vampires 😂
There's a country singer named Waylon Jennings
I had the exact same thought!
I think of Waylon Smithers from the Simpsons.
Stiles is a character on teen wolf!
I have a Griffin!
Penn, Yale, and Arrow are some of my favs that I couldn't get hubs on board.
Other guilty pleasure names
Selah (pronounced say-lah), Prudence (Pru), Shepherd (Shep), Callahan
Shepherd is one for me too x
I watch this one alllll the time. Would you do another one with everyone’s updated guilty pleasure names? Might bring some levity to your day! Xox big hug, Danica
Yes great idea - was so fun! x
Daphne is my first name! So neat to hear it on a name list.
I love your pinky makeup 😍💗
Ah thanks so much Chloe xx
My one is definitely Ashildr, its the name of Maisie Williams character in Doctor Who and I just adore it. I've actually just recently rewatched her episodes.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of doing rapid fire names this video, however I feel like this was just a tad too fast. I like to listen to your videos as I drive home from work And it's just a little bit hard to even keep up or think about the names at all when you say 4 of them in one breath. AgainI love the idea and you and your videos, but it was just a bit too fast this time
Constructive criticism done correctly 👏I agree. Sometimes names need to sit on me for a second to get a proper vibe. It was a fun video idea but I couldn't process a lot of the names or consider what I thought of them cuz they were there and then gone. Toward the end was a better speed I think 🤔
But doesn't she look gorge in that pink sweater and pink blush! :)
I get that! I love taking more time on each name too :-). Good to mix it up sometimes and thanks for the feedback xxx
Wow, what a list ! Many really usuable ones but some definitely not. I like Ursula, Athena & Conrad.
There used to be a little girl called velvet in my sons class at school, I loved it
Alaska, Esmae and Cecil are such adorable names😍
Not sure about Lemon but I've always liked 'LIMONE' -pronounced Li-moan-ee, for a girl. I think Pelagia' s daughter in 'Captain Correli's Mandolin 'was called Limone? Another favourite is 'FINELLA'-she's my friends daughter so would be tricky to copy it.
I know a TIGER ,a teen boy.
Such cool names! I love Prairie but hubby would never let me 😆 I also love the name Wednesday but tbh Addams family would never let the poor child get a break 🥲
So glad you have the spelling next to you! Loved the quick fire but would have been hard without the names next to you. Loved the edit!
Thanks Betty! The captions took me so long 😂😂😂🤣🥰🥰🥰
As a New Zealander, I just want to let you know that Kowhai is not pronounced "Ko-fee" 😂. It's Kaw-Fi. It's Māori, a native tree and is also the Māori name for yellow ❤
Looked for this comment lol
So good to promote the correct pronunciation ❤️ If I may add, it is more like kaw-fie, rhymes with tie (which you very well may have meant, I just want to make it obvious to the non-kiwis) 😊
@@hannahwright6995 Totally my meaning hahaha but, sure the E adds to it, makes it obvious
Ah - she had it pronounced out so I followed that but should have looked it up! X
Was looking for this comment haha
Names we had on our list but were not brave enough:
Boy: Enzo, Maximus
Girl: Lavender, Skye, Marigold, Gaea, Margaret/Marguerite, Olympia, Juno. Loved Olympia so much, but as we already had Oliver(couldn't help myself as our relationship blossomed in Greece, and this is what Oliver reminds me of), Oli & Oli would be a little confusing.
We decided on Oliver (for Greece, beautiful colour, olives and warm vibe) and Maia (for fairytale vibe - name of Thumbelina, lightness, Greek mythology and actual name of one of Pleiades)
My son is Maximus! We love it 😊
I know an Enzo and a Lorenzo , a Skye, and a Juno. The more people hear the name the less unusual they sound.
@@hayleybarnes8789 beautiful, very strong name. All the best!
Loved this different style of video! My guilty pleasure name schuyler was on there haha although I think I prefer the spelling Skylar. Could never use it though, my mum has ridiculed me for liking that name for years haha
I did not get it was skyler! I love it x
@@SJ_Strum haha I only know that from Hamilton
My guilty pleasures for a girl are Quenby/Quinby, Trilby (like the book, not the hat,) Viveka, Ariadne, and Deirdre. For boys; Whitaker, Stosh, Malcolm, Hollis, and Alaric.
Lilith is actually one of my very favorite name meanings. Jewish folklore says that she was Adam’s first wife, but she refused to be subservient to him so she left him and coupled with an archangel. Of course, scholars often depicted her as a demon, sexually impure, and even sometimes stealing babies??
The insecurity of man knows no bounds 🤣
I’m living for this comment!!
I love Lillith! But my niece is called Lillian-we call her Lilly and Lillith would be too close and called Lily too. So we have come up with Lilah instead...as she'll be nicknamed Nyxy!
Echo is probably my top guilty pleasure name for a girl!
Loved this. Waiting for part II!!
no one ever mentions this name and it's overall just almost never been used but totally will be mine. it ticks so many boxes! short & sweet, french, colour name, gender neutral. Roux
I’d love for you to do a “cottagecore” name list!
Hey! Love your videos! Just wanted to let you know that when pronouncing Kowhai the "ai" is said like "eye". I mean you can say it however you would like.. but that's how it's said to be more accurate :))
Ah brill thanks for adding that :-) x
Loved so many of these, a few of mine were in here!
Just had a little boy and named him forest and we love it 😁
This was fun! I really had to focus! Clover is my favorite name, but I am also contemplating if I'm brave enough to use it. Minerva also stood out to me on this list.
I had to focus too!! 😂🥰🥰🥰
I like that one too i didn't even catch Minerva
More than half of the names on my list are on this list lol Tigerlily has always been my guilty pleasure name but Im seriously considering Bambi. My husband…. 🤪
could you do a list on U names…i’m struggling to find some that i like ! 😩
Love these names could you do a video with baby names that end with -inn, I love the name Quinn with the sound at the end but I haven’t really heard any others
Love Dolly, Freddie, Jude, Ernest:) The last three I'm a little biased because I considered them for myself! - Chris
My 10 year old daughters middle name is Amberle. It’s becoming more popular since the Shannara books (where we loved the name), became a tv series.
mine would probably be Lennon. love that name, hard to say though where i come from and i am not in love with have the same initials as my kids
I’m confused by Gemma not being accepted in the US?? Maybe depends on region! Here in New York I know a few people named Gemma, and I had two Gemma’s in my class growing up (in the 90s). So strange that it’s not popular in your region but I say go with it! Beautiful name and totally common & wearable in New York and the surrounding area at least!
Love that someone said jean, Liam ghallager has a son called gene I think it’s spelt? And I’ve always thought it’s so cool
Yeah, it's spelled Gene
Its crazy how different a lot of those names are from the names my friends and I like here in Canada.
First time I have seen my own name on one of your list! About the name Waylon, it is well known in the Netherlands (where I come from) ♥️ Love from Senna
My name (but I pronounce it differently) as well as my sister's name were on this list. My sister's name is Gemma, we live in the US (we have lived in Northern, Southern, and Northwest America), and no one seems to have a problem with it.
I'm ready for part 2. great names! Lupin reminds me of Anime and wolves.
I have met a really cool girl named Tiger, so cool & unforgettable
Our black lab is Tallulah and it’s actually so easy to say all day and everyone loves it. We agreed on it so easily we are like we should have saved it for a human. So many nicknames. Tula, Lula, Tully, Lulie
Even though I am german, I would never thought of „Ess mich“ or eat me in english when hearing the name Esmee. So I think you can definetly use it 🧡
Ah thanks for adding that!! X
Also, wouldn't it be pronounced as Es-may? That's the way we say it in the Netherlands. I imagine in Germany the same pronunciation is used?
@@marjoleinfokkens6338 I would say it‘s pronounced like SJ said it at 3:07 but with a stronger german e sound at the end, than the i sound she used. But it is hard to describe, because for me it sounds like it is spelled 😅 So I don‘t think it‘s pronounced the same in the netherlands and in germany.
Im from NZ and the name Kowhai is pronounced (kor-fye)
I forgot about commenting mine until last night, boo! Mine are magnolia, Clementine, and safari.
If you’re afraid to use an “out there” name, use it as a middle name. Mine is Sunshine. Whenever I tell people my full name they say they love my middle name (or think I’m lying lol)
Kowhai is pronounced almost like core-fi(think wi-fi). It's beautiful it almost means yellow in Te Reo Maori like the yellow flowers on the kowhai tree
"Lupin" is wolf. Maybe SJ means "Lapin", which is French for rabbit. Word of caution, to a French speaker, "Miette" is a bit of a silly name. It literally means "crumbs" and wouldn't be used as a Christian name.
I love the name Peach! And Raven, Persephone, Cecilia.
Can you get some more Arabic names up in here? Haha
I heard Leila, which is Arab, but it's a super common one for Arabs.
Some names I love in Arabic are Lujain (meaning silver), Sanabel (meaning wheat), and Ghazala (meaning deer)..I will never use these myself but they're gorgeous names!
Mine is Ariadne...love how it sounds and looks but where I come from no one will know how to pronounce it 😅
I love Waylon! Like Waylon Jennings the country singer. 😊❤👍
I always wanted to use Liesl !!! But everyone told me that everybody would either misspell it OR worse, rhyme it with Weasel... UG.
Had a Liesl in my class. No bullying at all! Can't speak to the misspelling.
@@amandachatila9040 That's good to hear! Was it elementary school? I love that name. Wish I had a chance to use it now but it's too late. Lol. I have 2 girls, Lois & Colette. (Lois was my grandmothers name: Lois Lane, no kidding!) :)
@@cavlizzy It was middle and high school! She always stuck out because she was the only Liesl and it quite fit her. Lane is an underused name too!! I have Collette (or Colette) on my list. Love the sound of it.
@@amandachatila9040 Lane is my family last name. But it is becoming more popular for a first name. All the girls loved my daughter Lois' name because no one else had it! And they loved the way it sounded. Same for my daughter, Colette. If you ever use Colette I would suggest using only 1 "L". It is the more usual spelling. She never has to spell her name for people.
I could use some advice. My daughter (Named Cordelia Artemis) is four months old and getting very frustrated with her toys. She screams at them and I can tell she's very distressed. How can I best comfort her? Should I remove the object that's distressing her, or should I let her work through her upset with it (which I think is due to her inability to manipulate the object in the way she wants)? I hug her and hold her and tell her I'm there and I see her big feelings etc. but it doesn't feel like enough.
I love how the first two are Ursula and the Eartha (my name now (sometimes) is Herta (meaning the same thing) and my older daughter in a past life is Ursula (she's still alive and well) :p
My guilty pleasure name is Cyanite with the nickname Cyan for a girl. There’s a character in a book with that name and I love it. I wouldn’t be brave enough to name a baby after a mineral though 😅