I was adopted but recently connected with my birth mother. She told me that she had planned to name me Andromeda. I just love that. Would not have been wearable back when I was born, but I think it is now. Meanwhile I use it for my sassy alter-ego.

I used Evander and I get so many compliments and so far everyone can read it and spell it. Love that we were brave enough to use it. Got the idea from one of your videos!

To whoever submitted the name Cordelia, you should definitely go for it! I named my daughter Cordelia 2 months ago, and we get compliments on it all the time! The name I submitted for this list was Adrasteia! 💖

as a gymnastics coach and a name enthusiast (i’m a writer not a mother currently aha), it’s always interesting when i come across names i can’t stand (especially when they belong to naughty children…), but similarly, i’ve found a lot of names i love from my job, such as clementine and olive! who were luckily also very pleasant natured young girls who left me with a good name association!

My girl is called Birdie, I’m forever happy I was brave enough!

My baby’s name is Lavinia- I wouldn’t have been brave enough, but my husband loved it! I’m surprised at how many people have never heard of it- I think it’s known a bit more in the UK. People are surprised by it when they hear it, but when we tell them her nickname is Vinnie they all think that’s cute 😊

Frédérique is a common girl name here in Quebec!! Lovely video SJ, so happy to see you in back in your element sorting through all our baby names 😅😅 Looking lovely as always xx

My family has a Walter, Ernest, Vivian, and Mimi! Never thought we had adventurous namers in our family. They’re all really wearable!

I want the Barbie name list! This was a fun one to watch. Athena is my cats name.

Atlas is the name of a Greek Mythological character. He was cursed to hold up the heaven and is often depicted holding the world on his shoulders. Atlantic and Atlantis are from the character Atlas meaning "sea of Atlas" and "island of Atlas." A collection of maps was first called an atlas in the late 1500s. So, there's a little history in case you want to use the name and folks think you're naming your child after an object. BTW - my guilty pleasure is Fairlight.

Meabh, Astrid, Loxlie & Salem are names i loved for a girl. But they were vetoed by everyone lol And for boys, Seamus, Fox, Beau, Caspian, Gus and Gideon ❤️ just beautiful Also, my Grandmother's were named Beulah and Oma Jean which i think are unusual and beautiful!

This is one of my favorite baby name videos! What an abundant list!

Holiday Sybil is a full name I will be using :) I love Murphy for a girl. I love soooo many of these names

Mine is Meadowlark possibly with Mel as a nickname. The bird has a sentimental connection for me so it's still very much on my middle name list, my current combo for it is Lucy Meadowlark.

So many of my favorites are on here (team Thisbe reporting for duty!) I hope lists like these help people to have the courage to use the names they really love by seeing that loads if other people love them too. 💖

I love the names Sistine, Alexandria and Aviendha. To me they are all such powerful names that I don’t hear being used.

Calliope is my daughter's name, she was born in March this year. I absolutely love it, but no one has ever heard of it when we tell them her name and we get a lot of weird looks 😂 hardly anyone has told us they like it, so this makes me feel better!

So many cool names! I’m past the baby naming stage of life so at this point I think my interest in baby names is a guilty pleasure in and of itself, haha! My top guilty pleasure name of all time is Augusta nn Gus. That was my great aunt’s name. I adored her and her name! At the moment I’m really into old man nicknames on girls. Bertie, Charlie, Teddy, etc.

Brilliant list! And yes would love a brave middle names video :)

My daughter is Sloane! She was almost a Shane because someone has used Sloane before I could. Glad I went with it-I light up every time I hear it!

I love Hero for a girl but I’m worried she’d feel some sort of pressure to live up to her name!

So many beautiful unique names I love it !! I haven’t had children yet so not sure which names are I love but won’t be using 😂

So many great names in this video!! Awesome video SJ!!🥰🥰

I heard the name lockett on one of your covid lists back when I was pregnant with my first. Now I'm having my third boy and I'm finally going to use it, we love it but I really feel like I'll have to fight for people to not question me. Hopefully I stand my ground this time, baby due in spring.

Omg yay!!!!! You did it!!!!! I’m so happy. Watching now!

I really like Emrys, Remy, Genevieve, Amaryllis, Ursula, Ebenezer and Lazslo. Some others that I would put on this list are Leolin, Consuelo, Sheila, Heather, Isabeau, Evenor, Cordelia and Azalais.

I have just welcomed a beautiful granddaughter who they named Beni Rose and it’s such a lovely name and suits her so well ❤

Bluebell for a girl is definitely my guilty pleasure name!

I only know this because of the song "What Else Can I Do?" from Encanto, lol - I believe with Jacaranda, the J is pronounced more like an H, so Hah-cuh-ran-duh 😊

SJ I’ve watched this video several times because the names don’t always sink in the first time around, but if no one’s said it yet, please DO BRAVE MIDDLES video! Love brave and guilty pleasure lists.

My friend named her girl Loïse and I love it... as a new version for Eloïse.

I’ve been loving the name Poet with the nickname Poe. Story is adorable too!!

I have a Genevieve and I adore her name and so far have only had a few people not like it. We typically call her Evie in short.

I wanted Tuesday or Delta for a girl and my husband shot both of the names down VERY quickly. I also love Ottilie ❤ Ledger was our boy name but we had a sweet girl!

We are pregnant with a baby boy and want to name him Caspian Valor but I am so nervous people will think it is too much.

I have SUCH a crush on the name Holiday😆 I’d only use if possibly if I had a baby around the winter holidays🎄

Also yes please to brave middle names - I went with Tigerlily in the middle! :)

I love so many of these, but especially Temperance. I’ve actually met a Temperance once!

I love so many of these names!! I really like Persephone for a girl. I think Omen and Venture make cool boy/unisex names

My boys have Persian middle names, Roham and Sepehr. Love them so much!

Love Honey! Mine is Sunday for a girl but I think I would actually use it! X

My guilty pleasure names are Augustine [ Gus ] Matisse, Valentina & Ottilie but would use Athena. Some good names today for brave namers.

Speaking of brave middle names, I had my baby boy this summer and named him Jasper Peregrine! Not quite brave enough to use it as a first name but we love both and how they sound together! Everyone seems to love both when we tell them his name and many are surprised by Peregrine!

We have a Winter and I’m so glad!! We kept the name a secret till she was born but it was received very well! I love it. We call her Winnie

We have a Honey and a Minnie sisters on my parters side of the family. I was crushing bad when i met them honey was always on my list a lot of these names are but i just added darling that is so cute my top guilty pleasures atm are Tzipporah ( Zippy ) and October .x

My dog is named Solveig, nn. Svei (prn.Sv-/eɪ/ with a long A) - loved the meaning of strength for a rescue dog. Definitely a name that deserves more love!

I love Murphy! My guilty pleasure names are Halston, Britain, and Wesley (all for girls). I also really like Darcy for a boy (for Mr. Darcy of course). Margot is my #1 girls name but my cousins just used it 😢

I’m using Cordelia and I love it!

My cats names are Clementine & Juniper and I currently walk a dog called Olive. I loved Clementine for a baby but my husband said no🤣 so it became our kittens name. A lot of guilty pleasure names I have I think I’ll end up using them for pets! One of my all time favourite names is Atlas. I’m not sure it flows well with our surname…

Surprised that Persephone didn't come up for girls. I think it needs to rise in popularity like Penelope and Calliope. But what's a cool nickname, Sephie maybe? And the coolest boy names I heard in this list were Evren and Ledger.

I have a Dash! And he has a unique surname middle name after my Granny. Love this list!

I know it is sooo out there, but whenever I teach the Odyssey, I love the name Telemachus. And Agnes with Gus/Gussie as nickname is my girl crush.

Vivian and Holiday are big name crushes of mine ❤

I honestly love the name Cassius. But, I unfortunately won't be using it.

Ceridwen is lovely! We're seeing some welsh names like Elowen rise so now it doesnt feel as out there to use

yes i would love the barbie core baby names

I was so excited for this video 🤣 I submitted Aurora and Maddox, I would potentially actually use Aurora but Maddox just sounds way too cool and like it belongs to a rock star’s child 😂

I tried to convince my husband to use Dulcinea but he did not get my vision 😅 we used Hickory as our son’s middle name after being talked out of it as a first name by several family members. If you like Boyd, I know a Boyden, which sounds very trendy.

My daughters names are Florence Belle and I have a 5 month old Olive Bloom, I loved Honey or Clemmie🥰

Temperance, I love ❤

Ohh please do share the Barbie core!! ❤❤❤

I've always loved Latimer, my guitly pleasure name, but everyone hates it so I won't be using it haha but my chosen boy name is Ivar which is like marmite with people, I'm 22+4 and not finding out x Also, Emrys yes, it's the druid name for Merlin and its my bearded dragons name as its unisex and its a lovely name x

I’ve never seen the name “Bronwyn” come up on your name lists. What do we think of it? I’d say it’s probably a guilty pleasure if mine but I know I’d never get to use it.

Lots of great names, Emrys was a favourite on my list but I have an Idris so thought it might be too similar. I love Ziggy but my husband wasn’t having that at all. I loved Ezekiel for my second son but wasn’t feeling brave when it came down to it so went with Ezra.

I think with Waylon its how its pronounced depending on where you're from. Like Basil. I can't use that here in the US 😂 but when i hear you say it i love it. Here in Oklahoma Waylon is a super popular name! However we pronounce it more like Way-Lynn.

Xochitl is a Nahuatl word for flower and is used mainly among indigenous Mexican people. Its not a name I would use w/o a connection to that culture. Its super pretty though.

I would have thought Ceridwen would have a soft c sound because the c is followed by an e like in celery, center, cement, etc. It sounds pretty both ways!

My husband liked Atlas, I preferred August, we agreed on Armstrong ❤ His brave middle name is Jonas, definitely do a brave middle name video!

Before the first movie came out, I read it exactly the same, Her Me Own. Hahaha who knew Hermione? 😂 The middle name that was a bit out there that I did for mine was Fire (instead of the planned Vera). I changed my mind at the last moment!

I love Caspian for a boy ☺️ don’t know if I’d ever be brave enough to pick it though.

We used Bloom as a middle name for our boy!

Hi! I'm from Brazil and I don't have children yet, but if I ever have a girl I want to name her Clarissa, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE this name, but EVERYONE I tell that says they hate that name and that it would be mixed up with "Clarisse/Clarice" 😢

I love that I know people who have or have used some of these names, in the US we like the strange ones lol. At my son(Declan which is an odd name here 😊) he has a teacher named Dart and he named his son Dash ❤

Montana (my name) made the list! 🥹 I absolutely love my name and am constantly complemented on it here in Australia! Love Freddie, Murphy/Murphie, Reverie, Evander, Remy and Camden! I also know a Caspian and he was cool! We all called him Cas. And yes please share your Barbie name list 😍🩷

my little girls friend in school is called ziggy (1st name) and know someone with children called peaches and honey!

I know it’s not that our there but we used Everleigh which felt brave for us (with an Abigail and a Charlie already) - no regrets though. We love it

I love Hillary ( Hills) it’s not a brave name but not popular and I wasn’t brave enough to use it. But I still love it. I also loved Pascal.

We have an Archer Otis Atlas 😊

I literally added Mocci to my list lol. You make every word or name sound so pretty 😂😂 Also here are some of my favorites that I have come across in the two years I have worked in daycare: D'zyre ( b) Shamiah ( g) Johel ( b) Gael ( b) Isabella ( g) Harmony (g) Lyric ( g) Briar ( b) ( u) Athena ( g) Abimael ( b) Bella ( g) Kayson ( b) Zarriah (g) Elijah ( b) Joanna ( g) Lane ( b) Saylor ( g) ( u) Naelahni ( g) Korra (g) Freya ( g) Nova ( g) Kambria ( g) Hope ( g) Sterling ( b) Alarik ( b) Zacarius ( b) Leonidas ( b) Jaxon ( b) Joleigha (g) Ellie ( g) Henry ( b) Ivan ( b) Angie ( g) Maydel ( g) Josiah ( b) Zane ( b) King ( b) Olen ( b) Jadriel ( b) Luther ( b) Wayd ( b) Mayette ( g) Ezekiel ( b) Danaysha ( g) Stella ( g) Terrance ( b) Melody ( g) Auriah (g) Gabriel ( b) Rowan ( b) Kordell ( b) Scarlett ( g) Serenity ( g) Grant ( b) Terriana ( g) Giavanna ( g) Nazir ( b) Mason ( b) Deacan ( b) Paisley ( g) Daylin (b) Nycola ( b) Envvie ( g) Prim ( g) Casper ( b) Peyton( b) Prince ( b) Connor ( b) Zayden ( b) Marvin ( b) Corbin ( b) Keljin (b) Claudia ( g) Cozy ( b) Draxten (b) Ezra ( b) Mia ( g) Makaila ( g)

Having a baby in late Jan and we have decided on Andrea. We wanted a classic name with a good strong meaning. Andrea means brave and strong

I have one for this list I’d love to get your opinion on SJ! Is there a way I can contact you about it?🙏🏻

I actually used DANGER as a middle name for my son. And he is the most careful and thought out person in my family!! He’s so logical and even keeled!

Our daughter is an Everyn - derived from Evren! It is Turkish for 'cosmos'!

Our guilty pleasure boy names were Ezio and Makai or Makaio. We also like Arden, but hate how similar it sounds to harden. Our guilty pleasure girl names were Skylaina(people DESPISED this one), Sereia, and Rio. Lately I've also been loving Runa

Some of my top favorite girls names are on here: Clementine, Philomena, Marigold, and Genevieve

Can you please do a video on 1 syllable names! My daughter is Elle and we’re looking for another one syllable name for our next baby.

I love Judea for a little girl but don’t know if I’d be brave enough to use! Nickname Jude!

As a teacher I've met an Atlas (twin sister Eris!) Solveig, Linnea, and have a Koa in my class right now!

YES PLEASE BARBIE NAME LIST

I submitted Daisy and Dolly (short for Dorothy). Ernest, without an A, is a family name my sister plans to use one day.

My 6mth old son's name is Cornelius!! We get a lot of comments about "what are you going to call him" or "kids at school are going to struggle with that". Well we got 5 and 4 year old foster kids that called him Camellius for a while, but now they say it correctly after a couple months of exposure and they never once tried to nickname him Corny! So sometimes I think it's the adults that get it wrong or overthink things. We have had some comments from people really loving his name, but I was just surprised at the number of people who asked what we'd call him. I didn't think it was an out there crazy name and my husband is the one who suggested it and he's more traditional. Had to add that my sister really likes Demelza and I think it would be fantastic!

Bertalie sounds like a classic name and would be a really unique long-form for Bertie.

Athénaïs is one of my favorite names! It's the French version of Athena pronounced ah-tay-nah-ees

Clementine is my guilty pleasure name for a girl. If I have any more children, I will definitely consider it for a middle name!

We are considering Ceridwen, sister to Endellion.

One name I really like rn but don’t think I could actually use and I def don’t think I could get my partner on board is Maude Ivory (from ballad of song birds and snakes) but I just think it sounds so cool

So nice to see people love 'Sybil' 🩷 It's my nans name and iv never heard anybody else called this. I would personally love to use this name if I had another daughter. We have a baby Penelopy and wouldn't Sybil be a great addition 🙏🏻😊

SJ I'm curious to know what names you love the most from the sound of music 🎶

oh man I love Lavender & Greer. definitely not brave enough for them 😅 I have Basil listed for a pet name

First born is Ambrose and second born we actually found off of your lists, his name is Calix Gregory. ❤