Your supermodel names

[stripedsocks]

I don't mean just names models have, which include some very common and approachable ones, or very classic ones.

I mean, you know... those names you love, that you'd use... if only you could guarantee your kid they would have the look to pull them off. Am I the only one with these? Names you find lovely but worry would look funny on a mere-mortal chubby middle-schooler? But I still love them!

Mine are:

Ingrid - which prompted this thread, someone was talking about naming a daughter Ingrid.
Gisele/Giselle
Angelina
Isis - my husband said "we're just too pale and nerdy to have an Isis."

I have some for guys too. It's not that being awkward in high school is fun for anyone ever but there's this special level of hell if you are also named Apollo, I think.

Am I think only one with these sort of unusable-but-great names?

[aureliagwendolen]

For girls I like the names Gwendolen and Branwen, which are unpopular because people say they sound ugly. For boys, Edgar and Arthur. They're old but I think they sound really cool.

[stripedsocks]

I really like Branwen and Arthur, I think they could be pretty usable? Arthur I wouldn't be that surprised if started to creep back into use.

[holbs]

Mafalda
Drusilla
Griselda

Devereux
Kermit

OP- I completely agree with you about Apollo. Although the US speed-skater does give me hope for Apollo as a fn

[violetgray]

Rose -I know there are probably a lot of them out there but I can't picture an average looking person named Rose
Georgiana
India
Anastasia
Alexandrina
Winter
Pearl
Isolde

For boys Theodore. I love it but it just sounds so soft and nerdy to me I'm afraid he'd be picked on if he were just average.

[ashthedreamer]

lol, Giselle is on my sister's list, but she says she'd be worried that her daughter would hate her for naming her after a supermodel.

Magdalena's the only one I can think of that I really love, but I don't think it's too supermodel-ey.

[east93]

Alessandra, but I intend to use Alessandra regardless because I love it that much.

Other ones:
Antoinette; I will only use this in the middle.
Odette; ditto.
Allegra

Boys:
Dimitri
Eden (prn Eh-den)

[thetxbelle]

I expect or at least hope to have some fairly attractive children (but who doesn't?) so I'm not sure I would worry about the awkward middle school phase but if I had to pick a name I would expect to see on a bombshell beauty and that I'm not sure my genes could pull off it would be Bérengère or Bérangère.

[cristinamariane]

Most of the names on my list are unusual, long and exotic, but I figure they can go either way - either she'll be a drop dead gorgeous Domenica, or she won't be but she'll have the female version of her great grandfather's name. Either a beautiful Phaedra or one that has an ancient name that makes her feel special because she probably won't meet another. Of course, I guess my plans could always backfire because I'm assuming they would fit the name either way. I just hope I have the foresight to avoid a name the general public thinks is ugly unless it's on a supermodel. (And I hope she gets our family's super-tall genes so she could be a supermodel if she wanted to.)