Strange Love: What’s your craziest name crush?

Updated Tue Jul 01 2014

Over on the message boards, Yael asks: What’s your strangest, craziest name crush?

We love this question — thanks, Yael! — and so we’re opening it to the wider group.

What name do you love that just doesn’t make sense? What weird and wonderful name speaks to your heart, even when your mind says no no no?

Can you make any sense of your wacky name crush? Or would you just blame baby name craziness?

So tell us: What’s your strangest baby name love, your craziest baby name crush?

Illustration from the wonderful book Love Monster by Rachel Bright.

About the Author

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.