Names you loved but weren't brave enough to use?

[indigo13]

I've seen a lot of this, and I love unusual names so I'm wondering what names you would have loved to use but couldnt/wouldnt go for it as its too out there?

for me it'd have to be some of the lesser heard of mythological names

[littlebillie]

Thane
Rory
Rupert
Emile
Gabriel
Thorin

[HeddaGabbler]

Dashiel

[MikeUniformMike]

Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

[whatsthebigdeal]

Teddy
Tabitha
Kitty
Chardonnay

[Sparrowlegs248]

Odin
Lysander.

[PippaFawcett]

Dora
Mabel
Roman

They aren't necessarily 'out there' but I just felt the names we ended up with were 'safer' somehow. I love to hear children with unusual names though, it makes life more interesting.

[blowmybarnacles]

Orchil and Emerald

[PippaFawcett]

And I loved Ophelia.

[Dizzybintess]

Araminta

[AbernathysFringe]

I was vetoed from using Tempest or Tatum.

Unusual names I've run into lately on under 2s:

Tula
Birdie
Tippi

[SausageSoda]

Arletty

[BroomstickOfLove]

I like the (unusual and classical) name we gave to DD, and she would probably have had that name anyway, but I would have had Jocasta on the shortlist were it not for all the 'Tarquin and Jocasta' comments.

DP did come home from the pub once when I was pregnant and crawled into bed saying 'let's call the baby Ozymandias', but I'm fairly sure he was joking.

[essieestherson]

James, for a girl

[Blankscreen]

Digby - I love it but the boss as work is called that so it would look a bit weird

[lousmum]

Aurora

[Potcallingkettle]

Antigone nn Tiggy
Araminta nn Minty

[Isadora2007]

Fleur for a girl and Fleance for a boy... I was 15 when I fell in love with these names and told my now exH that we would have twins and call them that!

I also wasn't brave enough for Ezekiel which I wish I had been as i love it. And teddy also. Though it was more that DH doesn't like Edward even though it's his middle name. Poor DS doesn't really suit his name I don't think and he really would have suited teddy.

[DorcasthePuffin]

Dora, Dorcas, Milena, Rivka, Moishe, Isaiah.

[user1483908438]

Isaac

[Foureyesarebetterthantwo]

I know an Araminta! You certainly remember it.

[Moodycoo]

@whatsthebigdeal we used Tabitha as a middle name for our daughter - I love it!

[ImNotReallyReal]

Aurelia and Araminta. Got vetoed by DH. Both my girls have got very classic English names, I let DH name them as I was high as a kite from the morphine and Persephone Violet (DH Lawrence inspired) seemed a great idea at the time.

I wanted a Minty too, and it would have really suited her character. I am pleased with his choices though, they are solid, sensible names and as we have a very unusual surname they won't be forever spelling their whole names out on the phone.

[Buntysoven]

Demelza
Arrietty
Adriel
Fenella

[1horatio]

Thomasina (DF's name is Thomas and he hates the tradition of naming children after relatives)
Kira. Love it, the feminine version of Cyrus, but in the UK?
Vela

[Aquamarine1029]

Blaise