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Names you love but were not brave/crazy enough to call your child/children.

168 replies

Sharney · 05/06/2011 21:47

When I was pregnant with my daughter I really wanted to name her Calypso. It was opposed from every corner and I gave up. I don't regret this as I love my daughters' name but I often think, if I could give her a sister it would be Calypso. Anybody have a regret?

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muttimalzwei · 09/06/2011 14:29

cupnoodle I LOVE Auden. I also toyed with Aubrey.

muttimalzwei · 09/06/2011 14:28

I wanted Rudy so much for my son but was told he woudl get bullied. So second name it is. B O R I N G. I also wanted Seymour.

zinnia · 09/06/2011 14:24

Wanted to call DD1 Eloise, which admittedly doesn't sound quite as out there now as it did in 2008. But everyone we mentioned it to started singing, so we couldn't quite bring ourselves to do it to her (although I'm guessing The Damned will mean nothing to her generation).

Came v close to Liberty for DD2 last month, I still love it (and Libby as a nn) but again, it's her who would have had to live with it, not us...

I like to think there's a parallel universe somewhere in which I have two DDs with these names though.

dom41 · 09/06/2011 14:10

Tallulah or Rio for a girl. Still ashamed now. I blame pregnancy hormones :-) I'm a Dominique so know what its like to be saddled with a name people can't spell

TribbleWithoutACause · 08/06/2011 22:24

I loved Bently as a teenager and still like it now, I would have loved to have called ds Corby but dh vetoed it Sad.

SecretNutellaFix · 08/06/2011 22:20

I have always loved Ignatius and Dorothea. As we don't yet have children then I know I have a fight on my hands.

DH like Brice or Dexter and Martha or Astrid.

typsical · 08/06/2011 22:00

Somerby. For a boy. Love it. Still Wink

popsicle1984 · 08/06/2011 21:30

Oooh also Clover and Flora! Think they would sound nice together, bloody margarine's stealing my names!!

otchayaniye · 08/06/2011 19:13

Clovis. I really wanted to call a boy Clovis, after the hero of HH Munro's Saki short stories. But I'm having another girl.

cupnoodle · 08/06/2011 17:45

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BarryShitpeas · 08/06/2011 17:34

Francis

Ludo

Cornelius

runningonmt · 08/06/2011 17:32

how about ..........."sir" - may give him a headstart in life (tee hee!) x and introducing his sister ......"lady"

Sorry - I think i may have had too much caffine today !!!

otchayaniye · 08/06/2011 17:31

Pebbles

Niecie · 08/06/2011 17:26

I wanted Benedict for DS2 or Genevieve if he was a girl. DH quite liked Benedict but didn't have the bottle to use it which has said he sort of regrets.

Genevieve is a tiny bit poncy although I am sure she would have been Gena most of the time. Still think it is beautiful though.

However from a purely practical point of view they would both have had impossibly long names as our surname is very long (11 letters) and we have sadddled DS1 with a long first name and it wasn't kind when he was learning to write. Blush

I met a little girl called Silver yesterday. Lovely name but I imagine a blonde child with a name like that and she wasn't so not sure it was quite right for her.

Gemjar · 08/06/2011 17:19

DH tried to insist that I name DS1 Olaf The Indestructible but I told him that he could only do that if he literally came out with a flowing flame red beard, brandishing an axe. Fortunately for DS, he did not.

flooziesusie · 08/06/2011 17:17

what a great thread!!

Summer for a girl and Xavier for a boy... [whistful emoticon]

Also loved Buddy, Spike for boys and Velvet and Romy for girls...

Tolalola · 08/06/2011 17:13

Not a regret, but I had a secret hankering for Ramses when pg with DS.

DumSpiroSpero · 08/06/2011 17:05

Cat is called Persephone - bloody predictive text!

DumSpiroSpero · 08/06/2011 17:04

I know a Kaspar & a Faith (and a cat called Telephone!) Grin

mumoftoomany · 08/06/2011 12:47

Some lovely names on here. Particularly like Cecilia, Persephone, Calypso, Atticus, Orion and Ivo.

Obamaniqua · 07/06/2011 22:18

Cuthbert Blush I blame the Catholic schooling.

MayDayChild · 07/06/2011 20:29

Oh Rosem
Please say it's Thane (same as mine but diff spelling) as I'd love to know it's not quite so strange afterall....

Rosemallow · 07/06/2011 20:20

Ooh, love calypso and Orion!
Mine were:

Girls
Kitty (with DP's surname DD would've sounded like a 50s movie star)
Persephone
Arwen
Ishtar

Boys
Torran
Chiron
Thane (think these are really masculine sounding names - one is DS's name but I won't say which one!)

Chose a pretty common one for DD but it really suits her :)

diggingintheribs · 07/06/2011 20:20

I wanted DS to have Napoleon as a middle name. Had to drop it to get my first name of choice!!

RoyalWelsh · 07/06/2011 20:19

Oh I love so many of these names... Tierney I adore, but I think that was just because of Maura Tierney in ER originally. I also love Persephone, but I don't think I would be brave enough to use any of them.

My favourite of all names ever is Faith, and I will be using it. Iknow it isn't an 'out there' name, but it is the reason that I love it and the connotations behind it that make it feel brave for me, IYSWIM?