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Names you love but are too afraid to use???

241 replies

PipIsOutNow · 17/08/2012 18:30

Just that really. I'm pregnant with dc2 and I love lots of names but wouldn't have the guts to use some of them - silly I know!!!

One of my faves for a girl is Luna/Lunar.

Just for fun- what are yours?

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beeroclock · 28/08/2012 22:33

bloody love roxanne but sting has buggered it up. Also love myra. lucky i have boys then.

NarkedRaspberry · 28/08/2012 22:18

And Ambrose for a boy. Damn the rice pudding.

NarkedRaspberry · 28/08/2012 22:12

Lettice. It's really pretty but it's like stapling 'kick me' sign to their back.

Eliza22 · 28/08/2012 22:09

Milo. I loved it when I was pregnant but my sister said I couldn't name the baby after a "tweenie".

Still love it.

Onadietcolabreak · 28/08/2012 21:51

Emmyloo2 - I was this close to naming ds Humphrey, every one said I was mad, but ds is now 5 and is a Humph in spirit! Again dd1, buckled under everyone's pressure, but she is that name, and I changed it by deed poll when she was 3! And she loves it.

Go for the names you love ladies, maybe it's female intuition Wink

JoInScotland · 28/08/2012 21:13

I went to a high school in a real die-hard hippy town and went to school with a lot of the names on here: Anastasia, River, Phoenix, Willow, Sorrel, you name it. I also remember a set of identical twin girls named Morning Star Ramsay and Evening Star Ramsay. As others have stated, children grow into their names and after a while, you won't bat an eye at how "unusual" they once seemed to you. If you love a name, go for it! I named my child something not even in the top 100 and we love it still - it suits him and I can't think of him with any other name.

JoInScotland · 28/08/2012 20:56

Constantine
Arkady

They only really work in a Russian-speaking community, and I'm not in one at the moment.

Inyourhippyhat · 28/08/2012 20:36

Valerian

Whatiswitnit · 28/08/2012 19:43

Columbine. I love it but people will think 'high school massacre' not little pretty flower.

HazzleMcDazzle · 28/08/2012 18:40

I love Artemis for a girl and Florian for a boy. Although we do have a one DD and one DS, don't think DH would have countenanced either name, sadly. Plus our surname is a bit too 'ordinary' to carry them off properly.

peacefuleasyfeeling · 28/08/2012 18:36

And Rafael and Aubrey. And Joachim.

5dcsinneedofacleaner · 28/08/2012 18:25

my daughters have names like Emily though!

5dcsinneedofacleaner · 28/08/2012 18:24

I love Aubrianna

Cremolafoam · 28/08/2012 17:49

Paris for a boy ( ruined now)
Aloysius ( teddy bear name)
Hamish( ruined by MAcbeth)
Rory ( to many of em)
Willow ( likewise)
Rowan
Greta
Fern
Emerald
John

Sleepysand · 28/08/2012 16:15

Oh, and I loved the name Silas, but my initial is S and that ruled that one out; Atticus, but ex-DH refused, and Matthias, which caused so much jaw-dropping at the NCT that I lost the courage of my convictions.

ledkr · 28/08/2012 15:23

I have a Delilah,it seems normal to us all now but there were a few family cats bum faces when we announced it.

Wrongbow · 28/08/2012 14:53

Angela - have always loved it but it's my stepmother's name, so don't think my mum would be too pleased Hmm

ByTheWay1 · 28/08/2012 14:36

I liked Nadine - til I watched Stephen King's The Stand..... then I went off it...

Arabellasmella · 28/08/2012 14:08

I wanted a Marigold if we'd have had a girl...

QueefLatina · 28/08/2012 14:00

I love love love the name Artemis. No more DC for me though!

IWantAnotherBaby · 28/08/2012 13:53

I want a Persephone, or Hermione. DH would never agree, I fear.

Pudden · 28/08/2012 13:26

for girls- Demeter, Merrie, Wrenna, Linnet, Hester

for boys- Mordacai

snapespeare · 28/08/2012 13:24

gnocchi DD is always very pleased that she was born before 'wicked' and subsequently wasn't name 'elphaba' - although i do call her 'fae' as a nn sometimes.

I would have loved:

Sirius
Severus
Lupin
Hmm
...and from my Doctor who world stand point...
River,
Verity
Idris
(Verity and Idris would be possibilities, but my eggs are old and tired and so I shall just name a lot of cats!)

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 28/08/2012 13:13

Cassandra, Carrie, Peter (when I held Ds for the first time he looked like a Peter to me, but we had already chosen his full name! I still sometimes think that he should have been Peter).

Jasmine, Honey, Daisy, Justin, Anne, Elizabeth.

Barnum · 28/08/2012 12:52

I have 4 DS and 1 DD all with fairly unusual names except for the eldest but it was unusual when he was born (he's now 24). Their names are Jake, Orin, Theo Barney and Bo.
For the boys I also liked Jesse, Gabriel, Hugo and Kit but all were vetoed.
For DD I also liked Jemimah and Jessamy but again, vetoed Sad
Now I'd go for Arlo, Levi, Malachy or Finn for the boys and Eliza, Annie-Rose (V Shirley Hughes!) or Hope for a girl.

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