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What are the unusual names on your baby name list that you aren't brave enough to use?

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erja · 16/01/2019 19:39

What are the ones that you ruled out because you weren't brave enough to use them? What are the names that you really like but wouldn't ever be brave enough to use in future?

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OVienna · 02/02/2019 21:17

Xenophon for a boy. In fact.

OVienna · 02/02/2019 21:15

I used to love Paris. Then Hilton came along.

Also liked Micah for a girl. A relative used it for a boy.

Toyed with Anoushka in very late pregnancy with DD1.

All names I glad now slipped away.

If I had another DD now - Cecily all the way.

Still stumped for boys.

LosingNemo · 02/02/2019 20:29

My DH had a family friend called Godfrey - NN was God. We considered it because of the brilliance of the NN

itssquidstella · 02/02/2019 20:12

Godfrey

TidyDancer · 02/02/2019 20:11

I have always wanted to call a DD Cherry but I will never do it. My DCs have very classic names and Cherry wouldn't fit at all unfortunately. DP would also veto it.

StoneRoses4Ever · 02/02/2019 19:26

We nicknamed the bump Rupert for a while and that nearly stuck but it’d have stood out massively where we live!

StoneRoses4Ever · 02/02/2019 19:24

Also quite liked Augustus shortened to Gus but DD reckons it’s too reminiscent of Augustus Gloop fro. Charlie and the chocolate factory. dS was born in August which is why it occurred to me

StoneRoses4Ever · 02/02/2019 19:23

Mine isn’t that out there but I got mostly negative responses - Arthur shortened to Art or Artie. I quite liked Valentina for my daughter as due date near Valentine’s Day but have a v Irish surname that’d have sounded a bit odd (although at 11yo she reckons she’d have liked it!)

Vicious2018 · 02/02/2019 19:17

I really like Maleficent.

Rodenhide · 26/01/2019 23:48

I liked names like:
Cordelia
Lenora
Nova
Annika (still regret not choosing this)

We have an Abigail and a Rebekah, and plumped for more unusual middle names instead.

Headstand · 26/01/2019 19:23

Ooh I love this sort of thread. My names aren't that out there but still wouldn't feel brave enough to use. Especially with our already over the top with our surname.

Girls:
Constance
Winifred
Primrose
Hope

Boys:
Willoughby
Quint/ Quentin

yips · 26/01/2019 10:36

Girls - Daivy, Marina, Montana.

Confusednewmum1 · 24/01/2019 13:01

My partner is so vanilla and my poor daughter has quite a wet name as a result! Poor thing felt totally harassed into picking something when she was 5 days old.

Girls
Aurora
Briar Rose
Teddy
Remi
Cosette
Rory
Lucky

Boys
Cash
Kit
Wolfie
Cornelius

meetthewildes · 23/01/2019 16:52

@ribbonsonabox we have a little Olympia, she is Olympia Leto Beatrix and her name always gets such a positive reception.

Coffeewithmyoxyg3n · 23/01/2019 15:08

My DP wanted and still wants Revan after his favourite star wars character ... we had a girl but if we ever have a boy, I can see another fight there for that name it has kind of grown on me.
I love Arwen, Hermione and Artemis

MysteryNameChange · 23/01/2019 12:54

My daughter's name is on here Smile

I love Madog

slappinthebass · 23/01/2019 12:50

Elmo, Nemo, Ignatius and Tiger.

SquirrelsGold · 23/01/2019 10:24

Hendrix for a boy

Metaplasia · 23/01/2019 10:14

Use the names! I know twin girls Hero and Octavia, a Seraphina, an Ariadne (all adults) and a baby Bambi.

starkid · 23/01/2019 09:53

@tammytoby - I've never met an Astrid

JC4PMPLZ · 23/01/2019 09:33

Sheherezade

MrsMcW · 23/01/2019 09:31

We nicknamed my bump Horatio before DS was born. We went for a classic boy's name in the end but I'd grown to love it!

Ribbonsonabox · 23/01/2019 09:29

Olympia
Psyche
Antigone
Hero
Anoushka
Athena
Celestia
Octavia
Allegra
Lazuli
Topaz
Sapphire (my DH loved this because of Sapphire and Steal but everyone in real life said it sounded like a stripper name)
Tuesday
Euphemia
Easter
Phaedra
Isadora
Andromeda
Christabel
Dagny
Aphra
Guinevere
Isuelt
September
Myrtle
Beryl
Dorcas

And we used the really unusual boys name that we loved! Which I'm glad about

theredjellybean · 23/01/2019 09:28

Winter
Vesper
Quinta
Hero

TigerQuoll · 23/01/2019 09:19

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