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Tell me the names you wouldn't be brave enough to use

119 replies

spice3 · 22/10/2019 16:39

Always my favourite baby name lists.

The names I love but are too out there (even for me who's child has an unranked name) to use:

Boys:
Nemo
Zeus
Rubeus
Sherlock
Tokyo
Woody

Girls:
Bambi
Dolly
Birdie
Baby
Queenie
Pepper

Major guilty pleasure names BlushBlush my DP barely let me finish the sentence when suggesting these ones although I wouldn't have been brave enough to use them anyway 😂

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FrownPrincess · 22/10/2019 22:55

What a good thing you weren’t brave enough to use Tristesse, KrissKross ! Would you call a child Sorrow/Sadness in English?

KronksSpinachPuffs · 22/10/2019 22:51

Octavia
Aurelia
Penelope
Persephone
Anastasia

Basically anything posh or too long haha

alwayscauseastir · 22/10/2019 22:48

Pixie and Romeo. I was dead-set on Pixie for my daughter but my dear old gran was having none of it and would regularly trash the name when I mentioned it. So I didn't use it. And just as well really as she is far too stocky and rough around the edges to be a pixie!!

daisydalrymple · 22/10/2019 22:47

Cleopatra and Delilah

For a boy I love Todd
It’s one of those extreme marmite names on here , that tends to have insulting responses. I tend to love boys names that are often described as American jock names / surnames Grin
My two boys have combinations of Matthew William Thomas Daniel as their 1st and MN.
Daughter has a traditional welsh name Grin

stophuggingme · 22/10/2019 22:44

Gigi
Coco
Bronte
Ramona
Starla
Dorinda
Calypso
Dolly
Fleur

Clement
Brett
Florian
Ziggy
Lenny
Morten
Amadeus

ImportantWater · 22/10/2019 22:44

Mis not mid

Queenest · 22/10/2019 22:43

Bob

ImportantWater · 22/10/2019 22:43

Psyche (sigh-key). Love the sound and the story but a/ can imagine the scope for midpronunciation and b/ the nicknames (psycho, psychic)

OnTopOfTheWardrobe · 22/10/2019 22:41

(I'm keeping Flavia for a cat later on....)

OnTopOfTheWardrobe · 22/10/2019 22:41

Flavia for a girl and Sebastian for a boy. I don't have boys, but DP would have put the mockers on Sebastian (and I was worried about the crab association anyway).

Tillygetsit · 22/10/2019 22:38

Arietty, Demelza, Lemuel Roderick(Roddy)

titchy · 22/10/2019 22:27

Hermione, Octavia, Persephone, Florian and Fabian

historysock · 22/10/2019 22:24

Lettice.
Daphne.
And not that out there but I wasn't allowed Kitty.

Mimca · 22/10/2019 22:20

Balthazar
Ignatius
Magnus
Caspar

Ianthe
Sybella
Federica
Seraphine
Aude
Capucine
Lioba

Bea3998273 · 22/10/2019 22:04

Beatrix- wanted to call a daughter of mine that since I was a child, after Beatrix Potter. Never got to use it, ex husband wouldn't have it and I'll never have any more children. Really wish I'd put my foot down now!

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spice3 · 22/10/2019 21:54

@missmouse101 love Fawn 😍

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missmouse101 · 22/10/2019 21:52

Phaedra, Iolanthe, Lowri, Fawn, Fenella
Malachy, Seth

HalfBloodPrincess · 22/10/2019 21:45

My baby doll was called Persephine when I was a child - I feel very Hipser-ish and trendy all of a sudden.

My oldest 3 children all have classic names and I was quite tempted to choose something a bit 'out there' for my fourth (and last)
Names on my 'could we...?' List were

Clementine
Hecate
Lilith
Vada
Marceline

But we went with Elspeth instead.

M0reGinPlease · 22/10/2019 21:44

Oh and just remembered I was desperate for a while to call DD Drusilla (nan Dru) but DH was having none of it.

M0reGinPlease · 22/10/2019 21:43

Cassidy

Siablue · 22/10/2019 21:39

I also like Venita which is too much like Vianetta (which would also be a good name if it wasn’t and ice cream).

Siablue · 22/10/2019 21:38

Boudicca- you would have to be brave to carry it off.

Most of my girls list was not approved Persephone was on there.

NameChangedNoImagination · 22/10/2019 21:28

KrissKross you have AWESOME taste in names. That reads like my name list and my daughter's name is on there.

Love Isambard beyond reason!

RickOShay · 22/10/2019 20:41

Ooh there are a few
Valentina
Tatiana
Solange
Ines

Xavier
Fabian
Otis
Raphael

Dh liked Robert and Olivia Grin
The dc are not called any of these names!

VictoriaSpongeBob · 22/10/2019 20:36

Isadora for a girl
Amos for a boy

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