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Names you're not brave enough to use

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goldenorbspider · 26/01/2020 14:13

Saw a thread the other day and someone mentioned Hecate! I love it but could never saddle a child with it. We played very safe with our name choices but if I was to throw caution to the wind, we would have some very out there names

Girls

Hecate
Calista
Calliope
Olympia
Giovanna
Zola
Athena

Boys

Hudson
Lorenzo
Ira
Cassius
Carey
Troy
Calvin
Solomon
Tate
Roman

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toria658 · 28/01/2020 09:01

Araminta
Leia
Nell

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 28/01/2020 08:56

We gave our DDs Hero and Artemis as middle names. I really love both, esp Hero.

I wanted to call DS Zebediah - I mean, Zeb is such a cool name for a little boy, easy to say and spell - but DH said a flat no!

Whatsyourflava · 28/01/2020 08:40

@IrishPeaches winter is a gorgeous name and was pretty universally liked on a recent Mumsnet thread x

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goldenorbspider · 28/01/2020 08:18

Manon I recognise this name as a character but can't remember the book

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IrishPeaches · 27/01/2020 23:53

38 weeks pregnant here and Winter is actually our chosen name if it's a girl. Are we loopy? Slightly worried about the "Winter is Coming" reference but hoping that will be old hat by the time she's grown up enough. Already have a DD with an unusual name - I was one of 5 girls with the same name in my class at school and suppose it's put me off anything in the top 100.

I do so love some of the above suggestions...getting some ideas for myself GrinI think it's a shame people won't use them!! Phaedra is particularly gorgeous.

I also wanted (but got vetoed) Honey for a girl and Bowie for a boy...

BasilOfBakerStreet · 27/01/2020 22:23

Darwin and Isadora

Lucylivesinamushroomhouse · 27/01/2020 21:35

Hepzibah

Roald
Aelfred
Percival

We have a double barrelled surname so anything too long/difficult to spell would have felt cruel.

NearlyGranny · 27/01/2020 18:19

DH told everyone who asked whether we were choosing Biblical names that our twins were going to be called Herod and Salome. That would have been brave.

I was tempted by Sebastian and Viola, the twins from Twelfth Night.

Sturm und Drang would have been good names for their first year or two!

inthekitchensink · 27/01/2020 18:11

Calliope
Persephone
Perdita
Juniper
Winter
Hestia
Manon
Scout
Rowan
Love them all! But was vetoed

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goldenorbspider · 27/01/2020 18:04

Hudson is a fantastic name

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goldenorbspider · 27/01/2020 18:04

Lolita

The books just ruined this name for me

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2020firsttimemum · 27/01/2020 17:53

We only have one boy and one girls name. Our boys name is Hudson. We both absolutely love it! In some ways I hope we have a boy as I prefer this to our girls name if that makes sense 😂

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goldenorbspider · 27/01/2020 12:53

We've got Adrian's on my Jamaican side of family which comes out as Hadrian

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Chocolatedaim · 27/01/2020 10:43

zippety it is a great name, unusual but not daft, and he really suits it as well, he is very dark with a little glint of trouble in his eye 😁

FishCanFly · 27/01/2020 10:32

Hadrian

Zippetydoodahzippetyay · 27/01/2020 10:17

@Chocolatedaim Gabriel is a gorgeous name. If we had a boy, that was one of our main contenders.

Zippetydoodahzippetyay · 27/01/2020 10:16

@Dramasticchanges yes I know what you mean about people then presuming that you are Polish.

Funnily enough my husband , though born in Australia, is half Polish, half Swiss. We chose quite a Swiss name for our first daughter (Liesl) but it is easy to pronounce and spell and there was a famous Australian swimmer with the name so people are more familiar with it. With Agnieszka, even though there was the tennis player with the name, it is far less familiar to Aussies. And the presence of the "z" freaks people out haha.

Chocolatedaim · 27/01/2020 09:57

I have a Gabriel, was thinking more Peter Gabriel as opposed to the Angel, which he definitely isn’t 😆

I love very out their names, like Phoenix, Nate, Dashiel. My husband couldn’t be convinced and I wasn’t prepared to try and persuade him, I wanted names we both liked.

Whatsyourflava · 27/01/2020 09:53

@MooseBreath @Poppydaisies I really loved the idea of Clement for a boy but my husband was 100% that there’d be teasing with that name. I decided to trust DH on this as I went to an all girls school. He wouldn’t even entertain it as a middle name. I’m actually happy with the decision now anyway as Clementine is increasingly mainstream now and i would worry my son would see nickname Clem as a predominantly female name. We all know boys names on girls are “cool”. But girls names on boys are practically illegal

BorneoBabe · 27/01/2020 09:49

Dory, but Finding Nemo ruined it for me. Grin

DramasticChanges · 27/01/2020 09:40

@Zippetydoodahzippetyay I loved that name (can't be arsed to look it up to spell it which is probably part of the reason I didn't use it.) Also we live in an area with quite a few Poles and I think we would be constantly telling people that we weren't. I also loved Katarzyna, but again we're not Polish.

SundayMorningSun · 27/01/2020 09:29

I know a baby Olympia!

stuckinthemiddlewithtwats · 27/01/2020 09:28

I've always loved Persephone and Isolde but daren't use them.
Our daughter is due in a month and we'll go for an old classic name most likely.

WooMaWang · 27/01/2020 09:05

@TeaAddict235 I know a Yannick. He's 7 or 8. I'be never thought it was in any way 'out there' as a name.

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goldenorbspider · 27/01/2020 09:00

I know a Dakota! She's one of a kind and lovely

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