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What name do you secretly love but would never use for your child?

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CuppaTeaJanice · 04/10/2008 21:29

For me it's Silas - it reminds me of the adventure programmes I used to watch as a kid. I think one of my first crushes must have been on a character called Silas.

I did suggest it for DS1 (vetoed by DP), but thinking about it I wouldn't want to call my son Silas and I can't really explain why.

Does anybody else have a name that they wouldn't use, but really like nonetheless...?

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singersgirl · 15/10/2008 17:46

Both my DSs' names are on this thread .

I love Rex, but DH vetoed it (too doggy).
I also love Clement; I think Clem is cool for a little boy or a teenager or an adult. DS2 would have been a wonderful Rex and DS1 a great Clem. And strangely enough one of them has a monosyllabic name with a short e in the middle! There's a theme.

Gabriel is lovely too and my nephew's name.

I like Clemency and Claudia for girls, but DH insists on pronouncing Claudia 'Cloudier' in the Italian or German way.

DH's favourite for a girl, which I vetoed, was Charity.

carrotsandpeasifyouplease · 15/10/2008 17:27

would have loved Myfanwy as it was my nain's name and i only realised when somebody pointed it out a couple of years ago what it could be mistaken as.

Buckets · 14/10/2008 19:31

Great name by the way Nigel. My DH is a RL Nigel Tuffnell, he has his own 'playroom' full of guitars. And an armadillo in his trousers natch.

keels26 · 14/10/2008 19:21

Angel - but felt I was setting myself up for a fall!

nigeltuffnell · 14/10/2008 15:32

Elmer

nigeltuffnell · 14/10/2008 15:24

Huxley - love love love it!
Astra for a girl but could'nt cause of vauxhall......

lolianja · 14/10/2008 15:22

My boyfriend also vetoed Eli, for Emmerdale-related reasons. I have an enormous crush on Eli Dingle, who my boyfriend loathes with a passion, so in honesty I know before I even began annunciating the 'E' that he'd put the clamps down. Still, worth a try. And in my defence I've liked the name long before ED ever appeared on TV.

lolianja · 14/10/2008 15:19

Countingthegreyhairs, I know what you mean about Madeleine. We were strongly considering it and the offspring of the unfortunate Kate and Gerry hadn't even entered our head. Then suddenly it clicked. My boyfriend's surname is McCusker. Madeleine McCusker? Too much, I think. It was struck off the list shortly thereafter.

nuthacuppatea · 14/10/2008 08:14

Ezekiel for a boy
Zenobie , Ezriella, Elowen for a girl. All slated by DP

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happycamper10180 · 13/10/2008 08:37

Apollo and Pheonix - rejected as our local school is too rough, would be too cruel.
Ronan - loved the name but made us think of Keating.
Seth and Kane - Emmerdale.

Took us several days after DS was born to find anything me and DP could agree about.

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EachPeachPearMum · 11/10/2008 23:53

Elvisgirl shortenings for Astrids I know are- Asti and Streedie, so you don't have to use the obvious!
Its my favourite name ever....

BigBadMousey · 11/10/2008 23:16

Jethro (for a boy of course!)

Cryptoprocta · 11/10/2008 23:12

For a girl, I liked Aurora, Star, Heaven or Angel. Anything celestial really.

Liked Kane (Kah-nay) as a middle name, as it means something in gaelic, welsh and japanese.

DD was going to be Saoirse, but all S-names were out due to surname issues.

For a boy - Cash. Really wanted TJ Cash (Thomas John). Would also like him named after my brothers - Andrew Mark Nigel David Paul. But it would make form-filling-in a pain.

So had to settle for Aoibha

elvisgirl · 11/10/2008 23:03

Astrid for a girl, but the possible shortening is not cool
Ennis for a boy, but a magnet for playground piss-taking as it's the central character in Brokeback Mountain

DS is Seymour - last in the American top 1000 names in the 1940s!

Ronaldinhio · 11/10/2008 20:54

araminta

Buckets · 11/10/2008 20:48

I knew a Demelza at school!
Milf I don't think Scarlett's at all unusual these days. It's Top 100 isn't it?

ChairmumMiaow · 11/10/2008 19:02

Angrypixie - I love Gabriel but we're atheists so DH thought it would be a bit odd having such a biblical name. I also love Benedict, but DH didn't and yes, there seems to be a bit of pisstake potential

When I was a child I wanted more than anything to be called Demelza (instead of Katherine) - Cornish family and a bizarre Poldark obsession (I can't have been more than 7 at the time)

soon2be3 · 11/10/2008 18:52

Joyce - unfortunately out voted for all children.

milfAKAmonkeymonkeymoomoo · 11/10/2008 18:51

My DDs name is Scarlett, is it really that of the wall!??

Claire236 · 11/10/2008 18:34

I love Evangeline too but can't quite convince dh.

pacinofan · 11/10/2008 18:01

Loved Gabriel for a boy, also Frank. DH vetoed both and we had 2 girls!

I have a theory that the names we really want to use are often give as middle names intead. My girls have Veronica and Frances as middle names, both of which I love and sometimes wish I'd had the b*s to use as first names!

ShinyPinkShoes · 11/10/2008 17:40

Evangeline-I think it's beautiful but doubt I would saddle a child with such a mouthful!