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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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mummybex · 07/10/2008 19:53

thalia (sounds silly, or catchy, with surname)
trixie - well you just wouldn't would you?
atticus - too poncy
gabriel- DH vetoed - too girly apparently ie, gabby and gay
ooh, and I love scarlett, would have suited my DD's, but not us, if you know what I mean.

whats wrong with Noah?

nowwearefour · 07/10/2008 19:52

beatrice lots of people think is posh but i think is loverly

LaMonsterWeaselwolf · 07/10/2008 19:48

Neela.

But I would get fed up of explaining, that no my family has no asian links I just like the name... isn't it so beautiful though??

chandellina · 07/10/2008 19:42

DH wouldn't allow Spencer - i love it.
for a girl, i love Silvana but i know it just wouldn't work.

macaco · 07/10/2008 18:47

james

where we live in spain it would have been pronounced Hamer.

Lotster · 07/10/2008 12:48

I'm pretty sure I'm the first one to mention Rudy, which I am at! Just love this name, but hubby says no because our surname begins with W...

Also have loved for years the french girls name Milène (pronounced Mill-en) but fear she'd get called Myyyleeeene! in a Trigger stylie!

choklit · 07/10/2008 12:01

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Alishanty · 07/10/2008 09:32

Velvet

jujumaman · 07/10/2008 09:29

I soooo wanted a Cosmo if we'd had a ds first time round.

My dh canvassed it in the pub and his mates booed it down.

Bastards.

Anyway we had a dd.

Second time round we decided on Rafe. Was a bit concerned about ponciness but we had another dd. Then the Apprentice started with Raef in key role, lovely guy but I don't think I could have lived with people associating my ds with him.

overthehill · 07/10/2008 00:34

Dh apparently liked Dorothy and Conrad, but NO WAY!! So we had giant African land snails and guess what they were called??

Lots of problems with names not going with surnames here too: mine is more unusual so we decided to give that to the dcs, but it starts with a vowel so that excludes all girls' names ending in 'a' (a lot!!) eg Iona, which I like, and it rhymes with Clare, so that's out, as are Sarah and Molly (French playwright). I also like Aidan, but that would be hopeless - and Ryan would be impossible, as would Aaron (pronounced the 'proper' way)...

StayFrosty · 07/10/2008 00:18

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randomuser · 07/10/2008 00:14

Morticia
Anastasia

Jasper

NotAnOtter · 07/10/2008 00:11

titus is lovely

chisigirl · 07/10/2008 00:07

Titus
Sebastian
Tristan

oh, how my DH laughed...

GooseyLoosey · 06/10/2008 23:57

Rafe and Gabriel.

LynetteScavo · 06/10/2008 23:54

Oh, Spidermama - Ariel if lovely!

DH said

cheesesarnie · 06/10/2008 23:10

tallulah
coco
honey
candy

Flum · 06/10/2008 23:09

Ha ha to Jayden is that a made up one? Sounds American.

I love:

for a girl: Topsy

for a boy: Mungo, Digby

tandsmummy · 06/10/2008 23:02

Laurence- we had similar reaction as StayFrosty. Really love the name.

Hermione and Beatrice for girls

hatwoman · 06/10/2008 22:36

Dorothy and Sally. dh and I liked them both but they are the names of my father's second wife (who was at the heart of my parent's divorce) and her daughter. so both were complete non-starters.

redpyjamas · 06/10/2008 22:36

I have a nephew called Amadeus. He is also great musically. He really suits his name.

blackrock · 06/10/2008 22:34

ooh for a boy.....Seth

Daisy May from Fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe.

blackrock · 06/10/2008 22:32

Amethyst....from MMKaye The Ordinary Princess...but could I ever give this to a child!

ingles2 · 06/10/2008 22:28

I've met girls called
Elfie and Romany.... ridiculous names but I loved them.
I really wanted Ned for one of my boys, dh refused

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