Share your baby names that you weren't quite brave enough to use!

[AgathaMisty]

I love the name Winter but I feel it's a bit more "out there" than Summer or Autumn so I'm not brave enough to use it Plus it would sound awful in the country I live in.

I also love Rocco but that was vetoed by DH!

What unusual baby names were you not quite brave enough to use?

I really liked Peppa/Pepper when I was pg with DS2.

DH humoured me for a bit but luckily for him we found out at a scan that he was a boy.

My partner loved the name rhed, and didn't care that his second name was brown. Didn't happen

Before we found out DD was a girl, I was petitioning hard for Cornelius. It was still on my shortlist for DS but we went with something else in the end. I had to concede a little bit to dh!

Holly Wood

Pagan & Christian for twins - had singles
Edric for a boy (shortened to Ed or Ricky) - DH hated it, luckily we had a DD!

Aida dh vetoed I still love it

Clementine

It rhymes with our surname. Sigh.

Alasdair, who ended up as Nicholas

IdentifyasTired clementine it showed on the ‘I’m on’ section as clementineIt, I spent quite a while trying to work out how you pronounce that

Jezabel.

Its lovely but I just couldn't.

This is a fun thread I love all the Ancient Greek names.

Another vote here for Octavia, but I just wasn’t brave enough and like a PP I couldn’t think what the nickname would be. Having said that we went with Ophelia instead and still haven’t figured out a good nickname for her 😄

Also Allegra and Araminta, but the latter was too jolly hockey sticks even for me and the nickname Minty is awful!

Draco

Heath. My mu did this face when we mentioned it so that was a no.

Sheherazade

DH wanted to call ds1 & 2 Zeus and Thor I put my foot down and they have normal classic names.
DD has an unusual name however.

I know (or know of) children with these names on the thread:
Astrid
Cosmo
Edison
Inès
Rocco
Teddy
Tristan
Wolf

I seem to know more boys than girls with "out there" names!

Woah you can practically guess the postcodes of some of these!
Some are interesting but others will surely become the Gladys- Bertha - Beryl / Carol Karen Tracey Denise Sharon - Kimberley Wendy people of the late 21 st c.
I love traditional names, so the only out there ones that might have been vetoed was Robin for a boy and Sydney for a girl ( I am a Mitford fan)

Orlando, but now the boy’s grown up, I can see it wouldn’t have suited him one bit!

Other actual ones I had to desperately arrange my face for when announced were:

Rock
Wilbur.

Anemone and Narcissa.

Fortunately for dd the Baby Names board on here talked sense into me.

I wanted Jaina for a girl, my fav world of warcraft character. Luckiky we had a boy.

@Grinchly Wilbur was the pig in Charlottes web right?

Perdita for a girl 😂

@catsanddoors your surname is my maiden name. My brother was born on 26th December and my mum said if he had been a girl she would've liked to of gone Christmas themed and called him Holly but couldn't with that surname!

we almost called our son Woody as an ode to our surname