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?

Boys:
Hunter
Rudy
Forrest

Girls:
Twiggy
Romy
Orla

I wanted to name the third boy Demitri. It went well with the first two boys who have strong names, turned out to be a girl.

Archer

I love the name River for a girl, also Quinn. Not sure if brave enough!

@livingdeadgirluk
Dunno
Terrible whatever !

I love the name Winter. I don't think it's too out there at all. Winnie is a cute nickname imo.

Ottilie
Atticus

Can't think of any others off the top of my head.

I like River too.

Agravaine but was not brave enough.

Who was Agravaine?

Aurora

Another vote here for Octavia, but I just wasn’t brave enough and like a PP

It's interesting that a few people have mentioned they weren't brave enough to use Octavia as I went to school with one in the 80s and always thought of it as a perfectly normal (lovely) name, no different to Melissa or Jessica in terms of ununsualness.

In fact, most of our DC's contemporaries would have found these brave names perfectly fine - it's probably just the other parents that would judge!

I really wanted to give my last DC, a girl, the name River. It’s so beautiful. But every time I said it With our surname, it sounded like I was saying the name of an actual river. I also really wanted her to be called Rain but we went with it was a middle name. I wasn’t quite brave enough. The name we went with really suits her though.

My middle girl has a quite out there name - but given the lists of some PPs are so similar to my lists, I bet they would know it/ have liked it!

I have an Octavia, it's not that daring is it?

Hero. Husband said no. Our surname starts with an H and he also said it was a ridiculous name. I still love it.

Jessa. I love it and I think it’s got legs, but in the end we decided it was too nicknamy. Still love it though.

Juanbablo my DD is Hero. It is an actual really bonafide name

She is nearly four, sassy and wonderful, with a hair of big curls, and it suits her down to the ground. So pleased we dared go with it - though my mum hated it at first.

Phoenix was also on my list for DD2. Clearly we’re all kindred spirits on this thread!

I wanted to call my DS, now 4, Blue. But my DP is so bloody conservative and I thought people would say I was copying Beyoncé! Yes, I know how it sounds!