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 wanted Wilding, as in Emily Wilding Davison, but was vetoed.

Have 1 DS. DH vetoed Gabriel & also Dorothy & Ursula for a girl.

Both Dh and I love the sound of Illidan as a name but we're not brave enough.

Dh vetoed Elijah

What would be the female form of Caspian?

Maybe Caspiana or Caspienne?

@ForumUsername I LOVE January and I know a Winter, she's a beaut lil thing 😊

@squirrelnutkins1 yes I really love them
DD was born in January which I thought meant both were perfect for her

DH didn't

Winter Rose would of been my top pick for her

Our dds name has been mentioned a few times, MN name topic says its faddy and really popular at the moment. We've not met any others and had loads of positive comments. I'm glad I wasn't on MN when we were pregnant with her as I may have been put off and it's the perfect name for her. I didn't think I was being brave.

DS was going to be called August up to about 3 days before he was born and it suddenly didn't feel right. Family were horrified we were going to call him that when we told them after he was born. I still really like it - he has a very classic normal name.

Waldemar
Parthenope - I love this, but has it ever been used other than for Florence Nightingale's sister?
Ania - nearly got this one past DP.
Rhiannon - rejected by DP for being "too Welsh"
Meurig - ditto

Warwick. However all is not lost if this baby I am carrying comes out as a boy...

Bathsheba. One of mine and DH’s first dates was to see “Far from the madding crowd” and I just ruddy love it x

Lazarus. I loved it, but I decided against it. Ds does have an unusual name, but it's a lot less dramatic sounding

Cledwyn
Bronwynn
Were names I liked but not brave enough to name a child of mine them
The following I liked but all vetoed
Caleb
Clinton
Bradley
Evelyn
Bethany
Chastity

Lucian and Logan were names dh wanted. We like werewolves

I suggested an archangel name like Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel. Dh agreed with the concept and suggested metatron

I really love Atlas but afraid it's too out there 😳 and I love Winter as a PP said!

Dashiell. Dashiell Hammett is one of my favourite writers and DS has the same birthday. Didn't do it though, 24 years on I still kind of wish I'd done it.

River
Florian
Valentina
Athena
Nico

Oberon for a boy 😍 my husbands boss called his dog that whilst I was pregnant just as I had nearly convinced my OH needless to say my boy is now not called Oberon 😂

@NameChange30 my DH is a Saul 😊
It's a great name!

I always liked Serenity for a girl, but I wasn't brave enough.

River is on my list too!

My husband wanted to call our son Flash at one point. We went for Maverick in the end and both love his name and it suits him fantastically. No 2 if another boy will be Merlin unless we have a major change of heart. we struggle to agree on names but both love this one. I Also love Ace, Loki, Phoenix, Fox & Roux for a future DS/DD

Bellatrix

J K Rowling vetoed that one for us...

@girlandboy
Yay! Yes it is
Is your DH Jewish btw?
We're not Jewish and I wonder if people will think he is (not that it would be an issue if they did).

c0unt
LOL at Metatron 😂

@NameChange30 No he's not Jewish. His mum saw the name on some film credits apparently and took it from there!
My Saul has never met anyone with the same name, only a labrador!

And it was only my mother who has ever asked if he was Jewish 🙄

Oops sorry I've just made that two people then

@girlandboy my nephew is called Saul. Great name.