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?

We toyed with Ornette for our last ones middle name, but the registrar said there was no room left on the form. (There were already three names) When we told her she was less than amused. (Anyone who doesn't know Ornete Coleman was a male jazz musician)

I liked Violet for a girl. DH hated it.

Hector
Gawain
Christabel

Briefly considered ornette, and if DD2 was a boy I would have used Sylvan.

But I live somewhere where every other child has a name from this thread, no one would have batted an eyelid

Seraphine

Isis (possibly a lucky escape! This was a long time ago, predating the Islamic State stuff!)

January

Cosmo

3catsandcounting DGD's second name is Evangeline.

Olympia
Lux
Psyche
Circe
Phaedra
Tristessa
Antigone
Myrtle (really love this name but absolutely everyone I mentioned it to hated it including dh)
Io
Iolanthe
Allegra
Hepzibah
Annoushka
Halcyon
Echo
Gertrude

Blixxa
Horatio
Isambard
Phineas

So I just looked up the baby name statistics for the year of DS's birth. There were only 47 Sauls that year! His name was ranked 730th in equal place with:
Abu (monkey in Aladdin)
Alvin (Chipmunks)
Braxton (Toni)
Danyal
Eren
Haaris (is this a forrin spelling?)
Hadi
Haroon
Ismael (I know this is popular but there are different spellings)
Klay
Olaf (Frozen!)
Sultan (also Aladdin...)

My son is in good company. A monkey and a snowman

Antigone nn Tiggy. Would never quite dare though!

Alice is the one name I would have loved but 3 boys and not wishing to channel aging rock stars meant we didn't go for it

I really liked Alexa. Still do. Stupid Amazon

My greatnieces have three of the names mentioned.

I wanted to call DD3 Octavia or Jessamy.

DH said no, which is a shame because she would have suited Octavia.

Tiger. DH said no.

Odin - was non starter with DH.

Nearly had an Edison but pfb was a girl and we thought better of it by DS birth.

Persephone
Seraphina

Inigo
Riven

However DD has a very 'out there' name and always gets comments. She was one of 3 born in the year she was born.

India
Eloise
Savannah
Saffron
Nicolette

DH was desperate to call DD1 Fenchurch, he was adamant. Till she arrived and we both knew it wouldn't be right.

He had a thing for literary/comic book/graphic novel names if we'd have boys I've no doubt they would have been named after an avenger.

As it was DD1 did get a name used in a graphic novel although it's hugely popular, we've given her the alternative spelling. She was also born in the same month and we lived in the same place as the character at the time she was born.

Poor old DD2 just got a boring name, no back story, just the only name we could agree on, and my dad was the one who suggested it

Margot. Quinn! Too much for my husband!

How do you pronounce Persephone? I think I’m pronouncing It wrong in my head!

I love Thaddeus and Tristan, but dp strongly disagrees.

With our first I became obsessed by the name Everett but DH vetoed

I'm due with no 2 in August and love the name August for a boy but DH is having none of it.

I also love Tristan! I know it's officially a posh boy name but it also sounds like a 90's boy band name to me! I imagine a handsome young man with beautiful, delicate features and bouncy curtained hair

Love the name Hester, DH hated it!
I known many children with names.on this thread - Aurora, Aurelia, Xanthe...

Bear- dh would have but I wasn't brave enough

Arlo and Ezra-both vetoed by dh

Buster

Betty