Names you love but were not brave/crazy enough to call your child/children.

[Sharney]

When I was pregnant with my daughter I really wanted to name her Calypso. It was opposed from every corner and I gave up. I don't regret this as I love my daughters' name but I often think, if I could give her a sister it would be Calypso. Anybody have a regret?

[DumSpiroSpero]

Cat is called Persephone - bloody predictive text!

[Tolalola]

Not a regret, but I had a secret hankering for Ramses when pg with DS.

[flooziesusie]

what a great thread!!

Summer for a girl and Xavier for a boy... [whistful emoticon]

Also loved Buddy, Spike for boys and Velvet and Romy for girls...

[Gemjar]

DH tried to insist that I name DS1 Olaf The Indestructible but I told him that he could only do that if he literally came out with a flowing flame red beard, brandishing an axe. Fortunately for DS, he did not.

[Niecie]

I wanted Benedict for DS2 or Genevieve if he was a girl. DH quite liked Benedict but didn't have the bottle to use it which has said he sort of regrets.

Genevieve is a tiny bit poncy although I am sure she would have been Gena most of the time. Still think it is beautiful though.

However from a purely practical point of view they would both have had impossibly long names as our surname is very long (11 letters) and we have sadddled DS1 with a long first name and it wasn't kind when he was learning to write.

I met a little girl called Silver yesterday. Lovely name but I imagine a blonde child with a name like that and she wasn't so not sure it was quite right for her.

[otchayaniye]

Pebbles

[runningonmt]

how about ..........."sir" - may give him a headstart in life (tee hee!) x and introducing his sister ......"lady"

Sorry - I think i may have had too much caffine today !!!

[BarryShitpeas]

Francis

Ludo

Cornelius

[otchayaniye]

Clovis. I really wanted to call a boy Clovis, after the hero of HH Munro's Saki short stories. But I'm having another girl.

[popsicle1984]

Oooh also Clover and Flora! Think they would sound nice together, bloody margarine's stealing my names!!

[typsical]

Somerby. For a boy. Love it. Still

[SecretNutellaFix]

I have always loved Ignatius and Dorothea. As we don't yet have children then I know I have a fight on my hands.

DH like Brice or Dexter and Martha or Astrid.

[TribbleWithoutACause]

I loved Bently as a teenager and still like it now, I would have loved to have called ds Corby but dh vetoed it .

[dom41]

Tallulah or Rio for a girl. Still ashamed now. I blame pregnancy hormones :-) I'm a Dominique so know what its like to be saddled with a name people can't spell

[zinnia]

Wanted to call DD1 Eloise, which admittedly doesn't sound quite as out there now as it did in 2008. But everyone we mentioned it to started singing, so we couldn't quite bring ourselves to do it to her (although I'm guessing The Damned will mean nothing to her generation).

Came v close to Liberty for DD2 last month, I still love it (and Libby as a nn) but again, it's her who would have had to live with it, not us...

I like to think there's a parallel universe somewhere in which I have two DDs with these names though.

[muttimalzwei]

I wanted Rudy so much for my son but was told he woudl get bullied. So second name it is. B O R I N G. I also wanted Seymour.

[muttimalzwei]

cupnoodle I LOVE Auden. I also toyed with Aubrey.

[muttimalzwei]

Caspar is also v cool

[BerylOfLaughs]

I like Titania, but couldn't do that to a child. I really wanted Martha but DH vetoed.

[mummybrained]

lol at pebbles! (also love Ivo and Silas, wish I'd thought of that!)
loving this thread
otchayaniyi i really liked the name Esme after a certain Saki story too, but had a boy and we had a looooong list of boys names we couldn't agree on:

Abraham (little Abe), Gabriel (which is ds1 middle name, i think middle names can be a bit grand), Maximillion (I REALLY fought for that one) and Guyus....that's my regret, he could have pulled off Guyus. ds is 4 and complaining because we didn't call him Ulysses!!!

I also had a name picked out for a girl since i was a girl, but as i'm not having anymore kids i will have to save it and force it on the grandkids!

[AmyIzandZack]

Atlanta Marie, my ex-H wouldn't have it and we now have Isabelle Elizabeth Joy but I still like Atlanta!

[eastegg]

Sacha for a boy, but I feel you should be Jewish to do this, or at least dark and manly like Sacha Baron Cohen, not pale and skinny as I knew my boy would be!

[rachel234]

Sascha is a very common boys name in Germany, short for Alexander. I like it and know lots of blond ones.

[eastegg]

Yes you're right, I'd forgotten about that. Come to think of it I do know a Russian Aleksandr known as Sacha.