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?

Ah, PG Wodehouse, what a legend! Pelham is a great name.

After finding the perfect name for my son (unusual but not weird, spelt phonetically, goes really well with our surname) I thought coming up with a girl's name would be easy but I really struggled, nearly all the ones I loved were seriously Welsh, which unfortunately we are not!

Anyone for a
Myfanwy
Meironwen
Meredydd or
Carys?

In the end I let DH pick but I've never been really happy with it. When she was about 2 I heard the name Tegwyn and that's what she'd have been if I'd heard it sooner, she's very glad I didn't.

For all the Tallulah fans there are about one in each year group in my kids school!

Bec10- I love Constance! MothershipG- I love Myfanwy and my dd is Carys. I'm lucky enough to have a Welsh mum. :)

Really love the names Calypso and Tallulah.
Wanted a Cecily, but pleased we didn't go for it as DD has a lisp and our surname begins with an S...
I liked Aurelie - DH said it sounds great with a French accent, but not in English (orally?!).

My little one is a Morwenna, also really Liked Arwen and Rhiannon. I liked Tegwyn as ablove, and Carys but DH said no no...

I liked Alaska for a girl (have visited and its a stunningly beautiful place) and Willa (Six Feet Under fans out there?)
I had boys so no issues in the end.

I had an idea from childhood that if I had a boy I would call him Caspian - from "Prince Caspian" but did not have the nerve - it would have been vetoed by dh anyway I am sure. When I hear people seriously considering it now I feel a little pang.

we had to avoid a whole section of the baby names book, two letters of the alphabet for either gender, as it would make our child's name into the "butt" of jokes as it's another word for arse

I loved Merlin when pregnant with DS but DP talked me out of it. It is a good job I thought DS looked like his name on delivery day as he would have probably ended up a Merlin as I think I would have got anything past him that day!

I know an Iolanthe, a friend named her first DD this. They live in Cyprus so not sure if it is not a more usual name there.

I love the name Polly and would have called DD2 this, but chose Felicity instead which really suits her!

wow! ive never EVER hard of soledad before and just seen one on the tele, how wierd!

there are SO many for me! mostly vetoed :(

girls

willow
bracken
flo
pebbles (ha!)
myfawny
river
georgie (her daddys called george)
cora
tally
bronagh
pepper

soooo many more, ill have to dig out my lists!

boys
finlay (not really 'out there' but i love it!)
jase

ow mine are boring compared to all yours! mustve been my pregnant brain making a big fuss out of nothing!

indi was another, i love that so much its def a regret as much as i love dds name (which is rather unusual :o)

Blue
Morvern
Willow
Calypso
Sorrell

I asked DD about this now she's older and she didn't like any of them except Morvern. But she prefers her own name, which is one that's regularly suggested on MN.

Atlas, Noah or Henry or Harry.
Ok, not very out there names but for one reason or another it just never happened.
I still am toying with Harry not sure I can convince DP though.

Sorry I realise they aren't exactly crazy names but nevertheless names I personally wouldn't be brave enough to use/ get DP to agree to.

Winter (I love winter, but also after the heroine in an MM Kaye book)

Tigerlily (DH actually agreed to this one, in fact was keen, but I chickened)

All the way through my pregnancy with DS2 I wanted to call him Raphael (DS1 is named after the other archangel...). Just when DH had come round to the idea I chickened out and it's now his middle name!

Mine were, wait for it Tallullah for a girl and Rockey for a boy!!! Yes I know!!!

Oh I love the name Winter, wildstrawberrryplace. Love that book, too.

I also thought I would like Giverny for a girl.

girl:
Aletheia
India
Philadelphia

boy:
Erasmus
Theophilus
Magnus
Lucius

bit of a theme

Crumb, I've always loved Caspian too! But two girls and a DH who would have seriously disagreed. Loved Missy for a girl with DD2 but DH vetoed it. Probably right, but looking at her now, it just would have so suited her!

Loved the name Jethro for dc3, with Jed as a nn - was a girl, so the baby escaped!

I love Indigo!!

Anunciación
Candelaria
Esmerelda
Pacífica

Cristóbal (Spanish form of Christopher)
Florentino