What would you have picked if you were brave enough or allowed by DP?

[nappyaddict]

Ds will be 6 in June but today when tidying out an old box I found this list of potential baby names

Lila
Lillith
Elspeth
Rosanna
Melanie
Gabrielle
Kitty
Sasha
Opal
Kimberley
Claire/Clara
Adela
Cora/Coralie
Penelope
Patricia
Davina
Maria
Marcia
Audrey
Claribel
Annabella
Arabella
Cassandra
Seraphina
Jessamy
Henrietta
Harrietta
Lauretta
Tiger
Theodora
Caroline
Elsa
Edith
Tabitha
Petula
Eden
Fathom
Eliza/Elizabeth/Beth/Bethan
Bessie
Christina
Tia
Hope
Matilda
Gracie
Natalia
Carlotta
Stefya
Sarah
Esther
Hester
Pippa
Louisa
Luisa
Laurel
Trudie
Beatrix/Beatrice
Claudia

Felix
Elias (Eli)
Eden
Ash
Sacha
Graeme
Robert
Stewart
Andrew
Brook
Tate
Bobby
Casper/Caspar
Leonardo
Frederick
Dexter
Gabriel
Theodore/Teddy
Herbert/Herbie
Albert/Albie/Bertie
Tiger/Tige/Tigue
Rex
Nate
Ronnie
Harris
Cassius
Jeffrey

Sebastian and Daisy

Anastasia and Raphael.

If it hadn't been for my mother thankfully intervening, my dad would have named me Brunhilde or Hedwig.

It's my mother who's German, not my dad...

I wanted Hero for this baby. No chance.

Percy, Hectar

DS would have been a Sacha had I chosen but dh was worried about people wrongly thinking it's a girls name. I adore it but can see the problem. More and more people using it for girls.

Had ds been a dd I would have liked to use Aphra but dh preferred another name we love so Aphra would have been relegated to mn.

Psammead, we have a Raphael.

Kari and Ombeline for DD2.

DD1's name was vetoed by DH but a few days after her traumatic birth when I asked again he let it go

Midnight as a middle name. DH loved it too. However, we took it as a sign when DS was born at midDAY and the first thing the paediatrician said was 'Wow, he's pale! He's the palest newborn I've ever seen!'

That said, the middle name he DID get is perhaps nuttier...

Romilly
Hero
Elspeth

Leo
Gabriel (Gabe)
Nathaniel (Nate)

Xanthe - but I convinced myself that Xanthe would be the type of girl to be kicked out of boarding school for smoking pot.

Perdita - but DH said you can't call a baby a name that means "lost".

Show Yay! I'm glad someone does! It sounds quite 'out there' but in a good way to me, and it's more common in Germany where we live so I thought I was onto a winner, but it turns out DH went to school with a 'stupid' Raphael so has bad associations. By stupid I think he meant a bit bullyish. Such a shame, it sounds so lovely to me!

If I were braver, I would have used their Hebrew name as their first name rather than put it as a middle name. Between worrying about discrimination issues and family members butchering them (a few have odd/very strict ideas of what a 'proper name' is), I couldn't do it.

We both liked Fox, but weren't brave enough!

I liked Aurelia for a girl but DH couldn't pronounce it. Along with Fraser.

I also like Theodora, Rafe, Raphael, Percy and Hector :)

nappyaddict you were way ahead of the curve 6 years ago (and I'm dying to know what you called

I actually got the name DH vetoed for DD1 for DD2. Only took me two years to work on him

Oops clumsy fingers!

... to know what you did call DS because you have some lovely names on your list!

We really wanted to call DS 'Happy' but weren't quite brave enough

DD got the brave name

DS was very nearly called Warwick .

My dh had no choice haha,he is useless and was picking silly names from someone he went to school with so outdated,but he did pick no4 after his dad,as his dad died on Christmas eve and i felt mean not too,i wasnt that keen as it reminded me of a boy in my class who had big ears and nits,i know it wasnt his fault,but childhood things like that stay with you,anyway he suits his name,so glad he got it :)

I named him after my brother in the end - Toby. A few years later I heard of the name Tobin and wish I'd known about it 6 years ago though

I have gone off Beatrice now which was top contender for a girl's name. I still love Beatrix but my sister has now called her dog Trixibelle

DD's name is on your list OP

You were definitely ahead fo your time, some of these are becoming v trendy now!

If DH hadn't have vetoed I'd have gone for something bananas like Orchid, such were my hormones at the time. Thank goodness DH was there as a check and balance!

Gabriel. Such a lyrical name.

for dd1 we agreed on Maxwell/Maximillan for a boy for girls we had Elizabeth, Alexa/Alexia Helena or Sophia
for dd2 we had no boys name could not agree at all would have likely been Benjamin as when I was in labour it was the only boysname the midwife came up with we didnt turn our nose up to.. for girls names we had Millicent, Amelia, Amabel
for ds we had Søren and for a girl we had Ilona Iona (we were fairly certain he was a boy as he had a condition that mainly occurs in boys in womb - not that we knew for sure)
for dd3 she would have been Søren Bertram or Bertram Søren (Søren is my lategrandfathers name and Bertram FILs mn who passed away when I was 8 month pg with this one) girls names we had Seraphina, Maeve

Helena is beautiful I think I'd like that for a future girl. I like Maxwell/Maximilian but my cousin's DS is Max so couldn't have it.