Names you love but are too afraid to use???

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Just that really. I'm pregnant with dc2 and I love lots of names but wouldn't have the guts to use some of them - silly I know!!!

One of my faves for a girl is Luna/Lunar.

Just for fun- what are yours?

I liked Crystal at the time for DD but DH said absolutely not! Quite glad he did now. I like Veronica but not sure I would use it as it seems a bit old fashioned. I also like Violet and Iris and think I would use them.

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Valentina- but i HATE that it would get shortened to 'val' or 'tina'.... ick.
Lolita- Not sure that would be very well received.

I really like a lot of the more uncommon biblical names like Mordechai, Malachi, Micah, Zephaniah, Isaiah, Abraham, Ezekiel, Ebenezer, Jesse, Ephraim, Asher, Boaz, Gideon, Ishmael, Jonah, Levi...
I especially like Levi because then he'd be named after my 2 grandmothers - a pair of Jeans! :-D
Needless to say, all the names were either vetoed by DH, taken by friends/family members or mutually discounted as either giving DC the same initials as us or just being a bit too 'unique' or 'only really suitable if you're black or Jewish' as my dad said!
DH did choose DS1's more conventional biblical name so I might insist on something a bit unusual if we have a boy!

I like more 'normal' girls names though - Elizabeth is a family name (we have a Betty, Lilli, Beth & Liz) & I like Libby as a nn but DH vetoed, or maybe Faith or Chloe...

Some lovely names here. Id say if you like it use it. DN has a long and unusual name which would easily rival most of these. However after 16 yrs it seems completely notmal to us now!

Joaquin - lovely but nobody here could pronounce
Salvador - not English enough

We couldn't Find a Middle Name to go with these: Dallas,Faydra,Kent,Lexx,
Shan,Morgan,Claudia,Alexande,River,Carey and Diego.

Cadmium, Saffron, Indigo, and Permanent Rose.

I like Nesta.

Astrid for a girl and Lucien for a boy
Both vetoed by DH
And the DC's say thank god they got their very normal names instead
also love Thor, Freya, Aethelraed, Aethel

Spike, Oakley (DH vetoed),

I love Elliott (boy or girl) but someone once said it was "as if the parents were trying too hard" I LOVE that name.

Raoul for DC2, who turned out to be a DD.

However, three people from three different continents and three different socioeconomic backgrounds all told me - independently - that it sounds like a porn star name. One friend suggested the middle name Rampage to go with it!

This was pre-Raoul Moat days, btw....

Also loved Yngwe and of course Tostig.

Who knows......

God mumsnet makes me cringe sometimes, if you love a name you should use it, why are you so bothered by how other people may or may not judge you?!

Hero, for a girl, as in Much Ado About Nothing.