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?

Sonny bill

Montserrat for a girl. But we are nowhere near Spanish.

Ambrose and Moses. Thisbe and Imelda. We'll see...

Mixedberries I agree, it is really pretty, in isolation. Hindley has destroyed that name. Doubt there are many little Adolfs, either.

I actually think Anastasia is really pretty on a simple name basis, and Anna is a great short, but you'd sound the most pretentious git alive if you went for it.

Hebe! I really like that name. And I met a little boy called Tensing recently, called after Sherpa Tensing (one of the first to conquer Everest). That must have taken some persuasion of his mother. (I met the - charming - Dad.)

Amity. So pretty, easy going and friendly sounding.

Clodagh
Jorma (for some reason I'm so attracted to the sound, although it's so ugly to look at)
Sholto (well, I might use it! but like the first....I'm not Irish)
Makepeace (my future little Nobel prize winner....)
Lorrella/Hannelore/Lelia
Chiara (Chalet school)
Cobalt
Almaviva....maybe Figaro? :-D
Andromeda
Etienne
Portia
Elodie....it's too like mine.
Liberty (bodice)
Fleance
Lysander

Been racking my brains, obviously!
My favourite names are a little out-there, I guess, but since they're my real favourites I'd feel the fear and do it anyway

In fact. Hedda and Cybelia (chosen ones), they're not too strange, are they?

Oscar - Because I have already used it for a cat

Ursula, Amber, Emilia, Lilia - because they were vetoed by DH

Arabel. I still might, but suspect it'd be seen as a bit posh...
On the other hand, I think Anastasia is absolutely fine. Maybe because I know one. You could shorten it to Anna or Stacey.

Lol at Inigo (can't remember who suggested that)! It has a lovely ring to it but... you killed my father, prepare to die...

Celeste. And Sydney (for a girl).

felicity is a prettyand elegant name.

sebastian -boy
india-girl

boys - Jonty, Dante
girls - cassiopiea, tryphena

Campaigning to DH for India if we every have a DD2. But I also Love love....
Juno, Cosima, Merlin, Orlando and Kit.

DH isn't having any of it.

ooooh - I now want a Sherlock and and Ptolomy.

Actually seriously considering Horatio!

Yup yup! One of my DC names has made this list!

Ooh, Sholto was another of mine. Rafferty, Sholto or Gabriel. All vetoed.

Horatio is lovely, but you just know the little gits at school will call him Fellatio.

i love the following names
josiah
frank
ezra
bertie
lenny
hephzibah
prudence
tansy
avril
celia
sure i'll think of some more

Astala

If DS had been a DD I wanted Sparkle. I also like Petal. DH was not loving the name Sparkle.

Have two boys (both names have appeared on this thread), but ...... would love 'Tulip' for a DD..... not that I'll ever have any more children.

We seriously considered Orlando ( pre the Blooms rise to prominence) but chickened out. Also love Lysander.
We went for traditional English names instead like every other parent in DCs school

I know someone whose son is Lysander, but she's of Greek origin so there is a family connection to the name. It's a very glamorous name IMHO!