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 have a Delilah,it seems normal to us all now but there were a few family cats bum faces when we announced it.

Oh, and I loved the name Silas, but my initial is S and that ruled that one out; Atticus, but ex-DH refused, and Matthias, which caused so much jaw-dropping at the NCT that I lost the courage of my convictions.

Paris for a boy ( ruined now)
Aloysius ( teddy bear name)
Hamish( ruined by MAcbeth)
Rory ( to many of em)
Willow ( likewise)
Rowan
Greta
Fern
Emerald
John

I love Aubrianna

my daughters have names like Emily though!

And Rafael and Aubrey. And Joachim.

I love Artemis for a girl and Florian for a boy. Although we do have a one DD and one DS, don't think DH would have countenanced either name, sadly. Plus our surname is a bit too 'ordinary' to carry them off properly.

Columbine. I love it but people will think 'high school massacre' not little pretty flower.

Valerian

Constantine
Arkady

They only really work in a Russian-speaking community, and I'm not in one at the moment.

I went to a high school in a real die-hard hippy town and went to school with a lot of the names on here: Anastasia, River, Phoenix, Willow, Sorrel, you name it. I also remember a set of identical twin girls named Morning Star Ramsay and Evening Star Ramsay. As others have stated, children grow into their names and after a while, you won't bat an eye at how "unusual" they once seemed to you. If you love a name, go for it! I named my child something not even in the top 100 and we love it still - it suits him and I can't think of him with any other name.

Emmyloo2 - I was this close to naming ds Humphrey, every one said I was mad, but ds is now 5 and is a Humph in spirit! Again dd1, buckled under everyone's pressure, but she is that name, and I changed it by deed poll when she was 3! And she loves it.

Go for the names you love ladies, maybe it's female intuition

Milo. I loved it when I was pregnant but my sister said I couldn't name the baby after a "tweenie".

Still love it.

Lettice. It's really pretty but it's like stapling 'kick me' sign to their back.

And Ambrose for a boy. Damn the rice pudding.

bloody love roxanne but sting has buggered it up. Also love myra. lucky i have boys then.

Artemis is lovely.

My nephew is called Solomon and I love it! Lots of raised eyebrows at toddler groups though! Just go for it with unusual names, its nice to be different. Dd2 has a hyphenated name the second part of which is Kitten. Dh and I love it but my MIL never uses her full name!

India
Paris
Juliet
Heromine

London

Santiago
Perdita
Montserrat
Dolores
Sonsoles
Dorothea

DH vetoed all of the above. Can't think why.

Coco

I was determined to use that for a while when pregnant!

I wanted to used the Keaton for both my DS's but got put of by peoples reactions. both have common names now :(

really really would love a River! was dead jealous when my best mates sister named her son this

also liked Knight and Dante - but just wouldnt tho!

girls. always liked Phoenix, Tey, Cadence, Rainey.....but as thread title says - not brave enough to use.

I love names of an extremely hippy type, would love a Star or Rainbow or Leaf. I will try and keep things a bit more normal though.

For a girl, Fuschia -- just because it's so beautiful-sounding, though it is a bit frou frou so probably not. For a boy, would have loved, loved, loved to use Oliver Bede, but Oliver sadly too popular a name for us :(