Names you secretly like but could never burden a child with?

[ThroughTheRoundWindow]

Was talking baby names with my husband yesterday and he admitted to wanting to name a son Aubrey. When I stopped laughing he agreed that it might lead to a little bit of bullying. But then I love
Evelyn (for a boy!) which is equally bad...

Have you or your DP got a secret soft spot for a name that might not go down so well in the playground?

I like Persephone.

But DH refused to take that seriously as a suggestion and kept insisting on pronouncing it Percy Phone.

I love the name Jody for a boy, but i feel it's a bit girly to justify using it. I do have a real soft spot for it though x

Aureliano for a boy from One Hundred Years Of Solitude it is so beautiful but I couldn't use it, even as a middle name. I have a boys name picked which my partner and I love, so have come to terms with it!

I also love Gram after Gram Parsons (whose real name is Ingram) but it would be a source of ridicule in the playground. I think it is a very cool name.

I like Simeon but the simian association vetoes that!
Gideon is great and I like Gilbert too.

I know a Loveday in her 80's
Turnip are you a fan of The Little White Horse?

I love Merlin and Buster and Rastus, I'd never have given them my boys but my youngest was Buster or Rastus for years as a pet name.

Mortimer

I love the names Persephone and Aurora.

Two of my daughters' names have been mentioned

I know of several babies with names on this list: Rufus, Atticus, Arthur (x2) and Merlin.

I knew a boy called Jody when I was at primary school. He'll be in his 30s now.

A lot of the names I like aren't particularly unusual but are fairly old fashioned as they are family names and hubby vetoed them when I was pregnant: Margaret, Alfred, Vincent. On the other hand, I vetoed, Wolfie and Flame(!).

Have to say I love the names Wolfie and Aubrey, I also love Clement and Elvis but it they were a definite no from dp

I love the name Guinevere, but wouldn't use it.

I kept trying to get approval for Worzel from dh, it was only half in jest.

Percival, Lancelot & Boromir (nn Bors) for a boy

Carmen & Aurora for a girl.

My OH loves Pericles, Xerxes, Hector, Ulysses, Persephone (which I really really like too)...

I love Barnaby, Barney for short but couldn't do it to the child. Too cutesy

Sukie for a girl an lucifer for a boy. I couldn't be that cruel. Although DS does have an unusual name. It doesn't have any connotations of the devil. (Even though sometimes he might [hmmm])

Wolfgang, Sebastian and Clover.
Actually there's nothing secret about it, I love these names, and almost wish I had more children now.

My surname is two syllables beginning with C. I would LOVE to call our children Cassius and Clementine. Love the sounds together and if I was Victoria Beckham, I probably would.
Really don't think they'd go down too well at the local comp though.....

How come you think the name Aubrey would get bullied?

Serendipity and patchouli!!! My inner hippy screams hurrahhh!!

Myfanwy. But just change the w to an n !
Lots if others too. Where i live you'd be thought of as pretentious if you called a child an unusual name.

Bambi.

Boo - from Monsters Inc. I just think its adorable but honestly totally ridiculous.