Mourning for the names I would never be brave enough to use ...

[RetroRita]

It turns out I am quite conventional really and I don't like standing out from the pack.

So, the names I have chosen for my 2 dc are nice, not overly popular but not outrageous. This means that names I have loved since a child, I will never be able to use, so now I'm pg with dc3 I'm mourning them as we have chosen another conventional (but lovely) name.

So bye to:

Anoushka
Primrose
Arrietty

Do you have any names you were not brave enough to use?

Pomroy
Delilah
Gilbert (i might actually use this one and nn Gil or Bertie)

Actually I would use all of the above but dh wont let me have enough children

Tiger-Lily
Ambrose
Valentine
Begona (there should be a Spanish wiggly accent above the n)
Oberon
Cosmo
Apollo

Tuesday - DD2 is under strict instructions to use it as a stage name if ever the occasion arises

Loving Anouska and Gilbert!

My kids do have fairly unusual names but DH drew the line at these ones which I would have secretly loved :

Peregrine
Monty
Anastasia
Jonty

I know two of the above

Adithi (Hindi for 'boundless one')
India (may yet use it if I have my way)

Lucretia - loved this but a bit too out there for my hubby x

Amadeus
Emmanuel
Melody

Oh, so many:

Araminta, Addison, Avery, Cassidy, Camryn, Dakota, Elisaveta, Eriskay, Hannalie, Isadora, Juniper, Jerica, Jessamy, Kiki, Octavia, Sapphire, Seraphina, Sutton, Zillah.

Queenie
Hermione

Rafferty (too posh for where I live)

My brother is called Ambrose! Have a nephew Gilbert, nn Bernie.

I wasn't quite brave enough to call DD "Lorellei".

Was desperate for Algernon - my grandfather used to joke that his real name was Albert Algernon Wimplesnoop John - but compromised with Albert as 1 of his 2 middle names.

Yes, 2 middle names as a much longed for only child :-)

I'm about to have DC3 and they all have 2 middle names! They have a sensible middle name, and a crazy hippy middle name that they can drop if they become high court judges or something....

So many. I've always loved the more unusual name (have one myself) For some bazaar reason I went all sensible during both pregnancies.
Love
Romilly
Cordelia
Aurora
Fitzgerald
Clementine
Ramones
Claudia
Geronimo

Oh petty - I love Gilbert, eber since watching Anne of Green Gables - I was planning on having a dog called Gil as I couldn't do it to DSs

The dh and dc's claim that these favourites of mine would be enough to incite a playground riot where the child is bullied into oblivion, I think they're lovely.

Eugene
Gabriel
Austin
Ramona

Persephone
Estee

Oh and Quentin, Tristan and Sergio.

I loved Hunter for a boy or Quincy but i couldnt do that to the kids

Omg, Lorelei and Mallory are the other girls names I love - but I will probably use one of those if I get an opportunity.

Lorelei is gorgeous. How would it be pronounced?

If I had been braver, Isis would've been on my baby name list...

Jesse. Dd was going to be Jesse if she was a ds. Dd ended up being called Nancy. Could never have a nancy and a Jesse. Tantamount to child abuse. But there will be no dc2 so it's all trivial really

Omg so many ace names on this thread! im expecting dc2 and have NO boys names, but I do have 35 weeks to go
im going to come back here id dc2 turns out to be ds2

Taliesin
Inigo
Romy

Tristan
Titus
Sebastian

These names are all great! Particularly like Clementine, Cassidy, Gabriel and Tristan. We have a Quentin and love that too . Are these names really too 'out there' and need bravery to use them?!