Confessions - names you love but will never use

[Radish9]

Just as title really. I have a theory that everyone has a baby name that they love but will never/ have never got to use. Mine is Silas, always adored it but DH (and almost everyone else in rl) hates it. My mum's is Toby, she's tried to get us to use it but we haven't obliged. Would anyone else care to share?

Poppy.

Beautiful but wasn't convinced it would work on a high court judge.

(Names need to be suitable for 1. Cute little baby. 2. Teenager in a comprehensive. 3 A high court judge. For us to use them.)

Good thread!

Aurora, Beatrice and Sky. All three went down like a lead balloon with DH.

Midwinter

Augusta. Everyone I know hates it including dh. Luckily not having any more dc!

Sasha - girl or boy

Stella, DH refused to name out DD after a beer.

Tabitha

Kitty

Maybe I should just get a cat..?

Astrid and Benedict.

Oh, and Beatrix

Rowan. Aidan. Eli. Lucas. All shortlisted for DS1 and then tucked away safe for DS2, who was not to be :(

Haha - loads!
Jethro (with the nickname Jet)
Levi
Sholto
Brodie

Fox - We as a family are not cool enough to carry that off, everyone would laugh and the child wouldn't thank me for it!

Eve - No girls

Angharad and Sebastian. Still love them even though it's 17 years since I last named a baby. They weren't -and probably still aren't - "very NI"!

Ptolemy
Saskia
Persephone
Anastasia

Love these but I'm not posh enough to have used them.

Antonia, because that's the name of my brothers ex, and it would be like saying to SIL 'I'm naming my DD after the person I'd rather have had for a SIL...'
I wouldn't say it's an absolute 'favourite' name but it definitely would be a contender if it wasn't for DB's ex.

Aurora. I can't say my 'r's pwoperly so that one's out.
Cecily, vetoed by DH
Juniper. Everyone who knows me knows I like gin, so they might think I'd named my dd after that. I just love how it sounds, and looks.
Emmeline. Doesn't work with our surname. The abbreviations are a bit dull, too.

Theo, love the name, but don't like the meaning.
Can't think of any other boy names I love but can't have!

Toseland nn Tolly.
Anyone else love the Children of Green Knowe?

Gaius.

I think I'm alone in the world in this

I met a lady called Isis years ago. (She pronounced it eee-sis.) I always loved it, still do. DH vetoed it. Probably for the best now!

Ines. Love how it looks. Can't even decide how it sounds...

Aurelia
Aria

Barnaby.

I sobbed real hormonal tears over this one as it doesn't go with my surname.

I would love Matilda for a girl too, but seeing as I have a boy and am unlikely to have another child that one is out too.

I may have to get cats just to use my names on

And the award goews to... marcipex

Now Midwinter! That is wonderful!

Indiana for a girl and Cillian for a boy.

Maybe one day if we have dc3?? I've also always loved the name Summer with Rain as a middle name.

This thread has made me want dc3 now , which would be all kinds of wrong for me at this moment in time .