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?

Oh, and Radish, Silas is a lovely name.

ColdFeet every Colm I know is lovely

Eloise
Romy

Rocky for a boy
Saffy for a girl
Rupert

Names like Aurelia, Aurora, Ophelia, Savannah, Emmeline, Evangeline - loe them but they don't work with the surname and DH found them too fairy-tale ish!

I love the following (more mainstream names) but will never use as DC are now in their twenties and there are certainly not going to be any more!!
Theodora, Isadora, Ottilie, Saskia, Matilda, Amelia, Amelie, India

Will have to work on DD if she eventually has babies of her own but must restrain from being that MIL/pushy grandparent type who is reliving it all through grandchildren!

Jude
Apple
Lysander

Jotham - still love this and wish we'd used it.

Philip nn pip - likewise

Tabitha - doesn't go with surname

Oh and Apple, since I was a teenager I thought this would be fab for either gender .... But really.... No

Jesse
Love this name for a boy
Live in Scotland so it is a complete no no. Such a shame!

This has been really interesting, some fabulous unused names.
Thanks Holy, that makes you, me and my mum the only people who like Silas!
And Meggy - I've only ever come across one Jotham before and I rather liked it too!

I have a silas in my family. He's 2 and lovely! Not in this country though so pronounced zeelas...

I like Shane for a girl but dp vetoed it. So wont get to use it as not having another child.

I love Sharon. Also love Kayleigh. Both obviously unusable and not just because a) I'm 51, b) both DC are boys . DC would actually have been Olivia and Florence had they been girls.

D'you know, this thread has made me think fuck it, I'm using Matilda if I have another girl. I love it, DH loves it, who cares if there's another one in the family (that we hardly ever see anyway)!

Go for it egog!

Seth - DH hates it

Mine is quite a simple one, it's Katy. But where we live no one pronounces their t's (apart from us obviously!) so dd would have been Kay ee for the rest of her life and it's horrible!

I love Silas too. DS2 was almost called Silas but we got such a negative reaction from everyone that we didn't in the end.

Love Matilda but won't get to use is now as done having kids.

I like a lot of Shakespearean names like Ophelia, but I know my family would think I was being up my own arse using them (philistines).

Benedict is gorgeous, but now just reminds everyone of Mr Cumberbatch.

Loads of gorgeous Irish names that I love, but I have recently seen reactions to my friend calling her DD Caoimhe, and wouldn't want my child to be taken the piss out of as people have done with her (for no reason at all, it's none of their business what sher calls her DD FFS!).

Peter, but I really dislike the shortened Pete, which is what everyone would use.

Emma, but I don't have girls. Love it though. Simple and pretty and nobody would misspell it.

Pippa. DH really didn't like it.

Sacha.

Jude

Atticus
Aldous
Felix
Jonty
Jory
Tristram

Also love Silas!

Anwen
Elowen
Esme

Magnus and Christy

Luca
Rudy
Gabriel
Élan

love them all ...sigh

Ned. Too worried about the Scottish "chav" association.

I wanted to call my little girl Kezia Arwen, but disability meant no kids

Ooh atticus is great. Imagine having atticus and scout...amazing!
This thread is making me bloody. Not good!!