Are there any names you aren't/weren't 'brave enough' to use?

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I would love to use these for a boy;
Torey
Tracey
Remus
Armand

And for a girl;
Albany
Serenity

But it hasn't happened... Yet!

I like Amos and Cornelius but neither go with our surname and DH would definitely have vetoed!
I doubt I would have been brave enough anyway.

Queenie and Horatio.

ponty and another poster - Mallory was on our shortlist for dc1 had she been a boy! It was there with George and Ralf I'm still relieved she was a girl

My unusually-named DS was born in a particularly diverse bit of London ( acquaintances met when my boy was a newborn had babies called Precious, Thiago, Soren, Koko, Athene, Blue, Ace, Ferdinand, Phineas, Bubble, Hermia) but we now live in a bit of the rural Midlands where all babies are called Louis, George, Harry, Emilia and Isabel.

Butterfly, I know a ten year old Cornelius in Ireland, known as Con. I think it's pretty cool.

Quite wanted Derry for a boy - till my DH pointed out my mother (Northern Ireland, of protestant persuasion) would call him 'Londonderry'...

Most of mine have come up already...but here they are:

Girls:
Persephone
Ophelia

Boys:
Bastille
Rupert

I would have loved Ravi (I 4hink it means Sun in hindu) I think its beautiful and manly and all the Tavistock I've ever known have been lovely. But both dh and I are white and I just thought it too pretentious.

Tavistock = Ravis

My rl name isn't many posts away. I have had fantasies all my life about being called: Jane, Sarah, Claire, Susan, Alison, Angela. Anything mainstream really. Please just think of the children and the comments they get: from every other teacher "ooh that's unusual", from every other nurse "ooh, what an interesting name, what made your parents call you that".

It. Really. Is. So. Tedious. Please think of the children. If you want something less common then go for Madeleine, Susanna, Juliette, Olivia.

Narcissa. I think it's beautiful.

Love obediah, obe for short

I love love love Mordecai. Love it. But DH does not.

Atticus
Benedict (pre Cumberbatch fame)

Ophelia
Tabitha

For a boy: Percival, Orion, Isambard or Erasmus

...and I've always thought Gethsemane would make a good girls name - it had such a nice sound when you say it.

When I was pregnant I wanted Evangeline for a girl or Jolyon for a boy. DP laughed so much he was nearly sick.

I love Dexter. DH hated it.
I also would have loved Roxanne if I had a girl. DH hated that too, used to sing the song every time I said the name!!

Ive loved the name Django for years and years, always wanted to call a boy that but DH vetoed, and TBH I'm not sure as a family we are hip enough for a Django.

I also wanted to use the name Jonquil for a girl, but mostly so I could nn her Jonny and have "a girl called Jonny" like the Waterboys song.

I quite like the idea of Jonny for a girl... Definitely not brave enough!

Malachi for a boy and Arwen, Juniper, Willow or Imogen for a girl ...

I have a Tabitha though (mentioned a couple of posts up) so now I feel less wimpy

DH wanted Mallory, but we wimped out on the meaning

I love Laurie but just not Laurence as the full name. And DH vetoed it absolutely. maybe will use it for a cat someday