Beautiful and unusual girls names you like but wouldn't use...

[PooDogMillionaire]

I have quite a few but don't feel brace enough to use them.

Pandora
Keziah
Tallulah

I always loved the name Xanthe though saw a thread recently saying no one understands the name on first hearing and say 'Sandy' instead. Just as well I didn't use it.

Ziglinda was another favourite but I think it's actually supposed to be Siglinda which isn't so good. Linda as a nn is dreadful.

I love the name Cinderella....

I have a Lorelai- I know it wasn't well received by much of the family but frankly I loved it too much to care. Now with DD2 days away we had planned on naming her Antigone. However DH has gone off it as he worries that everyone hates it/pronounces it incorrectly so he's decided no. I'm a bit heartbroken.

Araminta

I think it's lovely to say but it's got such awful upper class connotations. "MINTY!!"

I had completely set my heart on Meredith or Cordelia Rose for DC2, but he turned out to be a DS. And I'd previously agreed DH could choose his name.

Gawd.

Before you stick these names on someone, think of the consequences.

My name is on here. It is deeply pretentious, and attracts pretension. I've spent most of my life dying inside while pretentious, loud middle-aged Lynda Snell type women and pervy old men fawn over it. It's even worse now as it's taken a turn for the distinctly chavvy.

Fecking loathe it. I'd have been delighted to be called Emma or Beth or Ruth or something. I'm sure it's contributed to my life spent desperately trying to blend into the background and dressing like a navvy lest anyone think I'm as Hyacinth Bucket-esque as the person who chose it and then encouraged all the lynda Snell/Hyacinth Buckets to coo about it.

Seriously considering changing it by deed poll as soon as my bloody pretentious bat of a mother is too old to notice.

Hence the thread title "names you wouldn't use" magnificat ...

I am a Miriam. I have dark southern European features. I am not Jewish (although I am 10% apparently according to a DNA test I took recently). It has just confused the hell out of everyone all my life (you're of Irish descent? Yeah, right, pull the other one type looks) and some can be very, very nasty with their assumptions especially of late...

golly gosh those names (excuse me) are awful! ...if I couldn't use them I woudl describe them as words Not names.

When I was a kid we had a cat called Sheherezade - no joke. We called her Sherry for short.

mimishimmi I know a blonde, Irish Miriam. Never thought of it as solely a Jewish name, in fact if you'd told me it was Irish I wouldn't have thought anything of it!

twistinmysobriety - my comment was directed at the many posters who seemingly would have used some of these names but for other circumstances intervening.

Though there are a few names on here that seem perfectly normal - like Miriam - had no idea there was any connection there to Jewish culture (or for that matter the Old Testament prophetess, presumably the same person).

Ophelia
Allegra

Coralie
Emiliana

Very pretty names, but I'd worry about coming to find them fussy.

Arabella
Laura

Remedios!

Remedios

Serendipity
Persephone
Athena

I also like the name Natalie but wouldn't use it as I couldn't stand hearing people say Na-uh-Lee, which they would where I live.

Iris
Isobella
Esther
Were all on my list, but DH not so keen! Glad to see that both my DD's names have appeared on this thread though .

magnificat please tell us your name or pm me.
I am intrigued.

I wouldn't call my daughter Adelaide because I m called Adelaide. But I would call my children:
Charley
Louisa
Lydia
Rachelle
Sofia
Camille
Katrina
Trinity
Aurora
Charity
Hope
Faith
Celia
Imogen
Hazel
Saron
Elsie
Iris
Tessa/Tessie
Sydney

Im taking some namespiration from your list ladies! I love the name Indiana but can't use it as our surname is too close to Jones! Unfortunate!

Love love love Aurora too but can't use as step daughter has a disney princess name so don't want dd1 feeling left out??

Daughter no 2 has no name still and wks are ticking by!

Liking Xanthe though x

Mercy
Evangeline (inspired by Evangeline Proudfoot and her DD Epiphany [which I also LOVE] Proudfoot in the very good but very creepy film Angel Heart!)
Mireille (actually I would use this, but only have one DD who has already been named and no more on the cards)
Juniper
Pasiphae

Thought of some more:

Astarte
Phaedra
Miette (means "crumb" in French so not a brilliant meaning - heard it in a film years ago and thought it was lovely though!)
Attis