Names you love but could never actually use.

[albertcampionscat]

I'll start:

Thaddeus
Salcombe (Hardy of the drowned violet eyes in the Peter Wimsey stories)
Malachi.

That's exactly why I couldnt use Ophelia, beautiful name but I'm far too suspicious (what with a career in the theatre and less than perfect mental health record!)...one day I'm going have an aloof white fluffy cat and call her Ophelia. And a grey one called Oberon. And a black one called Othello

Meanwhile I'll just carry on drinking Talisker and Jura, wistfully wishing that's what we'd named our DS and DD

DD's name is on here In fact, I think most of these are usable.

Mine are generally just way too much:

Endellion
Pipaluk
Tigerlily
Madelief
Kittiwake

Iskander
Thaddeus
Bartholomew
Florentin
Oskaras

Cosima but DH wouldn't have it

Lucifer.
It means Bringer of light but not appropriate for obvious reasons.

Seraphina, Persephone

Superstar90

Dinosaur you could go for Rosie and have posy as her nickname (as in Rosie posy)

Ooooh good idea! Although I'm not actually pregnant. And if I were there is of course no guarantee that I'd have a girl.

Ruby it's spelt Asa so not the same spelling as the brand... Lovely name.

Boys:
Caspian
Perrin

Girl:
Nynaeve
Patience (DH vetoed that one)

Angie we preferred te other spelling for the nature meaning, and DH didn't like the religious connections of Asa. I did try to convince him!

Hopping agree on Lucifer!

Really also liked Lucien for a boy and to shorten to Louie, but we thought it would end up with issues at school - potential for Lucy, not great for a boy.

Loved Ita for a girl whilst pregnant with my DS. Also Wentworth which exDP wouldn't allow.

Now TTC with DP and I loved Holly-Belle for years however his DD has a sister called Holly Rose. Have loved the name Lily for years however there are four in my 6 year old DS's class.

Trying to convince DP of Arleigh at present.

I love love the name Aeneas but it was ruined for me by one of those awful MN what is the worst name you've ever heard type threads where a poster said they went to school with a boy called Aeneas pronounced anus. It is not pronounced anus.

Anoushka (DH didn't like it)

Dhillon or Arun for a boy ( I had girls)

But most of these aren't particularly way out, so (apart from some mentions of a DH/DW who wouldn't go for it, or another family member called it, or it not working with a surname, or a local accent, which I get) - why didn't you use them?

I thought this thread was going to be full of Moon Units, Zowies and Fifi Trixibelles, but a lot of these are perfectly usable names! My son's name was mentioned, and it's an ordinary enough name, and though uncommon in this country, very popular elsewhere - and quite a few other names on here have been used by friends/I know someone called that.

Queenie

Valentine

AtiaoftheJulii I've always LOVED the name Calliope (muse of poetry).

Agree it's a hard one to pull off but Calli for short works, doesn't it? (DH would never go for it though ha)

Dinosaur I have a Josephine who goes by Posey

HeyMicky I love Josephine so might be able to persuade him into that ;)

We have very different opinions on names. I like classic and pretty. He likes erm... the opposite :/

Juno

my name is Josephine lol .I like how unique it is my nickname was phina by close family and jo by friends

sugar my DD is Calli but not short for Calliope/Callista. In my head I always rhyme Calliope with karaoke but I'm sure it's not meant to sound like that!

Margaret / Maggie / Peggy - "because Thatcher" (was my grandma's name, I love it)

Jooni,

Yay - another Thaddeus. Love Iskander too.

Sapphire
Stockard
Hermione
Ingrid
Denver

Donovan
Ren
Saywer