Names you loved but weren't brave enough to use?

[indigo13]

I've seen a lot of this, and I love unusual names so I'm wondering what names you would have loved to use but couldnt/wouldnt go for it as its too out there?

for me it'd have to be some of the lesser heard of mythological names

Thane
Rory
Rupert
Emile
Gabriel
Thorin

Dashiel

Clytemnestra and Agamemnon

Teddy
Tabitha
Kitty
Chardonnay

Odin
Lysander.

Dora
Mabel
Roman

They aren't necessarily 'out there' but I just felt the names we ended up with were 'safer' somehow. I love to hear children with unusual names though, it makes life more interesting.

Orchil and Emerald

And I loved Ophelia.

Araminta

I was vetoed from using Tempest or Tatum.

Unusual names I've run into lately on under 2s:

Tula
Birdie
Tippi

Arletty

I like the (unusual and classical) name we gave to DD, and she would probably have had that name anyway, but I would have had Jocasta on the shortlist were it not for all the 'Tarquin and Jocasta' comments.

DP did come home from the pub once when I was pregnant and crawled into bed saying 'let's call the baby Ozymandias', but I'm fairly sure he was joking.

James, for a girl

Digby - I love it but the boss as work is called that so it would look a bit weird

Aurora

Antigone nn Tiggy
Araminta nn Minty

Fleur for a girl and Fleance for a boy... I was 15 when I fell in love with these names and told my now exH that we would have twins and call them that!

I also wasn't brave enough for Ezekiel which I wish I had been as i love it. And teddy also. Though it was more that DH doesn't like Edward even though it's his middle name. Poor DS doesn't really suit his name I don't think and he really would have suited teddy.

Dora, Dorcas, Milena, Rivka, Moishe, Isaiah.

Isaac

I know an Araminta! You certainly remember it.

@whatsthebigdeal we used Tabitha as a middle name for our daughter - I love it!

Aurelia and Araminta. Got vetoed by DH. Both my girls have got very classic English names, I let DH name them as I was high as a kite from the morphine and Persephone Violet (DH Lawrence inspired) seemed a great idea at the time.

I wanted a Minty too, and it would have really suited her character. I am pleased with his choices though, they are solid, sensible names and as we have a very unusual surname they won't be forever spelling their whole names out on the phone.

Demelza
Arrietty
Adriel
Fenella

Thomasina (DF's name is Thomas and he hates the tradition of naming children after relatives)
Kira. Love it, the feminine version of Cyrus, but in the UK?
Vela

Blaise