Names you love but could never use

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Just for fun, what names do you love, but can’t use for whatever reason?

I really love Zelda, after Zelda Fitzgerald, but I feel they’d be teased because of the video game.

Anais is also cute. But I foresee lots of issues with pronounciation, and it kind of looks like anus!

Augustus - loved it for a little boy. But I feel people will forever associate it was Augustus Gloop.

What are yours?

mellongoose - Why were you not brave enough to use Hazel? it's that crazy a name to use is it? I love it!

I like the name Winona, but alas would be pretty obvious where I heard the name from!
Also Ferdinand, but my OH has firmly put his foot down (and probably for good reason haha)

I wanted Barney for DS2 - my DH vetoed but to me he will always be a Barney. DS definitely does not agree

Roman - it's just not 'me'. And wouldn't match any other names I like (classic)
Georgiana - I think it's beautiful but DP hates it
Serena - close family members name
Vivienne - so pretty, but 'Viv' is horrid imo

boys
-river
-tate
-Freddie (everyone hates it:(

girls
-Aubree

• Wynter

I love Ezra, Noah and Teddy for a boy but hubby disagrees

For a girl, Betsy and Hattie.

Cinderella, Hepzibah, Merlin, Frampton, Royal, Oserus, Philidelphia, Britannia, Queenie, Patience, Vanslow, Amadine, Kisby, Israel, Methusalah, Providence, Cinamenta, Onisophorus, Rice ... oh my god, I love all of these! I think my bump has some new middle names!

I’m going to add Bessie to my do not use names. I love it, but she might have Yorkshire pudding names forever.

Isambard (though maybe Sam as a nn not so bad?!)
Jago
Wren
Isolde
Cosima

Hera and Decca. Reserved as future cat names I guess.

I have a girl Alex and I wish I'd been brave enough to either spell it Alix, or to use Alicky - it's a German nickname and I love it!

Aldous I LOVE Cosima! Don't think DP will go for it though

I loved Suki throughout my pregnancy but DP vetoed it. Twat.

Caspian, Evander, Ludovic, Anders, Conrad, Jolyon, Lazarus, Rudolph, Matteo, Stefan, Tobias

@olderthanyouthink it's fantastic isn't it. It was roundly vetoed by my partner (the big meanie) along with lots of other beautiful suggestions!

If DH were on here he'd say Septimus, I threatened divorce though mwahahaha

I LOVE Malachi but made the mistake of telling people and I had some pretty strong comments involving goblins and the similarity there of.

Aylarose I used one of those names instead although we use the less posh pronunciation

Ernest - don't like Ernie though

Barnaby

Sophie and Stanley

Clementine for my December baby. I half wish I'd gone for it, although I do love the name we chose.

I’ve always loved Ciorstaidh (pronounced Kirsty) it’s a Gaelic name but can imagine the mispronouncing and the spelling would be a nightmare 😭

I loved Ptolemy for a boy for the way it sounds (Tol-uh-mee) but the spelling would cause so many problems!

namethatchange it’s funny cause Seren which means Star is quite a popular girls name in Wales, much more than Star is in England

Sheherezade - too much of a mouthful. And Sherry as nn.

... is a nono

I recently met a Nectarios and fell in love with the name, but I think it's a bit too out there for me to use!

Same with Dionysia for a girl.

I really like the sound of the classical name Urban, but I'm pretty sure most people hearing it would not realise it used to be a name and think we were trying to be trendy and new.