What are the unusual names on your baby name list that you aren't brave enough to use?

[erja]

What are the ones that you ruled out because you weren't brave enough to use them? What are the names that you really like but wouldn't ever be brave enough to use in future?

Cassiopeia!

I am. Brave enough to use it.. But I don't want it to be shortened to Cassie. Not that there's anything wrong with Cassie. I do love Cassia though 😍

@Cosmoa oooh, I do like Cassie on its own actually - haven't heard that since Skins!

Persephone.

It would be wildly outlandish to use it in Cardiff.

I have loved Persephone for a very long time. I actually think I would use it if I had a little girl, it's beautiful. I love Evadne, Juno and Xanthe too

Lemmy

Noa for a girl - I absolutely love it but get really mixed reactions from people. It's definitely a marmite name!

@Moondancer73 I love Juno and Xanthe.

@snowone I love Noa for a girl!!!

Mine are way^^ out there.

Boys-
Bear
Humphrey
Koda
Nemo
Prince
Tokyo

Girls-
Bambi
Dolly
Grey
Jonah
Kobie
Lennon
Onyx
Panda
Tig

People think I'm absolutely mad when I tell them my guilty pleasure names!!!!!! I don't think I'd be brave enough to consider any but do love them all!!!!!

I have two colleagues called Humphrey!

I really wanted to call my daughter Queenie but didn't in the end. Still love it

Digby. It's been slated on here so much it really put me off using it. Still love it though.

Also love Huxley & Humphrey but DH said no!

Glasgow - love the sound of it but I'm quite devoid of Scottish blood and place naming is a bit chav.

Catkin (nn Kitty)

Love Persephone, and Gideon and Atticus. Not necessarily crazy names but I live on a council estate area in the West Midlands.
Aurora and Briar Rose

Cassiopeia is also mine!! I have a really Irish surname though and it just sounds ridiculous!

Still

There was a Digby two years above me at school. His brother, in my year, had a much more classic name.

Given I went to a standard state school, in Wales, it’s probably a bit unusual that there was a Digby, Athena, Portia, Cassian, Antigone alongside the many, many Hannah’s, Laura’s, James’ etc

Forrest

Scotty, I mentioned it on here 6 years ago and got slated.

My favourite names for girls are James, Lenny and Stevie. Not brave enough to use them though.

I wasn’t brave enough to use Anastasia or Kennedy.

Ailsa - Unusual here in Australia, that is
Aster
Blythe - With my surname, it sounds just like "blithely"
Dasha
Delphi
Galina
Golda / Goldie
Hera
Juno
Lavender
Lilith - Assume too many people would think of the demon
Milou - Tintin's dog
Polly
Selah
Wednesday - Would use as a middle name without second thought, though
Zosia

Posted too soon! Boys:

Aldous
Clark
Cosmo
Clement
Gideon
Gulliver
Harland
Orion
Orson
Rafferty
Roger
Roscoe
Truman
Wilbur

Hepzibah, I had a boy. I love that name!

Maclean for a boy

Pollyanna
Seraphina
Persephone
Amaryllis
Petunia

I LoVE unusual names...but it's my husband who won't brave it and be different!
I totally am in love with Bligh for a boy, and praying I get my own way 🤭

Scout
Elliot
Both for DD