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

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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?

My DP wanted and still wants Revan after his favourite star wars character ... we had a girl but if we ever have a boy, I can see another fight there for that name it has kind of grown on me.
I love Arwen, Hermione and Artemis

@ribbonsonabox we have a little Olympia, she is Olympia Leto Beatrix and her name always gets such a positive reception.

My partner is so vanilla and my poor daughter has quite a wet name as a result! Poor thing felt totally harassed into picking something when she was 5 days old.

Girls
Aurora
Briar Rose
Teddy
Remi
Cosette
Rory
Lucky

Boys
Cash
Kit
Wolfie
Cornelius

Girls - Daivy, Marina, Montana.

Ooh I love this sort of thread. My names aren't that out there but still wouldn't feel brave enough to use. Especially with our already over the top with our surname.

Girls:
Constance
Winifred
Primrose
Hope

Boys:
Willoughby
Quint/ Quentin

I liked names like:
Cordelia
Lenora
Nova
Annika (still regret not choosing this)

We have an Abigail and a Rebekah, and plumped for more unusual middle names instead.

I really like Maleficent.

Mine isn’t that out there but I got mostly negative responses - Arthur shortened to Art or Artie. I quite liked Valentina for my daughter as due date near Valentine’s Day but have a v Irish surname that’d have sounded a bit odd (although at 11yo she reckons she’d have liked it!)

Also quite liked Augustus shortened to Gus but DD reckons it’s too reminiscent of Augustus Gloop fro. Charlie and the chocolate factory. dS was born in August which is why it occurred to me

We nicknamed the bump Rupert for a while and that nearly stuck but it’d have stood out massively where we live!

I have always wanted to call a DD Cherry but I will never do it. My DCs have very classic names and Cherry wouldn't fit at all unfortunately. DP would also veto it.

Godfrey

My DH had a family friend called Godfrey - NN was God. We considered it because of the brilliance of the NN

I used to love Paris. Then Hilton came along.

Also liked Micah for a girl. A relative used it for a boy.

Toyed with Anoushka in very late pregnancy with DD1.

All names I glad now slipped away.

If I had another DD now - Cecily all the way.

Still stumped for boys.

Xenophon for a boy. In fact.

Ds2 actually ended up with a fairly unusual name but also on the list were:
Rafferty
Ptolomy
Orion
Albion
Raphael (not that out-there, just a bit exotic for us too get away with)
Etienne (ditto)
Ezra (couldn't shake the George Ezra thing tho)
Isambard

I know 3 Astrids and an Amaryllis, could never nail the pronunciation of that one though

My dds name is pretty brave but dp ruled out my true favourite which is Hero.

I also really like Jesse for a boy.

In Australia and I know a Guinevere, Persephone, Seraphina, Calypso and Ailsa.

Mine would be
Erasmus
Isambard
Cuthbert
Tycho
Taliesin

Cassiopeia
Scheherazade
Yseult
Corisande
Zephyr
Juniper
Nimue

Australia and I know a Guinevere, Persephone, Seraphina, Calypso and Ailsa.

Well we all know Ailsa. She owns a diner in Summer Bay, the one with the hamburger phone.

Said phone...

(this is not Ailsa however, this is Flathead)

I have a friend called Gideon. Lovely guy but I just hate his name. It sounds so wimpy and feeble and unsexy.

Girls: Evangeline, Lavinia
Boys: Atticus

Hermione. Desperately wanted to call DD this but chickened out.

I wanted to call my DD Scarlet but boring DH vetoed it. As a young adult she is totally feisty enough to carry it off!

I call our cats all the names my DH thought too out-there for the DCs 😻

Girls: Lux, Sloane, Daphne
Boys: Beau, Boaz and Rafferty