Name you loved but it was just too quirky?

[Greengreen88]

Is there a name you didn’t use because it was just too quirky or “out there” but still love?

I loved Starr, Juniper and Skye, DH vetoed! (Don’t even think those are that quirky, tbh.)

Our twin are Juniper and Tabitha. I liked the name Junia but DP thought it sounded too much like ‘Junior’ so Juniper was the less quirky option. Then I also love Tallulah but it gets such awful reactions so Tabitha was an alternative to that.

I love Ptolemy but would never be brave enough to use it, I can just imagine the faces of friends and family.

Ariadne, it just seemed too much.

Ptolemy. I love it, dh loves it, but we just weren’t brave enough

Io for my second daughter. It would've really suited her too. Darn it.

Desdemona

Never got a chance to deliberately not use it as I made boys, but would have been vetoed.

happydinosaur I taught a gorgeous girl called Ariadne this year. It's a beautiful name!

Another fan of Cosmo. Ended up going for something fairly quirky, there were less than 50 children given the same name in the year DS was born, but wish we'd gone for Cosmo.

DS2 due in a few weeks and he will be Eden. I'm genuinely amazed DH went for that, but given his only alternative suggestion was Percival, I think Eden is definitely preferable to that!

Job
Cyril (!?!)
Rainbow
Summer
Leaf
Jesse
River
Phoenix

I go a bit loony with names when I’m pregnant!

Brontë
Skye

I liked Leaf before I realised that it's pronounced more like Life for ds2 Rainbowknickers - would be the biggest naming cock-up ever to wildly mispronounce your own child's name!

Juno
Tabitha
Felix

Also love Artemis as mentioned above.

Leif sorry - I thought it was pronounced Leaf but it's pronounced more like Life

Astro...love it but the nickname would be cruel

Adonis

In keeping with your theme @Signifyingnothing personally i also really like Europa.

Magenta
Loveday
Morwenna

Cecil

Amaryllis.

Pixie - it would have suited our very slight DD but not youngest DS (if he'd been a girl) as he has a much bigger frame.

Still love the name though

Dixie
Tallulah
Ophelia

Phoenix and Rex.

Sidonie

Thor. Really loved it as a baby name but DH vetoed so we went with something traditional instead.

Not too quirky- but too Scottish for my DH (We are Scottish, living in Scotland). 🙄

I loved both Ruiridh and Eilidh, both vetoed as they’d ‘spend their life spelling their name out.’
I still love both names.

Dakota