Tell me the names you wouldn't be brave enough to use

[spice3]

Always my favourite baby name lists.

The names I love but are too out there (even for me who's child has an unranked name) to use:

Boys:
Nemo
Zeus
Rubeus
Sherlock
Tokyo
Woody

Girls:
Bambi
Dolly
Birdie
Baby
Queenie
Pepper

Major guilty pleasure names my DP barely let me finish the sentence when suggesting these ones although I wouldn't have been brave enough to use them anyway 😂

[M0reGinPlease]

Oh and just remembered I was desperate for a while to call DD Drusilla (nan Dru) but DH was having none of it.

[HalfBloodPrincess]

My baby doll was called Persephine when I was a child - I feel very Hipser-ish and trendy all of a sudden.

My oldest 3 children all have classic names and I was quite tempted to choose something a bit 'out there' for my fourth (and last)
Names on my 'could we...?' List were

Clementine
Hecate
Lilith
Vada
Marceline

But we went with Elspeth instead.

[missmouse101]

Phaedra, Iolanthe, Lowri, Fawn, Fenella
Malachy, Seth

[spice3]

@missmouse101 love Fawn 😍

[Bea3998273]

Beatrix- wanted to call a daughter of mine that since I was a child, after Beatrix Potter. Never got to use it, ex husband wouldn't have it and I'll never have any more children. Really wish I'd put my foot down now!

[Mimca]

Balthazar
Ignatius
Magnus
Caspar



Ianthe
Sybella
Federica
Seraphine
Aude
Capucine
Lioba

[historysock]

Lettice.
Daphne.
And not that out there but I wasn't allowed Kitty.

[titchy]

Hermione, Octavia, Persephone, Florian and Fabian

[Tillygetsit]

Arietty, Demelza, Lemuel Roderick(Roddy)

[OnTopOfTheWardrobe]

Flavia for a girl and Sebastian for a boy. I don't have boys, but DP would have put the mockers on Sebastian (and I was worried about the crab association anyway).

[OnTopOfTheWardrobe]

(I'm keeping Flavia for a cat later on....)

[ImportantWater]

Psyche (sigh-key). Love the sound and the story but a/ can imagine the scope for midpronunciation and b/ the nicknames (psycho, psychic)

[Queenest]

Bob

[ImportantWater]

Mis not mid

[stophuggingme]

Gigi
Coco
Bronte
Ramona
Starla
Dorinda
Calypso
Dolly
Fleur



Clement
Brett
Florian
Ziggy
Lenny
Morten
Amadeus

[daisydalrymple]

Cleopatra and Delilah

For a boy I love Todd
It’s one of those extreme marmite names on here , that tends to have insulting responses. I tend to love boys names that are often described as American jock names / surnames
My two boys have combinations of Matthew William Thomas Daniel as their 1st and MN.
Daughter has a traditional welsh name

[alwayscauseastir]

Pixie and Romeo. I was dead-set on Pixie for my daughter but my dear old gran was having none of it and would regularly trash the name when I mentioned it. So I didn't use it. And just as well really as she is far too stocky and rough around the edges to be a pixie!!

[KronksSpinachPuffs]

Octavia
Aurelia
Penelope
Persephone
Anastasia

Basically anything posh or too long haha

[FrownPrincess]

What a good thing you weren’t brave enough to use Tristesse, KrissKross ! Would you call a child Sorrow/Sadness in English?

[WhispersOfWickedness]

Linus for a boy and Celeste or Evangeline for a girl

Our robot hoover is called Hector

[CaptainTurdseye]

Hephzibah
Lulu
Zillah


Jobi
Maximilian
Axel

[Freyanna]

Ptomely

[Bearintheknow]

Not me but OH loves ‘Wolf’
I love Anastasia!

[RickOShay]

I also loved Ariel and really wish it wasn’t a washing powder
Nike too.

[VanyaHargreeves]

Someone got absolutely roasted on here the other day for wanting to call her child Meadow, which I really like

I've liked the name Hayden since the 90s but it had a popular moment and is resolutely considered awful on here.

I probably wouldn't be brave enough to use Artemis, Athena or Allegra all of which I love

I also like Pelagia and Paloma and probably wouldn't use them

Titania is another and Regina, too many unfortunate nickname opportunities

But I remember when Noah was highly unusual and now its completely mainstream social consensus of what a nice name is does evolve for each generation

Olivia's and Bethany's have given way to Ava and Amelia were once it was Sarah and Emma, now baby Sarah's are unusual