Names you're not brave enough to use

[goldenorbspider]

Saw a thread the other day and someone mentioned Hecate! I love it but could never saddle a child with it. We played very safe with our name choices but if I was to throw caution to the wind, we would have some very out there names

Girls

Hecate
Calista
Calliope
Olympia
Giovanna
Zola
Athena

Boys

Hudson
Lorenzo
Ira
Cassius
Carey
Troy
Calvin
Solomon
Tate
Roman

@Dramasticchanges yes I know what you mean about people then presuming that you are Polish.

Funnily enough my husband , though born in Australia, is half Polish, half Swiss. We chose quite a Swiss name for our first daughter (Liesl) but it is easy to pronounce and spell and there was a famous Australian swimmer with the name so people are more familiar with it. With Agnieszka, even though there was the tennis player with the name, it is far less familiar to Aussies. And the presence of the "z" freaks people out haha.

@Chocolatedaim Gabriel is a gorgeous name. If we had a boy, that was one of our main contenders.

Hadrian

zippety it is a great name, unusual but not daft, and he really suits it as well, he is very dark with a little glint of trouble in his eye 😁

We've got Adrian's on my Jamaican side of family which comes out as Hadrian

We only have one boy and one girls name. Our boys name is Hudson. We both absolutely love it! In some ways I hope we have a boy as I prefer this to our girls name if that makes sense 😂

Lolita

The books just ruined this name for me

Hudson is a fantastic name

Calliope
Persephone
Perdita
Juniper
Winter
Hestia
Manon
Scout
Rowan
Love them all! But was vetoed

DH told everyone who asked whether we were choosing Biblical names that our twins were going to be called Herod and Salome. That would have been brave.

I was tempted by Sebastian and Viola, the twins from Twelfth Night.

Sturm und Drang would have been good names for their first year or two!

Hepzibah

Roald
Aelfred
Percival

We have a double barrelled surname so anything too long/difficult to spell would have felt cruel.

Darwin and Isadora

38 weeks pregnant here and Winter is actually our chosen name if it's a girl. Are we loopy? Slightly worried about the "Winter is Coming" reference but hoping that will be old hat by the time she's grown up enough. Already have a DD with an unusual name - I was one of 5 girls with the same name in my class at school and suppose it's put me off anything in the top 100.

I do so love some of the above suggestions...getting some ideas for myself I think it's a shame people won't use them!! Phaedra is particularly gorgeous.

I also wanted (but got vetoed) Honey for a girl and Bowie for a boy...

Manon I recognise this name as a character but can't remember the book

@IrishPeaches winter is a gorgeous name and was pretty universally liked on a recent Mumsnet thread x

We gave our DDs Hero and Artemis as middle names. I really love both, esp Hero.

I wanted to call DS Zebediah - I mean, Zeb is such a cool name for a little boy, easy to say and spell - but DH said a flat no!

Araminta
Leia
Nell

It's just come to me, manon rebel witch in throne of glass series

Adela - love this but never even suggested it to dh
Agatha
Clothilde
Theodora

Lachlan
Maddox
Augustus
Emrys
Ambrose
Lawrence
Nicholas

Lawrence and Nicholas are normal names but again, even though I like them, I felt they were not fashionable enough to suggest.

I love Octavia and Lyra

@EugeniaGrace what kind of names does your DH like out of interest?

I know a Zillah!

She is a very nice ordinary lady in her 80s and I think she has spent her whole life feeling sadled with a unusual name which she had to explain all the time.

Topaz
Magenta
Amarachi (this is a Nigerian name which I absolutely LOVE but I am literally so white I’m practically transparent. My friend’s daughter is called Amarachi and I’m beyond jealous)

@BelfastNonBlonde I have a Winter- ironically born mid June 😂

@Whatsyourflava

Dh liked girls names in the top 100 and vetoed anything outside of this, except surprisingly, dd1’s middlename which he liked because it was the name of BB King’s guitar.

Boys names, again he wanted to name after football players or musicians, Hugo and Miles were two we agreed on but we had daughters in the end.