Those names you wouldn't use...

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...but really want to!

I was joking to a friend I might use the names Raisin and Wooster. Those are obviously total joke names but it made me wonder something. What names do you secretly like but don't have a thick enough skin to use or don't wish to 'inflict" it on a child? All subjective of course.

Mine:
Hortensia (love this!)
Augustus
Lucretia
Lavinia
Antigone
Amadeus
Wulfric
Claus (maybe if I move i could use this lol)
Hedwig
Virginia (the whole virginity as a virtue thing is ghastly)
Bláithín (I got told this is old-fashioned and I am distinctly un-Irish)

Callula
Hadassah
Ripley (I re watched the Alien films while pregnant and got a bit too into it)

Iolaus
Mirek
Moses

Antigone is great! She could be Tig for short.

I loved Pepper for a girl, but the pig put me off

Berengaria
Bathsheba
Bithiah
Hodierna
Elfrith
Tirzah
Eurydice
Euphrosyne
Sunniva

Artaxerxes
Athelstan
Hezekiah
Elric
Dunstan
Anselm
nebuchadnezzar
Felix
Tancred

Oh and
Daffodil
Primrose
Cherry
Sakura

Saugacia
Elefteria

Romeo
Valentine

Thor

I really wanted to name DS this as it was my Great-Grandfather's name. However the Marvel movies came out a couple of years later so it's probably a good job we went for something more traditional. People would assumed DS had a brother called Hulk or something...

I love the name Michael but I can't use it for DS2.
It turns out I called DS1 the name my parents had wanted to call me if I was a boy. Michael is what they would have called DSis.

It would just be too weird.

Isambard
Matthias - no German connection whatsoever
Wolfgang - as above

When I was an early teenager, I planned on having id twin girls called Jezebel & Cassandra. It was only later that I found out what the names meant or were associated with.

I thought of something yesterday, but forgotten what it was now 🤔 goes off to ponder....

Rufus for a boy

Horatia for a girl

My child's name always appears on these lists😂 makes me love it more!

One I loved but would never use is Thomasina...

I would've liked to name DS1 Julian but everyone I knew said it was awful

I love Evangeline, but DH is a strong no

I love Mateo, inspiration from Jane the Virgin on Netflix... I love it 😂
They're Spanish and me and my partner are super pale with blonde hair, it just doesn't suit 😂

Lilith for a girl and Peregrine for a boy (nn Perry obvs!)

Girl - Linnet (lovely but would be massacred in my local accent)
Boy - Sorensen

Ajax
Uriah
Jarlath
Naoishe

Comfort
Heavenly
Blessing
Patience
Samantha (such a lovely name)

Zebedee

Zebediah!

Adding:
Venus
Vesta
Aishwarya
Constantine
Saffron

Augusta
Maude
Gilbert
Lucien

Leilani, Phaedra, Fawn
Joby, Ptolemy

Moses is often used in the Jewish community. Often as Moshe or Moishe.

Spike!