What names do you LOVE but would never use?

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(And I don't mean you wouldn't use because there are close family members etc who have the name. I mean more that you absolutely love, but don't have the balls to use)

Mine is....

Demetrious.

I have known a few in my time and absolutely love the name, but not sure I could do it...

Evadne

Buffy

Ichabod.

October
Autumn
Anna
Isla

Last 2 simply because they are too popular

Both if my DDS names have been mentioned here twice. Dd2 we almost called dd1 that name and didn't because it was too unusual, several years later when dd2 was born I still loved it so went for it.

We almost gave dd2 a second middle name of Melody, Aurora or Autumn and I regret not doing so now. I wish I'd given them both one of those as a middle name because I still love them and won't get to use them.

A name I love but wouldn't have used is Winter. A girl in dd1s gymnastics class was called it and I loved it so much, I was always a bit jealous of her mum for having had the guts to go for it.

For a boy I would have liked Loki, but what put me off was the fear he'd live up to the name and be a handful.

Velvet
Charity
Virginia

Lyric

Caspar, but only because it pretty much rhymes with DH's surname

Ziggy

My imaginery children would be called:

Xanthe (would have used but I only had boys)
Hero
Ramona
Indigo
Ocean
Troy
Augustus
Octavia

I like the sound o makes in names so favour those names already.

Girls:
Pixie
Tallulah

Boys:
Hendrix
Phoenix
Casper
Felix
Dexter

Dora 💜

St John. Mainly because I only know the pronunciation (and the name itself) from Mad Men, so I would presume quite a few people wouldn't know it either, and also that character had a grim end. I do love it though.

Augusta
Hortensia
Primrose
Lucretia
Lavinia

Augustus
Horatio

And a bunch of others that would be appropriation or close to.

Maureen

Madeleine - me and DH both adore the name, but we’d feel a bit funny about using it :( daft, we know!

Also Ekaterina. I love that name but I don’t think a couple from Yorkshire could present a baby Ekaterina and not get more than a few odd looks.

Love this thread. I have a Lilith, Lucian and Persephone - now expecting DC4 so need another one! Contemplating whether or not we are brave enough to go for Coco Valentine this time....

River wren I love it 🥰 however I have a surname that wouldn’t work x

Alethea.

Absolutely love it but Aletheas I know have a lot of problems with people not knowing how to pronounce or spell it, or confusing it with Alicia (which, oddly, I hate).