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...

Athena
Attica
Odette

Alastair
Archie
Conrad

Psyche

Atlas
McKinley
Calliope (Callie for short)

Seraphina, although DD has a very similar name to this which sometimes appears on these type of threads.

Loveday

@bridgetreilly and @2tired2bewitty - Hephzibah is an absolutely beautiful name and I would use it in a flash if I had a daughter

Precious always loved it.

Carnelian, Orion, Rosalia, and Sayulita.

@Beekeeper1, then I shall hope you do have a daughter!

Maximilliano. That's 6 sylables! It was the name of a boy in my son's class. I think it's a fantastic name, alas we are neither grand enough nor exotic enough to use it.

Ariadne
Clementine
Lucifer

And Tom, because combined with our surname it all goes a bit Neville Neville

Wow, lots of great normal names that should have been used imo!

I particularly like Clementine, Athena, Conrad, Orlando, Alistair. I wonder why some people feel the need for bravery to use them? I love them.

Laszlo - with zero Hungarian links this would be startlingly unexpected but have always loved this name and some other middle European names.

I have a cousin Demetria / Demi

I love Tigerlilly, Clementine and Florence.
I really like Sebastian too and it seems to be becoming more common, we have two in my school now whereas growing up it seemed very posh

Ocean, Melody, Annabelle, Jude,

Leopold

Willow. Have loved it since Buffy but tbh DH and I both went through a porky phase around the age of 10 (both the type to grow ‘out’ then ‘up’, even if we were both totally normal height/weight by 15) and I just think it’s too much of a risk that any DD will follow us. Chubby pre-teen Willow just feels a bit mean

Anemone
Narcissa

Clementine and Rafferty. Although seriously considering Clementine for my little girl, just need to be brave!

Cornelius

Caspian
Maxim
Willem
Rowena (I think you have to be quite stately to pull off being a Rowena, otherwise it goes a bit purple scarves hedge witch)
Theodora (I don’t like Dora so seems unkind to insist on full name)
Dorothea
Georgiana pronounces Jor-jay-na

Yes, Dorothea!

Also Amos & Roberta, Linus & Ramone (latter for a girl)

@stargazer87 go for it, looking at this list if we had all been brave Clementine would be a hughly popular / common name so people must like it.

I also like Theodore / Theodosia

@HPandTheNeverEndingBedtime It's funny, there's always quite a lot of posts on here about the name Clementine but then I never hear of anyone actually using it and I always wonder why?! I'm expecting my first little girl and really want to use it just not sure what's holding me back??

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