Names you adored but went off

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What are yours?

Mine:
Seth
Sebastian
Hepzibah
Adelaide

Niall
Joel

Robyn
Ciar (Irish)Went off it in hospital when I met a new mum who had called her daughter Kia and said she’d found it on a champagne bottle.

Rosie - Had one in my class. Enough said.

Sasha
Mia
Riley
Fergus
Darragh (haven't gone off just a family name)
Daisy(ditto)
Marlon
Frankie (loved but too common)
Billie(ditto)
Ryan(also a family name)
Evie (also a family name)

Arthur. It was my grandads name and I like the King Arthur association but as there are now 9 quintillion boys called Arthur everywhere I've gone off it.

Same! @Unseeliequeen

James
Esther
Reuben
Penelope
Heather
Niall
Iris

I better not identify them, but I had several names I quite liked before I had my dc, but then just couldn't use them as they reminded me of particular pupils.

Violet. It seemed really popular around 2010 but it seems to have had its day already (not that I’ve checked the official stats - I could be wrong!)

Isaac, I know of 4 born to various friends around the same time DD was born.

Abigail, Eleanor and Sapphire/Sophia from days working in a school

Hera
Isla

Theo
Noah

Just because they all became really really common when My Dcs were born. I still like Hera, but think it would be hard to carry off.

Sophia - too popular
Ava - too popular
Isabella - too popular
Harry - too popular
Lucas - too popular
Harvey - Harvey Weinstein association
Maxwell - Ghislaine Maxwell association (we were so close to calling DS1 Maxwell 😲)
Theodora - I really loved it as a full name for Thea, then suddenly realised it was very clunky and Thea was better on its own

Alexa - Amazon
Storm - My love for it just ran its course
Ophelia - paedoph*lia
Rosamund- my accent makes the mund part so ugly sounding

Bronwen
Courtney
Louise

@FallingOffTheBed I don't think I've heard of any little Heras that!

yeah- no, Hera not so common, the others though. I just went off Hera. I was a very long way from being clear in my post and mixed them all together.

I know of only one Hera. Oddly enough since talking about it again it is gowing on me again!

Caroline. Met a really horrible one and that was that.

Astrid - As soon as someone said it sounded like Ass turd that's all I hear
Saskia - popular water brand in Germany

Isla - it has become way too popular and I'd worry DD would meet Mr White/Wight, Mr Mann or Mr Sheppy and she'd become Mrs Isla White etc.

Lily - absolutely adored this 25 years ago when naming fantasy children. Still think it's very pretty but here are so many of them.

Clover - I made the error of telling people who immediately said butter/cow

Sapphire

Leo - Tony Blair named his son Leo, so. I thought it would become popular

Charlotte - lived due to Charlotte web books, and fairly Uncommon growing up. Then became popular.

Conversely, didn’t choose Dylan because thought it was too old fashioned. Then Catherine Zeta Jones (Douglas) named her child Dylan, and now considered modern.

India, loved it but it just sounds really pretentious now

Theo. Our pfb would have been Theo had she been a boy.

By the time our second child came along, just over 2.5 years later, I'd completely gone off it and he got a different name that we plucked out of the air about a week before he was born (we didn't know he was a boy at that stage).

OMG! I had Hepzibar too!!
And Willow.

Also, for my pfb it was always going to be Mary for a girl. I'm not Irish or Catholic but I just love this name. Unfortunately I then had long and protracted dealings with a woman called Mary (my neighbour) involving court and all sorts and she is the only human I've known in real life I truly hated. So that name was out the window for pfb years before she was born.

Dominic (dodged a bullet there, but I decided I didn’t like it long before Mr Cummings showed himself to be a total wankbadger)