Names you love but could never use

[NicotineRushh]

Hey everyone!

Currently in the hoping and praying stage of babies, but can't stop thinking of names. I have thrown a few out there to my husband who has vetoed them all! I did get him to agree to Ezra though.

Just wondering what names everyone loves but would/could never use. Here are mine

Nyx (boy)
Lyra
Ember
Ezekiel
Raphael (Raffy for short!)
Rhys
Rowan (boy, husband's name so definite no go)

Just for fun :)

Ophelia (I'll feel ya") because my surname could rhyme with something rude and possibly Hugh ("huge") for the same reason - annoying because I love both.

Other ancient names like Cassiopeia and Apollo I love but couldn't use because I'm not brave enough!

I love really grand names like Amadeus and Arcadius, River is my guilty pleasure for either gender, and I love the really beautiful girly names like Avianna, Rosabella, Sibella and Emiliana for girls. No more babies for us though and our existing children's names are on a completely different track to these!

I love Horatio ( think Mary Portass has a boy named this )
That’s about it for me .

Ajinkya for a boy - Sanskrit name meaning "invincible" and also the name of a cricketer on the India team, Ajinkya Rahane. Hubby is Indian and I've spent a lot of time in India. We both love the name but worried it's too hard to pronounce in the UK and could lead to the kidlet getting picked on at school.
@NicotineRushh I think Raphael is actually pretty cool! You could totally get away with that :)

Matilda, DH doesn't like it but I love it as Tilly for short.
Aria

I've always liked:

Pandora
Athena
Antigone
Hero
Demelza
Luciana
Raoul
Gustav
Lysander
Antonio
Conrad

None of which would remotely go with the name of DS and his brothers, even if I had the ability and means to have another child!

Patsy

Ariadne. I love it but I have a strong Yorkshire accent. And neither of mine or DP’s surnames work with that name. Mostly the accent problem though

Constantijn

Matilda. Both DH and i love it more than anything, but his name rhymes with Matt/Mattie and my name rhymes with Tilly, and we're Australian, so it's an automatic veto.

Posy
Luna
Alba

Caspian. But when DS appeared he just didn't look like one. I think if we had used it, i would have gotten a lot of raised eyebrows.

We loved Raphael, too but went with another angel name.

For a girl I loved Daliana and Amara...again, don't know if i would have used them due to people's reactions.

I could never use Elisa, I'm a scientist and ELISA stands from Enzyme Linked Immunosorbant Assay. I have long discussions about ELISAs at work.

@JaninaDuszejko, is that how the Elisa Lam conspiracy relating to the spread of TB on skid row came about?

I love :
Valentina/ Valentine
Cassandra
Xanthia
Johara

Could really use them all but my DP would veto them for sure

Oh and Araminta

Love a fancy name!

Celestina

Santiago
Axel

Penelope and Cassius

My children are adults, but at the time Holly, because they would have been Holly Wood.

Octavia

A name I always thought was beautiful as a teenager was Isis.

I mean, I know as the list of their crimes go, ruining a name isn’t exactly top, but still!

Aspasia

Rupert (but I wasn’t giving birth to a bear).

Estelle. Palestrina. Possibly together