Names which were just too brave

[jemillyp]

Hi!
What names did you love but just weren't brave enough to use?

[Cindie943811A]

Orlando
Rupert
I think it would be great to name boy twins Roland and Orlando. The names don’t sound too similar
For a girl
Aphra
Artemis
Hero
Gaia
Damaris

[WyncyG]

Stella.

[FedNlanders]

Oh also really would like to use Loveday

[FedNlanders]

Valentine.

Our childhood cat was Isis

[Warrickdaviesasplates]

Oh and Wednesday has been on my list for every baby but so far I've not had a girl born on a Wednesday! It's back on the list for this baby though.

[Warrickdaviesasplates]

I've seen a few of the names from my list I'm considering for DC3 here.

I allowed DH to have a say and play it safe with DDs name and I so wish I hadn't. I wanted to call her either Coco, Pixie or Rebel.

Luckily I got my way with DSs name.

With DC3 I'd love to call them Ragnar, but not sure if that's too brave so my second choice is either River or Heath, so still not top 10 but maybe a bit less "out there"

[Ihoeihoeihoe]

@WingingIt101 my son is called Maverick. Haven’t met another yet but liked that although unusual as he grows he could be Mav, Rick, Ricky etc if he ended up hating his name!

I loved Walter but hated Walt
Henrik, Axel, Ozzy, Otto

[bananamonkey]

Esmerelda
Tuesday
Ingrid

[SwayingInTime]

Suki
Tove

[JayAlfredPrufrock]

But Scout wasn’t Scout.

[JayAlfredPrufrock]

October
Electra

[Chicchicchicchiclana]

Barbara, Daphne, Dorothy, Sheherazade.

Who knows, if 2nd dc had been a girl I would probably have gone with one of those.

[FTMF30]

Elektra

[mamablondie33]

@Knitterbabe I know!

[paulhollywoodshairgel]

Theon
Ffion
Evangeline
Constanza

[Catwoman123]

Adonis

[zingally]

A lady I occasionally watch on Youtube as 4 kids. Elvis, Sandy, Scout and Kovax. One of those American earth-mother vegan types from Hawaii! Completely bonkers of course.

Someone else I watched years ago had a son named Banjo...

[Knitterbabe]

Indigo is beautiful.
Adriel (Adie) for a boy
Wolfsbane
Sugar

[mamablondie33]

Indigo. I just really love it but wasn’t brave enough, and it’s so silly really when you think there are so many ‘colour’ names around (Amber etc)

[frogsbreath]

Lucien. Didn't get anything near it 😄 never mind.

[rawalpindithelabrador]

Texa. It's a place, btw.

[TabbyPlain]

Scout from To Kill a Mocking Bird. I wish I had but my daughter said she is thankful I didn't

[Caszekey]

I have to say having a less than common name has worked for us. DS has spent a lot of time in and out of hospital. Call PAU L, only ever needed first name, everyone remembered who he was. Had an op at 13 days. Readmitted at 10 months, DR said "I heard the name X and I thought I only know one of those, I hope it isn't our X but it is". It sticks in people's head. Maybe he'll resent that, esp with two brothers with quote uncommon names too, they'll never blend into the name background.

I currently think the kid is destined for stage or screen 🤣🤣🤣🤣 so he shouldn't struggle getting an equity card in his name.

[RedToothBrush]

@VegetarianDeathCult

DS's name is on this thread more than once. I can honestly say I never considered not calling him it or any other names we considered simply because it was unusual. There were fewer than three (or is it two?) in his year of birth, whatever minimum number means they don't give an actual number in the ONS stats.

The whole 'Is this too try-hard/'chavvy'?' debate which seems to animate the Baby Names forum is foreign to me, and often seems to be populated by people who are either very young, or have not psychologically moved much past their schooldays ('You can't give your daughter the initials DD! Suppose she grows up to be large-chested?' 'You can't call her Orla -- it sounds like 'Oral'!') or who just sound a bit psychologically limited ('Ophelia reminds me of paedophilia!')

I have in the past wondered whether there's a correlation between the large numbers of people on Mn who say they struggle with friendships and are isolated and lonely, and the conservatism on the Baby Names threads, where there seems to be an agreed 'acceptable field' of about twenty names, before you stray into either 'chavvy'/downmarket or 'try-hard'/pretentious. Is it some kind of desire to keep your head down, or to imagine your child struggling with friendships if you did?

I do wonder about the psychology of names.

We gave DS a name that makes many on this thread sound tame.

I have never fitted in. DH never has. We figure DS was always doomed to be the same. We are both bonkers. Our family history is littered with generations of non-conformists and rebels. The idea of trying to conform and fit in with name choices was always a route we were never going to go down. We wanted to give a name that meant something to us. DS suits his name down to the ground. Any one who knows him or us knows its bang on.

DH fancied Loki or Apollo though. Even I thought that was taking it too far.

I also think that Ophelia is problematic in a way that takes it too far as well. Oh-feel-her.

[SleepingStandingUp]

@ShrimpSymphonyofSeasonalSongs

Lilith
Prudence

Lilith is No1 on my list of I magically concieve a daughter after dumping DH. He vetoed it on principle of its origins.