Names which were just too brave

[jemillyp]

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

Orlando
Valentino
Persephone
Indigo
Seraphine
Broderick

Peregrine - I do love that name

Winter and Cressida, we’re definitely not posh enough for Cressida but I love it.

Luckily we had a boy!

I loved the name Wednesday (I still do) if DD had been born on a Wednesday I might have gone for it

There's a Persephone in my DS1s class and she's great

Persephone
Temperance
Hero (we both loved this!)

@jemillyp DD's friend was named Isis. Her parents changed her name to Iris. (DD is 14, so obvs this was pre and post events)

@Zarinea

Saffron. Suggested by DH who never watched AbFab.

Saffron is my sisters name. I've never met another.

Boniface?

(It was the name my brother chose for his confirmation. Lots of saints called Boniface.)

We have a Juno. Suits her very well.

I know a Balthazar and a Pandora.

I do live Hero for a girl but DP vetoed

Brie makes me think of Desperate Housewives more than the cheese tbh.

Oh I know a Boudicca too!

DH really pushed for Indiana with both of our boys. I thought he was preposterous and was having none of it.
However... I actually quite like it now! For a boy or girl. Indy for short. Although it would sound stupid with our surname. I’m going to have to get a cat and call it Indiana now.

Gloria and Queenie

Still love them both.

Horatio and Isambard for boys.

Valentina Pearl

@FlosCampi

Tybalt Allegra

Absolutely love Allegra

River
Genevieve

What does everyone think of Brooke? Too 2000s?

Yes we know an isis...

We have 'heard' of a Tiberius

And we know a Horatio...

I really liked Melisande. This was long before Melisandre on GoT. Glad I had a boy...

Vivienne, Magdalene, Adeline. Love them all but I think family members would have teased us because they are foreign names. But still, I love the name we did choose.

Aphrodite
Oakley
Andromeda
Cairn