Names which were just too brave

[jemillyp]

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

Wednesday but alas both of mine were born on a Monday which doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

Juno, still love this name but we chose a different one for dd2

Veda - love love love this one still but Dh is a star wars fan and wouldn’t let me as he didn’t want people to think he had named her for after Darth Vader. I was thinking more My Girl.

Everyone i spoke to wasn’t keen on the name we chose for dd2. It’s not an unusual name by any means but not commonly in use too much but I’m glad we stuck to our guns as she suits her name so well and I still love it.

I wonder if kids ever don't suit their names though, or whether everyone grows into there's. Exception are names where's there's a really obvious physical or personality link - Patience, Atlas etc.

All three DS have not top 100 names, am their names suit them. I'm sure if we'd picked Balthazar and Thaddeus they'd have suited them, just like they suit their names now

I love Brianna but I couldn’t get past the fact it’s got Brian in it to use it.

Isambard
Ephraim
Ambrose
Lemuel

Gaius

I liked Ophelia and Persephone, but wondered if they sounded like you'd need to be quite aristocratic/ made in Chelsea to pull them off. There's no room for a pony in my garden!

Girl - Isolde
Boy - Jethro

Ocean
Winter
Artemis
Atalanta

Romeo
Achilles
Paris
Lucifer
Apollo
Hector

I love the names Paris and Lucifer for a boy, but these days Paris seems to be a girls name and Lucifer I couldn't use for obvious reasons.

@Wondermule I have a daughter called Brooke whose under 10.

Montagu

Constantijn

I'm currently pregnant now and I've seriously fallen in love with the name Sunny for another little girl. ☀️

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?

@VegetarianDeathCult please let it be Balthazar, I adore it but we wimped out. We had Castiel so didn't exactly go safe instead but still, I'm a bit regretful we don't have a toddler Zar

We used Gabriel and Raphael as second names. Never occurred to me they were 'brave' names. One of the first names we used, I found out was brave with the reactions we got to it.

@VegetarianDeathCult.

[quote Starsandglitter]@VegetarianDeathCult. [/quote]
With GAbriel and THeodore on the lists, i doubt Vegetarian is the only one

Lucifer.
DS 12 says he really wishes DH hadn’t vetoed it

@Hoppinggreen

Lucifer. DS 12 says he really wishes DH hadn’t vetoed it

i think its a beautiful name, i wish we'd gone for Lucien as a compromise

I love Tuesday and Pearl

We had Rudi picked for a boy.

Quiet a few of these names I know people with children of the name

[quote Caszekey]@VegetarianDeathCult please let it be Balthazar, I adore it but we wimped out. We had Castiel so didn't exactly go safe instead but still, I'm a bit regretful we don't have a toddler Zar[/quote]
No, but I actually think it's kind of appealing.

[quote Starsandglitter]@VegetarianDeathCult. [/quote]
??

I like Laureline but I'm worried it sounds too over the top. I still like it and wouldn't totally rule it out.

I also like names that wouldn't work with two Scottish parents and a Scottish surname. Names like Raphael or Leonardo.

Clover
Jezebel
Xavier
Dante

Lilith
Prudence

Really loved Vivacia and Keziah, but I’m so so glad I went with Shoshanna ❤️