Do you have an bizarre favourite name?

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My absolute favourite name for a girl is Story. Absolutely love, love, love it. I just know I could never use it in the first name spot for obvious reasons. I was just wondering if anyone else has a favourite name they’ll never use?

Enfys

Bluebell - it’s so wholesome and fresh but maybe a bit too wordy as a wearable floral name
Maple - its really sweet and I think it would make a great name for an autumn baby but in real life i feel people would ask “what, Maple like the syrup?”

Fox - I wanted to give this as a middle name for DS2 but DH vetoed it, which in hindsight was a good thing as it was the same time Lawrence Fox started to become a known knobhead😆
Ayrton - DH vetoed this one too and said it was too out there and too associated with Ayrton Senna’s untimely death
Taika - as it’s a Maori name I suppose it would be cultural appropriation to use it if I’m White British? Even if I really love Taika Waititi and his films?

Lemuel and Demelza. Not loved by either dh.

Ingenue - nn Gen. I know it's not really a "name", but I love the sound of the word (especially when pronounced properly with a French accent) - it makes me think of an old school Hollywood actress/character. I don't think I'd be brave enough to even use it as a middle name though!

I have a Raphael @Sandgrown1970

It's not even slightly bizarre!

I know a Bluebell, she's 12 this year.
I love December and Calico. Wouldn't use either unless I get another dog!

I absolutely love Taliesin but dh vetoed and I'm not sure whether I would have had the courage anyway.
I really like Sage but wouldn't use it.

@ShowOfHands

I have a Raphael *@Sandgrown1970*

It's not even slightly bizarre!

Here in Blackpool when I was having my children, it definitely would have been thought as “out there” unless from an Italian background. I appreciate it’s different depending on where you are from and what kind of background.

Lakme' I always loved it. Dh was a firm no.

Always loved the names Regitze & Benedicte for girls Ulrich for a boy but I ended up living in the UK where they either can not be pronounced well or are so commonly used as a boys name the last E sound doesn't get heard and as someone with a unisex name and always hated it I wasn't putting that on my child.

I love Reginald and Horatio too less unusual and out there but very out of fashion. & firmly on dhs NO list

I like Sunday and January.

I went to school with a January and she was really cool!

@NeverTrustaRabbit Comso sounds like a bad IT support company! Joking! I'm sure you mean Cosmo x

Ooh, I also love Eerika, which I don’t think of as bizarre, just Scandinavian, but other people would I’m sure (at least in the uk).

Thor.

@Fedupwithpeople of course I do.....or do I? 😂😂😂

I wanted Vivaldi as my daughters middle name. we listened to a lit of the 4 seasons when I was pregnant.

I love Phoenix, more for a boy than girl, but would never use it as I think it sounds too try-hard.

Lysander (DH vetoed it)
Silver (for a girl - again DH vetoed it)

O and Tigerlily for a girl I absolutely love but don’t think I’m brave enough to ever use it

I am strangely drawn to the name Mehetable. It was the name of one of my long-ago ancestors, a member of the groups of early America settlers in the Massachusetts area of the US.

It means gift from God.

Wildeve

Oh the joy of being born in the 60s...we had some cracking names in school / uni, born of the free love generation.

Quite a few up thread appeared, including Dorcas, Fox, Devon (female), Autumn, Sorrel (and we had a Candida).

Also knew of a Paxton (colleague’s brother) and a Maxwell.

Calliope.

These were all vetoed by DH for our baby due in a few months
Bathsheba
Hepzibah
Birdie, also suggested Bridie when this was considered a bit too unusual but that was also a no
Beryl
Boudicca

Thinking about it, maybe I just like names starting with B

Apollinaire (Apollo for short) is probably one of my favourite names, but for some reason I just didn’t “feel it” when pregnant with my son.

I love Atticus, Persephone, Greta (Thunberg has made this name awesome IMO) and lots of others people have listed here that are a bit archaic or mythological.

I hate mousy sounding or whimsical girls names though, particularly all those ending in ‘EE’ sounds. I realise this is contradictory as I like Persephone, but what I dislike is the super common Evie, Ellie, Millie, Molly, Mandy, Maisie etc. I’m a teacher and individually I don’t dislike these names but after reading out a class full of girls names mostly ending in ‘ee’ I distinctly dislike them.

Is Silvia due a comeback? Sylvie, Sylvia?

Knocked off my list by sister and mother...

Sasha
Mungo
Gaylord (French pronunciation, so Gay- lore with a rolled 'r'.
Étienne
Pearl
Polly
Margaux