What names do you love but wouldn't use

[inmyslippers]

I went for a very safe name for my son. But looking at him now he could pull off Rio which his dad wanted to call him. There were others I loved but felt unfair to saddle a child with

Shilo
Hudon
Shay
Franklyn
Carter
Lorenzo (we have strong northern accents and it would sound ridiculous)
Carey - due a come back
Tate
Ira
Silas

Thiago, no idea why but I absolutely love this name!

Artair - loved it, thought he’d forever be spelling it out, plus it’s a bit pretentious

Ottilie - so pretty but every third girl since 2014 has been called this so it’s a bit overdone

I love Clementine.

Mirren. Sounds daft with my surname, but I do like it.

Tate and Franklyn are cool

Evan. Reminds me of a wonderful friend. Sadly it's also part of my ex-husbands surname, so definitely not for my future son!

Lolita
Sonny

I battled with my love for Ira but it just wouldn't work

I have a chicken called Ottilie! And also Clarabel (which I love).

My names which I love but didn’t use are Heddy, Gretel, and Clotilde. More chickens I suppose.

Swithun

Ebony
Cindy
Whitney

I love some of these. Thiago sounds very sauve. Lolita has been ruined now hasn't it? Shame as it's a lovely name.

How do you pronounce swithun?

Carenza.

I had a boy . Then the menopause....

Judy - I'm not brave enough

Marigold (nickname Goldie) - husband said everyone would just think of rubber gloves and I didn’t want that! Still absolutely love it though!

My friend’s husband is called Thiago, they’re from South America though.

Lolita is not a lovely name, even without the obvious connotation, it means ‘sorrows’.

Silas brings back memories of the kids TV show from the 1980s or the serial killer in ‘Hollyoaks’.

Mordecai, zero Jewish heritage but I really love the way it sounds

Elsa

I was pregnant with my daughter in 2013 and wanted to call her Elsa. DH vetoed it because his childhood friend's dog was called Elsa. Frozen came out later that year. I think I owe DH for saving DD from that connotation!

No, Lolita itself doesn't mean sorrows. It can be a diminutive of Dolores, which does mean sorrows or pains.

Too loaded to use though for an actual child though. Plenty of little Lolas around (which I do quite like but always think of The Kinks song)

@WildCherryBlossom

No, Lolita itself doesn't mean sorrows. It can be a diminutive of Dolores, which does mean sorrows or pains.

Too loaded to use though for an actual child though. Plenty of little Lolas around (which I do quite like but always think of The Kinks song)

That’ll teach me to rely on Wikipedia . I also know of a few toddler Lolas…but also lots of dogs named Lola so I’d never personally use it for a person.

Tarquin.

I genuinely really like the name but could never get away with it.

Yes I think I know an equal number of dogs to little girls with the name Lola 😄

I think Judy could come back. There's got to be some edgy hipsters out there trying to find uncommon vintage names

During one of my pregnancies I was slightly obsessed with boys names ending in an O sound - particularly Sholto, Rosco, Cosmo and the now relatively popular Milo and Arlo. DH vetoed each and every one of them one by one and that baby turned out to be a girl anyway.

I still love Sholto even without the pregnancy hormones so I'm hanging onto it for potential future pets.

(I love PPs chicken line up - I want to meet a hen called Clotilde!!!)