Names you LOVE but would never choose...

[poppymango]

For example:

A name associated with a famous celebrity

Something gorgeous but very obviously from a movie/book franchise

Something that sounds way too posh (or not!)

Etc.

I loved the name Merida (from the movie Brave) and was very disappointed to learn that it's not actually a real Scottish name at all! Naming your daughter after a Disney princess seems like something you may regret.

I also saw a TV show once with a character called Persephone, Percy for short. I love it but we are in no way posh enough to pull it off. Sigh.

What are yours?

Oooh good thread

Elvis
Clarence
Quentin
Zeus
Thor
Everest
Lionel
Lysander

Xanthe
Olympia
Titania
Pixie
Pollyanna
Marigold
Clover
Coco
Luella

Renée - for some reason I think it is the sexiest woman's name.

I really loved Hugo

Owen Roe.

Cassandra.

Galen
Zeno

Xanthe and Seraphina for girls, and Torin for a boy. All on the shortlist, but ultimately couldn't see us pulling them off!

Seth (DS HATED it)
Thor (this is actually a family name, believe it or not.)
Jesse

Wren
Juno
Hero
Camille
Hermione

Nicole Kidman has a daughter named Sunday Rose and I think that’s so beautiful.

Loveday

I love it but I know most people think it a bit ridiculous. Many don’t know about its Cornish roots and think it’s just made-up.

I wouldn’t do that to my child.

I also really like Camilla but not the Parker-Bowles association.

This is interesting! Some names have popped up a few times.

Maybe we should all start going with what we love and normalise having little ones called Juno, Xanthe, and Lysander running around 😀

Atticus- DH was not to be convinced so lucky we had a girl!!

There's an old Swedish name that I came across when looking for names for our baby (DH is Swedish).

Torbjörn.

Translates as Thor-Bear or Thunder-Bear. Amazing. Love it. Would absolutely never ina million years burden an actual child with it.

I wish I had more choice when naming my DD (I was under a GA when she was born and her dad took over naming her). She got two horribly conventional names that are quite, meh. (There's a whole story to this which I won't bore anyone with)

I like Genevieve (Gennie) or as pp said Minerva (goddess of war and wisdom, Minnie).

I also like Kali who is the Hindu goddess of chaos 😂. I will probably name my next pet Kali to compensate. 😂 I saw a statue of her once in the British Museum and thought she was a badass.

I'm soft on names that are from the ancient world in general, actually.

I think Juno has become normalized, I know a few!

When I was pg with Ds I really wanted to call him Lucifer at one point, probably hormones, but luckily DH talked me out of it.
DS says he actually would have quite liked it

Jezebel.

love it.

Anwen
Theodora
Tanaquil (friends said it sounded like an antidepressant brand name)
Millicent
Artemis
Georgiana
Plum (I know)

Kind of regret not using Anwen…

It spells Anal backwards

I also love felix, but apparently that’s for cats only

My son is a Felix who is 17 now and it has hardly come up at all, just occasionally since he was a kitten child.

I adore the name Valentina but it’s too frilly for DH and also the nn of Val or Tina are so far away from the feeling of the full name.

Apart from Elvis or Titiana, most of these are not that unusual?

We actually have a Quentin and a Coco (nickname) in the family.

Ok, maybe Zeus is a little unusual actually!

I wanted Esmerelda but partner said no so ended up with Esme instead.

You’d have to be a very strong character to pull off Zeus!

Yeah I know, but they’re beyond my personal braveness threshold 😅 personally I’d love if I met a kid with those names but know they’re very marmite.

You could've had Attica! Really nice name.

There’s a Serephina at the school I work at. She’s known as Fifi.