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?

I really love the name Lettice!

I really loved this name for DD but had the same reservations as you!

Gogo

Psyche

Arwen

I do know a little boy called Socrates. Hope he grows up to be clever!

I lean towards spice/ herby names:
Saffron
Juniper
Camomile
Coriander
Anise
I also love ancient Roman/Greek names:
Io
Icarus
Phaethon
Calypso

I met lots of Socrates-es in Greece! It's pronounced very differently there, like soh-KRAH-tiss.

Madeleine was top of my girls names list but we feared the McCann connotations are still too strong sadly (appreciate others may disagree) so we went in another direction names wise

Velvet

Lyric

Dorothy - it was my beautiful grandmas name and I adored the film the wizard of oz when I was little, I discovered how much I loved to sing thanks to that movie and it was just my happy place. Unfortunately I think it’s dated now

primrose - my grans favorite flower and I love the nickname Pim, but again feels a bit dated

Caleb - would have absolutely named one of our boys this but a sibling got there first so I now have a nephew who’s caleb

dulcie - loved it and would have been very tempted but I know kids would have called her “dull dulcie” or something mean

harriet- but I don’t like Harry and it was too much of a risk!

Ooh I also loved Clementine - it’s so pretty - but it’s also an orange

Years ago I met someone with a daughter called Fabia. I thought it was lovely, but then it was the name of a popular Skoda car

My DC is 8 and has been friends with a Dottie, a Primrose and a Hattie.

I love the name Mallory but would never use it because of its meaning.

I also love the name Clara but it's a place near where I'm from so couldn't use it.

Leopoldina to be known as Polly

I read it 20+ years ago in a Nancy Mitford book and fell in love with it.

Valentina is on my current list for baby 3, due in about 6 weeks, but am put off for the same reasons!

Also love but couldn’t use:

Priya
Gwendoline
Eleftheria
Suki

When looking through our family tree we have a few ancestors called Septimus, Sep for short.

I really liked it but traditionally it’s used for your seventh son, and that seems like a lot of effort!

Oh please don't bash Shakespeare. He did after all give us Rosalind, Viola, Oliver, Orlando, Sebastian, Celia, Beatrice, Juliet, Jessica, Edmund, Edgar, Miranda, etc etc without anybody flinching at the names. Although I really really have always wondered at people who name a girl child Regan. (Happens more in the States.)

Tayenne

Like cayenne or Taycan (Porsche)

Majella
Claire
Bloom
Floribunda

Pippin
Griffin
Jock
Clancy

@ToffeenutLatte

It hasn't done Ford Kiernan any harm!

Servalan would have made a great middle name.

Atlas.

Never brave enough, but I think it's a great name

Aww I love the name Dorothy, I think traditional names are more popular now anyway so I don't think anyone would think it unusual. You could call her Doro or Dottie for short (Doro is my fave!)

Primrose/Prim makes me think of Katniss' little sister in The Hunger Games. Great name!

It's super cool, but a lot to live up to!