A name you like but you feel is unusable

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Stressing the you and the subjectivity.

I quite like Nessie but it's unusable anywhere that speaks English. Possibly even beyond 😂

For boys names I love Basil, Cecil and Cedric but dh was on noway.

DHs favourite name is Eric. I said no immediately, I think of hairy oafish Cantona and couldn't imagine a baby Eric - but it actually has grown on me

Mine is Bruno, love it. Annoyingly everyone always parrots "that's a dog's name" and yet when I ask them how many dogs they've met named Bruno... ZERO. It really winds me up when people regurgitate opinions they've heard without applying actual logic, and it's the sole reason I can't use that name.

Agnes, but pronounced the French way 'ann-yez' is as near as I can come to rendering it. My middle daughter was very very nearly Agnes, but a midwife said 'ooh, Agnes (pronounced the very very English way), lovely', and it changed my mind (this was 32 years ago, before Agnes had its resurgence in popularity. It was still a 'granny' name back then and I couldn't do it).

Now live in Yorkshire, where any name ending in 'y' is pronounced 'eh'. So I had to avoid Emil-eh or Soph-eh as well, which I liked.

Candida
Fleur
Virginia
Fanny (many in France)
Humphrey
Percival
Lancelot
Horatio

It sounds lovely with an English accent It doesn't in many English accents. @BibbityBobbityToo

Hermione.
Alexa.
I just imagine the poor child getting sick to the back teeth of the same remarks day in day out.

Theres nothing wrong with it, I love it! I know nothing about cars I didnt know it was a car type 😅

It's too "out there" and wouldnt match my childrens names, they have quite plain names

Messie Nessie children at school could be chanting.

Prometheus, because of the Ridley Scott film.

Balonze

If the film didn’t exist would you really have considered calling your child Prometheus?

I have a Fox, not an aged hippy or pretentious just loved the name and stuck with it even though family were anti it

Alexa

I really wanted to call DD Serena but feared she’d be anything but serene!!
(she’s not particularly, wonder if she would’ve been had I named her that!!)

Mallory (bad meaning)
Israel (er, obviously!)
Omari (purely because doesn’t suit our heritage at all so might be rather odd! Love it so much though).

Well, it was in the top three. I also seriously considered Beowulf and Aurelius, so I’m obviously beyond the pale for mumsnet! 😂 It would have been fine, though. I don’t live in the UK and there are very diverse and rare names around here.

Delilah. Beautiful name, would be my first pick for a girl but we live near Stoke on Trent.

Isis
I know one who always goes by a nickname.

Madeleine, lovely name and perhaps in another twenty or thirty years…

Isis
Gorgeous name (imo) totally unusable

Tatiana (tatty)

Emmanuelle, so so pretty

She's fast. She's quick. She's in a porno flick.

Wulfstan
Thorfinn
Humphrey
Zebedee
Malcolm
Corin

Tiffany
Sharon
Lisa
Marian
Beryl

Love Rollo. Would've been on our list if it went with our surname!

Ooo love this thread. I have loads!

Edmund (hubby's association with the lion, witch and wrdrobe)
Dicken (for obv reasons)
Galahad
Alora
Ripley (very close to naming DD #2 this)
Ridley
Rogan (Josh) Actually love this for a girl.

I love the name Jezebel for a girl (Jez for short). I think it's a strong and beautiful name. But just imagine the comments.

Even worse, I like Lucifer for a boy. Enough said I think.