What name do you secretly love but would never use for your child?

[CuppaTeaJanice]

For me it's Silas - it reminds me of the adventure programmes I used to watch as a kid. I think one of my first crushes must have been on a character called Silas.

I did suggest it for DS1 (vetoed by DP), but thinking about it I wouldn't want to call my son Silas and I can't really explain why.

Does anybody else have a name that they wouldn't use, but really like nonetheless...?

Oscar
Felix
Devon
Sebastian
Miles
Milo

Dh said a big no to all of them.

Girls names;
Ophelia, well Ophelia Rose actually
Araminta
Pruedence/Prue (I love that shortening)
Macy

Tigerlily!

I have a Tabitha who we call Topsy, so I seem to have used two unusable names in one!

I like Tansy, Amity, Clemency, Felix, Dashiel, Archie and Rudy, all vetoed by DH.

I love Stanley but didn't have the guts to use it as a first name.

We have just decided to name our new baby boy George Stanley!

Really wanted to call DD Merrily Morley but nobody would let me. Merrily is a favourite book character and Morley is a (male) family name.

As you can see we were brave enough to go with Jesse for our son! We still love it and have no regrets. He's a bruiser too, so I don't think he'll get too much teasing...
I love Blossom and Loulou for a girl, or Nate and Laine for boys.. Really love Noah but DH won't budge on that. Went through a phase of liking Kelly for a boy, but I thing that was more for Jesse, so his brother would have a girls name too!
We have a DD called Ellie, which at the time was quite unusual, but now not so much. I'm not sure I want more, but this has been fun!

my gorgeous sons are Noah and Leo. they are as cute as their names! if i had girls i liked maude and poppy

Sorrell. I know, it's a bit hippy dippy but I secretly like it.

Scout (boy)
Ace (girl) - so we just have dd's initials as ACE and she has this nickname
Casey (boy or girl)

Abraham....but DH said NO NO NO

florrybunda, my friend Penelope (Penny) was called Tuppence as a nickname by my dad - I would never have imagined it being used as a real name, but it is lovely!

Sonny for a boy
Honey for a girl

Evangeline-I think it's beautiful but doubt I would saddle a child with such a mouthful!

Loved Gabriel for a boy, also Frank. DH vetoed both and we had 2 girls!

I have a theory that the names we really want to use are often give as middle names intead. My girls have Veronica and Frances as middle names, both of which I love and sometimes wish I'd had the b*s to use as first names!

I love Evangeline too but can't quite convince dh.

My DDs name is Scarlett, is it really that of the wall!??

Joyce - unfortunately out voted for all children.

Angrypixie - I love Gabriel but we're atheists so DH thought it would be a bit odd having such a biblical name. I also love Benedict, but DH didn't and yes, there seems to be a bit of pisstake potential

When I was a child I wanted more than anything to be called Demelza (instead of Katherine) - Cornish family and a bizarre Poldark obsession (I can't have been more than 7 at the time)

I knew a Demelza at school!
Milf I don't think Scarlett's at all unusual these days. It's Top 100 isn't it?

araminta

Astrid for a girl, but the possible shortening is not cool
Ennis for a boy, but a magnet for playground piss-taking as it's the central character in Brokeback Mountain

DS is Seymour - last in the American top 1000 names in the 1940s!

For a girl, I liked Aurora, Star, Heaven or Angel. Anything celestial really.

Liked Kane (Kah-nay) as a middle name, as it means something in gaelic, welsh and japanese.

DD was going to be Saoirse, but all S-names were out due to surname issues.

For a boy - Cash. Really wanted TJ Cash (Thomas John). Would also like him named after my brothers - Andrew Mark Nigel David Paul. But it would make form-filling-in a pain.

So had to settle for Aoibha

Jethro (for a boy of course!)

Elvisgirl shortenings for Astrids I know are- Asti and Streedie, so you don't have to use the obvious!
Its my favourite name ever....