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...?

Ooo Ramona - I REALLY like that. I would have liked Hector or Cressida but am not allowed either.

I also really like Mercedes but realise that we are not aristocratic enough for it not to sound really Footballers Wives.

Oh dear, just realised both both my DS and DH's names are on this thread! I love them both though :o

Don't worry Biscuit - most people seem to be giving the names they wanted but were foiled by their partners, so you will be envied rather than mocked [hgrin]

Cynthia

River

Gabriel, Jessy for a boy, just love them but I wanted a more traditional boy's name.
Also loved Alfred with Alfie for short but DH overruled that one (and I overruled loads of his suggestions)

I used my best names for girls on my girls :)
Would of liked to use Bluebell, Ruby and Willow.

I like Willow too, or really anything naturey. Indigo. I love Indigo. It (or any other color name, like Gray, which I also love) would be cruel with our surname though.

Hester
Dorcas
Dora
Shifra
Mordechai
Rivka
Mercedes

"My name is Tallulah.." fab name! I love Rupert, but apparently that belongs to a certain bear!!! x

Mordechai! I love that name (keep forgetting it though,and mixing it up with Malachy in my mental list of favourites).

But Mordechai is fab, would love a Mordechai.

Marnie for a girl (it's not that I wouldn't, but I'm expecting a boy!!)
Jasper for a boy - but too many memories of one of my parent' dogs!!

I mean Marnie after the Hitchcock (anti-)heroine, of course.

Scout :(

Iolanthe or Perdita for a girl

Both vetoed by DH but the name we gave our DD is beautiful and much commented upon - favourably.

Love dulcie but don't think I'd have the guts to go for it.

Monty....I love it! It sounds ridiculous with our surname too. Saving it for if we ever get a dog

I always loved Denny and planned to call any son I had that name. I successfully convinced DP that if we had a son, he should be called Denny.

We had a DD, and named her Angie which we both love, so thought the next, as yet fictitious, one could be Denny if he's a boy.

Then I realised.

Angie and Den.

I heard the name Pomroy today and now have it fixed in my head - DH already vetoed though :(

Flint. I love it but just don't think I'm brave enough.

Lolita and Aurora.

No one would let me have either, also i don't think any of my son's would be to impressed either :)

I really love the name Anna, but my husband has vetoed it because it just doesn't feel right to him - boo! :)

I love Shakespearean names like Cressida, but I think I would go for something more "traditional" in the end.

I was really tempted by my mother-in-law's middle name Frederica, and I really like Erica too. But again husband vetoed, said it would be strange to name it after his mother.

Basically husband is very fussy!

My favourite boys name (we don't know the sex yet) is Edwin, but he doesn't like that either.

Husband constantly jokes that he only wants to name the baby Pubert. OH DEAR.

Sebastian. I love, love, love it! Unfortunately it woulg go down like a lead balloon in the east coast of Scotland