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...?

All my fave names are on here too:

Ophelia
Allegra
Lucia

Love the italian thing but no family connection. DH especially takes umbrage as he's French....going towards Daphne but would really love Ophelia.

(Maximillian for a boy - no, really!)

Tyler or Camron. Love lots of other Anglo-Saxon names, but DH and I are orthodox christians and need an orthodox name for our baby -- it is a tradition and means a lot from both cultural and religious standpoints to us and our families...

Bianca (pre-Eastenders, this was a wonderful name with a hint of Eastern European mystery)

Spike (how bloody cool can you get)

Nadia ( how I loved gymnastics in the '70s)

Gabriel (vetoed by dh before I got the first syllable out)

Taliesin. Love it but too poncy in England where no-one would know how to pronounce it.

Agnes -I love it everybody else loathes it.

Bay- I almost convinced dp to use this but we were having a girl.

Lots of my favourite names on here, but DH vetoed them all for DD, I especially loved Livia, Octavia and Ursula and Julia.

DS I desperately wanted to call something Anglo-Saxon like Haestan, Godric, Wulfric or Leofric but DH immediately vetoed. If he had been a girl he would have been Aurelia as I had had four years to work on DH . He ended up as Sebastian, but I suggested it weekly to DH from about 20 weeks pregnant until he finally gave in agreed, but it does fit in very well with the area we live in!

Calypso, i love it, obviously DP said no

Pearl. Am forbidden.

Albert.

Not forbidden but not a good idea with my surname unless folks want to do concerts in him

Wulfstan
Florian

I love Somerby for a boy... But would it be 'cruel'? And what could it be shortened to?

Also love Mabel for a girl! Think it is so pretty, but not sure what other people would think...?

^Oohhh that's a fab name typsical!!! I don't think it's cruel at all, rather boho arty I feel! ...plus there'd be very few others with the same name!

Mabel's lovely! Very pretty I agree! x

:) Good to hear somebody likes it! I don't understand why it isn't more heard of! But what for a middle name...?! Somerby...

I think it's just perfect! ..reminds me of The Great Gatsby /Brideshead etc..

I think... Somerby Sebastian sounds rather well (yes it's SS but well ..rules are meant to be broken)?! I think it needs something a little longer behind it, something short would sound like a dull note plonked on the end!
Hmm... now what else
Somerby Absalom
Somerby Hathaway
Somerby Ignatius
Somerby Winston ...Oohhh, or Somerby Churchill ..let's just throw the rule book away shall we
Somerby Napolean
Somerby Othello
Somerby Salinger ..I really like this one!!! ..fab book too!
Somerby Solomon
Somerby Whittaker
Somerby Alchemy ..a little too bizarre? Ahh what the heck!

Just came across the name Willoughby (I'll think Sense & Sensibility, not that hideous this morning creature)

I love Delilah for a girl & Rupert for a boy. DH thinks Rupert sounds ridiculous

Mercedes...

Myfanwy. I love it to bits but my German partner can't pronounce it. Sigh.

olive

I love Olive. My dog got it though!

I love Pearl!! I dont see how anyone couldnt. Mabel I love also but it reminds me of an ex boyfirend. I love Flo.

Mercedes is too HollyOaks.

I love Gretchen but DH hates it and everyone else points out the poor girl would be known as "Gretch the retch" her entire school career.

DH wanted Hanibul... I said no!

Thanks for all the suggestions MelinaM ! Some very interesting ones! DH loves Sebastian! (I'm not PG at the moment btw, just love names and like to have them prepared!!)

Lol, some of them are a bit 'out there'! I love the name Sebastian too, it's just so perfect! Well done for being so organised x