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...?

Ariadne
Lilith

Seth
Zachariah

All a Big Fat No.

Evangline :)

I like Lexi but don't like any of the names this would be a nn for.

And I can't bring myself to use a nn as a name (it just wouldn't be proper!)

Paloma for a girl and Florian for a boy

Tabitha
Felix

Basically, cats' names!

Oh, and Benedict

Lolita but its connection with the vladimir nabokov novel its not right to name a little girl that! and Silas loved it until the da vinci codes evil, self harming monk was called silas!!! :)

Celeste - too poncy according to my dh. Also Jude for a boy, but we already have a Sadie so that is a no. Guy and Christian also feature on my list but are the names of significant exes so no to them too.

Tigerseyemum - DD1 is Lilith I'm vv grateful that DH is easily swayed amenable to his pg wife's naming requests

I also liked Guinevere, Calantha, Iolanthe, Mere (why????), Ianthe during various pgs but went other choices probably more outlandish than than those).

Yoshimi - DH has forbidden me from even using it as a middle name. I don't see why - It would be handy to have someone around who could battle the pink robots

Dont laugh, but I love it : Luscious for a boy- DH would laugh no end if I suggest it,
love Roman names like Lidius, and Russian names too

Rupert

We both love it, but everyone would think we were being pretentious i think

Vlad, Thierry and Sebastian

Indiana :)

I love Isabelle but when my DD arrived it was in the top 100 several times with various spellings and I didn't want her to be 'another Izzy' and named her Jemima instead.

My parents wimped out on calling my brother Boaz, but turns out he likes it and has used a version of it as a nickname his whole life.

Niall. There are lots of charva Nialls running around here as Quinny is our football chairman. But I love it.

Sebastian

My Ds is Niall,But its very unusual in scotland,never met another one,Ds is 8 though.

Names I quite like but would never use

Tristan

Gabriel

Lana

Bronte[BLUSH]

Salome

I noticed my son's name mentioned at least once, Valentine (which we pronounce as val-en-teen), we call him Tino. I wanted to actually use Valentino, but DH said no, as we're not Italian.

Names my DH has vetoed:

Ptolemy - he said he likes how the name sounds, just not the spelling, and as I'd never butcher the spelling of a name that rules it out.

Deodatus - with Theodore being so trendy at the moment, I thought this Greek name, which has a similar meaning ('given by God') would be an alternative. DH looked at me with horror on his face and off the list it came.

Isolde - DH can't get passed the 'I sold her' thing.

Ismene - DH loves the pronunication (is-meh-nay), but he said 99.9% of the population wouldn't now how to pronounce it, and therefore any potential daughter would be called 'is mean'. No thanks. Off the list.

Oli-May

Yeah I know. I can't help it!

India

Lenore
Siegfried
Wilfried

Imarriedafrog - Cassius is a great name, we're considering it for number 4.

I forgot my list of Italian boys names..

Francesco

Pier Angelo

Matteo

Alessandro

These would never work as we have no Italian heritage,but dh could pass for Italian/spanish so