Do you have any names that you like but wouldn’t use for your child? What are they and why can’t you use them?
Mine are:
Jonathan/John - because there are way too many people in my family with that name, and someone needst to put a stop to it.
Danger - for obvious reasons
Chaim (my all time favorite) - People would see the name, expect one thing, then get a kid that didn’t fit that expectation at all.
Jean Louise- too dowdy sounding, but Scout from *To Kill A Mockingbird * was one of my favorite characters when I was a child.
Daisy/Rose- I love flower names, but again, sounded too old fashioned. We named the dog Daisy, though.
Theadosia was my pick for a girl, my son’s probably very glad I didn’t get that chance, though.
Sean for my son’s middle name, but couldn’t because:
My favorite name that I know I won’t be able to use in the future is Dryden (for a boy).
It’s the name for the singer of my favorite bands, and lets just say my guy wasn’t too keen (a bit jealous actually) when he found that out. 
I think it’s a pretty name, though.
I wanted to name my son Jackson or Weston (I was going to art school at the time) but my ex hated both names.
Now I’m really glad I didn’t, and my son probably is too.
I love flower names too and if I had a girl I would have named her Lily.
If my son had been a daughter, her name would have been Amika. It was a good combination of Japanese and French that can be rendered easily in kanji.
He almost ended up as Alan Ethan, which would have been combination of both his grandfathers’ names (Alain and Isamu), but that got vetoed.
My favorite name is Tamar but I got voted down (turns out, to my daughter’s great relief). I remember being none too gently reminded that I wasn’t giving birth to a Klingon. :rolleyes:
She got a much more conventional Hebrew name.
If any Doper reading this is named Tamar, please don’t take offense. It’s a beautiful name and I’m still a bitter, bitter woman.
Walt, after Walt Whitman. No one ever likes that name but me.
Ulysses, because this is Ithaca, after all. I get why no one will go along with this, not even as a middle name, but I still think it’s cool.
Griffin. It’s a little pretentious and weird, but I’ve always liked it. Been alone in that liking every time.
We had every intention of naming our daugher Catherine - but my brother in law married two women by that name and was married to the second, who we couldn’t stand. We decided Catherine was off limits.
Linus. Too bad Charles M. Schulz had to ruin it.
Giovanni is probably my favorite name in the world. Unfortunately, it’s very Italian and I’m very not. Assuming I don’t marry an Italian man, I’d really have no excuse to go with a name like that.
Funny you should ask–I was just telling my older daughter this very thing. A boy’s name I really liked, and yet just wouldn’t have really “fit” a child of mine.
It’s Declan–I really do love it, but it just isn’t a name I could see myself using.
One of my favourite names is Cassandra, but I just couldn’t give it knowing the allusion.
I like how that looks – elegant but with some grit. How is it pronounced? Where’s the emphasis?
I always wanted a son named Fletcher, but my wife did not. I also liked the name Tyler, but she did not. I also liked the name Eli, so did my wife.
Unfortunately, we had two girls. I never did have any girl names I really wanted.
Marina Del Rey- Pretty, but couldn’t bring myself to do it. (Although I think Marina is a legit name in Brazil)
Paris- Always loved that name for a girl, until that skank ruined it for everyone.
I love the name Penelope, but I don’t think I could ever be heartless enough to actually saddle a kid with it.
Hey! That’s mine too. I loved that name and even used it as a character name in a couple of stories several years ago…but there’s no way I’d name a kid that now. Well, maybe if Paris Hilton continues her darwinistic spiral out of the gene pool. If Owen Wilson ends up secretly being a mass-murderer or something, that’ll ruin another long time favorite. He better not.
Jadzia, which is the only Polish female name I like (it might even be the only Polish name I like), but Star Trek killed it.