But would you actually use them?

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I've been into baby names since I was a little girl, and my taste has always run eccentric, and if not necessarily eccentric, then certainly outside the mainstream. My friends and family tend to be bewildered, confused, or put-off of my favorites - the long-running ones are Ariadne, Persephone, Andromeda, Ulysses, Ignatius, Meredith (male)... Names that make it quite obvious that I spend far too much of my time reading dusty history books for fun. Last night I was playing around with twinsets, and more than wondering if I'd get away with a name - my people would get over it, after all - I considered whether or not would I would dare. It would be far more easier to name my daughters Roxanne and Camilla, or my sons Henry and Lucien. Those names and others like them are pretty and lovely. Nobody would object to them; I wouldn't get eye-rolls and mispronunciations and misspellings for years on end. My kids wouldn't resent me at some point.

tl;dr Discussion question,would you ever actually go for your (bizarre, weird, pretentious, smarty-pants) favorites, give them middle-name status, or leave them behind altogether?