I like the name Dante too - but we have someone in the family who is connected to someone with that name...iykwim - so we cant use it.

If your into Xanthe for a girl, a boy equivilant (though I think is not the same meaning) is Xanti.

Dont worry too much what people think, choose names that you and your DH like cause in the end names that people consider unusual will always raise eyebrow to begin with, but they get use to it after a while.