post your unusual and unused baby names here!

[rhetorician]

we are not now going to have a boy (2 DDs, which is fab), but we were going to call any son Aoghan (ay-gon) - Irish name meaning 'little fire'. You can spell it Aogan too. Loved it, sorry we can't use it

[tigana]

Aeronwy ('air - ron-wee')
Myfanwy ('mi -fan-wee')
Rocco

Not so unusual but doomed to being unused:
Beth
Beatrice

[mrsotter]

Fawn - was never going to get that past dh

[BertieBasset]

Isadora, Elodie, Norah, Evangeline

DH vetoed them although perhaps they aren't really that unusual. He's just picky

[shoots]

Peregrine and Sholto

[rhetorician]

tigana I had an great-aunt who insisted on calling herself Myfanwy - I think her actual name was Marion. She was a kleptomaniac...

this is fun!

[Nightstar]

I'm not allowed anything from Lord of the Rings despite putting these repeatedly on the baby name lists:

Aragorn
Strider
Theoden
Peregrine
Merry
Arwen

[headfairy]

Chiara, it's actually dd's middle name so not sure it counts. I wish I'd had the nerve to use it for her first name.

[KenDoddsDadsDog]

Aine
Cliodhna
Malachy

[winkle2]

I love anakin!!

[cupofteaplease]

I love this thread! Am currently 28 weeks pregnant with with a little girl and I want a pretty, uncommon, but not invented name. I wonder if I'll find one here!

[Adair]

Dexter - dd's 'if she'd been a boy' name
Ariadne - ds1's 'girl' name
Capella - ds2's 'girl' name
A/Eithne (also means 'little fire' i believe)
Caoimhe - we have no Irish connection at all

We toyed with Anakin - but he becomes Darth Vader..!

I love Evander - but couldn't convince dh.

[rhetorician]

Caoimhe is a lovely name - won't go with surname, also like Ariadne. Your rejects are so nice Adair I'm curious as to what you actually picked!

[Adair]

Have PMed you... though think you can search on my name...!

[Adair]

And thank you

[thereisalightanditnevergoesout]

The names I loved but will never use are:

Posy
Tess
Betty
Trilby

[thereisalightanditnevergoesout]

Oh yes and for boys (thank you for reminding me shoots)

Sholto
Rufus
Titus

[bibbitybobbityhat]

Sheherazade

[TimeWasting]

Aneurin
Clement
Prosper
Isadore
Norman

Iris
Daphne
Josephine
Margaret
Lucy

[PurveyorOfBaloney]

Names that were not allowed on my short list:
Osian
Keir
Tyrone
Cyrus

Genevieve
Jenna
Tyrion
Marianne

[rhetorician]

hmm, some of these are making me wobbly about DD2's name choice...Iris I like a lot, and Tess (I already know one of those though). I'm ignoring the boys' names, not because I don't like a lot of them, but I have no use for them, sadly...

[NorksAreMessy]

Bye bye Elisabeth and Monica (you were a boy, after all)
Bye Bye Hugo and William (you were a girl)
bye Bye Brian and Martin ( no WAY DH!!!! )
Bye Bye Joni and Maya (vetoed by DH)

Funny to wonder what those DC would have been like if they had had those names

[rhetorician]

norks great post! I think you and your DH fall into opposite ends on the naming spectrum - well done for agreeing on some name in the end (presumably)

[tigana]

oh, and

Ariadne (props to Adair for the reminder!)....i still have hope, but suspect it will be heavily vetoed.
Zoe (cat got it first!)

[oldqueenie]

the ones that got away...

amos
prosper
ira

pearl
glory
muriel
(am hopeful of using some as pet (dog) names!)

[chocoroo]

Evadne, vetoed by DP.

Also have a soft spot for Loveday.