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post your unusual and unused baby names here!

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rhetorician · 21/07/2011 19:39

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

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LittlePebble · 27/07/2011 07:32

Claude and Maude Sad
DP promised if we had twins I could call them this but will not consider either for our LO.....
He won't let me have Hector or Laurence either the bastard Wink xx

LetThereBeRock · 27/07/2011 00:57

I've no children yet but names I love are...

Sarah
Celeste
Sylvie
Emmeline
Cora
Rose
Grace
Genevieve
Pietra
Pepper
Hazel
Penny
Felicity
Heather
Tessa
Alexandra
Georgia
Verity
Lilian
Honey
Dorothy/Dorothea
Thea
Josie
Tansy
Violet
Dora
Imogen
Eilidh
Billie
Harriet
Lottie
Ophelia
Cordelia
Esther
Claudia
Matilda
Heidi
Iona
Cara
Meredith
Jessie
Portia
Pippa
Fern
Thora

And those are just the girl's names.Grin

cece · 26/07/2011 22:49

DD would have been Sam
DS1 would have been Alethea
DS2 would have been Verity

Canella · 26/07/2011 22:46

I also loved Chiara - once knew a fabulous woman with that name but it didnt go with our weird surname.

Also loved Vanessa but this was 10 years ago and Vanessa Feltz was very famous - it would have been wrong.

Really wondered if we'd lived abroad like we do now, when the dc were born if we'd have called them different names. Well i know i def would have done with ds2 - think he'd have been Michael, Johannes or Nico.

GetOutMyPub · 26/07/2011 22:36

I found my little note book the other day, with some of our baby name ideas

Dh vetoed -
Martha
Elsie
Dolcie
Josie
Lilian

I vetoed =
Jennifer
Nicola
Nicole
Angela

I had a real thing for Granny names when pregnant, and I am certain Dh suggestions were all old flames. Although I quite like Jennifer now (but would never tell DH that)

In the end we were lucky to have two healthy & gorgous boys and gave them very ordinary, traditional names)

LaTristesse · 26/07/2011 12:09

Oh and I met a small Emaus (Em-ay-us) in the playground the other day - strangely like it!

LaTristesse · 26/07/2011 12:02

DS's middle name is Lorien. Wish I'd saved it now as pg with #2, and if it's a boy we'll be stuck!

He would have been Ariane if a girl, still love it, still might use it this time...

FebreezeYourJeans · 25/07/2011 22:35

For me there will now never be an;

Audrey, Eliza, Miranda or Tansy

Seth, Reuben or Gabe

SenSationsMad · 25/07/2011 22:21

disclaimer - I wasn't expecting at 14, I was just, you know,thinking up names Blush

SenSationsMad · 25/07/2011 22:16

When I was 14, I decided I'd call my twin girls Mafon and Mefus ( Welsh for Raspberry and Strawberry)

I'm happy to announce that I did not get twin girls.

I also thought about naming a boy Corwynt. ( Hurricane/tornado) That didn't happen either I'm happy to say!

My older self was much more traditional and named my DS after a Welsh prince and DD has a beautiful timeless Welsh name.

spiderlight · 25/07/2011 22:02

Mine, vetoed by OH - Eli, Caleb
OH's, vetoed by me - Athelstan, Harper
We ended up with a Rhidian :)

Mothershelper · 24/07/2011 18:13

Hi :)
These names aren't all unused but they're a little exotic!
Ava
Alora
Arianne
Bailey
Ever
Irma
Iyla
Kari
Kamis
Karma
Lockie
Luna
Maev
Mariella
Maud
Marnie
Marla

IvyAndGold · 24/07/2011 17:51

Ooooh thereis! I waaannntt onnnne! DP wasn't keen, but I've banged on about it so often he actually quite likes it now Grin

Now, all we need is better jobs, more money, a bigger house... Oh yes, and a DS Grin

thereisalightanditnevergoesout · 24/07/2011 17:46

IvyAndGold

You should! We have one (actually he's and Angus Edward Patrick) - he's very cute Grin

IvyAndGold · 24/07/2011 17:17

I am determined that I will have a little baby Angus one day! Grin

DP is not a fan of more uncommon names :( DD is Isla, in the top five in Scotland I think, though saying that I have never met another Isla.

Other names I like are
Girls - Paloma, Ingrid, Esme, Ishbel, Rosa, Audrey
Boys - Angus, Patrick, Caleb, Aidan, Gabriel, Dexter

WiiUnfit · 24/07/2011 16:18

Keira & Luca - my 'picked' names that DP veto'd completely when expecting DS.

Other names he veto'd include:
Esme
Isabella
Benjamin
& tons of others!

He wanted to name DS if he had been a DD, Anna, which I veto'd due to negative connotations with Anna's I've known!

PaperBank · 24/07/2011 14:40

Aster, Coralie, Zarina, Rowena, Delilah

Jerome, Eric, Tristan, Ezekiel, Aidan

mrsotter · 24/07/2011 13:29

dd2 should have been Florence but I thought it may be too flouncy for our working class area and schools so she is now Tessa, She is 8 months and I look at sometimes and think she should have been Florence

yousankmybattleship · 24/07/2011 13:22

Some lovely names here. The two that got away for me were Cora and Merle. I love them both but wasn't quite brave enough!

SummerLeaps · 24/07/2011 13:12

Love Rifka

Love Reuven.

DS was going to be Horatio. If we had a DD i really wanted either Artemis or Hera or Isis.

[ex classics scholar- can you tell?]

ShowOfHands · 24/07/2011 12:45

Aphra
Mirabel
Josephine
Inigo
Amos
Abraham

befuzzled · 24/07/2011 12:35

Elodie or Milene were my girls names, never to be used.

I also really like Anakin aesthetically for a boy but I think the sw overtones are still too strong, I feared people would think I was a sw geek.

droves · 24/07/2011 12:11

blaze

axel < for ds2 , ex-dh go petition going at our old video shop and go th cstomersto sign it , so i was bulied by masses via ex-dh , used somethin popular at the time instead < hate it now btw> >

Tatiania dh vetoed

Kylie

strandednomore · 24/07/2011 12:01

oh yes piper was on one of our original lists but we got too many Hmm's from people when we suggested it.

perfectmummy · 24/07/2011 11:59

piper. love it

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