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What would you have picked if you were brave enough or allowed by DP?

82 replies

nappyaddict · 08/02/2012 01:35

Ds will be 6 in June but today when tidying out an old box I found this list of potential baby names Grin

Lila
Lillith
Elspeth
Rosanna
Melanie
Gabrielle
Kitty
Sasha
Opal
Kimberley
Claire/Clara
Adela
Cora/Coralie
Penelope
Patricia
Davina
Maria
Marcia
Audrey
Claribel
Annabella
Arabella
Cassandra
Seraphina
Jessamy
Henrietta
Harrietta
Lauretta
Tiger
Theodora
Caroline
Elsa
Edith
Tabitha
Petula
Eden
Fathom
Eliza/Elizabeth/Beth/Bethan
Bessie
Christina
Tia
Hope
Matilda
Gracie
Natalia
Carlotta
Stefya
Sarah
Esther
Hester
Pippa
Louisa
Luisa
Laurel
Trudie
Beatrix/Beatrice
Claudia

Felix
Elias (Eli)
Eden
Ash
Sacha
Graeme
Robert
Stewart
Andrew
Brook
Tate
Bobby
Casper/Caspar
Leonardo
Frederick
Dexter
Gabriel
Theodore/Teddy
Herbert/Herbie
Albert/Albie/Bertie
Tiger/Tige/Tigue
Rex
Nate
Ronnie
Harris
Cassius
Jeffrey

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ShowOfUmblestAnds · 12/02/2012 12:57

Psammead, we have a Raphael. Smile

ShowOfUmblestAnds · 12/02/2012 12:57

DS would have been a Sacha had I chosen but dh was worried about people wrongly thinking it's a girls name. I adore it but can see the problem. More and more people using it for girls.

Had ds been a dd I would have liked to use Aphra but dh preferred another name we love so Aphra would have been relegated to mn.

shouldbeelswhere · 12/02/2012 12:53

Percy, Hectar

phlossie · 12/02/2012 12:41

I wanted Hero for this baby. No chance.

Stinkyminkymoo · 12/02/2012 11:51

If it hadn't been for my mother thankfully intervening, my dad would have named me Brunhilde or Hedwig.

It's my mother who's German, not my dad...

Psammead · 12/02/2012 10:50

Anastasia and Raphael.

bruffin · 12/02/2012 01:20

Sebastian and Daisy

CheerfulYank · 12/02/2012 01:10

Rex.

Indigo.

I'm sure there are more! :)

joanofarchitrave · 12/02/2012 01:04

Ds only narrowly avoided being Redgrave. TBH i think dh and i were double-daring each other.

I love long girls' names and would have loved Tabitha or Gabriella for a dd. Perhaps lucky we never had one as dh only seemed to be able to envisage using his mother's name.

VelcroFanjo · 12/02/2012 00:58

If ds1 had been a girl he would have been Willow..bloody glad he is a boy..size 9 feet and 5"5 at 11..not exactly small! Dd1 was a really porky baby and is also tall for her age...glad we had given up on the name by then!

Somersaults · 12/02/2012 00:48

DD would have been Grace as my first choice but DH will not have any virtues or characteristics name (eg Hope, Faith) and also wouldn't consider names that are other words (best example I can come up with now is Pearl) and he wouldn't have flowers either so no Rose or Lily etc. He was v.boring all round actually. I also really liked Posy after a character from Ballet Shoes but he looked at me as if I had three heads when I suggested that one. I would have considered Lyra from Northern Lights as a middle name too.

For boys I like really normal names so he agreed with me instantly on our boys choice. First name suggested was Alexander, we both agreed so that was that. I didn't tell him I planned on shortening it to Sasha though :)

It would have been so easy had she been a boy. As it was she had no name for a couple of hours.

Oubliette0292 · 12/02/2012 00:05

DS would have been Hazel had he been a girl (which I still love).

Boys names I liked but wasn't brave enough to use include: Aneurin, Blaise, Percy, Valerian, Orion and Saul

I've always thought Gethsemane would be a lovely name for a girl, and I like Persephone too.

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nappyaddict · 11/02/2012 23:54

I wouldnt use kimberley, lila or eden for a girl now. I like ethel, anna, joy, hilda, cecily, romilly, mavis, maude, mabel, constance, mildred, marissa, isadora and hazel which I hadn't considered then.

I also wouldn't use bobby or dexter for a boy now but I do like brody, humphrey, edison, edmund.

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cece · 11/02/2012 23:45

Sidney or Sydney depending on gender. Smile

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nappyaddict · 11/02/2012 23:42

I wouldnt use kimberley, lila or eden for a girl now. I like constance, isadora and hazel which I hadn't considered then.

I also wouldn't use bobby or dexter for a boy now but I do like brody.

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Purplelooby · 10/02/2012 21:07

Elfie

Ratata · 08/02/2012 22:45

*when THE day comes

Ratata · 08/02/2012 22:44

No kids yet but I love Silver for a girl. DH hates it booooo. We have agreed on Dexter and Evie when here day comes!

recall · 08/02/2012 17:38

Tiger Lilly

Elspeth

LikeAnAdventCandleButNotQuite · 08/02/2012 17:37

DD would have been Aoife
DS would have been Gus

We have neither blasted DH

LaTristesse · 08/02/2012 17:22

DS we agreed on, but we're currently arguing about the incoming DD - I like Arianne, Chai, Indi, Gaia... he doesn't.

diddl · 08/02/2012 16:28

Hebe.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 08/02/2012 14:58

If it wasnt for DH then DD would of been Rosalie and DS would of been either Michael or Sebastian.

LoonyRationalist · 08/02/2012 14:55

If it wasn't for DH my 2 DD's would be Catalina & Anna

Snapespeare · 08/02/2012 14:47

Clementine
Matilda
Elphaba
Bellatrix
Verity

Idris
Stanley
Aneurin
Clement
Hector