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Names you regret not giving...

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DogCalledRudis · 07/06/2014 21:24

Ours is Victor (after Victor Jara) and Glenn (after our favorite neighbor)

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MagratGarlik · 21/06/2014 23:50

I still love the names we gave both our ds's, but if there would be a ds3 (there won't - I'm old) I'd call him Gabriel. I'd have loved Louisa for a girl, but even if I'd had a girl, that name was already taken by family.

SongsAboutB · 21/06/2014 19:44

I didn't name my DC as we adopted them and kept their names, we added a middle name but those were family names. Both DC are birth-first-name grandparent-name birth-surname our-surname.

If I had been naming them they would have been Ralph (pronounced Rafe) and Celeste. Actually I think that DS is better with the name he has than he would have been with Ralph, but DD would really suit Celeste.

mathanxiety · 21/06/2014 19:36

Bridget or Brigid for DD3. I would have called her Biddy for short. It would have suited her down to the ground, and I have loads of relatives who would have been tickled to have her named after them.

NewtRipley · 21/06/2014 18:37

Asa

Matthew

Should have used either of these for DS2

Thurlow · 21/06/2014 18:24

I want a Decca. I desperately want a Decca. Decca Mitford was awesome.

Sadly no one else but me thinks it is actually a name. Also it's short for Jessica, which I neither like nor can actually say!

IceRocket · 21/06/2014 18:17

I like Joel but I also like the name we chose for ds and dp chose dd's name I would have preferred Delilah or mariella, but she really does suit her name.

ComeHeather · 21/06/2014 18:15

Gabriel as a first name for DS1
Ruth as a middle name for DD
Mary as a first name for DD

Not especially religious but love biblical names.

MadameDefarge · 21/06/2014 18:06

I do love it really!

plus3 · 21/06/2014 18:03

Clementine ... She would have been Clemmie. I absolutely love it as a name, but DH didn't & he ended up delivering DD. He did such an amazing job that I felt mean to impose a name that he hated. Dd does suit her real name (& for the record is glad we didn't name after a fruit...!)

Bowlersarm · 21/06/2014 17:59

MDefarge - one group of friends I meet up with all have a Joseph. (Three of them plus me) I am so envious. Although one has a definite Joseph and hates it being shortened, one doesn't mind either Joseph/Joe, and one definitely wants Joe. It's a minefield!

Me, I would have a Joseph mainly called Joe.

CapitalWasteland · 21/06/2014 17:58

Thea, the daughter I will never have!

Still sort of think ds1 would've made a great Conor despite how common it is in his year. We have a Mc name & thought it would be cool for him to say he's Conor McX of the clan McX! (we probably like Highlander a bit too much!)

MadameDefarge · 21/06/2014 17:49

Ha, Bowlers, mine is Joe!

Bowlersarm · 21/06/2014 17:47

Joe, popular but I now love that name.

Marnie, the Dd I was destined not to conceive!

MadameDefarge · 21/06/2014 17:41

Felix. I really wanted it. DS says he would have liked it too. But then he reckons Gavin is a cool name, so what does he know?

TulipOHare · 21/06/2014 17:37

Ivor. Only thought of it when DS was a few weeks old. Not to everyone's taste I'm sure, but I love it and it would have suited him.

Esther.

Marcipex · 21/06/2014 17:26

DS Alexander, wish I'd stood my ground.

Mumzy · 20/06/2014 22:03

Unfortunately I only got into the Greek myths after all my dcs were named
Ds1 would have been Icarus
DD would have been Io
Ds2 = Hercules

burgatroyd · 20/06/2014 13:59

Was going to call dd Blythe then mum said it sounded like blight. Argggghhh! That doesn't even make sense!

I'm over the name now only because I love so many of them. Love Teagan and Vera!

HelpMeGetOutOfHere · 20/06/2014 10:39

ds1 - got his name, took me the whole pregnancy to persuade H, but ot my own way.

ds2- should have been Jasper or Ryder

dd- should have been India or Phoebe

TheKitch · 20/06/2014 10:38

Elijah. We went for v boring traditional English name instead Hmm

Cojmum · 20/06/2014 10:34

Elsie - I love it, OH didn't.

deepbluetr · 20/06/2014 08:48

Tabitha- my OH hated it, but I still love it. What's more our DD ( now 14 ) said she would have loved it too.

TheScottishPlay · 20/06/2014 08:37

DS would have been Blythe if he had been a girl.
Absolutely love his name though. We hadn't really thought of it until he arrived and it suits him perfectly.

CheerfulYank · 20/06/2014 08:03

Still sad I didn't use Rosabelle or Primrose as a mn for DD.

MyBaby1day · 20/06/2014 05:02

No offence, but PLEASE no-one consider Gilbert!!!