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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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CillaBlacksOrangeBouffant · 10/06/2014 03:51

Daisy and Ruari

CillaBlacksOrangeBouffant · 10/06/2014 03:51

Daisy and Ruari

CillaBlacksOrangeBouffant · 10/06/2014 03:50

Daisy and Ruari

AmericasTorturedBrow · 10/06/2014 03:25

Iris and Sebastian

pinkpip100 · 10/06/2014 03:16

Atticus and Emmeline - now saving them for future pets Smile

MoominAndMiniMoom · 10/06/2014 02:13

DD was going to have a literary middle name, but ended up with fully Welsh name start to finish Grin so to even it up, if we have another daughter she'll end up something like Bronte Auden Grin

catinbootz · 10/06/2014 01:24

Oh and DS1 should have been Toby.

But he's a Jacob. He doesn't look like a Jacob. He looks like a Toby. Still annoyed (15 yrs later)

catinbootz · 10/06/2014 01:22

Rufus.

DH vetoed it. And DS2 is red haired.

Larimarbleu · 10/06/2014 01:19

Mike....
But just as well, as our surname is Hunt
:)

bouquetofpencils · 10/06/2014 01:14

Still feel slightly cheated out of Martha for DD but surname would make it too cartoon like :(

MamaDoGood · 09/06/2014 16:07

Stanley.
It's the dogs name instead (it does suit him to be fair!)

oopsadaisyme · 09/06/2014 13:56

DS2 I really wanted to be a Charlie :( -
Emily and Ava for the girl I was convinced DS2 was going to be :)

lilolilmanchester · 09/06/2014 13:52

Zoe was my favourite name ever but DH hated. DD grew up with a Zoe as a role model, told us one day she wished she'd had that name... Spooky ... Over to Dad to explain...

Gullygirl · 09/06/2014 13:37

Giselle. Was vetoed.
DS1 was Fergus,until MIL made a screwed up face and DP vetoed. My boy waited five weeks for a name after that and the one he was given in the end was not even on my final list of 20.
Jacob
Daniel
Rueben
Nathan
Patrick
All names I loved, none of them used.

Coconutty · 08/06/2014 21:27

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Hairylegs47 · 08/06/2014 21:23

DS2 should've been Robert
DS3 should've been Nicholas
DS4 should have had a middle name, Luke
DD2 should've had the middle name Kathryn
But I also think it should've been Rosie

I made DD1 promise to call her DD Rosie. Didn't she 'just' go and have 2 boys. Just to spite me Wink

janie2 · 08/06/2014 21:22

Blythe, I had forgotten how much I loved that name devon. Dh would never have allowed it anyway but it goes straight on my list for this thread!!

Slight pang for a Fergus, didn't name ds this as I love his name too and had to decide!

I was lucky I got to use my fave names in the end!

MikeLitoris · 08/06/2014 21:16

I really wanted to call dd2 Elsie but Dp vetoed. Had to settle for Eliza.

Slightly different but exp really wanted to call Ds Felix or Casper. I refused at the time but now I wish I had been brave enough to go for a more unusual name

FatherSpodoKomodo · 08/06/2014 21:12

Elijah for DS2. Regretted it as soon as I named him, but DH had told family and I felt I couldn't change my mind. He's 12 now so a bit late to change it, and in a way I'm glad as he has ASD and learning difficulties and his name is very easy for him to spell and write.

Ptolemy for DS5. Yes, really! I just wasn't brave enough, and although my mum likes it I knew my ILs would be WTF???? They were bad enough with the name I actually did give him, and it's not that unusual. Not sure it would really suit him anyway, whereas his chosen name is totally him and I loved it just as much as Ptolemy.

And of course, having all boys, all those girls names I never got to use!

Matilda
Emilia
Freya
Astrid
Elsie

spookyskeleton · 08/06/2014 19:36

Part of me wishes that I had used DS 1's middle name (Luke) instead of his actual name.

Also Cassie, the daughter I never had!

devoncreamtea · 08/06/2014 19:35

nasara - hurrah!! If you don't choose Rafe choose Gilbert! (control freak....)

Also - Blythe - great girls name!

nasara · 08/06/2014 18:32

devoncreamtea I love the character Gilbert Blythe! You've made me start considering 'Gilbert'!

DramaAlpaca · 08/06/2014 18:00

Emma.

It didn't really suit any of my boys Grin, but at least I got to use my three favourite boys' names.

floatyflo · 08/06/2014 15:24

Matilda. Loved it. Didn't use as getting so popular (mother on Labour ward opposite me named her baby Matilda).

But damn my daughter looks like one. And it's everywhere at the moment. The film on telly, a song by my favourite band...Bugger.

FatalCabbage · 08/06/2014 14:59

DS2 really should have been Christopher nn Kit. Couldn't use it for DS3 as it wouldn't really go with DS2's actual name.

Saved Kit in case planned DC3 turned out to be a girl (Catherine Helen Charlotte, nn Kitty). He definitively didn't.

And I had to give up on James and Juliet because I married a Mr J and don't like alliterative names.