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Confessions - names you love but will never use

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Radish9 · 16/01/2015 18:06

Just as title really. I have a theory that everyone has a baby name that they love but will never/ have never got to use. Mine is Silas, always adored it but DH (and almost everyone else in rl) hates it. My mum's is Toby, she's tried to get us to use it but we haven't obliged. Would anyone else care to share?

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Chillyegg · 31/01/2015 20:11

Azerneth I love it but my partner hates it!

ScrambledEggAndToast · 31/01/2015 20:05

Conrad.

MrsTamkin · 31/01/2015 18:29

Marilla or Blanchette for a girl

Walter for a boy

Rufus200 · 31/01/2015 17:59

Arielle but I think she would spend her life telling people it isn't pronounced Aerial

hollyisalovelyname · 31/01/2015 10:41

Isolde is a lovely name.
Iseult also nice.

Glossyflower · 31/01/2015 08:05

Iris DH hates it.
Jesse for boy which my whole family opposed.
Kind of got my way, we got a girl and she's Jessica Grin

MERLYPUSSEDOFF · 29/01/2015 10:35

I wanted Spike for a boy but oh said it reminded him of 'dirty kids in the war'. Hmm

BellMcEnd · 29/01/2015 07:14

Isolde (that's an amazing name BTW) My friend has a teenager called Rouge

ChickenMe · 29/01/2015 00:28

Lucretia
Aurelia
Posy
Hazel
Tansy
Camelia

Vetoed by OH

bluewater12 · 28/01/2015 13:08

Indigo (nn indie)
Juno (H says no)
Ramona (we both love, crap with surname)
Cassius (DH and DD both have names with hard C's, another would sound like we are trying to alliterate our names in that horribly twee way...)
Zélie (DH said it sounded like a medicinal cream - weep)

Isolde85 · 27/01/2015 19:45

Wulf
Dove
Rouge
Lolita
Winter

BlueChampagne · 27/01/2015 18:27

Armorel - because any spellcheck/teenager will spell it amoral in milliseconds.

itsnotmeitsyou1 · 27/01/2015 14:32

I love Vivianne, but feel its too much of a name for a little girl. It would take years for her to 'grow into it'. Evelyn was also on our list, but it has become ridiculously popular recently, I love 'proper' names but don't want our child to be one of 3 'Evies'.

Partner wants 'Edward' for a boy, I couldn't have it though. It's sooooo English, my Celtic roots can't handle it Grin.

marshmallowpies · 26/01/2015 19:02

NadiaWadia - I knew a girl at school whose middle name was Jezebel, she was quite proud of it. Jade Jagger has Jezebel as a middle name too (so her initials are JJJ Blush)

I have friends who swore they'd call their daughter Lilith, if they had one, but they'd told so many people and repeated it so many times, that by the time they had children they'd kind of gone off it.

Rhubarbgarden · 26/01/2015 14:25

Anemone

babyfedleaning · 25/01/2015 21:16

Loveday for a girl. Just gorgeous!

And Dewi for a boy. Too Welsh, apparently - and I wouldn't pronounce it right.

MamaLazarou · 25/01/2015 17:12

Leroy
Marlon
Pilot
Fox
Alberta
Astrid
Bosco
Abraham
Zebulon

hollyisalovelyname · 25/01/2015 11:09

Elsie

hestialou · 24/01/2015 20:11

Margaret and Hestia

Littleblueowl · 24/01/2015 20:04

When I was pregnant with DS I was desperate to name him Squirrel. Thankfully DP was having none of it and I look back now and wonder what I was thinking!

Really though, Luna is a favourite, and Rupert.

itstheyearzero · 23/01/2015 15:58

Seth for a boy and Mabel for a girl. I have one DS and won't be having any more sadly.

sianihedgehog · 22/01/2015 21:13

so many perfectly acceptable names on here!

mine are:
Siouxsie (i'm not young enough to get away with naming babies after pop stars!)
Laika (means "barker" or "howler", no matter how awesome it sounds, and how cool space dogs are, I can't do that)

I love Mungo, it's on my boys names list!

LollyLondon · 21/01/2015 13:29

Augustus
Aurelia
Maximus
Achilleas
Hector

and to break the theme: Betty!

NKfell · 21/01/2015 12:55

Ishmael
Jairus (my ds almost got this until chants of 'jairus the virus put me off)
Gabriel

DarylDixonsDarlin · 21/01/2015 12:07

Gosh yes I'd forgotten Lilith, an old friend of mine had it as a middle name and I thought it was lovely until I went to check the meaning Shock struck that one off the list pretty quick lol