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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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Purplehonesty · 18/01/2015 09:33

Mine is quite a simple one, it's Katy. But where we live no one pronounces their t's (apart from us obviously!) so dd would have been Kay ee for the rest of her life and it's horrible!

D0nnaO · 18/01/2015 09:21

Seth - DH hates it Sad

BugBugBug · 18/01/2015 08:10

Go for it egog!

Egog · 17/01/2015 23:39

D'you know, this thread has made me think fuck it, I'm using Matilda if I have another girl. I love it, DH loves it, who cares if there's another one in the family (that we hardly ever see anyway)!

carabos · 17/01/2015 21:44

I love Sharon. Also love Kayleigh. Both obviously unusable and not just because a) I'm 51, b) both DC are boys Grin. DC would actually have been Olivia and Florence had they been girls.

HomewardBound2014 · 17/01/2015 21:06

I like Shane for a girl but dp vetoed it. So wont get to use it as not having another child.

tinklykeys · 17/01/2015 20:56

I have a silas in my family. He's 2 and lovely! Not in this country though so pronounced zeelas...

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Radish9 · 17/01/2015 19:52

This has been really interesting, some fabulous unused names.
Thanks Holy, that makes you, me and my mum the only people who like Silas!
And Meggy - I've only ever come across one Jotham before and I rather liked it too!

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Surf25 · 17/01/2015 19:39

Jesse
Love this name for a boy
Live in Scotland so it is a complete no no. Such a shame!

Meggymoodle · 17/01/2015 19:31

Oh and Apple, since I was a teenager I thought this would be fab for either gender .... But really.... No

Meggymoodle · 17/01/2015 19:29

Jotham - still love this and wish we'd used it.

Philip nn pip - likewise

Tabitha - doesn't go with surname

punygod · 17/01/2015 19:09

Jude
Apple
Lysander

ZebraGiraffe · 17/01/2015 19:05

Rocky for a boy Blush
Saffy for a girl
Rupert

Names like Aurelia, Aurora, Ophelia, Savannah, Emmeline, Evangeline - loe them but they don't work with the surname and DH found them too fairy-tale ish!

I love the following (more mainstream names) but will never use as DC are now in their twenties and there are certainly not going to be any more!!
Theodora, Isadora, Ottilie, Saskia, Matilda, Amelia, Amelie, India

Will have to work on DD if she eventually has babies of her own but must restrain from being that MIL/pushy grandparent type who is reliving it all through grandchildren!

hollyisalovelyname · 17/01/2015 18:54

Eloise
Romy

hollyisalovelyname · 17/01/2015 18:50

ColdFeet every Colm I know is lovely

HolyTerror · 17/01/2015 18:03

Oh, and Radish, Silas is a lovely name.

GloopMonster · 17/01/2015 08:11

Remembered a couple of boys' names that were vetoed:
Hugo
Marcus
Alexander

We have our boy's name ready in case dc2 needs it at some point in the future, so no further negotiations needed anyway.

I'll still mourn those names though...

Also, I'm wondering if the person who said 'Queebie' did a typo and meant 'Queenie'?

BugBugBug · 17/01/2015 07:52

Oh and seren. Love that it means star. I stupidly told sister when she was pregnant and she pinched it.

SnoringNorma · 17/01/2015 00:14

Danica (no Slavic ancestors)
Jerome (weird apparently)
Dyllis(dildo Hmm)
Ambrose (too girly)

pinkandsparklytoo · 16/01/2015 23:58

Orlando and Lysander

lollygagger · 16/01/2015 23:42

Echo
Gwendoline

we had a ds so no chance for these.

JustAnotherControlFreak · 16/01/2015 23:33

Jaime, Leigh and Roberta. I'll get my coat...

tyaca · 16/01/2015 23:26

Ethel - it's just the prettiest name but no way I would get it past DH.
Patience - Beautiful name, but added to our surname make a somewhat rude statement. Also, poor girl, imagine how annoying it would be for poor girl every time she showed any signs of impatience.
Dexter - love it but too silly and would be horrific with our surname

plus, am having no more babies

Lizaa · 16/01/2015 23:24

Roddy

blueshoes · 16/01/2015 23:23

Ophelia, because of the association with tragedy. Same with Tristan.