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Confessions - names you love but will never use

241 replies

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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DarylDixonsDarlin · 16/01/2015 23:22

And I myself narrowly escaped being called Trevelyan according to mother, thankfully I was a girl not a boy! Wished I'd never asked her what would I have been called if I was a boy! Lol.

DarylDixonsDarlin · 16/01/2015 23:20

Meredith (Merry), Merlin, Myfanwy, Malcom, Liberty, Aurora, Ariadne, Gabriel, Maeve, Autumn, Sennen, Zennor, Fae, Roxanne, were among some of the ones rejected by DH as being too wacky Hmm there were lots more but I can't think of them just now. Charlie (girl or boy) was too dog like, he thought.

Aelfreda (Freda) or something like that was another reject. Not sure on the spelling of that one, it was something to do with elves Confused.

I was dead set on Myfanwy though. Gave the name to the new Christmas tree fairy instead (heavily pregnant, hormonal).

Petal7 · 16/01/2015 22:57

Hugo
Ludo
Ivo

Clementine
Perdita
Theodora
Araminta
Bunty
Tiggy

LouiseBrooks · 16/01/2015 22:55

Gabriel
Gideon
Tangwystl

Anything ancient Greek including Parthenope which was apparently the name of Florence Nightingale's sister

ColdFeetWarmHeart · 16/01/2015 22:50

Oh and Colm for a boy - very irish though, and we aren't, so I don't know if I could convince DH of that one if we had a boy....

ColdFeetWarmHeart · 16/01/2015 22:49

Aurora - I think its a very pretty name, but people would probably think I was naming her after a Disney Princess

Arianna - still love it, but if we had another girl I doubt if we'd use it as DD1's name begins with A. I have Marianna listed in my memory bank for DC2, as well as Mariella.

GlitzAndGigglesx · 16/01/2015 22:37

Remembered a few more...

Esmerelda
Seraphina
Athena
Leonidas
Cassius
Harmony
Redd

stardusty5 · 16/01/2015 22:31

Persephone, Penelope, Felicity

NormHonal · 16/01/2015 22:23

...and I forgot Mireille/Mirella/Mirabelle. In the running for DC1 but got nixed by DH for a random reason. Grrr.

Helish · 16/01/2015 22:23

Another one wanting Gabriel here. Even asked DH in the delivery suite once DS was born and was still told 'no' so it's never going to happen. Heath also got vetoed

Lovelydiscusfish · 16/01/2015 22:20

It would be interesting to also have a thread about the names grandparents wanted/hoped for.
My dad wanted us to use Clint for a boy, Ruth for a girl. He was very definite about these.

NormHonal · 16/01/2015 22:19

DC1 would've been Dexter if a boy. I still coo every time I meet a Dex.

DC2 would've been Florence if a girl. I know this was wildly popular a la SamCam etc but it was a family name and I really wanted to use it! To this day have never met a real-life Florence (other than my multiple late relative-namesakes).

Others that were discarded:

Jessamy
Elodie
Elise
Charlie
Edward
Flora

Nocturne123 · 16/01/2015 22:17

Pavlov , love Scout for a girl

PotteringAlong · 16/01/2015 22:17

Edith
Maggie
Ernest

Damn you DH!

PinkSquash · 16/01/2015 22:15

Oh and Clementine

PinkSquash · 16/01/2015 22:14

Athena
Sapphire
Aurora
Tabitha
Matilda
Hugo
Meadow

MrsTawdry · 16/01/2015 22:13

By the looks of this thread, if there were no Dads, then all children would have the most AMAZING names!

Classes full of Midwinters, Scouts, Clements and Apollos!

Notso · 16/01/2015 22:06

Also love Digby, but was vetoed as too Doggy.

Egog · 16/01/2015 22:05

Desperately wanted Matilda since loving the book as a little girl. Now a relative used it for her dd (born 8 weeks before mine) and it's all a bit popular now too. ??

skylark2 · 16/01/2015 22:03

I also like Gabriel (but hate Gabe, so that was out).

I always wanted to call my DS Marcus (too much Eagle of the Ninth) but DH loathed it.

And my two favourite DD names are Lauren and Tessa, both of which would have been truly dreadful with our surname.

Memphisbelly · 16/01/2015 22:01

Zephyr
Apollo
Amos

Currently pg with ds and these have all been given a firm no from dh Sad

GlitzAndGigglesx · 16/01/2015 21:53

MummyBeerest I love Chloe! But was told a big fat no! :(

GlitzAndGigglesx · 16/01/2015 21:50

Crystal (chavvy)
Roxanne (chavvy)
Electra (porn star)
Britney (tacky)
Blaise (strange)
Jordan (tacky)
Giselle (prostitute)
Jeremiah (too "black")
Kia (car connotations)
Isadora (Dora the explorer)
Tatiana (porn star)
Kasia (would forever be mispron)

These are all people's reactions when I've mentioned the names Sad

shakemysilliesout · 16/01/2015 21:39

I love Lysander!

Silas sounds like silage.

I like Laura and emerald.

PavlovtheCat · 16/01/2015 21:38

Scout (DH still insists we will have another girl and call her this)
Cecily (DH won't have it, see above)