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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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Chillibox · 16/01/2015 20:52

Adelaide and Adeline.

CleverPlansAndSecretTricks · 16/01/2015 20:49

Love Angus too, but feel I would have to be Scottish to use it.

Have suddenly realised I may have watched too many "The Family Ness" cartoons as a child...

ThursdayLast · 16/01/2015 20:49

Hester and Unity and Clementine.

I got the boys name I like, but should there be another I'd love Alec.

Ain't no way any of those are gonna happen Grin

MehsMum · 16/01/2015 20:47

Daphne
Aurora
Miriam (IAm, I didn't read your post until I'd typed that, honest!)
And as a middle name, Lucy
All vetoed by DH

Ezra
He didn't veto that one, but the baby was a girl.

I do actually know a Gaius. He carries it off very well.

CleverPlansAndSecretTricks · 16/01/2015 20:45

Clement
Erasmus
Taliesin

We're all on my shortlist for both DS

Never had a DD but I think Flora is the most wonderful perfect name ever. DH says everyone in his home country just thinks it's a vegetable oil. Sad

DancingLola · 16/01/2015 20:44

DH didn't like;

Gabriel
Nathaniel

DH struggled to spell & didn't think anyone would be able to pronounce:

Saoirse
Caoimhe

Also he vetoed Evangeline, which I really loved. Can't remember why!

IAmAPaleontologist · 16/01/2015 20:42

Oh plenty of names, mostly with mythological roots that I would never use outside of my head.

The name I will always mourn a little though is my actual unused girl's name because I am not having any more dc and ds2 had the audacity to be a boy. Miriam Alice is my daughter who never will be. I keep offering it to people but nobody has taken me up on it yet Grin.

HolyTerror · 16/01/2015 20:41

But almost all of these are quite ordinary names - I was expecting far more of a Moon Unit vibe!

I would have loved to call DS Lir - name of an Irish sea god, also from the legend The Children of Lir - but it's now a brand of rather nasty Irish 'luxury' chocolates.

pinkrocker · 16/01/2015 20:40

CoffeeBeanie you have my name!
I love Constance Clara which was my wonderful fabulous Grandma's name and I wish I'd been braver!

rednsparkley · 16/01/2015 20:39

I wanted Rogan for DS1 or Fergus - both vetoed by DH Sad - mind you lovely with my accent - not so lovely with his accent and we live where he is from

DefiniteMaybe · 16/01/2015 20:38

Silas was mine too but our surname is 5 letters long, starts and ends with an s and has a l in the middle so definitely wouldn't work.

Narrowdog · 16/01/2015 20:38

Capucine. She was an italian model/actress from the 60s and I coveted the name from an early age. I Never had a girl and it never stood a chance anyway. Sigh.

hanette · 16/01/2015 20:37

Marmaduke - I didn't stand a chance!

ilovemargaretatwood8931 · 16/01/2015 20:35

I rather liked Loveness, but everyone I told said it sounded like something negative...

geeka- I like Gaius! Loved Battlestar Gallactica! Wink

GetLow · 16/01/2015 20:35

I love quite hardcore biblical boys names - Isaiah, Emmanuel, Ezekiel - but we are atheists and DH thinks I am bonkers Grin.

I love Roxana (I know someone said Roxanne up thread). Everyone else hates it, though, and I got a wobble about it when pregnant with DD and didn't use it.

Also - Rudy for a girl. Again, DH gave me a withering look when I mentioned it.

helensburgh · 16/01/2015 20:34

Reef

Miller

Norah

squoosh · 16/01/2015 20:33

Midwinter is all the lolz!

Would be ripe for lots of teasing come Christmas time 'In the bleak Midwinter, frosty wind made moan'..........

CoffeeBeanie · 16/01/2015 20:32

Stella
Louisa
Lexi
Matilda
India

all vetoed by DH. I really regret not having used Louisa.

I love Cassian for a boy.

ilovemargaretatwood8931 · 16/01/2015 20:31

Some lovely names here! My dh was keen on calling our dc MUNGO...

thankfully she was a girl! I think he was rather hurt at the incredulous bales of laughter that would ensue whenever I told anyone (midwife, relatives etc)!

ilikepie · 16/01/2015 20:30

Claud and Maud. Not both though. That would be too much.

Besta · 16/01/2015 20:30

Venetia and Hamish.

Not having any more children (and V doesn't really go with my surname).

TheScottishPlay · 16/01/2015 20:29

Blythe and Harriet as have a DS.
Also like Lucius and Marcus (too much Latin at school) but DH wasn't so enamoured.

CountingThePennies · 16/01/2015 20:27

Savanna - dh says no but i really love this!
Saskia
Sasha

moodyblues · 16/01/2015 20:24

Emmanuel and Posy.

Theas18 · 16/01/2015 20:21

Florence. Would have been ace for dd1 before it became fashionable. Sadly rhymes with out surname hence we have Florence and Geraldine the gerbils.

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