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favourite girl names you didn't use

111 replies

themumfairy · 22/12/2015 20:12

What is your all time favourite girls name that you didn't use.

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CocktailQueen · 22/12/2015 21:21

Cara - planned it all along and then dd didn't look like a Cara!

GiraffeHouse · 22/12/2015 21:21

Imogen. A very close second for DD. If we'd had another I would be fighting for it!
Emily. But my best friends DD already called that so decided not.
Martha. Though probably as a second name.

gingerboy1912 · 22/12/2015 21:20

Scarlett
Madison
Ferne

Eminado · 22/12/2015 21:18

Thandie

still hopeful

Finallyonboard · 22/12/2015 21:17

Kristiana
Martha
Cordelia
Clara

SerenityReynolds · 22/12/2015 21:15

Genevieve - DH vetoed
Isobel or Isla - too popular

missmargot · 22/12/2015 21:14

Lyra and Winnifred.

cojmum · 22/12/2015 21:12

Elsie and Harriet

superbfairywren · 22/12/2015 21:07

Iris

OSETmum · 22/12/2015 20:51

DS would have been Holly, there was never any other options discussed.

gnatgnu · 22/12/2015 20:46

Tabitha and Celeste

Wilberforce2 · 22/12/2015 20:38

I desperately wanted to call my dd Lydia but my dh didn't like it so we opted for something else that even 21 months on I don't "love"! Will always be missing a girl called Lydia! I also liked:

Iris
Lizzie
Poppy
Heidi

Kim82 · 22/12/2015 20:38

Erin, Scarlett, Ella, Emma.

I have 3 girls but these names didn't make the cut. I do still love them though and secretly think that dd3 would have really suited the name Erin.

vichill · 22/12/2015 20:36

Lorelei

tuilamum · 22/12/2015 20:35

Blake, Harley, Aria, Sam (Samantha)
I have other names i like and may yet have another DD but DP has vetoed all these Sad

Mothersruin75 · 22/12/2015 20:34

Clementine
Clover

Mince314 · 22/12/2015 20:32

Juliet, Ellen

peachypips · 22/12/2015 20:31

Coralie. Rosa. Clementine. Charity.

waitingforsomething · 22/12/2015 20:30

If I had my way DD would have been Cecily Poppy but DH hates Cecily
So she is Poppy.
DS would have been Thea.
Alas I shall have no more babies so Cecily and Thea will sadly never be used by me

BikeRunSki · 22/12/2015 20:29

Lorelei
Isis
Josephine

MeganChips · 22/12/2015 20:29

Meredith.

I still regret not being brave enough to use it, instead I went for something far more popular and she's destined to always be one of 3 in her class.

Muskey · 22/12/2015 20:28

Niamh

BeautifulLiar · 22/12/2015 20:27

Pandora

HeyMicky · 22/12/2015 20:27

Adelaide

Also Constance - it makes a movie title when combined with my surname

M48294Y · 22/12/2015 20:26

Daphne, Zinnia, Dorothy, Rosanna, Joanna, Louisa, Suzannah.