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What are the baby names you DIDN'T go with?

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iwasagirlinavillage · 10/02/2017 20:43

I've just found a note of possible names on my phone and I found it really interesting the variety of names we considered. We've had two girls so never got to choose a boys names, my absolute favourite boys name is Sebastian and I really would have pushed for that.

What are your unused names? Here are mine:

Boy

  • Ethan
  • Sebastian
  • Alaric
  • Tierney
  • Mylo
  • Remy
  • Elijah

Girl

  • Willow
  • Madison
  • MacKenzie
  • Ellen
  • Caitlin
  • Isabelle
  • Ella
  • Amelie
  • Ava
  • Georgia
  • Zara
  • Savannah
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MrsPringles · 16/02/2017 19:46

Miley
Pearl

Dylan
Jack

We had a little boy, one of those is his middle name Smile

Chathamhouserules · 16/02/2017 19:45

Stella is lovely, panda, and funnily enough Lizzie was on our list too. But not so keen on Liz for some reason so ruled it out. Has your Lizzie/Stella thought of that?

Verbena37 · 16/02/2017 18:17

Boy
William
Benjamin
Darcy
Harrison

Girl
Molly
Elizabeth
Carolyn

user1475439961 · 16/02/2017 18:13

Grace
Beatrice
Honeysuckle
Blossom

Barnaby
Tommy
Teddy

monsterbookofty · 16/02/2017 17:29

Noah and Freya

DaisyBD · 16/02/2017 17:14

DS1 - Raincloud (absolutely overruled on that)
DS2 - River (ditto)

I still wish I'd been stronger and gone with them, I was too easily swayed. I particularly don't really like DS2's name, which was not that common at the time but has raced up the charts since and is now in the top 20 I think. Dull.

I also had two miscarriages and I didn't name those, but I sometimes think about other children I didn't have, ones that never existed. I have an imaginary daughter with current DH and she's called Silver.

BeMorePanda · 16/02/2017 16:40

Felix
Audrey
Valarie
Venus

Chatham I went with a Stella and it works very well for her :) Though she is now asking that we call her Lizzie (oh to be 5)

Chathamhouserules · 16/02/2017 15:35

Austin or Lawrence (baby 3 was a girl so didn't use)

Delia, Stella (nice in principle but don't suit our girls)

workshyfop · 16/02/2017 15:11

Cordelia
Eliza
Flora
Martha
Loveday

We couldn't think of any boys names.

Jemimapuddleduk · 16/02/2017 14:00

Rowan
Edwin
Robin
Laurence
Edward/Ted
Miles
Ray

Sylvie
Beatrix
Constance
Violet
Cecilia
Gloria
Rosamund
Nancy
Elsie
June
April
Anna
Ray
Angela (Dh's contribution which was vetoed by me)

MiaowTheCat · 16/02/2017 13:50

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spiderlight · 16/02/2017 11:45

For a boy: Rowan, Aidan, Isaac, Lucas, Oscar.
Never got to choose a girls' name but it would have been Seren, Freya, Rhiannon or possibly Rowan if she looked like one.

arrrrghhwinehelpswithteens · 16/02/2017 10:16

We had a few girls names that we liked when carrying DD 15 years ago. The ones we didn't go for were
Luthien
Arwen (lucky we didn't, cousin 4 weeks older called this!)
Anastasia

We decided on her actual name about halfway through. Boys names would have been
William Anthony or
Rhodri Llewelyn

CaptainCanary · 15/02/2017 21:57

Boys:
Nicholas
Zachary
Joel
Francis (was very close to being DS1's name)
Edward

Girls:
Megan
Stella
Rebecca

elliejjtiny · 15/02/2017 21:52

Boys names
Noah
Caspian
Gabriel
Japheth
Jesse
Rowan
Asher

Girls names
Nancy
Susan
Athaliah
Eliesha
Nicola
Emily
Miriam

OSETmum · 15/02/2017 19:45

Finley (Finn)
Oskar
Lewie
Jensen

If ds had been a girl he would have been Holly and that's it.

squizita · 15/02/2017 19:37

Louise - she didn't look like one
Carmelle - again didn't look like one
Nemisis - more of a joke at one pretentious end of our family who do the Greek legend names without caring what they mean.
Harper - too earnest-teacher (also husband is a lawyer)
Plus I'm a bit of an old alt girl.
Bernard - she is a girl
Paul - ditto
Francis - too goody two shoes.

Highfivethatfart · 15/02/2017 19:32

First time round - Lily Grace for a girl - only girls name we could come up with. Second time round we were still discussing girls names between contractions. No left over boys name as we knew instantly which boys names we both liked and ended up using them!

toomuchtooold · 15/02/2017 17:42

The first time I got pregnant I had Marianne in mind, but I had a miscarriage. I had a couple more miscarriages before I had my kids and I didn't name the babies or mark the due dates as I know some people do, but still, I felt a bit too odd about using Marianne when my first daughter was born.

WizardOfToss · 15/02/2017 16:37

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avaj · 15/02/2017 15:33

Brea
Flora
Jessie

Finlay
Jonah
Fergus

stoopido · 15/02/2017 15:20

Amelia
Archie/Henry
So glad I didn't go for Archie as I despise the name now.

MelCookie · 15/02/2017 14:55

Florence
Ruby
Orla
Mary

Hector
Marcus
Max

Meffy · 15/02/2017 14:31

Issac
Jack
Zachary
Noah
Dexter
Corbin
Farron
Colby
Leo
Jasper
Otis
Stanley

Willow
Elinor
Ruby
Mia
Saffron
Isabella
Jasmine
Matilda
Eliza
Amber
Esme

PsammeadPaintedTheLion · 15/02/2017 14:19

Amelie
Evelyn
Isabelle

Those were for dd1 who is a Lucia.

Penelope
Josephine
Genevieve

Those were for dd2 who is a Francesca.

I obviously have a thing for 3 syllables.

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