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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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bobbis · 11/02/2017 14:23

Flynn and Willow in my last pregnancy. Neither of those were considered this time round (33 weeks at the mo)

Mrsknackered · 11/02/2017 14:20

Got 2DS's but for girls the list was:

Kiana (only so her NN could be Kiki)
Raya
Iris
Nahla
Saffron
Safia

DS2 was very nearly Angelo but I flaked out and think it's too out there, love his name but do have a little niggle that should have gone for Angelo as he's so angelic!

SittinginaSleazySnackBar · 11/02/2017 11:24

Alfred
Beau
Rafferty
Jude
Ralph
Theodore
Tate
Jules
Grayson
Leo
Harley
Hendrix
Gabriel

Iris
Alice
Harriet
Elise
Willow
Blythe
Gabriella
Noelle
Gracie
Zahra
Eliza
Esme
Jemima
Elsie
Analiese
Arielle
Nancy

Jooni · 11/02/2017 11:10

DD would have been Caspar if a boy. I'm having a DS this time and still love it but have chosen something else for this baby.

It's funny how different babies seem to suit different names even before they're born. I still think DD would have made a marvellous Caspar!

swimmerforlife · 11/02/2017 10:35

The only other name we considered for both DS1 and DS2 was Angus...

Girls names:
Sian
Megan
Sadie
Harriet
Paige

If we had a daughter, she would most likely have been called Harriet.

whifflesqueak · 11/02/2017 09:48

Eugenie. sounded too much like eugenics.

Philip (nn Pip). had a lovely little girl.

called her Nancy.

hoddtastic · 11/02/2017 09:44

Sydney, Saoirse, Harriet, Dorothy, Rosa, Dulcie, Camilla, Annabel, Marianne, Margaret.

John, Montgomery, Frank, Patrick, Seamus, Tom, William.

Swearwolf · 11/02/2017 09:38

Lots of my list was veoted too, because dh has no taste in names! I really wanted (and these are a mix of what I can remember from both dc, we have a boy and a girl so a couple were real contenders each time if we'd had the opposite) :

Cecilia
Margot
Lucille
Octavia
Violet
Lydia

Victor
Vincent
Theodore
Tobias
Hector
Dexter

I do like the names we gave our dc, but they were both compromises!

MumOfTwoMasterOfNone · 11/02/2017 08:41

Possible names
Boy
Atticus
Arthur
Joseph
Archie
Noah
Benjamin
James
Ethan
Louis
Garner
William
Ellis
Lucas
Nicholas
Elliott

Girl
Amelia
Cecilia
Rose
Erin
Mary
Jayne
Sophia
Hope
Faith
Hannah
Grace
Poppy
Isabella
Beatrice
Freya
Florence
Maria

Also taken from my phone notes!! Our actual children's names are on there too 😁 it included considerations for middle names as well.

user1482079332 · 11/02/2017 08:14

Rio Benjamin moses Joseph Kanen koby Cole Calvin levi romantic Ashley

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iwasagirlinavillage · 11/02/2017 08:05

junebirthdaygirl one of my daughter's name is on your list and she is a June birthday girl!

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Longdistance · 11/02/2017 05:19

Charlotte
Francine
Francesca
Harriet
Josephine

They're the ones I can remember.

We knew we were having girls.

DanGleballs · 11/02/2017 04:28

Emmet is a insulting cornish word for tourists or non-cornish folk. It means ants as tourists swarm like ants. Not a name I would choose.

ABCFamily · 11/02/2017 04:13

Laniakea, you obviously have excellent taste Wink

Buntysoven · 11/02/2017 00:27

DH wanted Morven which I vetoed and he vetoed Lois and the name we eventually called her! I went through phases of Demelza Zinnia Susannah. I only like Susannah out of those now! DS was and will be (if I ever have a son) named after my father with the Welsh spelling granny wanted and didn't get.

gunting · 11/02/2017 00:26

Only ever had one boy name, joel, so if I have another then I'm screwed.

Girl names
Ivy
Astrid
Violet

Strokethefurrywall · 10/02/2017 23:50

Oh and Saoirse

Strokethefurrywall · 10/02/2017 23:48

For DS1 (didn't know the sex)
Brandon
Elliott

If he'd been a girl:
Dylan
Harper
Alannah
Leah
Ellis

Ds2 ( found out at 22 weeks)
Lachlan

If he'd been a girl:
Valentina
Sloane
Alannah
Leah

MollyHuaCha · 10/02/2017 23:46
  • Charles (but my SIL stole it for her baby she was expecting after ours, but then she had a girl...)
  • Patrick
  • James
  • Ciaren
  • Tabitha (OH hated it though I had plans to persuade him)
  • Penelope (my fave, but it sounded silly with surname)
  • Jennifer
  • Rachel
  • Felicity
  • Beatrice
junebirthdaygirl · 10/02/2017 23:46

Grace
Katelyn
Bethany

Philip
Timothy
Tadhg
Toby / Tobias

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 10/02/2017 23:34

Aly-Louise
Alison
Millicent
Christine

AllFurCoatNoKnickera · 10/02/2017 23:31

DS potential name list was
Sebastian
Reuben
Percy
Xavier

If he had been a girl
Penelope
Persephone
Anastasia
Poppy

JoyceDivision · 10/02/2017 23:12

Chester and Tallulahbelle

In my defense I was absolutely bonkers emotional when pg and even dh knew to be cautious around me Grin

Apologoe sto anyone if your dc have these names, I'm sur etrhtey are lovely and wear their names well, but I look backand have noidea what I was thinking

Laniakea · 10/02/2017 23:12

It's still pretty much my favourite name ever - I justify it by reminding everyone I am from the West Country & knew a few in my childhood. MIL's face when we told her the name though Shock Grin I told her she was lucky it wasn't dd's first name!

DD1 prefers Cressida to the name she ended up with - but I still think it is a bit OTT (the name she actually has is pretentious enough). I'd've love to have used Idris, but dh got to pick the names of the younger two (from the choice of two each) while I picked the older two

KnottedAnchorChief · 10/02/2017 23:08

Girl Florence
Boy Valentine

Both got eye rolls from family but still love those names!

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