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Names you love but won’t be using...

81 replies

MrsFoxPlus4 · 04/12/2017 15:40

Thought this would be interesting.

Girl - Bernadine - friends grans name, love it we call her Berdie.
Boy - Mac - cousins son.

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qumquat · 14/12/2017 21:22

Jesse for a boy
Hero for a girl

StandardLampski · 13/12/2017 20:04

Having said thst if dc2 was s girl, I would like to have honoured my granny, so missed out on Miriam as a middle name

StandardLampski · 13/12/2017 20:03

I had s girl and boy, and got to use the slightly less common names I wanted on both with full agreement from my husband. Woo hoo! Quite amused though that they have both popped up 3 times in this thread 😁
Mostly positive comments with the odd raised eyebrow 😂

hollygolipo · 13/12/2017 19:45

Tertia - for a third child - so beautiful.

BrizzleDrizzle · 13/12/2017 01:54

Meredith and phoebe.

Sashkin · 13/12/2017 01:10

Girls’ names

Lily
Grace
Amelia
Ava
Beth
Katharine
Isobel
Katarzyna
Maia
Natalya
Thora
Miriam
Rosalind

Not using those because we have DS, and already have a name chosen for any future DD.

Boys’ names:

Caspar
Dimitri/Dima
Lucas
William
Theodore
Marcus
Soren
Aalto

Either DH hates them, or they go badly with our surname, or they just sound weird on an English kid. If we have DS2 we are in trouble Grin

KERALA1 · 12/12/2017 09:02

Alberta Lark. Dh relieved we stopped at 2 and I couldn't use these names!

TeddyIsaHe · 12/12/2017 08:59

Jude - unfortunately 2 letters different to dp’s name and 1 letter differen to mine so would be a bit matchy and weird.

Clementine - dp vetoed. Still love it

pitterpatterrain · 12/12/2017 08:53

Violetta
Herbert
Grace

NinonDeLenclos · 12/12/2017 08:52

^h in Bathsheba

NinonDeLenclos · 12/12/2017 08:51

Gabriel, Raphael, Balthazar, Darius, Aeneas, Pascha, Mischa

Bathseba, Manon, Dido

rowtheboats · 12/12/2017 03:55

Nellie
Effie
Indie
Juno
Luna

Ezra
Elijah

Tuesday40 · 11/12/2017 21:16

Stella
Josephine ( nn posey)
Esther

All rejected by Dh, and no more babies for us.

MegAndSprog · 10/12/2017 10:27

Samson — SIL’s boyfriend is Sam
Felix — used by family and friends
Dashiell — DH’s favourite but I think it’s a bit “cool”, though I do like it
Rafe — “too posh”

Vita — doesn’t work with surname
Iona — ditto
Zara — bit popular for me
Anoushka — glorious but definitely falls into the OTT camp!

MrsPringles · 10/12/2017 10:03

For a girl Alba or Miley - I really really liked them. DH was a bit on the fence.
If DS was a girl, he would have been Amelia (which I still like but is SO popular now)

Boys, we really struggled and only liked the name that we have DS so thankful that we’re DONE with naming children because we would really struggle with another boys name Grin

BluePlasticBuddha · 10/12/2017 08:40

Yep baby hare.:) It was in a book I read once and I loved it. Not sure actual real life people use it! Someone must have once, though, I am sure.

Gauche Blush Grin

Minty82 · 09/12/2017 20:48

Leveret?! As in a baby hare? Is that genuinely used as a name?

Mammyloveswine · 08/12/2017 21:22

I absolutely love Bertie and would use it in a heartbeat if it went with my surname... alas the poor child would be very similar to Bertie Bassett...

Love Jude but DH does not...

Girls name... Esme... or elodie!

I have a Noah and new baby will likely be Elijah

GaucheCaviar · 08/12/2017 19:50

Leveret is very close to the French for doggy style, so i'd say that's a narrow escape Grin

RichmondAvenue · 08/12/2017 12:07

Yasmin or Jasmine
Jemima
Daniel
William
Hermione
Albert
Arthur

2 reasons - clash with surname and DH dislikes them.

PandaCat · 08/12/2017 12:06

Rory - We're having another girl

Rosalie - DD1 is Alice, and both names are in twilight, don't want possible connection to it 😂
Eleanor - Partner didn't like it

BluePlasticBuddha · 08/12/2017 11:33

If I had a girl she would be called Leveret. I just love it. It feels a little mystical and magical.

WhenLoveAndCakeCollide · 08/12/2017 11:02

Clementine and Olive - my surname begins with a fruit, so these names, and indeed any food/food-related name are out.

DH even put the kibosh on Rosemary (which would have been a great honoring name, as all our grandmothers have/had Rose or Mary either as first or middle names), due to it being a herb, but he did agree to it as a middle name at least.

Cressida was also ruled out, because of the first part of the name, for this same reason.

When I was pregnant with our daughter, I said to my DH, I kind of wish I'd taken his surname when we got married, as opposed to him taking mine (something he wanted, as his former last name, White is very common), because I realized Clementine etc were now unusable. However he then pointed out, that even White wouldn't have worked well, as Clementine White or Olive White, would sound like shades of paint. Ho hum.

Mrsknackered · 07/12/2017 20:18

Happinezz it is indeed but Margaret is also a horrid family members name! I would rather not have that association. Shame as I love Meg, Maggie and quite like Peggy.

hollygolipo · 07/12/2017 19:08

Percy. Love it...