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Original poster

Names you adored but went off

37 replies

whatausername · 05/09/2020 00:34

What are yours?

Mine:
Seth
Sebastian
Hepzibah
Adelaide

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dontforgettofloss · 05/09/2020 18:20

Bronwen
Courtney
Louise

redstringattached · 05/09/2020 16:20

Alexa - Amazon
Storm - My love for it just ran its course
Ophelia - paedoph*lia
Rosamund- my accent makes the mund part so ugly sounding

TheChristmasPrincess · 05/09/2020 15:59

Sophia - too popular
Ava - too popular
Isabella - too popular
Harry - too popular
Lucas - too popular
Harvey - Harvey Weinstein association
Maxwell - Ghislaine Maxwell association (we were so close to calling DS1 Maxwell 😲)
Theodora - I really loved it as a full name for Thea, then suddenly realised it was very clunky and Thea was better on its own

FallingOffTheBed · 05/09/2020 15:51

Hera
Isla

Theo
Noah

Just because they all became really really common when My Dcs were born. I still like Hera, but think it would be hard to carry off.

Thirty2andBlue · 05/09/2020 15:01

Isaac, I know of 4 born to various friends around the same time DD was born.

Abigail, Eleanor and Sapphire/Sophia from days working in a school

Haworthia · 05/09/2020 14:56

Violet. It seemed really popular around 2010 but it seems to have had its day already (not that I’ve checked the official stats - I could be wrong!)

BackforGood · 05/09/2020 14:52

I better not identify them, but I had several names I quite liked before I had my dc, but then just couldn't use them as they reminded me of particular pupils. Wink

Oneandabean · 05/09/2020 14:45

James
Esther
Reuben
Penelope
Heather
Niall
Iris

BabyLlamaZen · 05/09/2020 14:26

Same! @Unseeliequeen

Unseeliequeen · 05/09/2020 13:15

Arthur. It was my grandads name and I like the King Arthur association but as there are now 9 quintillion boys called Arthur everywhere I've gone off it.

Newgirl20 · 05/09/2020 03:16

Sasha
Mia
Riley
Fergus
Darragh (haven't gone off just a family name)
Daisy(ditto)
Marlon
Frankie (loved but too common)
Billie(ditto)
Ryan(also a family name)
Evie (also a family name)

sorryforswearing · 05/09/2020 01:42

Niall
Joel

Robyn
Ciar (Irish)Went off it in hospital when I met a new mum who had called her daughter Kia and said she’d found it on a champagne bottle.

Rosie - Had one in my class. Enough said.