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Names you'll never use but love!

91 replies

LittlemissMama67 · 12/06/2022 20:04

What are names you'll never use, either because you done having babies, or you're not sure your brave enough..

Im pregnant with baby number 3 a little girl and we have her name, I'm having no more so I know I'll never use these names, and it makes me sad 😄

Girls:

Edie
Hattie
Mabel
Thea
Tillie
Honey

Boys:

Sonny
Ozzy
Ronnie
Arlo

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YukoandHiro · 13/06/2022 19:40

Oh also Elliott but it's the surname in another part of our family so we couldn't have done it

YukoandHiro · 13/06/2022 19:38

DH refused:
Nancy
Lavinia
Jonah
Sidney (for a boy)

We weren't brave enough for Cleo.

Adore Rufus but doesn't go with another sibling name

ClosedAuraOpenMind · 13/06/2022 19:36

Ariel for a girl. I love it, there was a show I used to watch with a character with that name, and I thought it was so cool
DH was just 'we can't use that, it's a brand of washing powder'

Pixie2015 · 13/06/2022 19:22

Rory

annabeth
charlotte
scarlett

WorryMcGee · 13/06/2022 19:21

Maeve ❤️

TheVanguardSix · 13/06/2022 19:17

I always come onto these threads to type my favourite two:

Isambard and Scheherazade

Also, Elisheva (I absolutely love the Hebrew form of Elizabeth) and Ze'ev.

Vampirethriller · 13/06/2022 19:05

I can't have any more but my favourite names are:

Callula
Julia
Callisto
Theda
Bethesda
Hadassah
Shiloh

Raphael
Lysander
Jabez
Arthur
Inigo

I'm going to have to have a lot of cats.

RestingMurderousFace · 13/06/2022 18:59

Tabitha and Leo have been my names for over 20 years. No children though. Perhaps I should get cats...

Cloud16 · 13/06/2022 18:57

Dustin for a boy nn Dusty 😳

Dreamingof3 · 13/06/2022 10:06

@anxiousatnight I have a Pippa. Still absolutely love it 😀

Clementine
Tuesday

Carter
Atticus
Roux

lightisnotwhite · 12/06/2022 22:36

I like a Germanic name. A Karl or a Conrad. I thought about Christofferson as it has slightly less macho connotations. I ruled it out as having way too many letters and therefore a pain to spell and too expensive to buy cute personalised stuff . Gave DS an unusual short name that I love and it’s not been mentioned since,
Weirdly DS told me at about 7 or 8 quite randomly that he really liked the name Christofferson and wished he’d been called that…

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 12/06/2022 22:08

Clicked to say Jezebel but was pipped at first post.

Actually prefer Jezabel but still ... 🙁

LongLiveLiz · 12/06/2022 22:01

Dorcas

Beekindbeehumble · 12/06/2022 21:47

Elizabeth
Constance
Ruth

Barnaby
Henry
William/Wilfred

Twattergy · 12/06/2022 21:44

Winston
Bathsheba

MumofSpud · 12/06/2022 21:44

MidwichCuckoo · 12/06/2022 20:46

I'd like to have had an Emily and an Ida. I did use Emily as a second name for one dd.
I'd like to have had a Jack and for late dh a Daniel. (After his dad.) Probably just as well we didn't have boys as Jack and Daniel don't go well together!

Your Girl names! I am one and my DD is the other!

RoyKent · 12/06/2022 21:44

Always loved Tiger Lily and Tigs for short. I'm one and done so sad I never got to use my boy name- Lev

Batinthehouse · 12/06/2022 21:41

Balthazar and Lucian.

Peccary · 12/06/2022 21:41

Carmen as surname starts and ends in same sounds

Gardenerboo · 12/06/2022 21:40

Juniper

Footbelle · 12/06/2022 21:39

Tristan

Idiotintraining · 12/06/2022 21:38

I like Sofia.

Ronnie is my oldest name x

walkersareback · 12/06/2022 21:35

Xerxes
Persephone
Seraphina

Puppyhouse · 12/06/2022 21:11

Edward and Arthur ❤️❤️

Dinneronmybfpillow · 12/06/2022 20:48

Henry and Kit.

Had three girls and we can't afford a bigger house so no more children for us.