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Names you'll never use but love!

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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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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!

SareBear87 · 12/06/2022 20:43

For girls:
Lettice- I love it but DP thinks it sounds like lettuce in a posh accent.

Polly - DP loves it but that was our cats name when I was little!

For boy:

Horatio - just wouldn't work with our surname

Harry/Henry - always wanted it for a boy but DPs parents have a dog with the name so that's out!

Whoatealltheminieggs · 12/06/2022 20:41

Tabitha

toastofthetown · 12/06/2022 20:40

Vita - husband vetoed, associates it too strongly with a 160kg football player rather than a little girl
Lysander - vetoed, along with some lingering concerns about usability on my part

HappyHappyHermit · 12/06/2022 20:40

Ariadne

ItisallPooh · 12/06/2022 20:38

Harris
Glen
Gregor
Struan

Pollyanna
Heather
Lois
Jamie (for a girl)
Ruby

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LittlemissMama67 · 12/06/2022 20:32

Oh! Love Pippa

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anxiousatnight · 12/06/2022 20:31

Pippa. This is the only name DH and I both properly loved before having kids, alas, we are an all boy family!

makinganavalon · 12/06/2022 20:21

Delphine

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inmyslippers · 12/06/2022 20:14

There's soo many but I went with safe names. Didn't want my child to be saddled with an out there name that they resent me.

Girls
Neveah
Marley

Boys
Lorenzo
Ira
Carey
Franklyn
Shay

SummaLuvin · 12/06/2022 20:11

BeyondMyWits · 12/06/2022 20:08

Andromeda, always fancied that name, but is a bit outside the family "comfort zone"

I adore this, so beautiful, and I love the nickname Andy for a girl.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 12/06/2022 20:11

Lorelei
Isis

Isambard
Eliezer

SummaLuvin · 12/06/2022 20:10

Hate some of the nicknames
Diana
Valentina

Too religious
Evangeline
Moses

DH hates
Bridget
Margarita
Wilbur

Too 'pretentious'
Constantine

BeyondMyWits · 12/06/2022 20:08

Andromeda, always fancied that name, but is a bit outside the family "comfort zone"

Reallyreallyborednow · 12/06/2022 20:06

Jezebel. Love it but…

Jethro. Love it but again, even if you get past the sound of banjos- the area I live the local accent uses “f” instead of “th”…