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What baby boy names did you love but didnt use?

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Rodneyyoudipstick · 23/03/2023 09:28

What baby names did you love but didn't use? Do you wish you did?

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CoffeeChocolateWine · 23/03/2023 11:44

Lots. But the big one was Luke which I had had picked out as a child but then married a man with lots of 'Ks' in his surname and it sounded awful with it!

Also
Theo
Jude
Dominic
Dmitri
Etienne
Caspian

Most I didn't use because I had girls and some because I wasn't brave enough/felt I couldn't because I wasn't the nationality! Still happy with the boys names I did get to use though!

rosegoldivy · 23/03/2023 11:43

MooseBreath · 23/03/2023 10:08

Gerard "Gerry"
Gilbert "Gill"
Linus
Atticus
Odhran

DH vetoed all of these except Atticus, which he responded to with "Twatticus, Fatticus, Who-datticus". Then had the nerve to ask last week why we didn't use the name for DS2 because he really loves it.

Who-datticus hahahahahaha

Snorted in my tea haha

Kranke · 23/03/2023 11:42

Florian - may use this in the future!
Frederick - hate Freddie so wouldn’t choose it
Ludo
Douglas - hate Duggie
Fraser

17caterpillars1mouse · 23/03/2023 11:36

I had girls but our boys names were Rufus and Benjamin

LonelyInTheOcean · 23/03/2023 11:32

Sebastian
Nathaniel
Joshua
Joel

SisSuffragette · 23/03/2023 11:28

Kingsley and Anakin. I've gone off them both now but loved them at the time!

OceanbreezeSun · 23/03/2023 11:26

I liked Leo, Micah, Brodie, Fraser, Eli, Freddie, Jacob and Zak. Dh didn’t like Leo, Eli or Jacob, we already knew a couple of Freddie’s. He wasn’t 100% about Brodie. I’ve gone off it too since then.

We came across our ds name a few days before he was born, it was like a lightbulb - we both just went ‘yes, that’s it!’

We would have gone with Zak otherwise. Still one of my fave boys names, would have had it as a middle name but it didn’t go.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 23/03/2023 11:18

Isambard

scrivette · 23/03/2023 11:17

Riven. It rhymes with the surname.
Coincidentally my cousin suggested it as a name when DS was born, I didn't think anyone would have heard of it.

ComeTheFuckOnBridgett · 23/03/2023 11:16

Sidney
Roman
Kasper

Twizbe · 23/03/2023 11:15

Also I love Richard, but it's my brothers name so couldn't use it.

Twizbe · 23/03/2023 11:15

Rockingcloggs · 23/03/2023 10:18

I really really wanted a Jimmy but got a George instead!

I have a Jimmy (James officially)

I loved Frederick for my second, but she's a girl so didn't use it. Knowing her now I think she would have been Fred or Rick for short.

mummyoli · 23/03/2023 11:12

Adam

CastleTower · 23/03/2023 10:58

Alexander would have been my choice, but DH wasn't keen. Still love it! But we picked a name that doesn't belong to anyone in our family/wider circle already, which is probably a good thing.

Also love Gabriel and Ronan, but neither felt right in the moment when we came to decide.

MadameSzyszkoBohusz · 23/03/2023 10:47

Samuel was my first choice for DS but I got outvoted by DH and DD.

I also Barnaby, Leo and Issac, but DH vetoed them.

nowaworriedmum · 23/03/2023 10:45

Rupert.

mumonthehill · 23/03/2023 10:45

Noah as a friend called hers this. Hebe, but i did not have a girl!!

RudsyFarmer · 23/03/2023 10:43

Gabriel
Cassius
Caspian
Maximus
Oberon
Emmanuel

So basically long, pretentious names 🤣

Natsku · 23/03/2023 10:38

Aslak. Always loved the name and wanted to name a son it but in the end I decided as I don't live in Lapland it would be a bit weird to name him that.

thymewaster · 23/03/2023 10:38

Mylo
Emmet

SophiaSW1 · 23/03/2023 10:34

Stanley.

Pillowtalkkkkk · 23/03/2023 10:22

Rufus! Loved it. Still love it.

But when DS was a tiny newborn and DH leaned over his cot in the hospital and said, “Baby Rufus. Hello Roo,” I didn’t like the nickname Roo at all, and it made me like the name Rufus less! So we went with something else.

PurBal · 23/03/2023 10:20

Christopher

Rockingcloggs · 23/03/2023 10:18

I really really wanted a Jimmy but got a George instead!

nowaworriedmum · 23/03/2023 10:18

Sonny
Kitt
Jett
Gabriel

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