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Names you love but didn't use

64 replies

Echomama · 14/10/2024 16:36

As it says on the box.
Names you loved but didn't use, would love to hear some

I loved Adelaide
and Reuben

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hlc123 · 14/10/2024 20:17

Claudia, Amelia, Athena, Ellis, George

BluebirdBoogie · 14/10/2024 20:18

John
Rita
Laurence
Rachel

Gowlett · 14/10/2024 20:21

Simon.

DinnaeFashYerself · 14/10/2024 20:22

Calum
Finlay
Mirrin

MosaDiCello · 14/10/2024 20:24

Feminine names:

  1. Áine
  2. Autumn

Masculine names:

  1. Hendrix
  2. Oscar
Strawberrycheesecake7 · 14/10/2024 20:28

I plan to have more children so may still use the names on our joint list. These names were on my list but DH doesn’t like them so I will never use them.

Boys: Evan, Callum, Noah

Girls: Chloe, Delilah, Amy, Anna, Evelyn

KohlaParasaurus · 14/10/2024 20:30

For girls, Felicity, which my mum dismissed as "a cat's name" (I didn't understand why until I saw Basil the Great Mouse Detective) and Lillias. For boys, Benedict and Hamish. I love the names I gave my children, I just ran out of children to name.

Pocketfullofdogtreats · 14/10/2024 21:08

Joel
Sebastian
Jedediah
Sasha
Stefan
Guy

Gabrielle
Tabitha
Savannah
Artemis
Tallulah
Sacha
Clementine
Dinah
Rowan

BootballJoy · 14/10/2024 21:25

Freya
Sophia
Philippa
Anna
Tamsin
Imogen
Melissa
Persephone
Seraphina
Francesca
Phoebe
Marianne
(As middle names Penelope and Rosalind)

Felix
Tristan
Otto
Rollo
Stefan
Patrick
Edmund esp as a middle name

HiCandles · 14/10/2024 21:27

Also loved Adelaide, and Adeline.
Delphine, Persephone, Constance, Clementine. All vetoed by DH as too posh/flowery/just too much. Probably right, our eventual choice was simpler but still a little unusual imo.

CordeliaNaismithVorkosigan · 14/10/2024 21:28

Venetia
Eleanor
Katherine

We knew DD was a girl quite early so didn't think seriously about a boy's name.

Ceebs85 · 14/10/2024 21:29

I regret not calling my daughter Noa or Marnie

AgainandagainandagainSS · 14/10/2024 21:29

Scutterbug · 14/10/2024 16:43

Ella
Persephone
Jemima
Agatha
Violet
Rose/Rosie
Melissa
Camilla
Cara
Tabitha

Reuben
Harry
Henry
Elijah
Felix
Oscar

I love your boy names!

Isaiah was one of mine but DH couldn’t spell it without looking it up 🤣🤣

Awrite · 14/10/2024 21:33

Really would have loved Michael for dc2. I told him about a year ago and he said he would have liked to be a Michael. Ach well.

Pluckpluckyplucked · 14/10/2024 21:33

Lily - had an elderly client with that name who wasn't very nice, unreasonably put me off (pregnancy hormones).
William (with our surname and a shortened version it was the name of a famous person in the news for the wrong reasons).
Henry - a close relative used it.

DisforDarkChocolate · 14/10/2024 21:36

Kit. Just doesn't go with our surname.

defoneedanamechange · 14/10/2024 21:36

Ella
Daisy
Maisie
Elodie
Rosalie

Theo
Leo
Jacob
Charlie

All of my kids' names are a similar "vibe" though

Malvala · 14/10/2024 21:38

Girls:
Arwen
Monica
Odette

Boys:
Alexander
Orion
Enzo

polkadotpixie · 14/10/2024 21:47

Seth
Jude
Asa
Leo

Maggie
Charlotte
Rosa
Norah
Harriet
Thea
Verity

Areolaborealis · 14/10/2024 22:24

Amadeus, Prince, August - probably good thing I didn't go on to have more kids!

Wigtopia · 14/10/2024 22:26

Scutterbug · 14/10/2024 16:43

Ella
Persephone
Jemima
Agatha
Violet
Rose/Rosie
Melissa
Camilla
Cara
Tabitha

Reuben
Harry
Henry
Elijah
Felix
Oscar

Perse means “arse” in Finnish. As hard as I try I can never unsee ”arse” In the name Persephone 🫣🫣

Rain11 · 14/10/2024 22:27

Dolores
Ana
María
Fuensanta (Santi)
Iris
Leonor (Leo)
Alice
Angela

Diego

JumpstartMondays · 14/10/2024 22:28

Emmeline
Cosette
Ettalie
Coralie

Benedict
Rafferty
Atticus
Elliott

wizzbitt · 14/10/2024 22:29

Blue 💙

Philandbill · 14/10/2024 22:31

Allegra, Verity, Clementine
Alexander, Mathew, Jonathan