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What are your favourite baby names you ended up not using?

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Namesnamesnames13 · 16/07/2026 17:32

Tell me your favourite names you didn’t use?

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Zitouna · 22/09/2026 00:19

Cosima, Allegra, Simone, Merle

Went for something a little more common, though not much. Still sigh over Cosima…

SmallWhiteFluffyClouds · 21/09/2026 23:05

Boys - Fraser, Hugo, Nicholas
Girls - Lucinda, Felicity, Kerensa

ivyleafgeranium · 21/09/2026 23:00

Esther. DH vetoed as it reminds him of polyester. Wilf - had a girl.

Scarlettpixie · 21/09/2026 22:41

Oh and Elijah and Raphael, Esme and Emilia.

Scarlettpixie · 21/09/2026 22:37

India, Rose, Scarlette, Arwen, Evelyn, Caitlin.

Theoden, Saul, Leo, Reuben, Jackson, Kai.

Lifeasitis91 · 21/09/2026 22:26

leavingonajetplane76 · 13/09/2026 01:37

Elijah and Micah because exdp didn't like them too biblical

Isabella, Seren and Esme because we had boys

Love those names along with Isaiah and Asher. I'm not sure if Asher is biblical though

Meltimi · 14/09/2026 07:31

Mya. Pronounced like Maya is but was concerned folk wouldn't get it right. But had boys.

Jugjug · 13/09/2026 12:31

Michelle

(for my child born in the mid 2010s!)

Had no idea it was such a middle aged name but I was 16 and ignorant and had just heard the name before and liked the sound. Thank god the people around me talked me out of that one

VoltaireMittyDream · 13/09/2026 03:50

Jethro 😳 (vetoed by DH, thankfully)
Erica

mathanxiety · 13/09/2026 03:12

Angharad
Bridget
Alice
Niamh

HerbieFluffyDumpling · 13/09/2026 01:48

Jolyon
Nathan - always loved this name, but DH was bullied by someone called Nathan, who also had the same surname, so he wouldn't entertain it unfortunately.

leavingonajetplane76 · 13/09/2026 01:37

Elijah and Micah because exdp didn't like them too biblical

Isabella, Seren and Esme because we had boys

emeraldrainbow · 12/09/2026 19:04

Iris

Instructions · 30/08/2026 21:56

Thomas, because my husband hates it

Kwame, because we are British and Polish and that would just have been impossible

Roman, because with our surname it would have definitely have sounded liked a tribute to Polanski

Pallisers · 30/08/2026 21:54

Thomas - didn't have a second boy.

Sorcha - too difficult to pronounce where I live
Juliet - ran out of children
Cassandra - ditto

wotsitallfor · 30/08/2026 21:53

Jos (Joseph) and Kit (Christopher) were vetoed

Lifeasitis91 · 30/08/2026 21:51

Saskia - my ex said it sounded like a dogs name
I had a girl, but I always love the name Fletcher for a boy

waltzingparrot · 30/08/2026 21:47

Jude, Naomi and Harriet

HandsFaceTeeth · 30/08/2026 21:19

I always liked Xanthe, but was shouted down

Any1ForTennis · 30/08/2026 21:03

DS would have been Gemma (90's kid), sounds old fashioned now but I really liked it.

I also really like Brodie but never got to use it, I'll wait until DS has kids (if he has them) and try and sublimally drop it into conversation as a baby name suggestion 😆. Otherwise, that will be my dogs name when i retire!

Hoork · 30/08/2026 20:52

I really loved the name Braighleigh, but MIL did not. 🙄

embroideredpanda · 30/08/2026 19:21

Susannah
Flora
Helen
Felix
Max
Laurence

Daytona1 · 29/08/2026 23:43

Guy

Unreasonableexpectation · 29/08/2026 21:01

Orlaith (pronounced Orla). We have two boys so never got to use it

Bebamama · 26/08/2026 10:25

On our list…
Sienna - top contender
Thea - Husband liked it more than me and I felt it didn’t flow with our surname
Seren
Mali
Mabli
Ines - husband hated it
Imogen - loved it but then hated it - probably hormones
Daisy
Thalia - husband wasn’t keen
Summer