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Ok, what erm, unsual, name did you secretly want to call your LO?

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WewishyouaBUMPERLICIOUS · 26/12/2008 22:31

I'll go first: DD was very nearly Sapphire.

I also really wanted Twm for a boy (Welsh for Tom), but I am not Welsh! I just thought it was fab to have a name with no vowels!

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belgo · 07/01/2009 10:15

Also wanted Coco! Dh wanted Pixie.

lambskinmmm · 07/01/2009 10:14

naturalbornmum - Talullah, Coco, Ophelia ARE ALL on my shortlist... Though only Ophelia is agreed with DD and DH. I have a funny story about why Imay not choose it.. why didn't you?

I had a dream that they made a hip hop version of Hamlet and all of a sudden there were millions of gum chewing girls with side pony tails and make up called Ophelia!!! I stil love the name though.

wigan · 07/01/2009 09:12

Wanted Celia for DD, but DH wouldn't have it. Went with Felicity instead.

ninedragons · 07/01/2009 04:56

Irish friends of ours have a Tiernan.

He looks like a six-year-old James Blunt. The first time I saw him I thought man, in ten years you will be beating the girls off with a shitty stick.

I considered Aida, but thought naming DD after a slave wasn't the best start in life I could give her. DH actually suggested Persephone but I think it must have been one morning when he'd woken up from eight hours of breathing in the fog of my pregnancy hormones.

delphinedownunder · 07/01/2009 02:03

oohh Zebraa, I wanted Willow too, or Miranda. DH vetoed both. I also wanted Ngaire, but there is another Ngaire in our (tiny) village. We had Isobel instead.

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simpson · 07/01/2009 00:51

Whoever said the name Patience I love it

However when pg with DS (did not know sex) I said to DH if a boy I wanted to call him Corey

DH said no way so he got to choose name instead!!

sleepycat · 07/01/2009 00:50

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KatB · 07/01/2009 00:43

Fab thread. Am bumping it a bit
Savannah - was my potential name for DS 13 years ago (if he was a girl) and still like it although everyone else seems to hate it
Likewise Claudia which I still love

Lonnie · 28/12/2008 15:49

Ohh Just saw Conrad was on here.. dh also said no to begin with but I won him round and our one ds is Conrad.. (and yes its a strong name and yes its unusual but EVERYONE has heard of it you do not get He is called WHAT>??) the one thing about it that REALLY irritates me is people think you say Connor and I LOATHE that name so much (BAD BAD BAD associations)

but I wanted Noah for a boy when we were expecting dd2 and dh said no way (I think because he was a bit worried about my crush on Noah Wyle lol)

mummydoc · 28/12/2008 15:43

piper or coco for dd2

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Lonnie · 28/12/2008 15:37

DS2 I wanted Otis. DP said no as its the name of a brand of lifts. I had never seen that in a lift before. Since he told me, every bloody lift I go in (and you go in a lot when you have a pram grin) has a big plate on saying 'OTIS'.

yes its a name of a brand of lifts.. it was named such because of the first name of the Uncle of the man whom invented the lift.. (watch Kate and Leopold with Meg Ryan it is actually mentioned in there lol) and I LOVE it I think it is beautiful but dh vetooed

for a girl with my oldest I wanted Lakme' or Aida (both Operah) but dh said no blooming way (spoil sport)

I wanted Magnus or Gustav for a boy (dh vetoed)

We discussed Seraphina for dd3 and it got to the top 3 list but she didnt look like a Seraphina at all when she was born..

We had Amabel (old name) for all of the girls but neither felt right and there was also a concern that everyone would say Annabelle? (no aMabel)

for dd2 we discussed Bastian for a boy I love Sebastian but dh wont hear of it but He had no issue with Bastian..

Oh and dh (I am Danish before I tell this) always said if we had a boy he wanted to name him Lars Johannes Bjorn.. (I dont think so dear)

I still would have loved Aida or Lakme' I think they are beautiful names.. I also love Persephone

minouminou · 28/12/2008 15:24

Temujin, the real name of my all-time hero Genghis Khan. Was touted as a middle name, but we decided that his 1st name was uber-mega-alpha-male enough - and that naming him after the dude whose Y-chromosome is in 1 in 200 men alive today was fraught with trouble!

nooka · 28/12/2008 01:13

We were going to have an Ezra, but ds2 turned out to be dd. My father is called Marius, I think it's a pretty cool name.

michaelbooblie · 28/12/2008 01:03

Missy, and she is a little missy!.

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Kafka · 27/12/2008 22:03

I wanted Ethel, I think it is so pretty, but dh put his food down!

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 27/12/2008 21:55

DH wanted Sabian for a boy. luckily we had a girl

re T'Panga - that was from boy meets world?

dandycandyjellybean · 27/12/2008 21:24

the whole time ds was 'cooking' dh called him Archimedes, and he wanted to call him this, Archie for short (or Rudolf ffs - is part Germanic tho!) ended up with Jonah Gideon.

2pt4WiseMen · 27/12/2008 19:49

I really wanted to call DS2 Indiana
LOVE the name and so does DH but we just werent daring enough in the end!

georgimama · 27/12/2008 19:48

Nothing wrong with George, it's a great name.

Bumperlicious · 27/12/2008 19:44

Oh I've thought of another one, Andrina, Drina for short, from the Drina Ballerina books.

WorzselMummage · 27/12/2008 19:37

DD was almost an Eliza, a Ruby or a Scarlett..

She ended up a Grace.

We're expecting a boy and I LOVE Cassius but DF wont hear of it so its probably George