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what would you have called your dc if brave enough or if different gender?

147 replies

cheesesarnie · 26/08/2009 23:19

dd was going to be james.ds1 was going to be daisy,ds2 was going to be ruby willow or maggie if opposite sex.
names i like and either kind of wish id been brave enough to use or if i could have ten more children would be-
kitty
tallulah
olivia
pearl
iris

felix
joseph
taylor
seb
teddy
oliver

i will get lots of cats i thinkor fish?

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MissGreatBritain · 28/08/2009 23:21

Loved Rita (but had a boy).

beatiebow · 28/08/2009 23:02

Cocoa and Paddy were my (casual) choices pre-children. After a while I preferred Theo to Paddy.

PinkyRed · 28/08/2009 22:51

Gabriel - but I think this is a name for a thin, fey child who will grow up to be a thin, whimsical young man. We are big galumping people whose children are genetically fated to be rugby league players.

yogabird · 28/08/2009 22:42

Calypso
Kitty
Betsy
Maggie
Octavia
Arabella
I like Coco too, baskingseals

Archie
Sid
Jonty
Monty

baskingseals · 28/08/2009 22:29

I wanted Coco for dd, but was vetoed by everybody. Strangely I also liked Martina and Pearl.

Paolosgirl · 27/08/2009 16:43

Archie - DH was having that over his dead body, as I recall. I also wanted William, but it's too often shortened to Wullie round here, and there was no way...

Girls - Hope, but it sounded ridiculous with our surname, and Flora which again was on the no-way list for DH, and which is probably just as well as DD was horrified when I told her that she had nearly been called Flora

GreensleevesFlouncedLikeAKnob · 27/08/2009 16:41

I wanted Rainbow for a girl

oddly enough dh agreed to it

but we have boys

angelene · 27/08/2009 16:40

I would love to have a Ruby which is one of the few names actually goes well with our not uncommon but difficult surname.

However I'm a redhead and I wouldn't want to have a redheaded Ruby!

largeginandtonic · 27/08/2009 16:40

Each Peach Your names are fabulous.

Our 7th dc was a girl and Septimus is not so great. The girlie equivalents were not so great.

SpawnChorus · 27/08/2009 16:37

I'm pg with No3, but if I were to have a 4th and it was a boy he would be Sinclair Murdo. A girl would be Penelope Pearl.

francagoestohollywood · 27/08/2009 16:30

Oh Zora is lovely.
I also like Kezia (there is a Kezia in some Katherine mansfield's short stories).

For dd I'd have liked Natalia after my favourite Italian writer, but it really sounds bad with her surname.

For ds I'd have liked Milo, but I thought too pretentious at the time.

EachPeachPearMum · 27/08/2009 16:30

We did use the names we wanted... have to stare people out on occasion

The other name I love is Septimus... but I'm not having 7dc just to use it!

largeginandtonic · 27/08/2009 16:26

Juule Octavia/Ocativius is on the list or #8.

It's not happening though, really it's not.

4andnotout · 27/08/2009 16:25

I love Scarlett too but with my dc's surname it sounds like a genital disease..Scarlett Lilley

juuule · 27/08/2009 16:23

It is quite nice, isn't it Bibbity?
Too late now though.

bibbitybobbityhat · 27/08/2009 16:18

I love Octavia, juuule

CarrieDababi · 27/08/2009 16:17

i would have loved to use scarlett, would if i had another girl... i think

unless i chicken out again!

MrsMattie · 27/08/2009 16:17

I wanted Fidel for a boy. DH laughed in my face.

I also loved Zora for a girl. Again, DH scoffed.

bibbitybobbityhat · 27/08/2009 16:17

Sheherazade

Dorothy

Ruben

TheFallenMadonna · 27/08/2009 16:16

I sigh for Alec.

Which is bonkers because I never actually had a second boy (DS's name was a given), but when I was pregnant with DD, DH wouldn't countenance it as he had been convinced that the pregnancy that we lost had been a boy, and so was Alec.

So we had another name (that I love too) as our boys choice, and it was a girl anyway. So why I sigh for Alec I don't know.

That sounds daft

4andnotout · 27/08/2009 16:16

I think dd2 should have been Bodecia and DD3 should have been Pixie or Peaches.

I'm my dreams i'll have another daughter called Aurora and twin boys Stanley and Albie

juuule · 27/08/2009 16:15

Toyed with the idea of Octavia for our 5th dd (8th dc).

William and Matilda if I'd had boy/girl twins (Billy and Tilly)

minouminou · 27/08/2009 16:10

DS' name has been a constant since 1992, so there was, for me, no alternative.
DD's name was chosen by DP, but I hankered after Evangeline. However, I have an irrational dislike of the name Evie, which would have been an inevitable NN.
if DD had been male, I was thinking along the lines of Zeke, Stigan and Tostig (although I wasn't 100% about Tostig, and it got a right old going over on here!).

jamandjerusalem · 27/08/2009 13:10

Ooh, Clemence is great, Homebird8, and I love Clement too.

Emerald is lovely I think.