What names were on your shortlist but didn’t make the cut?

[ShirleyPhallus]

I’m pg now and have a shortlist of names I love. Feel a bit sad only to pick one!

Any names that got left behind that you still love?

I always daydreamed I’d use lots of lovely, literary names. If I’d had more sons I’d have used Laurie (Little Women,) or Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables.) dh was less keen.

Morwenna, Cerys, Sasha & Meredith are the names I loved and didn't get to use. DH didn't like Morwenna & Meredith & we have no Welsh connection so he thought Cerys would be ridiculous. We would have used Sasha but DC2 was a boy and we had only come across it as a girls' name.

The names I loved but didn't use were
Adam (doesn't sound right with surname)
Alistair (name of family member)
William (DH veto)
Summer (DH veto)
Tess (both liked this but not as much as the one we actually chose)
Clara (as for Tess)

I have had two boys and names that got left behind are Taylor, Vincent and Aaron.

My girl names I never got to use were Vada, Abigail and Melody.

Morwenna, Cerys, Sasha & Meredith are the girls names I loved and didn't get to use. DH didn't like Morwenna & Meredith & we have no Welsh connection so he thought Cerys would be ridiculous. We would have used Sasha but DC2 was a boy and we had only come across it as a girls name.
Alexander and Peter are my favourite boys names but they had negative connotations for DH.

Saskia
Natasha
Eliza
Katerina

Florence

Boys
Harry (DH vetoed
Ethan (I vetoed
Henri. (DH vetoed
Archie (DH vetoed
Spencer - just fizzled out for both of us

Never picked any girls names

Nathaniel
Harrison
Genevieve
Honor

Aidan- OH said posh
Ryan- a family members estranged DC
Seb- OH said too posh
Adam

Alice-love My favourite ever but OH said boring.

Phoebe
Claudia

Girls - Connie. Kelise. Megan.
Boys - James (only as a middle name)

Martha, Nell & Ellen

I love phoebe, saskia and Natasha from these posts

All my girls' names, because I had all boys

@raindropsonwindows it's spelt Sacha for a boy I think

Perdita, Gregory, Laura, Eleanor (used as middle name though)

Evangeline

Really wished I'd used it!

And Bethan or Bethany

Boys

Jude, Rocco, Felix, Jesse

Girls

Delilah, Serena

All except Serena made the final cut for names. DH just hated Serena and refused to consider it.

Boys
Ben I vetoed as knew a cat and dog with this name.
Luke as it clashed with our surname.
Callum vetoed by DH
Girls
Alisha
Beth
Julia all because we had a boy

I never got to pick any name since I adopted!

If i were to have a birth child they would have been:
Alexander
Richard (Richie)
Logan
Jesse

Fern
Roxy
Jessica
Nina

I'm relieved about the names from my list that I didn't use. 😁

Steven, Stuart, Raymond, Nicholas, Nathaniel.
I love boring names :).

Boys:
Jacob
Lewis (very nearly used for DS1)
Francis
Oliver

Girls:
Megan
Tara
Leah