Baby names you wished you had used

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I still adore, but for various reasons, didn’t use:

Lydia
Juliet
Erica
Molly
Francesca

Finlay
Charlie

Aoife

Astrid

Joshua

Georgiana
Harriet
Fredrick
Millicent
Cameron
Joy

Felix
Samuel
Joseph
Thomas

Gabriella
Elspeth
Madeleine
Phoebe

Joseph
Owen

Katie
Nicola

Echo

Only one DS so no chance.

Griffen
Desmond
Jasper

Astrid. That was a flat no from her father.
Mina. Got it in as a middle name but wish I'd used it as her first name.
And my surname. Again, was forced to use his surname and now he's out of the picture she's stuck with a truly awful surname that doesn't suit her at all. My surname sounds beautiful with the rest of her names.

Isaac

Lucian ... but think others don't like it like I do

Josephine
Olive
Beatrix
Clementine
Sally
Jude
Silas
Rowan
Ralph

Astrid, Maeve, Cassius and Atticus.

Completely adore them all. All were laughed at and vetoed by dp

Op I have a Francesca and her best friend is a Juliet!

Gabriel
Finbar
Teddy
Jude

Erika and Rosa.

I don't regret my DDs name though, so these are just my imaginary 2nd and 3rd daughters.

These are our not used ones for girls couldn't agree on any boys names 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Octavia
Ophelia
Heidi
Erica
Eleanora
Geniveve
Arizona
Astrid

Although I love Gregory for a boy

Jemima. Although my DD suits being called Poppy and wouldn't have suited Jemima at all, so it would have been for another imaginary daughter 😁

Loveday. I adore it.

Constance - DP veto.

Daphne - we’d have agreed but only thought of it too long after the event.

Artemis. Really wish I had insisted on it.

Phoebe! Love it!

Evangeline - wasn't brave enough.

Felix. Hard no from DH but I still love it.

Honor, just didn’t bloody think of it at the time!
Gabriel. I love it so much and thought I would wear down dh eventually
I didn’t.

Juliet
Isolde
Sorcha
Emmet
Hugo

I ran out of children