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

Toby
Oscar
Charlie
Lucy
Clementine

Lydia here too!
Also Roisin

And Seth or Rory for a boy - never had a boy.

Oh yes and Isolde.
Dh was so bloody boring about names.

Vivienne

Jonah

There were a lot of names I would have loved to use.
Sebastian
Jocelyn
Jago
Hector
Dorian
Hamish
To name but a few

Edie
Isabel
Imogen
Ella
Persephone
Beatrice

I had boys!

Isaac and Joseph were a hard no from DH (my choices for each of them). I still absolutely love them.
He would put Jack on this list. That was a hard no from me both times.

If we had more boys (we're done)...

Christopher (Kit)
Luke
Seth
Oscar

I love Gertrude, (Trudy,) but was talked out of it. Dd is very grateful but I love it!

Anya

Alexandra
Alison
Mary
Claudia
Dorothy

I had a son.

Tabitha
Hepzibah

Teddy
Felix

Alice

Isaac

Oh, and Thomas

Joseph

Saoirse ... tho a boy mum here so not sure the DS' would appreciate it!

Amber - I used Sophie (which I love and have from before was popular) but gets such a bad rap on here for being overused and I feel guilty.

Iris
Penelope
Lizzie
Lottie
Lucy

Jos - didn't have a DS but may have managed to swing this as a Joseph
Jory
Kit
Gabe

Saoirse, by far the most beautiful girls name I've ever heard.

I'd have kept up my nature names.

Elowen
Blythe
I could quite easily have had a Robin and a Wren were it not for the fucking arsehole I was with at the time who put me off having more children and would have crowbarred in my grandmother's and my granddad's baby sister's names - Phyllis and Violette - somehow. Maybe an Eleanor Arwen.

Boys could have been Robin, Branek, Edmund and Kit (Christopher), depending upon how much they resembled various uncles in colouring.

Anita
Josiah

I love Scarlett but back in the 1990s it felt to me like a name that would take some carrying off so I didn't risk it for my DD.. She would have done and of course almost 30 years on it isn't an out there name at all. In the 1970s I remember coming across a young woman called Poppy which seemed like a very exotic name!

Alexandra Minerva (as in first and second names).

I had an Edmund.

OP apart from one name your girls list was mine over my two dd's. I love Erica, wish I'd used that or Violet.

However, I have an Astrid so thanks for the love! I've had 3 rl people be very gushing about her name, one time was actually quite embarrassing (I obviously like it but it wasn't my first choice).

Several mentions of Saoirse. However do you pronounce it? I’d never give a child a name which nobody can pronounce or spell. I can’t even guess at Irish names, maybe it’s pronounced Mary.

Carlotta (didn't go with surname)
Mary (husband said no)
Robert (never had a boy)
Edmund (ditto)

I love my DDs names, but for imaginary daughters 3, 4 and 5 I'd love Storm, Raven and Willow

Ekaterina
Yael