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

Lydia too, dp kept saying "but Chlamydia". I think Lydia is a lovely name and never would associate it with an std!! It was the one name he was dead against though.

Dolly

Wallace for a girl. I love it but the plasticine associations are strong.

Vada, obvious why I didn’t go with that.

Mabel
Rumer
Lettice

Digby
Hamish
Atticus
Niles

Dh hates all of them, peasant that he is.

I have a Francesca Annabelle

Evangeline
Josephine
Angelica
Persephone
Annabeth
Marianne (marryanne not Marion or Mary Anne)
Juliette
Eowyn
Lorien

Jeremiah
Isaac
Gregor
Friedrich
Harrison
Jackson
Gabriel

Sorcha- Ser-i-ka

Aoife- Ee-fa

Saoirse- Seer-sha or (Saoirse Ronan pronounces it like Sur-sha)

You would have been helpful last week! I was supposed to be writing a transcription for something and there were several Irish people in the room who all stated their name but no spelling provided. Googling "Irish name that sounds like X" etc. did not help in the slightest. There are some beautiful Irish names but I just can't get the spelling and pronunciation to connect in my head. It took me years to remember that Aoife is Ee-fa and not Ay - Oh - Ee - Fee, despite having been told it many times. Ones like Saoirse I just can't get to stick (in my head it's Say-orse).

Henry. Was my beloved Grandfather's name. My DH vetoed it. It is my DS2's middle name, but I've carried a grudge about him vetoing it for 28 years.

Incidentally, is there an Irish male name that sounds like "Fire"?

Lysander.... love it, DH hates it
Jeremy ...... same as above

Atticus ( I adore it, sadly nobody else seems to), Atlas, Gabriel, Tobias.
Dd is a Lydia and I love it. Named after Lydia Deetz from Beetlejuice
If I ever have a dd2 my list would include Ophelia, Juliet and Romily.

Zachary - I already had a nephew of the same name

Samuel - for ds's middle name - we used dh's name instead and I don't regret it but prefer Samuel

@Lucylivesinamushroomhouse you are the only person I've heard of who also wanted the name Hephzibah! Dh said absolutely no, in fact I think he thought I was joking when I raised it. Dd says she is so grateful we didn't use it.
Like the poster upthread said, I'll use it as my next cats name😊

Ottilie

Bruce

On the other side of this my dad desperately wanted to name me Myfanwy. I can’t express to my mum how thankful I am that she stayed firm and did not give in to that one. A lifetime with the nickname Fanny doesn’t really bare thinking about.

Thor

Frederick (Freddie) - didn't go with surname but the child that was wpuld have pulled it off.
DD got the right name

For another dc:

Arthur
Louisa

Conal

I got distracted on the day so he ended up with another name. Wish I hadn’t been distracted 😆

Juliet on my list too!

Also love Helena

Vincent for a boy but ruined for me by my best friends ex!

Esme
Blythe
Caleb
Holden
Conrad

And Danger as a middle name

Aoife and Arlo. They'd make a good sibling pair too, I can imagine calling them across the park Sadly no plans for two further children (or even one!).

Isolde
Demelza
Fenella
Dipna
Finnavear
Fraya
Are all names that could have been used for my DD had I ever had one.

Juliet.

Gabriel
Elliott

Madison
Meredith

I had one Malachi and DH wanted Kylo.

Dorcas was suggested for me 😱 I was a plump child - Porky Dorky would have been an awful nickname 😳 thankfully it was vetoed