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

Harriet
Xanthe

Sholto
Douglass

@HarrietThePi , yes there's Fíadh, girl's name. Look up the pronunciation.

@HarrietThePi , sorry, you said a male name.

Oran
Coinneach
Julia
Denny
Mary Grace

Iris
Beatrice
Florence
Xanthe

Sebastian
Arthur
Edward

I like DD’s name but kind of wish I’d named her one of the above (especially as one of her name sakes has turned out to be a back stabbing dick) but am very happy with DS’s name, shame not to have DS2 to have used one of the above

I adore Irish names. Orlaith, Caoimhe, Aoife, Niamh. But without a scrap of Irish in either family I felt totally unable to do it. Irish names are so beautiful.

Hector. DH loved it but I hated it....seems to have grown on me a lot over the years. We have a Cody instead, he suits his name but could have rocked Hector.

Murran.

Olivia or Charles. We were stupid enough to name a baby early on

Harriet
Ruth
Mary

James
Morgan
Gideon

Happy with all my name choices (dc seem happy too), names that I still like:
William,
Noah,
Lucy.

Isaac - never had a boy

Georgiana
Clara (DH said no)
Harriet ((DH said no)
Joy (didn’t have enough DC)

Love Scandinavian names.

Lars,Sven,Erik,Thorsten.

Astrid,Dagmar, Brigitte.

Lucy,Lydia,Alexandra,Caroline,Isabel

Felix(stupid MIL said can’t use cat’s food name), Harold, Jonathan.

DH vetoed most of my chosen names. He named DC1, I named DC2 after telling him he can’t choose all names.

Martha

We have 2 girls but if we had a boy DH and seriously considered Sterling before deciding we weren’t brave enough and settling on Hayden instead. In the (very) unlikely event we ever have a boy I would go for it now.

jurgen I have an Oscar and a Lucy. Also an Oliver nn Ollie.

Other names I liked were Dylan, Caleb and Sebastian for a boy and Lola, Avery and Rosie for a girl.

I love the names we chose, and wanted traditional names for our DC (having lived my life with a non traditional name!) but ones I loved were:
Morven (for a girl)
Darroch or Rannoch for a boy.

I've got two DS. If I'd have had a DD, she'd have been Petra.

Didn't get to use Ari, Sebastian or Cosmo for boys.

The boy names I have suit my DS's so well. But I wish I'd gone for Ari for DS2 as I think that would have suited him better, he's only five months though so plenty of time to grow more in to his own name.

Frank. I love the name I gave my son, but if he had a brother I'd love to have used this. No chance of another baby so I regularly try to persuade pregnant women to use this name.

Wolf
Shelbie

I loved loved loved Paloma but it didn't sound right with our surname, and this was before Paloma Faith so felt a bit out there - husband said a straight no to that one.

I love my daughter's name and it really suits her, but if I had another girl I'd go for Saskia or Orla.

Just curious if all the posters saying Irish names are Irish or have Irish connections or relatives? I love the name Niamh or Siofra or Eithne. Eithne is the singers
Enya's real name but they pronounce it differently in Donegal (as Enya) like they do a lot of other names! Also like Cathal, Cian, Diarmuid (Dermot in English) or Cormac but I have two girls!

Freya, and Scarlet (not Scarlett)

Also I would have thought of Astrid as being a popular Scandinavian name so curious to see how popular it seems to be in the UK.

Hero.

Just wasn't brave enough to use it, although I did still end up with pretty uncommon names for my twin daughters.

I have always loved some of the names in the Nigerian Christian communities: Praise, Bright, Blessing, Presence etc. But neither DH or I have any African heritage or cultural connection, so it would have sounded a bit awkward.