Names you'll never get to use...

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When I was pregnant with my 2 DS's I had boy and girl names decided on before the 20 week scans!

I had 2 DS's, and after the last one we decided no more, so my girl name will go unused and I feel a little sad about it. It was a great name.

Anyone else feel like this

Kitty and alexa here! Would have had a battle to persuade Dh with kitty. it he loved alexa.

Gethyn or Selwyn if we have another boy. Altho DP is Welsh he can't pronounce "th", pronounces it as "f", so any names with a "th" in them are verboten. & Selwyn is too close to DS1's name.

Clara, because DD's middle name is Clare. I thought I only wanted one child and never thought about subsequent names. And now I am irrationally convinced that Clara is the best girl's name ever and would also make a lovely sibset with Edith.

Cassius Oscar India and Iris, but that would make 8 dc's! Eeeek

Rory
Samuel
Stella
Lucy

Isobel Cecelia, the Cecelia after a wonderful auntie who kept her dignity and grace throughout having althziemers and cancer. Feel quite sad just had dc4 and dh says no more.

I love nyree by the way

Zeus. Just don't have the balls but love it.

We shall have a #3 eventually, and my favourites are Valentina and Claudia for a girl, and Dashiell for a boy.

Friend has just given birth to a son (I have 2 DDs) and am now BROODY for a boy but know if I have another girl, I get to use Valentina or Claudia so it's all good which I think go very well with her sisters' names (Penelope and Constance)

This thread making anyone else feel like jumping into bed with DH?

I don't know, is he any good?

Arf - he is actually. With 2 under 2 though he complains he doesn't get enough so I'm sure he'd be happy for any offers!

I've always had a secret(ish) crush of Iphegenia, Ianthe and Eric but as we are 3 and out there will be no more babies.

On the plus side I did get to have a Lilith, Alethea and Callia with the middle names of Louise, Ivy and Seren so it wasn't all bad

Mine was Ethne, never got to use it and never will. Since then i have done my family tree and Isabella, Annie and Thomasine were names used in my side of the family for generations. I would probably have used one of these had i known

TruthSweet so do you have a Callia Seren? That is a sentence in Welsh! :o

Betsy/Betty
Tess
Posy
Trilby

Just had my second dc, a lovely little boy (dc 1 is a girl) 4 weeks ago, and am obviously thrilled but am slightly wistful for the name Esther, which was my girl's name, which have now fallen in love with - even contemplating having another already so might get to use it, though dp believes we are stopping at 2 (think it must be hormones!)

ConstanceFelicity - I know in Greek Callia means 'beautiful' and in Welsh Seren means 'star' but I didn't know Callia had a meaning in Welsh too! Very curious as to what it means, so do tell.

Not sure that I should...

The closest I can come to a translation is "wise up" or "get wise". But obviously it would be pronounced with a Welsh "ll", and I think I'm right in saying that only North and mid-Walians would use it.

It's a lovely name. :)

Indigo, vetoed by DH, probably rightly, but I'll always live it!

Our surname is the name of a tree.

So, no Willows, Hazels, Laurels or Rowans will be joining our brood.

Nor any overly-botanical names .

I had lots of girls names lined up, not actually sure what I would have chosen but these are some of them:

Kitty (Katherine)
Lydie (Lydia)
Daisy
Betsy (Elizabeth)
Caitlin
Emily
Isabella

Milo - but only because it's the name of the neighbour's cat. Hoping we may reinstate it at some future point but I just don't think so. And it was No1 name for DS until we moved in here at 6 months

Some great but wasted names on this thread ...

Olive XX

Otis (we only had 1 boy think i could have talked dh into it)

Sebastian (dh hates it)

Monica (our oldest was named Phoebe)

Octavia - don't plan to have 8 and I guess it might be odd otherwise.

Niamh (too difficult when living in France)
Edern (DC3 is a girl)