Names you considered that you're now glad you didn't go for...

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Kaitlee

DD was very nearly Madeleine. I still like the name but she was born the day before Madeleine McCann went missing

Agamemnon Theucydides.

Well that's what we told work when people kept pestering us to tell them. We wanted to wait and see what the baby was like.

They believed us!

I had on my shortlist:

Ella
Jasmine
Poppy

So glad I didn't go for any of those, as they're so common now.

Isabelle...

I absolutely love it even still, but it is waaaaaaaaaaay too popular for to ever use, and I would have been SO upset had we used it and then it became popular like that!

DD had a lucky escape from ZamZam. I was determined that she should be called that. DH pointed out that while it was perfectly fine in Arabia, once we moved back to the UK she would be Zaaaaaaaaaam. A good point I felt.
His choice was Trinity. I shit you not. Trinity.
She is called neither.

Ventura
Jago
Pilot

Honestly - there should be a law against hormonal pregnant women choosing names.

Callista or Adriana I live in a really rough part of Liverpool, she's have have been mocked from birth.

Some of these are truly lovely names though, common or not.

I flirted with Gilbert for DS and Agnes for DD, What was I thinking?

If ds had been a boy we were going to use Jayne as a middle name. It's a crap spelling and I still blush thinking about it.

I'm glad DD wasn't a boy now, or else we would have named her after a relative who died with quite an archaic name that just wouldn't suit a baby

Grace - I love the name but there are going to be 6 in my dd reception class of 22 children!

Some lovely names on here (including my ds's name )

Dd was Liberty for a while. Very glad I didn't use that. Her middle name isn't great either. I still love her first name though, thank God!

DH and I both thought Harvey was a nice classy name, but seemed familiar for some reason I couldn't think of. Went on holiday read OK and realised it was the name that Katie Price had chosen for her son, eek swift change.