post your unusual and unused baby names here!

[rhetorician]

we are not now going to have a boy (2 DDs, which is fab), but we were going to call any son Aoghan (ay-gon) - Irish name meaning 'little fire'. You can spell it Aogan too. Loved it, sorry we can't use it

Aeronwy ('air - ron-wee')
Myfanwy ('mi -fan-wee')
Rocco

Not so unusual but doomed to being unused:
Beth
Beatrice

Fawn - was never going to get that past dh

Isadora, Elodie, Norah, Evangeline

DH vetoed them although perhaps they aren't really that unusual. He's just picky

Peregrine and Sholto

tigana I had an great-aunt who insisted on calling herself Myfanwy - I think her actual name was Marion. She was a kleptomaniac...

this is fun!

I'm not allowed anything from Lord of the Rings despite putting these repeatedly on the baby name lists:

Aragorn
Strider
Theoden
Peregrine
Merry
Arwen

Chiara, it's actually dd's middle name so not sure it counts. I wish I'd had the nerve to use it for her first name.

Aine
Cliodhna
Malachy

I love anakin!!

I love this thread! Am currently 28 weeks pregnant with with a little girl and I want a pretty, uncommon, but not invented name. I wonder if I'll find one here!

Dexter - dd's 'if she'd been a boy' name
Ariadne - ds1's 'girl' name
Capella - ds2's 'girl' name
A/Eithne (also means 'little fire' i believe)
Caoimhe - we have no Irish connection at all

We toyed with Anakin - but he becomes Darth Vader..!

I love Evander - but couldn't convince dh.

Caoimhe is a lovely name - won't go with surname, also like Ariadne. Your rejects are so nice Adair I'm curious as to what you actually picked!

Have PMed you... though think you can search on my name...!

And thank you

The names I loved but will never use are:

Posy
Tess
Betty
Trilby

Oh yes and for boys (thank you for reminding me shoots)

Sholto
Rufus
Titus

Sheherazade

Aneurin
Clement
Prosper
Isadore
Norman

Iris
Daphne
Josephine
Margaret
Lucy

Names that were not allowed on my short list:
Osian
Keir
Tyrone
Cyrus

Genevieve
Jenna
Tyrion
Marianne

hmm, some of these are making me wobbly about DD2's name choice...Iris I like a lot, and Tess (I already know one of those though). I'm ignoring the boys' names, not because I don't like a lot of them, but I have no use for them, sadly...

Bye bye Elisabeth and Monica (you were a boy, after all)
Bye Bye Hugo and William (you were a girl)
bye Bye Brian and Martin ( no WAY DH!!!! )
Bye Bye Joni and Maya (vetoed by DH)

Funny to wonder what those DC would have been like if they had had those names

norks great post! I think you and your DH fall into opposite ends on the naming spectrum - well done for agreeing on some name in the end (presumably)

oh, and

Ariadne (props to Adair for the reminder!)....i still have hope, but suspect it will be heavily vetoed.
Zoe (cat got it first!)

the ones that got away...

amos
prosper
ira

pearl
glory
muriel
(am hopeful of using some as pet (dog) names!)

Evadne, vetoed by DP.

Also have a soft spot for Loveday.