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

When I was 14, I decided I'd call my twin girls Mafon and Mefus ( Welsh for Raspberry and Strawberry)

I'm happy to announce that I did not get twin girls.

I also thought about naming a boy Corwynt. ( Hurricane/tornado) That didn't happen either I'm happy to say!

My older self was much more traditional and named my DS after a Welsh prince and DD has a beautiful timeless Welsh name.

disclaimer - I wasn't expecting at 14, I was just, you know,thinking up names

For me there will now never be an;

Audrey, Eliza, Miranda or Tansy

Seth, Reuben or Gabe

DS's middle name is Lorien. Wish I'd saved it now as pg with #2, and if it's a boy we'll be stuck!

He would have been Ariane if a girl, still love it, still might use it this time...

Oh and I met a small Emaus (Em-ay-us) in the playground the other day - strangely like it!

I found my little note book the other day, with some of our baby name ideas

Dh vetoed -
Martha
Elsie
Dolcie
Josie
Lilian

I vetoed =
Jennifer
Nicola
Nicole
Angela

I had a real thing for Granny names when pregnant, and I am certain Dh suggestions were all old flames. Although I quite like Jennifer now (but would never tell DH that)

In the end we were lucky to have two healthy & gorgous boys and gave them very ordinary, traditional names)

I also loved Chiara - once knew a fabulous woman with that name but it didnt go with our weird surname.

Also loved Vanessa but this was 10 years ago and Vanessa Feltz was very famous - it would have been wrong.

Really wondered if we'd lived abroad like we do now, when the dc were born if we'd have called them different names. Well i know i def would have done with ds2 - think he'd have been Michael, Johannes or Nico.

DD would have been Sam
DS1 would have been Alethea
DS2 would have been Verity

I've no children yet but names I love are...

Sarah
Celeste
Sylvie
Emmeline
Cora
Rose
Grace
Genevieve
Pietra
Pepper
Hazel
Penny
Felicity
Heather
Tessa
Alexandra
Georgia
Verity
Lilian
Honey
Dorothy/Dorothea
Thea
Josie
Tansy
Violet
Dora
Imogen
Eilidh
Billie
Harriet
Lottie
Ophelia
Cordelia
Esther
Claudia
Matilda
Heidi
Iona
Cara
Meredith
Jessie
Portia
Pippa
Fern
Thora

And those are just the girl's names.

Claude and Maude
DP promised if we had twins I could call them this but will not consider either for our LO.....
He won't let me have Hector or Laurence either the bastard xx