Names you wanted to use but were talked out of...

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I really wanted to call a son Pelham. Some Georgette Heyer hero who caught my fancy when I was aged about 14.
And I had a yearning for a daughter called Bathsheba.
You?
I'm not talking credible or in with a chance. I'm talking about the lovely names you wanted but everyone were too dim to see their wonder.

I went through a reall hippy phase when I was pregnant with DS. I was coming up with things like ocean.
thankfully I was reminded that I didn't live on a commune.

I really really wanted to call DD Syndey But X was totally against it. I thought it would be very popular so gave in, I've not met another yet so should have just stuck to my guns.

Everyone was too dim.
There is something very wrong with my writing.
Ocean. I like.

I wanted to call DS Wulfric, Wolfy for short. But everybody laughed.

If I have a DD2, she will be called Hepzibah. DH says he'd rather have the snip.

Amadeus

Felix.
Tabitha.

Maybe DH had a point?

Hepzibah is a wonderful name.

I also wanted Edith. And Penelope.

Tabitha is gorgeous. Nothing wrong with that.

Mine is Savannah . Ther was a TV series of that name just after DD was born. Luckily we'd already named her.

Boys - I've always loved Gaylord At least, I always thought it was Gaylord, the dad in the Sound of Music ( Christopher someone who I always fancied) but recently when I re-watched the film I realised that his name was Georg (or similar), pronounced Gay-org.

DS2 would have been Rufus if it was just down to me.

DS2 is Hugo which I love. But do you know what Rufus means??

Red Haired Child.

Guess what colour DS2's hair is??

I like Tabitha & Bathsheba too...

Rafe and Sahara. XH said no and DP has said no

I really wanted DD to be called Rowan or Fae or Rosalie. But he absolutely refused to use anything that wasn't a "proper" name

I always loved the name Fritha. Anglo-Saxon and the heroine of a Rosemary Sutcliffe book ! Everyone we mentioned it to hated it...they made us too uneasy to choose it.

Felix - it was what we called the bump but in the end I wanted to use it.
Micah
Tallulah

I really wanted phillip for ds2 as i like the name in it's entirerity but also phil as a nic name plus pip sounds soo cute for a baby but Dh vetoed as he felt it didn't go with our surname. Will have another go should we decide to go for a dc3
loved fiona and Niamh for a girl but was talked out of them due to the spelling of Niamh and Dh didn't like fiona

if we're talking perfectly nice unusual names, I would have loved Gideon or Casper for a boy or dominica or Fuschia for a girl.

Orlando

I really really loved Orlando

Would not have suited DS though. He is a big bruising rugby player (a prop). There aren't many rugby players called Orlando

Maybe though, if he had been called Orlando, he would have grown into his name by becoming an effete aesthete

I like the name Phillip. Very handsome.

I'm currently loving Margaret (Maggie) and David (Dave)

Both are fab retro but not predictable names.

Shame none of us can use either.

Fucking Tories

Cecily, Cecelia Celia
Persephone
Genevieve - still would have this
Kitty - still would have this

Oooh Fuchsia! Fuchsia Groan! There are some great names on this thread.

I suggested Alan for DS but nobody else liked it.

Delphine, Persephone, Romily, Rafferty... All vetoed by DH. I petitioned long and hard for Delphine, but he wasn't having it. Now DC1 is due in a week and we still can't agree. I think poor little mite will be nameless for weeks!

I wanted Arthur for DS. Was persuaded no. . Still like it.

For DD I was quite keen on Maeve. Again persuaded no.

Also Flora...really liked that, but nobody else in the family seemed to

I also liked Flora.

Delphine is gorgeous, Archip.