What did you name your daughter?

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And what were the names that you liked but didn't use?

Outing myself but

Phoebe
Eloisa
& Aoife

Girls names we didn't use were

Sophia, Helena, Alexa or Alexia for dd1
Millicent or Amelia for dd 2
Ilona or Iona for ds
Seraphina, Karenza or Maeve for dd3

Baby DD is called Persephone. Non Sephy. It really suits her

That should be nickname Sephy

I have a Tara Niamh.

I have a Harriet with 2 middle names. I like Gabriella, but dp didn't. It really suits her. Now there are with girl names I might have considered like Anna and Emily. But we aren't having any more. Plus it doesn't seem to be all that common at the mo

Persephone, Cordelia and Pandora (I have another dd but she's asked me not to use her name online)

Names I didn't use but wanted

Arabella star (was 11 when I picked that one)
Blaize (mn talked me out of it)
Ruby ( got to popular)
Violet (close relative picked a hideous nn)
Octavia but I can't remember why I didn't use that

I wanted Elena/Alaina or Ellena. DH wanted Annabelle or Lucy. She didn't suit any of those or the other 10 on the list! She ended up being Madeleine.

My daughters are Sarah and Mary.

Names we considered that we didn't use were Elizabeth, Rose, Margaret and Eliza.

My DD is Emma Jane as it fits great with surname and my neices are Sophie Amelia and Annabelle Harriet Octavia (long winded i know!)

My DH would only consider very traditional and safe names as thats the pattern our older children's names take but i loved Kathryn, Lila and Matilde

DD is Mirabella.
If I ever get blessed With another DD she will be Medea Melissande.

If my DS had been a girl I liked:

Susannah
Edith
Ethel
Elsa
Elise
Nancy
Miranda
Lucia (with a CH sound)
Penelope
Nell
Harrietta
Henrietta
Etta
Beatrix
Bessie
Sylvia
Sylvie
Sybil
Daphne
Mildred
Millicent
Mabel
Maude
Pearl
Hilda
Vera
Romy
Romilly
Cecily
Olive
Cora
Clara
Anna
Josephina
June
Janey
Rosamund
Rosalind
Theadora
Isadora
Cordelia
Tabitha
Helena
Elena
Octavia
Annabella
Arabella
Claribel
Persephone
Seraphina
Clemency
Lucinda

Charlotte Ruth

Tilly is my little girlys name :)

Martha...

(...and then we had our 20 week scan and found out we were having a boy. So much for maternal intuition! )

Katrina
Lorna
Melody
Evangelina

I have an Alexandra who was very nearly Arella, Aveline Aradia, or Angela. She spent about a week being called A while we decided. I still quite like the latter three though Aradia would be a bit too much I think.

I also have a Mirabelle. With her, I had an even longer list of names, like an entire page of names for all options. None of the A names made it because I didn't want to have two with the same initial like I have with my siblings, but I recall it included Evelina, Liviana, Mercia, Valora and several that went both ways like Robin, Avery, Morgan, Jaimie. I actually still have a revised version from after DS2 that I use for writing and for those asking for suggestions .

Violet Rose Ann. Violet after Baudelaire in a Series of Unfortunate Events, Rose because I like the odd noun in a name and Ann as it's my mother's middle name. I've always wanted Rachel as a middle name but I thought 5 names was pushing it a bit haha !

My DD is Abigail Elizabeth

other names we liked were

Catherine
Mary
Susannah
Virginia
Imogen
Rose
Hannah
Rachel
Anna

Rosalind.

Also on the short list were Miranda, Elizabeth and Jessica.

A friend recently named her girl Arabelle (ara-bell) and all of us naming our daughters wished we had chosen it :)

My dd 2yo is Heidi.
Liked Issabella but thought it was getting too popular. 36 weeks with dc 2 and if a girl I love Matilda, Polly and Penelope!

Spork I LOVE Mirabelle. DH wouldn't have it. Stupid boys.

Didn't use Hannah, Katie, Thea or Beth
Might still use one or other if we get the chance, other name I love is Naomi

Considered but didn't use:
Clementine
Phoebe
Zelma Ines (after DH's grandma but both he AND his father hated it!)

Love our DDs names now though.

Cecily is gorgeous.