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Confessions - names you love but will never use

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Radish9 · 16/01/2015 18:06

Just as title really. I have a theory that everyone has a baby name that they love but will never/ have never got to use. Mine is Silas, always adored it but DH (and almost everyone else in rl) hates it. My mum's is Toby, she's tried to get us to use it but we haven't obliged. Would anyone else care to share?

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baskingseals · 16/01/2015 18:08

Gabriel, the perfect ultimate name. Dh sadly did not share my Gabriel love.

CharlesRyder · 16/01/2015 18:09

Shayne.

Especially for a girl.

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Pico2 · 16/01/2015 18:15

Cordelia and Perdita - apparently too tragic to use. And Peter doesn't go with our surname.

WhereBeThatBlackbirdTo · 16/01/2015 18:17

Dmitri

Scarlet

Lunastarfish · 16/01/2015 18:19

Roxanne

Whenever I mention I like it im told it's a 'chav/stripper/prostitues' name. I think it's lovely but sadly the alliteration with my DPs surname means it doesn't work Sad

Palooza · 16/01/2015 18:20

Sindri and
Lysander. Names I wanted for DS2 and 3.

They are not called Sindri and Lysander Sad

momb · 16/01/2015 18:21

Maeve and Rosaline.
...and lots of boys names but without sons what can you do?

fairnotfair · 16/01/2015 18:21

Nina. Lovely name.

Never used because (a) I have DSs, and (b) it would have really bothered my father, who associated it with somebody pretty unpleasant.

FunkyPeacock · 16/01/2015 18:21

Tess

Hugh

MrsJacksonAvery · 16/01/2015 18:22

Harper. Damn Beckhams. Plus, it sounds shit with my surname.

cosmicglittergirl · 16/01/2015 18:26

Persephone, Percival, Hermione (too HP), Benedict.

cosmicglittergirl · 16/01/2015 18:27

I like Lysander and Perdita too.

slithytove · 16/01/2015 18:27

Ophelia

Only1scoop · 16/01/2015 18:29

Buster

DistressedAndAlarmed · 16/01/2015 18:29

Tuesday.

AgadorSpartacus · 16/01/2015 18:30

Lucien.

stubbornstains · 16/01/2015 18:31

Amaryllis.

softlysoftly · 16/01/2015 18:31

I love lysander and perdita too but didn't indulge my Jilly Cooper adoration :)

Also adore Sebastian but had no boy

loislines · 16/01/2015 18:32

Humprey - love it but nns (Humph, Hum) never convinced me or DH.

Agnes - was an almost for this bump for a while.

OwlBeGoing · 16/01/2015 18:32

When I watched The Sound Of Music as a teen I vowed to name my first born son George but pronounced gay-org Blush
Thankfully my pfb is a girl Grin

cosmicglittergirl · 16/01/2015 18:34

Perdita was such a great character. Jilly books had characters with amazing names.

Leeds2 · 16/01/2015 18:35

Jed
Junior
Saskia

MrsTawdry · 16/01/2015 18:36

Bunty. And also Tabitha. DH said NO to both. I really like Bunty and you'd never meet another!

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