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favourite girl names you didn't use

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themumfairy · 22/12/2015 20:12

What is your all time favourite girls name that you didn't use.

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calzone · 22/12/2015 20:14

Annabel
Beatrice
Ottilie
Oriele

I have 2 boys :)

soundsystem · 22/12/2015 20:15

Artemis. Really wish I had. I can't for any future DD's as if it was shortened to Arty it's very very close to the short version of DD1's name. (So close that it would sound ridiculous interdicting them together).

Actually, my all time favourite name is Hermione but then Harry Porter happened..

soundsystem · 22/12/2015 20:16

*introducing, not interdicting!

Ringadingdingdong · 22/12/2015 20:18

Ds1 would have been Elsa (before Frozen ruined it), and DS2 would have been Holly.

beaverbill · 22/12/2015 20:19

Enid.
I'd love a little Enid but DH wouldn't allow it with DD, we then got a DS and it didn't suit him so we have a dolly called Enid!

BewitchedBotheredandBewildered · 22/12/2015 20:21

Ella and Martha.

They didn't suit either of my girls and then I had a boy.

stareatthetvscreen · 22/12/2015 20:22

olivia

really didn't suit ds

Burgatroyd · 22/12/2015 20:23

So many....

But I think it would have to be Christabel

SaltMarshPirate · 22/12/2015 20:24

Tabitha and Clara. Am very happy with our final choice but I loved those two names as well.

Scoopmuckdizzy · 22/12/2015 20:25

I loved Scarlett when I was expecting DS1 and again for DS2.

emsyj · 22/12/2015 20:26

Cressida. It clashes with our surname. I also love Celestine - same problem with that one too!
We nearly called DD2 Astrid - that's still on the list if we ever had a DD3.

M48294Y · 22/12/2015 20:26

Daphne, Zinnia, Dorothy, Rosanna, Joanna, Louisa, Suzannah.

HeyMicky · 22/12/2015 20:27

Adelaide

Also Constance - it makes a movie title when combined with my surname

BeautifulLiar · 22/12/2015 20:27

Pandora

Muskey · 22/12/2015 20:28

Niamh

MeganChips · 22/12/2015 20:29

Meredith.

I still regret not being brave enough to use it, instead I went for something far more popular and she's destined to always be one of 3 in her class.

BikeRunSki · 22/12/2015 20:29

Lorelei
Isis
Josephine

waitingforsomething · 22/12/2015 20:30

If I had my way DD would have been Cecily Poppy but DH hates Cecily
So she is Poppy.
DS would have been Thea.
Alas I shall have no more babies so Cecily and Thea will sadly never be used by me

peachypips · 22/12/2015 20:31

Coralie. Rosa. Clementine. Charity.

Mince314 · 22/12/2015 20:32

Juliet, Ellen

Mothersruin75 · 22/12/2015 20:34

Clementine
Clover

tuilamum · 22/12/2015 20:35

Blake, Harley, Aria, Sam (Samantha)
I have other names i like and may yet have another DD but DP has vetoed all these

vichill · 22/12/2015 20:36

Lorelei

Kim82 · 22/12/2015 20:38

Erin, Scarlett, Ella, Emma.

I have 3 girls but these names didn't make the cut. I do still love them though and secretly think that dd3 would have really suited the name Erin.

Wilberforce2 · 22/12/2015 20:38

I desperately wanted to call my dd Lydia but my dh didn't like it so we opted for something else that even 21 months on I don't "love"! Will always be missing a girl called Lydia! I also liked:

Iris
Lizzie
Poppy
Heidi

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