What are the baby names you DIDN'T go with?

[iwasagirlinavillage]

I've just found a note of possible names on my phone and I found it really interesting the variety of names we considered. We've had two girls so never got to choose a boys names, my absolute favourite boys name is Sebastian and I really would have pushed for that.

What are your unused names? Here are mine:

Boy

• Ethan
• Sebastian
• Alaric
• Tierney
• Mylo
• Remy
• Elijah

Girl

• Willow
• Madison
• MacKenzie
• Ellen
• Caitlin
• Isabelle
• Ella
• Amelie
• Ava
• Georgia
• Zara
• Savannah

• Charles (but my SIL stole it for her baby she was expecting after ours, but then she had a girl...)
• Patrick
• James
• Ciaren

• Tabitha (OH hated it though I had plans to persuade him)
• Penelope (my fave, but it sounded silly with surname)
• Jennifer
• Rachel
• Felicity
• Beatrice

For DS1 (didn't know the sex)
Brandon
Elliott

If he'd been a girl:
Dylan
Harper
Alannah
Leah
Ellis

Ds2 ( found out at 22 weeks)
Lachlan

If he'd been a girl:
Valentina
Sloane
Alannah
Leah

Oh and Saoirse

Only ever had one boy name, joel, so if I have another then I'm screwed.

Girl names
Ivy
Astrid
Violet

DH wanted Morven which I vetoed and he vetoed Lois and the name we eventually called her! I went through phases of Demelza Zinnia Susannah. I only like Susannah out of those now! DS was and will be (if I ever have a son) named after my father with the Welsh spelling granny wanted and didn't get.

Laniakea, you obviously have excellent taste

Emmet is a insulting cornish word for tourists or non-cornish folk. It means ants as tourists swarm like ants. Not a name I would choose.

Charlotte
Francine
Francesca
Harriet
Josephine

They're the ones I can remember.

We knew we were having girls.

junebirthdaygirl one of my daughter's name is on your list and she is a June birthday girl!

Rio Benjamin moses Joseph Kanen koby Cole Calvin levi romantic Ashley

Possible names
Boy
Atticus
Arthur
Joseph
Archie
Noah
Benjamin
James
Ethan
Louis
Garner
William
Ellis
Lucas
Nicholas
Elliott

Girl
Amelia
Cecilia
Rose
Erin
Mary
Jayne
Sophia
Hope
Faith
Hannah
Grace
Poppy
Isabella
Beatrice
Freya
Florence
Maria

Also taken from my phone notes!! Our actual children's names are on there too 😁 it included considerations for middle names as well.

Lots of my list was veoted too, because dh has no taste in names! I really wanted (and these are a mix of what I can remember from both dc, we have a boy and a girl so a couple were real contenders each time if we'd had the opposite) :

Cecilia
Margot
Lucille
Octavia
Violet
Lydia

Victor
Vincent
Theodore
Tobias
Hector
Dexter

I do like the names we gave our dc, but they were both compromises!

Sydney, Saoirse, Harriet, Dorothy, Rosa, Dulcie, Camilla, Annabel, Marianne, Margaret.

John, Montgomery, Frank, Patrick, Seamus, Tom, William.

Eugenie. sounded too much like eugenics.

Philip (nn Pip). had a lovely little girl.

called her Nancy.

The only other name we considered for both DS1 and DS2 was Angus...

Girls names:
Sian
Megan
Sadie
Harriet
Paige

If we had a daughter, she would most likely have been called Harriet.

DD would have been Caspar if a boy. I'm having a DS this time and still love it but have chosen something else for this baby.

It's funny how different babies seem to suit different names even before they're born. I still think DD would have made a marvellous Caspar!

Alfred
Beau
Rafferty
Jude
Ralph
Theodore
Tate
Jules
Grayson
Leo
Harley
Hendrix
Gabriel

Iris
Alice
Harriet
Elise
Willow
Blythe
Gabriella
Noelle
Gracie
Zahra
Eliza
Esme
Jemima
Elsie
Analiese
Arielle
Nancy

Got 2DS's but for girls the list was:

Kiana (only so her NN could be Kiki)
Raya
Iris
Nahla
Saffron
Safia

DS2 was very nearly Angelo but I flaked out and think it's too out there, love his name but do have a little niggle that should have gone for Angelo as he's so angelic!

Flynn and Willow in my last pregnancy. Neither of those were considered this time round (33 weeks at the mo)

Girl. Maddison or Scarlet

Boy Jared or Charlie

Didn't use any of them.

Romantic? - really? Never heard that used as a name before.

Flora
Persephone
Cressida
Isabel
Poppy
Amelie

Hugo
Oscar

Roxana
Rehana
Loveday - H said no way
Lux - One of her middle names cos of my mum mentioning the soap connotation. Still doesn't put us off. We love it.

Brendan
Oscar

We went with Bridget in the end. Kind of regret not doing Irish spelling but this spelling is less likely to cause confusion.

ABC all 3 of my girls are on your veto list.my sons names uncommon,so he isn't!

Dd1 would've been Scott(22yeara ago)thank goodness she was s girl! Her dad wanted Lorraine after s first girlfriend(er no) or Deborah

Dd2 we rejected Tallulah.had she been a boy do chose neo.til my elderly uncle said neo as in neo nazi

Ds dp wanted atticus (who ended up as one my cats names).we pick a girls name we loved straight off and stuck with that one for dd3

DD would have been Dylan Rhys if she was a boy.

Other names we considered:

Saffron
Georgia
Alexis
Seren
Lowri
Lyra