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Name you weren’t brave enough to use

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Patal · 04/02/2018 22:22

Just a post for fun

I’m wondering if anyone had any names they would have loved to have called their DC but either didn’t use it because it was too out there or they changed their mind last minute

Mine would be Rocket - part of me is desperate to still use it with next DC

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Patal · 04/02/2018 22:23

Annoyingly should say brave*

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RickOShay · 04/02/2018 22:23

Coco
Honestly Grin

Jins · 04/02/2018 22:24

Kester. Very nearly managed it but last minute veto from OH.

londonloves · 04/02/2018 22:25

Heathcliff and Oberon were on our long list...

AgathaRaisonDetra · 04/02/2018 22:25

Rogue

onemoremummy · 04/02/2018 22:26

Mabel

Onetimeonstartrek · 04/02/2018 22:26

Lowell. It wouldn't come out of my mouth properly!

Shockers · 04/02/2018 22:29

I wanted to call DD Lettice. DH wouldn’t let(tice) me.

PeterRabbitsBlueCoat · 04/02/2018 22:31

Penelope.

DH vetoed it as it was my old car's name!

StaplesCorner · 04/02/2018 22:31

Electra Violet. Or Violet Electra. Really regret not going for it.

Olgathebrickshed · 04/02/2018 22:33

Boodle.

Foxsox · 04/02/2018 22:33

Bertie
Barnaby

oldschoolcool · 04/02/2018 22:36

Hieronymus

MachineBee · 04/02/2018 22:37

Fiona. It was going to be my first DDs name but every film or TV programme I watched on maternity leave had a Fiona who a bitch, prostitue or criminal. My DD1 has a very boring name and said that alpha mean girl in her class at school was a ..... Fiona!

GrumpySausage · 04/02/2018 22:38

Heath. But then my mum did this face Hmm

MabelStark · 04/02/2018 22:40

Ludovic SmileSadly we are not upper class or French.

Ohyesiam · 04/02/2018 22:40

Scarlett , when I realised that actually it was the name I would have liked to have.

sinceyouask · 04/02/2018 22:40

Roman (just because of our surname, it's not a particularly brave name for most)
Kwame. One of my favorite boy's names ever but a white British- Polish family really could not get away with it. Shame. I really do love it.

DH tried to talk me into Ramirez for ds2 and Xenon for ds3.

Sophisticatedsarcasm · 04/02/2018 22:42

When I was pregnant with my youngest (DD) if she was a boy I wanted to call him kale. It was a name I heard in a few movies but then DP pointed out everyone would make fun of him because of the vegetable 😂

Lennythelion14 · 04/02/2018 22:46

Devlin,silver, winifred,john,magnolia, jonquil, stevie, mary anna,sandy, charlotte, joby, maas.some vetoed by husband,some already a family members name or didnt fit with other kids names.

GrannyMac2018 · 04/02/2018 22:54

Star.
Plan to use it for our dog when we get one instead

applebags · 04/02/2018 22:54

Cleo.

I love it as I think it's a really strong girls name but DH prefers prettier more 'frilly' (IMO) girls names. Luckily we had a boy. Grin

Greensleeves · 04/02/2018 22:56

If ds2 had been a girl we both wanted Rainbow. Not sure whether we would have gone through with it. DS2 turns pale every time we mention it

ineedamoreadultieradult · 04/02/2018 23:00

I wanted Ryder for a boy, I still quite like it. DH said he would agree to it if we were American but as we are not he vetoed it Hmm

NorbertTheDragon · 04/02/2018 23:06

Really honestly Ptolemy. Grin I wasn't on MN at the time!

Instead he was called one of the names a previous poster on this thread has mentioned!