Names you love but haven't used

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If DS had been a DD and I was feeling brave, he/she would have been named Scout from To Kill a Mockingbird.

If we ever get a pet (unlikely) we will name it Scout.

What name do you wish you had been able to use?

Rhiannon....I'm completely in love with the name but DH said no way.

Arrabella or Clara

William - didn't suit her.

Hunter
Oakley
Fox
River
Harper

Cecilia, I just wasn’t brave enough. Regret it a bit now though

Xavier - husband vetoed

Mabel - didn’t suit daughter when she was born
Betsy - husband vetoed

Couldn’t have Charlotte (Lottie) because of our surname

I vetoed Imogen

If I'd stayed in Wales, Llinos or Eleri.
Exh vetoed Clara and Louisa.

Caleb
Blythe
Esme

All vetoed by now ex dh.

Joni
Not sensible enough for DH

3 of my dc names are on here 😊 Arabella for me, I adore that name but DH detests it.

I liked Jessica for a girl (still do). We had a boy first time so was irrelevant anyway. But no one else is keen on it, even my dh (sorry to any Jessica's out there). It's still my girls name for the future (hopefully if we are lucky enough to have baby number 2), but I will have to wait and see if I can get dh to agree.

Eden, dc is a ds

I wish we could've used Frederick or Raphael...but our surname has a strong 'R' sound, and any R or W names just clash so badly with it.

Also I LOVE the name Brianna....but can't use it. My name is Joanna, and my Husband is Bryan...so it'd sound like we'd merged our names together to make a name. I don't want people to think we're tacky!

Alexander
Faraday
Halcyon
Faye
Amber

Piper. Love the name but had a boy. Now we'll never use it as it doesn't really go with DS' name and now have a niece with a similar name. It took us ages to agree on a girls name too!

Fern
Bailey - loved this name for girl or boy but husband HATED it

Robyn
Cadence
Katherine
DH hared them all for DD!

Elizabeth (Libby), Charlotte (Lottie) and Sophia for a little girl.

Jolyon, Xavier, Edwin and Alexander (Xander) for a boy. DH was very glad we had girls. 😀

Isaac wanted as middle name
Thomas was his little brother name
Annabel had a boy

Samantha had a boy.

Albertine,
Severine,
Claudette,
Ingrid,
June,
Dorothy,
Muriel.

Seamus,
Gabriel,
Claude,
Lucien.

Vivienne
Anastasia
Giselle

I really liked Gulliver and Ramona. Both a hard no from DH.

happymummy12345 thats so opposite to us as DH says its his favourite girls name and my BF who is a Jessica has had compliments all her life, I was always really envious! I love the name too, and the other famous Jess' out there i.e. Jessica Alba, Biel, Chastain- all beautiful, outgoing, intelligent stylish women.

For me I loved Jasper for boy but DH vetoed this- as well as Jessica if we have another DD and Sia also but wasn't brave enough...

My friend has a dd Scout, it has really divided opinion! I love it personally.

TTC at the moment, initial conversations have indicated that finding common ground on names is going to be very difficult. I love Delilah for a girl, but I know he’d never agree!

Anya
Rosa
Daphne
Merryn
Clementine
Emmeline
Loveday/Linnet/Calypso (my guilty pleasure names!)

Holy I’m with you on Clio - love it but everyone else seems to think car!

Gabriel
Rufus
Nicholas/Nico
Flynn
Cassian (DP would never agree to this, and we had girls anyway)