Favourite names you didn't use?

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Please, help!
The only names me and my dh love and agree on are used for our dd.
And we now (thankfully) hate the name dh chose if she turned out to be a boy.

I know a lot of people don't like to share the names they actually chose for their children, so what names did you or your partner love or had on a short list that you didn't use/ names you've seen since having your babe that you might use for future babes?

Both genders please! not finding out the sex with this babe either :) Many thanks!

Quentin.

Loved it but a bit out there. DS would have rocked it though.

Also loved Mallory for a girl but apparently it means bad luck

Alana
Rosalie

Seth

Romilly
Leocadia
Raphaella
Jezebel (!)

Xavier
Padraig
Carmichael

Elsie, Elodie, Nina, Johanna,

Arthur, Damian, Elliot

I liked the following girls' names, but didn't use them either because they're very popular, they've been used recently in the family, they clashed with our surname or they reminded me (or someone close to me) of an unpleasant real-life person. I didn't come up with many boys' names as I knew early on that DD was a girl.

Amelie
Ariana
Esme
Estelle
Isla
Lily
Mary
Maya
Seren
Sienna
Sylvia

Thea
Dominic

These are names I liked for my DS and DD but DH vetoed! We picked other lovely names but I still really like these

Thalia
Niamh
Lina
Georgina
Estelle

I have four DDs so have more boys names than girls that I didn’t use!

Eleanor
Edith
Philippa
Esther
Miriam
Helena

Daniel
Stephen
Philip
Peter
David
Edward
Jonathan

Oh yes, and Douglas. Forgot that one.

LOVEDAY

Wtf!!!!!!

Margot
Estée
Lillian
Sunday
Charlie
Cecelia

All used before hand by others

Joshua
Simon
Elijah
Declan
Jeremy
Orion
Finley
Ptolemy (yes, really! I just wasn't brave enough to face the wrath of the ILs!)

Matilda
Emilia
Tabitha
Astrid
Freya
Elsie
Clover
Kathryn

Leonard and hestia

I had loads of girls names that I wanted to use. Top of the list were Hester, Coco, Lucy and Hebe.

I had no boys names, nor did DH (OK so I liked Ptolemy but I know I'm a minority and dh vetoed it early on). So obviously, we had 2 boys. Was a real struggle to name them, particularly for ds2. We booked the appointment with the registrar to register his birth on the last day we legally could and were still discussing names as we drove there. To this day, I still have no idea how we ended up with his second name as it's not a name that I have any recollection of discussing or liking or wanting in advance other than it's quite a common name that we scratched off the list in the very early days when going through and saying no to most names.

I also suddenly remembered I wanted my surname adding in as I didn't change my name when I got married, so thought it would be nice and for various reasons, we hadn't added it in to ds1's name when I registered his birth. Didn't think it would be an issue - except it was to DH who said that it wasn't fair for ds2 to have it when ds1 didn't. So instead of adding it to ds2 from the beginning and then adding it to ds1's name, it didn't get added to either . I'd already burst into tears once (I'm blaming the hormones ) and as the registrar hadn't got an appointment after us she sent us out to have a chat and compose ourselves so didn't feel up to arguing for it again!

I always loved Erin or Summer for a girl, but one didnt really
sound right with my surname, and OH wasnt totally sold on the
other, but finally settled on a name we both loved, so no
real regrets.

Frances (DP wasn't keen)
Freya (not my favourite)
Iona (doesn't work with the surname)
Anna (doesn't work with the surname)

Edie
Elodie
Mila
Mira
Millie
Luna
Mallory
Lottie
Ava
Willow
Lola

Malachy
Kilian
Leo
Elijah
Joshua

Sophie and India.
I secretly loved Rhiannon but didn't even voice that one, it didn't 'flow' with our surname.

Stanley & Nina

Couldn't use Nina as ds had a favourite toy fire engine (nee naa) when dd was born and would have been odd to name his little sister after a fire engine! Still slightly regret it....

@IsabelleSE19

I know a Rowan, she's a beautiful, willowy redhead, Mum of three all like her, 2 DD, 1DS, now.

Ended up with 5 girls and just 1 boy so have hundreds of boys names that never made the cut...

Felix
Jurian (Yur-ee-Ann)
Caleb
Callum
Ethan
Jacob
Theo
Ted (/Edward)
Stan (/Stanley)
Olivier
Leon
Leo
Louis
Isaac
Oliver
Marcus
Matthew
Thomas
George
Peter
Johnny
Oakley
Simon
Samson
Blake
Samuel
Ben (Benedict/Benjamin)

Girls wise we got to use most but...
Anna
Laura
Rosaleen nn Rosa or Rosie
Rosanna nn Rosa or Rosie
Aurora nn Rory or Rora
Aurelia
Amelie
Aurélie
Orlaith/Orlaigh
Maebh
Genevieve
Evie
Eliza nn Lizzie or Ellie

All missed out!

Alanna
Annie
Orla
Eleanora
Ottilie
Sophie
Serin
Wren
Bryony

Ashley
Alexander
Reuben
William
Rowan
Cory
Lucas

@Figural That's nice – I can guarantee my Rowans would not have been willowy!

Loreli
Isambard