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!

We nearly used Jonah and Xavier for our sons, ended up going for more classic names for them both but have a slight regret now. At the time thought maybe they were a little too 'out there' but in hindsight they would have suited them!

Had we had a girl, names in the running were:
Annabelle
Erin
Ffion

A few names are on our list to consider, thank you!
Many of the names everybody has said have been tossed out already, and funnily enough, a lot of our middle names and close family names also popping up!

My next question was, for those who settled or gave in to different names, do you regret it years/months on?
A few already answered my question though! 😉
What I don't want to do is think ugh, I hate this name, you should have been so and so, every time I call my child instead of thinking, you're my child and you're perfect in every way including your name.
Maybe I'm just over thinking how important names actually are or aren't?

Every now and then I look at DD2 and think she would have suited one of the other names so much better... but at the same time she is just ‘X name’ to us now and that’s it.

Don’t “give in” to a name you absolutely hate though, I don’t think you’d ever be happy with that.

No children but would have chosen Anna or Jonathan.

Joni
Clara
Florence
Clementine

Keir
Elliot
Joseph
Arthur / Art

Vera.
Zinnia
Phaedra
Patrick
Edwin
Gabriel
1 dd no ds

Always loved Carmen but is too alliterative with surname. Also love Lara, couldn't use it for DD as we were set on a middle name it sounded silly with. might get to use that for a second dc.