What names didn't you use?

[SnowAndIceLobelia]

And why?

The names I liked if either DS were to be a girl included;

Isis (obviously could not use, sadly)
Leveret which I maintain is a fabulous name but DH did not agree
Hebe
Hera

DH did not like either

Boys

Tobermory (love it still but it sounded wierd with our surname which rhymes!)
Agamemnon (we are not Greek and it was a bit of a pregnant hormone name)
Ezekiel (DH vetoed).

Both DCs have quite normal fairly old fashioned names of the David / Stephen variety which i love because it's unusual on 14 and 12 year olds now.

Gosh, lots:

Boys:
Elias
Nathaniel
Thorsten
Ulric

Girls:
Jocelyn
Livia
Lilith
Genevieve
Elinor

We went with fairly unusual options for all 3 DC.

Joshua & Jayden on our first,none on our second he had his name from day one never changed or had any other. I really liked Jayden but my ex didn't do we kept thinking we went with a j name but it's a family name which felt right & fits my son perfectly, ironically my ex went on to call his son he had with the other woman Jayden 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

We had our son’s name picked out from when we first started dating so we never really considered any other names for him. We liked the names Isaac, Ethan and Daniel as well but not as much as the name we’d chosen years ago. If he were a girl he would have been Lucy and we’ll probably still use that if we ever have a girl.

I forgot Wren. That was on the list for a dd if ds1 had been a girl. I still love it. I must have a preference for flora and fauna names because I live Rowan for a girl but not a boy for some reason.

Parker
harris
Harrison
Brandon
Braxton

Hope
miley
daisy
Sunday
Mila

finally went with Mila & Curtis for my 2 🩷
10 months apart with both kids 🤣😳

I had a girl so didn't use Conrad or Byron. Also decided to save Cordelia for the cat.

I fully admit that I have really weird taste in names (from really out there hippy names to classical etc) but when it comes to it, I’m not brave enough to bite the bullet and choose a name i love, in case it’s too out there! we have two dc with ‘normal’ name’s albeit outside the top 100.

Girls:

Silver
Tigerlily
Sunday
Persephone
Stevie
Marigold
Primrose
Genevive
Allegra
Calliope
Giselle
Nancy
Polly

Boys:
Aslan (but we’re white british)
Lysander
Caspian
Xander
Griffin
Stellan
Taron
Idris

Stellan
Harold
Torsten

Alma
Thora
Freda
Vita

Oh yes I wanted Søren too but DH vetoed.

Boys - Raffy, Tobias
Girls - Matilda, Heidi, Robyn

@Schum Dashiell is a great name!

I liked Sofia and Ivy for a girl both of which dh vetoed. Genuinely can't remember if dh liked any girls names. He like Alfie and Harry for a boy but we went with my choice

Dc1: Seraphine for a girl, Dino as unused boy name.
Dc2: Daisy for a girl, Felix as unused boy name.
Dc3: family name which was used for a girl, Elijah for a boy.
Dc4: Zephanie for a girl, Fox as unused boys name.

Just realised it looks like I've put my kids names there, but I've just worded it badly
Dc1, 2 and 4 are boys, dc3 is a girl. None of their names are on those lists.

Ezekiel, it just didn’t suit him when he was born. Isla (our last name is a colour that would make this name sound ridiculous!) and Sadie for my youngest.

Interesting topic!

@SnowAndIceLobelia
I have never heard the name Tobermory.
(I'm not from the UK or Ireland, though, so that might be why.)
What is the origin of that name?

We absolutely loved the old English name ‘Wulfric’. The reality of my large, hairy, heavy metal-loving husband bellowing “Wolf-y” across the playground at some point was that there was the chance people might mistake us for white supremacist types, when nothing could be further from the truth!

Oh I don't think it is a person name.

Tobermory is a place name in Scotland. DH thought it was the longer name for Toby. (it's usually Tobias). I think Tobermory would be an excellent name, but our surname rhymes with 'Mory' so would never fly.

Leo - Tony Blair named his son Leo
Bjorn - would loved Scandinavian name. Not brave enough.
Ernest - not brave enough and not keen on Ernie as nn (twenty five years ago before Granny names became chic
Edward - very nearly used this, not sure why we didn’t now

Victoria - was a boy

Boys:
Alexander
James
Benedict
Laurence (nn Laurie)
Adam
Elliot

Girls (neither of which were popular at the time):
Clara
Florence

Felix (she was a girl)
Margot (he was a boy)

Edie or Edison (we stopped at 2)

Was it?

I had four in my year at school and am mid 30s!

For DD1
I vetoed: Holly, Laila, Milly
DH vetoed : Florence, Charlotte, Eleanor

If she'd been on time her name would have been Esmè but she went over and by the time I gave birth, I hated it!
Very, very happy with the names we picked though.

Adeline and Tabitha for girls I always loved.

Ryder and Bobby for boys.

I have a Niamh, I loved that name since I was a little girl and always knew if I had a daughter she’d be called it.