What were your babies almost named?

[Horizonhopper2021]

I have 3 children and I love their names, and now I look back at what I almost called them and I don't think I'd of still liked some of the names now; anyone the same?

my first a little boy would have been either:

Ollie- still love it.

Ronnie- he'd have suited it. And love it still!

Herbie- this was actually my favourite at the time and now I can't quite believe it. Not my taste anymore

if he was a girl he'd have been Polly or Fluer

both I still like, but wouldn't use now.

my daughter came next, and for her we loved

Elora- still love it

Elowen- it's beautiful but wouldn't have suited her I don't think

Edie- I'll never get over my partner hating this name I think it's beautiful 💔

and boys we had Finn, Ozzy and Arlo as front runners

my third and final baby had her name before she was even conceived, but we did toy with the idea of

Izzie- which I like but I'm glad we didn't pick it

and Honey- which I will always love i think and would have suited her she has beautiful golden hair

if she was a boy I wanted Hugo which I stand by, lovely IMO

My daughter was nearly called Jessica.

If I had had a boy he would have been called Jonathan.

Wren, Ruby, Betty.

The other boys names in the running for my son were Harry, Joshua and Oliver. We didn’t have any girls names as we didn’t start thinking of names til we knew his sex.

For our daughter, other girls names we thought of were Amelie and Lara. If she had been a boy, she may have been Alexander, Lucas or Zachary.

I liked Natalie but DH preferred Natasha so we dropped it. She'd have been Na'erly. Thanks goodness we didn't use it.

DS was almost Iarla or Naoise. If he’d been a girl, he was going to be Medbh or Lir.

I wanted flowery names like Rose, Daisy or Violet but was overruled. ExDh wanted Rebecca and I said no because the nn is Becky which makes my teeth itch. I liked Minerva (Goddess of War and Wisdom) or Cleopatra (also denied). We settled on something very benign in the end.

DD1 - Alys Still love it but couldn't have coped with the spelling headache

DS if he was a girl would have been Eirlys

DD2 if I'd had my way would have been Deirdre (pronounced properly!) but DH was having none of it!

This isn't about my DC . . . it's about me!

Shortly before my DM died she told me that she had had a lovely name picked out for me but my DF had refused to consider it. I asked her what the name was and she said it was Ursula

I've got a name that was quite common when I was born and I'm extremely grateful to DF for my name

Claudia
Wren
Emerald (I honestly don’t know, don’t ask. Hormones?)
Marnie
Celeste
Sorrel

Both girls ended up with very standard/boring every day British names 😂

Marnie for a girl. Donovan was the alternative boys name.

I also wanted Digby but that got a hard veto.

Harriet or Imogen for a girl

Samuel or Zachary for a boy

DD (22) would have been Christian which I wouldn’t choose now.

DS2 (8) was very nearly Gabriel

Hope DH never sees this thread or my cover is blown.

Alistair - couldn't use for family reasons
Adam - doesn't sound right with our surname
Tess - loved this but also loved the name we did choose
William - DH vetoed

My youngest was almost Aslak. I sometimes still wish I had named him that but his actual name does really suit him.

Gillian. Don’t ask.

I wish I'd called my son Micah, it would have really suited him.

He was called Florian during the first couple of trimesters

Julia, until she looked nothing like a Julia and I had to think of something else.
If she was a boy she would have been Jabez or Jerome.

Lilly and Diggory.

So glad we didn't choose them. We had various names in mind but when they arrived the names didn't suit.
They now really suit the names that we actually chose.

If I'd had a boy I wanted him to be Hamish. DH threatened divorce!

If we had a girl we thought about Lily. Luckily he wasn't a girl as in his class there were three Lilys and three other girls with similar names.

my dd1 was almost Elsa (pre frozen) which I still love but has been ruined by the film. If she was a boy she would of been Albert or Oliver I still love both.

ds was almost Oliver he’d been a girl he’d of been Beatrice or Tabitha.

dd2 we only had one girls name which we used. If she’d been a boy she’d of been Oliver or possibly Robert.

Boy would have been.River or Jesse

Girl would have been Faye or Cleo.