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What are your favourite baby names you ended up not using?

65 replies

Namesnamesnames13 · 16/07/2026 17:32

Tell me your favourite names you didn’t use?

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Giraffehaver · 19/07/2026 00:30

So so many.
Alice
Demelza
Romilly
Tasmin
Emmeline
were my top 5

Beachbeach · 19/07/2026 00:31

digby
celia

Gemstonebeach · 19/07/2026 00:36

Oliver because I hate the nn Ollie. Madeleine as my partner didn’t like it.

KojaksLollipop · 19/07/2026 00:37

I wanted Gabrielle for a girl ir Gabriel for a boy, DH vetoed, but I got to veto Gascoigne as a middle name!

Sparklechoppy · 19/07/2026 01:58

Matilda
Josephine
Bradley
Nathan
Anastasia
Annalise
Clara
Danielle

AustenitesUnite · 19/07/2026 07:46

NormasArse · 18/07/2026 23:49

I’m a Philippa. I love my name- never thought of it that way!

I love it too but, unfortunately, DH didn't agree!

VegQueen · 19/07/2026 07:53

Erin
Cara
Sophie
Iona
Georgia
Caitlin
Rhian

The only one DH vetoed was Caitlin as he associated it with Kaitlin Jenner. We just liked another name.

My favourite boys name is George but I would have been a bit hesitant to use it due to the royal connection

StormGazing · 19/07/2026 07:59

Hunter
sebastian
Tate (thank god as the Tate brothers would have spoiled that!)

imogen
sorrel
saskia

when I was a child I said I’d call my first girl daquari … my mum just said something sensible like check that with your future husband first lol

SexedUpDossier · 19/07/2026 08:06

Sylvia
Hannah
Martha
Bonnie
Frances (frankie)
Beth

NotMyRealAccount · 19/07/2026 08:11

Lydia, because a close friend who had a baby a few months before me chose it.
Benedict, because the baby was a girl.

treehugger4 · 19/07/2026 08:11

Thomas - didn’t sit quite right with our surname although Tom does.

Natalie - husband vetoed as thought she would be called Nat the Rat in school!!

Still love both of these names although somewhat dated now I suppose.

Iknowthatfeeling · 19/07/2026 08:17

I liked Brady, Brody, Rafferty, Oly, Jamie
Girls I love Victoria but I can't stand any of the shortenings of it so I wouldn't choose it
We did actually chose a girls name but had a DS, that DS was nameless for 2 weeks

apintofwine · 19/07/2026 23:49

Barnaby - didn't work with surname

We had boys so didn't get to use
Juliet
Polly

youngestisapsycho · 19/07/2026 23:59

I really liked Katy, Annie, Stella or Sally… but DH didn’t really like 3 of those so we have a Katy… which I love.

Notasbigasithink · Yesterday 13:30

Dolores
Eloise
DH hated them both but I still think they're lovely!

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